Challenge 178: I'm fun...I hope

The combination of the smell of coffee and using my computer always reminds me of college. Of the many days and nights I spent in book stores or coffee shops studying or writing my thesis. I found the distant distractions of the coffee grinders, the classical music, and the bustling of people in quiet conversation soothing and white noise enough for me to get done everything I needed to. Being there also allowed my mind to wander. I got more creative, more thoughtful, and more interested than anywhere else I tried to do my work. I think I miss college a lot for that structure it provided...the task of having to get work done and thus the task of having to go somewhere lovely to do it.

I put myself there today. At Peet's coffee shop in my neighborhood. I'm working on a vision, a dream, a brainstorm about my next big idea. And as I sat down to visual, to dream, to brainstorm, I was struck with the feeling of wanting to share. I desire the structure to put me back here. Back in my creative mind, back in the distant distractions of a place other than home to get stuff done. Perhaps I will build that in to my day. If only it were dog friendly.....

I also love the people watching. I wonder what people are working on, what they're talking about and reading, why they chose that purple shirt to wear today. And I make up stories about them. She's working on her Master's thesis in anthropology and he's starting his own business. She's lonely and bored and wants to be around people but not talk to anyone. He just got back from a bachelor party in Vegas.

And who am I? I'm just a girl with a vision, a dream. What do my pink toenails say about me? That I'm fun...I hope.

I'm full from lunch and that fullness sends my mind wandering to where else I want to feel full in my life. I think I know but let's see where my brainstorm takes me.