CoffeeShop Musings

• Aside from used bookstores, I'm obsessed with finding coffee shops. I've always loved watching those yuppies on their laptops who looked like they were doing something important. And now here I am, on my laptop, pretending to look like I'm doing something important. ;)

• I also decided to give up coffee this week. And I made it a grand total of 3 days.  I have some time to kill on the west side and the allure of a new undiscovered coffeeshop was too hard to resist.

• I appreciate when coffee shops use silly wifi passwords.

• I leave for Australia in a week.  I'm so excited, and as usual, not prepared.  I like it that way though, going into a trip with absolutely no expectations makes it so much more fun!

• I might be more excited for this trip because I'll finally get to reunite with Abbigail! My roommate (former, but I like to think we still live together) and travel buddy.  We lived together for 7 years, so the fact that she's been MIA studying for the bar is a little strange. 

• I love people watching and eaves dropping on strangers' conversations.  Is that creepy?  Yesterday I overheard some used bookstore employees talking about an author I had never heard of.  They quoted one of his books that was too perfect....

       “[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.”

                              -Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

• Pictures SOON!