Although it appears to be a pasttime of mine, I do not so frequently get the opportunity to hang out in coffee shops. So when the perhaps weekly chance for me to go sit in a shop alone and do some writing comes up, I usually gravitate toward the more established (at least in my own repertory) shop, with a trustworthy atmosphere that I know will soothe and motivate me because the slightest shift outside of my predilection for atmosphere will corrupt my chances to get any work done. I am absolutely certain that it is an entirely personal construct, because there were enough people ‘working’ (laptop on lap does not a worker make) in Indie. So this writing should be taken with the unguent that you too could work and soak in Indie. I could not.

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