Sunday at the cafe, with EEK

Another Sunday afternoon spent hanging out at the Cybercafe, with EEK (netbook) and current WiP. Just being here makes me feel as if I were in college again, except, of course, when I was in college, there were no laptops, no WiFis, no iPods.

Lunch at the cafe is like dropping by a friend's house-- the kitchen is single-threaded (one dish at a time), and when they run out of an ingredient, they don't bother to tell you, they just improvise. You can always spot the newcomers, who aren't quite sure where to sit, and don't know that they need to watch out for laptop power cord cables stretching across the narrow aisles, or that you have to bus your own tables.

At the table to my left, students are putting together a presentation on the history of marriage, with an aggressively liberal slant. Directly ahead of me, a guy and a girl are flirting geek style, sipping frothy coffee drinks and exchanging laptops to share favorite vids. Most of the rest of us have our iPod headphones in, as we write or surf the internet.

In other words, it's darn near perfect. If only fireun were here, I think I could talk her into splitting one of the giant chocolate chip cookies.

ETA: Fell off wagon and ate an entire giant cookie BY MY SELF! I blame fireun, since she wasn't here to save me.