Barnes and Noble

MML #16: Going with a friend to Barnes and Noble and sitting in the café for hours, reading, writing, chatting, and getting some work done.

(NOTE: Reading, writing, and getting work done are all optional.)

And I got to do it twice this week!

I go to school in the middle of rural Virginia, so let's just face facts: there isn't a ton to do out here. Our campus is small and cut off from the surrounding area, endearingly and appropriately called "The Pink Bubble" by its inhabitants. My sister calls it "Beauxbatons" because it is pretty and small, in the middle of the mountains, has a lake, horseback riding is really big here, and it's an all-girls school. Of course, as any true Harry Potter fan knows, Beauxbatons is not actually an all-girls school in the books, only the movies.

Anyway, the weather has been particularly bad lately (not to say I don't like snow, but I dislike not being able to drive off campus due to ice-covered roads), so I haven't done this as much as I like, but one of my favorite weekly rituals is grabbing a friend and chilling out at Barnes and Noble for an afternoon or evening. This probably isn't terribly surprising, seeing as I'm an English and Creative Writing major who loves coffee, books, and talking. Me and a friend (Annie on Wednesday and Emily today) hop in the car and get off campus, bringing enough work to do so that we feel less guilty, but for the most part we just get sucked into a series of random discussions, ranging in their levels of depth and seriousness. Topics this week have included: death, gossip, teachers, dreams, and lies we plan to tell our children.