Refreshing Afternoon

I didn't know how starved for conversation I was until this afternoon! When I don't have class and don't have any where to go, I can very easily go all day without talking to anyone except my parents. After I while this starts to take it toll on you!! I can only keep quite so long before I want to scream!

This afternoon I decided to head on over to my local Starbucks for a skinny vanilla latte and study time outside of the apartment. I'd been sitting there for about two hours when a man walked in, probably late 50's, and took the only open chair next to me. We both had our cell phones on the table in between the chairs and it wasn't long before "Yea Alabama" (UA's fight song) started playing from one of them. We both reached for our respective phones, it was his and he answered. When he hung up, we laughed about how we both had the same ring tone and, yes that's because there is only one university that matters. Well this started off a 45 minute conversation about Alabama football (my favorite subject at the moment...who am I kidding, my fav subject most of the time), families, where I'm from, where he's from, etc.

It was so nice to just talk and get to know someone! He reminded me so much of my Dad. When I left, I wanted to go find someone else to meet! Lately, I've been thinking about how much I want to meet people outside of school. Now I'm not talking people to be my best friends, I've got that covered, but just some people to hang out with every now and then. The guy I met today was great and apparently he hangs out there everyday around 3, so I can always go back there, but I would like to find some people closer to my age :)

Either way it was nice refreshing afternoon, even if I didn't get that much studying done.