Sitting in Starbucks
By Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
United States
January 16, 2016 8:55am CST
At my favorite table, sipping cooling tea. It's gloomy outside. Most of the regulars are here.
W., who likes to lecture on politics (wants a single payor system for healthcare and supports Bernie Sanders. Good, if impractical ideas), is holding court at the long table. The long table usually hosts older retired guys. Another guy, bald, who seems to work on music scores, is not here today.
One guy I haven't able to figure out is not here. He has a spiderweb tattoo on his elbow and seems to spend most of his him nursing an iced coffee drink and perusing his phone.
There has been a new girl that last couple of mornings, a student who sits with an open notebook and book in front of her and an earplug in her ear, a skill I will never master. The music is already too loud for me. It's not so loud as to destroy my concentration, but loud enough to isolate me.
There is often another student, a heavy Asian kid, who sits behind me. I don't know how much studying he gets done because he seems to sleep a lot. I thought he was sick once and once tried to wake him. No luck.
So... no more procrastinating. Off to pound away at my masterpiece.
Hope everyone reading this is having a great day.
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@msiduri (5687)
• United States
23 Jan 16
@paigea Thanks. Happily, that WiFi hasn't been a problem. I don't know if that's because it's because the connection is good, there are only a few people here in the early morning. or I type reeeeally slow.
I leave before the invasion of the high schoolers. Where do the get the money? I could never have afford this stuff when I was in high school.
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
25 Jan 16
@msiduri I would have liked to be there sipping coffee and watching you watch the others.
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
25 Jan 16
@msiduri Yes,I do not think arguing about politics is interesting.Well,may be we both could argue about H.P.Lovecraft.
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@msiduri (5687)
• United States
26 Jun 16
@silvermist Oh, how could I have missed this? That would be a lovely discussion.
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But you could listen to the old guy argue politics at the long table. Well, that's pretty boring, too.
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
17 Jan 16
@DWDavis It's not as difficult as your might think. Very little is known about that time, as opposed the the Viking era itself, so there's a certain amount of freedom. But I still don't want to come across as a complete idiot. Maybe a correctable idiot in the first draft, at least.
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
16 Jan 16
Can't do the headphones, though. It's too much with the music already there. This next scene is alluding me, I'm afraid. A pre-Viking Age Scandinavian wedding. I'm getting less than 200 words a day done, tear them all apart and rewrite them the next day. The little voice in my head is telling me this is all, um, fertilizer and no one will believe it. At least the overall word count is headed in the right direction.
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@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
16 Jan 16
Starbucks is good place to be.
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@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
18 Jan 16
@msiduri That's a positive note because it is so quite.
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@msiduri (5687)
• United States
18 Jan 16
@softbabe44 Yes. Didn't quite get up early enough this morning, but that's okay. It's quite early in the morning here as well. Just not for as long. But I'll get something done.
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@KristenH (33591)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
17 Jan 16
I haven't been to Starbucks in a few years for a job search meeting with my job coach in the mornings. I might want to revisit it this year, when the weather's warmer. I miss those drinks. Have a lovely day!
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
17 Jan 16
@KristenH I'm sorry to hear that. Losing your mom on top of everything else had to be especially rough.
I had a part time starvation wage job driving worker's compensation patients to and from dr's appt. and such, then my ins. sent out a letter saying they wouldn't cover people driving commercially. I think it was aimed at people driving for Uber. I had to quit.
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@Marilynda1225 (91126)
• United States
23 Jan 16
Sounds like an interesting place to people watch as well as write
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@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
17 Jan 16
One of my favourite things is to sit in Costa {not keen on Starbucks} and people watch. I like to do it on the bus too. :)
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@msiduri (5687)
• United States
16 Jan 16
@HazySue Thanks. It is an interesting vantage point. I really do find people interesting. I like to hear their stories. W., the Bernie Sanders supported, showed up with a cast the other day. I told him I hoped the other guy looked worse. Actually what happened it that he fell on the steps at a neighbor's house and caught himself on his thumb. OUCH.
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