Why can't my favorite coffeeshops install Web cams? That way, I could visit their Web sites to determine how crowded they are before heading out. Today is the second time in three days when I've had to run around town, looking for some place that's not totally jammed packed with people, so I can sit down and get some work done on my communication policy paper. Victrola was so insanely busy that I just looked in the front door and determined that I had a snowball's chance in hell of ever getting a table.
Now, you may ask, why am I updating my weblog if I'm "working" so hard? I don't know. I've found that I have a limited number of great good even remotely intelligent mediocre ideas these days. I'd better strike while the iron is hot, so to speak.
Writing in your blog IS work. It counts as down time. (That's, at least, what I keep telling myself).
:)
I hate the coffeeshop battles. I make better coffee at home, but sometimes, I want the sort of social environment, but hate the loud groups of yakking book clubs talking about a book half of them didn't even read. But that might just be my chronic grad student crankiness talking.
I've rationalized the blog/journal writing as "priming the pump".
Aside from just getting _a seat_ at the cafe, the other important criterion these days is finding a seat with access to clean-burning electric power. Until we realize Tesla's dream of wireless AC, cafes should just install extension cords from the ceiling which can be pulled down, airplane emergency style, so that you can plug in when the Critical Battery Klaxon on your laptop goes off.