Hear me out - that coffee was probably just fine. Pasta water is basically starch water, not some heavy flavor bomb that's gonna soak into your mug from across the kitchen. Unless you're literally steaming your mug over the pot for ten minutes, the aroma isn't doing much. People act like coffee is some delicate flower when really it's just hot bean juice that can handle sitting near boiling noodles for a few minutes.

Honestly it's a journal, not a high stakes presentation. People get way too worked up over how someone else organizes their personal notebook.

lmao my "to read" pile is basically competing with my "i forgot i owned this" pile at this point