Mar 06 2008

Pretty sure this is the reason the Internet was invented

So I’m sitting here at the Coffee Gallery in The Open Book hanging out enjoying the relative peace and quiet and the warm glow that comes with a stack of short stories two inches high with your name on it.

I’m listening to Liz Phair and reading my homework because instead of doing it at home I was busy writing and playing with the Tibbles.

Anyway, I’m people watching as I am wont to do and which is why I rarely ever write at coffee shops — too many distractions. So I talk to Marcy a classmate from writing classes past when I decide that I am 83% sure that the dude who just walked in is the little agitated guy from Barnes & Noble.

Of course, as soon as Marcy departs for her writing group I have to whip out Jed and e-mail FFJ, because running into the little agitated guy is bizarre.

Now, as I type this he is sitting two tables away reading a thick book and eating a sugar cookie. I keep coughing “Portnoy’s Complaint” much to my own hilarity hoping he’ll take notice.

So far, no dice.

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Posted on Thu, 06 March 2008 at 6:08 pm

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FFJ

Yeah, like that guy needs more sugar intake.

You totally should have talked to him.
07 Mar 08 at 8:51 pm #

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