How to Be Sophisticated

1. Walk into any coffeeshop (Preferably one that is locally owned and plays indie music, but Caribou will do in a pinch ... Starbucks is starting to get tacky).

2. Bring in your laptop in a bag that could possibly pass for a stylish oversized hobo purse.

3. Order your drink without even looking at the menu (you don't have to decide what you want because you're a regular, right?). Get something exotic, like with soy and white berries or something.

4. Upon receiving your drink, sit down at a table near a window (so people passing by can marvel at your blinding sophistication).

5. While sipping your drink, open up your laptop and head to your blog. Those sitting near you will see that you're writing something obviously very important and will be impressed that you actually write ... for fun (There's also the added bonus of being mysterious. They might be dying of curiousity to to see what's being written).

And there you go. Use these tips to dazzle those around you.

PS

I am doing all of the above at this very moment, except that I brought my laptop inside of a beat up yellow backpack I've used since 3rd grade... and I'm wearing baggy sweatpants and a Speech t-shirt, which greatly downplays my sophistication.

currently ...

What am I doing at this very moment?

Well I'm sitting on a very uncomfortable chair at the public library. Unfortunately, this less than butt satisfying seat is also right about an air vent... one that is expelling a very cool, very persistent breeze. Of course, I'm feeling a bit too lethargic to get up and move all of my things to a different location. Instead, I am bent in a V shape with me laptop resting in the er ... vertex, if you will. In this position, I am able to keep the bottoms of my forearm and the tops of thighs slightly warm.

I honestly don't know why I'm at the library. Everything I've done so far here (check my Facebook, watch a few AutoTune videos, look them up on YouTube!, reply to a few emails) are things that could have gotten accomplished at home.

Here's my theory. The only type of computer I've ever had is a desktop. Does anyone even remember what those things are? Huge monitors connected to a large plastic brick, connected by miles and miles cords? Anyone? Ringing a bell?

Anyways, I think that all those years of being tied down to a desk and chair at home just to use the computer has caused me to rebel. In fact, since I've gotten my laptop yesterday, I haven't sat down on a chair and put the computer on a table to use it. So far, the laptop has either been on the floor, my lap, or on the bed.

Speaking of laptops on the bed, I just recently finished the critically acclaimed film, The Changeling starring Angelina Jolie. After at least two hours of motionless, open mouthed watching I have one message for all the readers of this blog: See it.

There's something in there for everyone. I cried (more than once, actually), was repulsed, shocked, terrified (in fact I nearly fell out of my bed at one point, but then again, I am a rather jumpy person), and uplifted. I have to give some credit to Jolie who plays a very convincing distraught mother. I haven't seen very many movies in which she has acted ... actually, I think this was the first one in which I have seen her.

Overall the movie was very satisfying, but the ending still manages to leave the viewer so ... unsatisfied.

Any other flicks I need to see?