The Nerds of November

It's 8:19 a.m. getting ready to go over to the coffee shop to get my Saturday coffee. I've made this event a part of my weekend these days in an attempt to have something to tell folks what I've done over the weekend! I know that's really cheap but it's important and I'll try to qget into that in a few minutes. I go over to the coffee shop usually every Saturday. There's nobody there that I really talk to or visit with which is kind of a shame. There was a time when a couple of the other folks here at the apartment complex went over to the coffee shop on Saturday mornings and we did visit me sort of hung out it was kind of fun I'd like to encourage that to happen again but I doubt that it will but anyway I go over and I sit and listen to other conversations which I really do enjoy. If I was ever quizzed about why I was doing that or what I was doing I would say I'm listening to other conversations because I'm a writer and it helps me develop conversations in my head that I can use in dialogue. Real dialogue is so much better than mine made up dialogue I think so genuine and raw that you get from the coffee shop or even a bar for that matter. Real words spoken usually with real meaning. I've got to know a number of folks there visually you know people that you see come in every week there's a bunch of them that come in every week and they sit at the big tables and I mean we're talking about 20 people sometimes on these large tables all yammering talking they know each other they do stuff together. I get a little bit envious sometimes. But they all say hi to me and I'm sure if I wanted to burst into their little communal group that they would not hesitate in welcoming me because I don't have that kind of well at this point in time. Who knows, maybe someday. I try to stay at least an hour at the coffee shop sipping on my French roast or Italian Roast if I can get it in the tall cup Double cupped for my protection when really it's just so I'll have another backup cup at the apartment. I've never seen the group look for a clock or anything like that but all of a sudden everyone starts putting things away and putting their jackets on and getting ready to leave. Somewhere somehow some inner clock must have struck the time and everyone's done for the week at the coffee shop at least on the big table. Some of them will have further conversations and meetings later on in the day it sounds like but for the most part it's all done for this Saturday. I thought about going to a movie today but I just don't think I've got the energy or the will to catch the bus and go up to the theater. I figure if I go across the street to the market and get a roast to cook today that will be enough socialization and enough relatively interesting items to tell anybody who might ask what did you do this weekend?