The social barometer

[missroserose]

I missed an opportunity to have a real conversation with a cute, vaguely bohemian-looking girl at the Farmer's Market today. Bonus, she had good taste in literature.

So now I'm writing her a post on the "Missed Connections" section of Craigslist.

I really need to make some local friends...

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[my-aerie.livejournal.com]

Have you found any local clubs/groups? Book club, sewing group, role playing group, whatever? I've never moved to a new place, but I still find things like that to be good ice breakers when I realize I desperately need to expand my social circle. :)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Actually, that was one of my first avenues of attack, but there really doesn't seem to be a whole lot around here. Plenty in Tucson, but that's an hour and a half away. :( It might be because SV's an army town, so people tend to come and go. I was halfway thinking of trying to start a book club myself.

[my-aerie.livejournal.com]

Hmm, seems like army towns would be that much more likely to have *something* for people to get together, but I guess that stuff might all be on the base itself.

See about starting the book club! Ask local book stores and coffee shops if they have a room you could use and would let you put up fliers. Even if you only draw one or two people, that's one or two more than you knew before. :)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

"Local bookstores"? You mean Hastings? (There's a big shortage of those, too - the only other one is a B. Dalton at the mall, and they're closing.)

But, yeah, I might just do that. We could even host, now that we've got a nice comfy couch, and I could always post flyers at the library. Bonus - I could even ask the cute girls at the aforementioned B. Dalton if they'd be interested in coming.

[my-aerie.livejournal.com]

Shortage of local bookstores?! What kind of hellhole did you move to?!?!

Wherever it happens, I hope it's awesome. I keep meaning to look for or start a local book club (I think there are a few at the library). But I fail at teh motivations. :P

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's really kind of puzzling. I was talking to the girls at the bookshop and they said there wasn't any shortage of demand, but there are no independents around and soon only Hasting's. I was (and still am) toying with the idea of starting a used bookstore of my own, but that's a bit more commitment than I want to make, since I'm not yet sure how long we'll be staying here.

But who knows, maybe a book club would lead into it. Integrated clientele, and all that. :)

[my-aerie.livejournal.com]

I think you'd kick some serious ass at running a used bookstore. I certainly understand not being ready to make that kind of commitment to the place...but I do think you'd rock at it.

I've been toying with the idea of a coffee shop (resurrecting Into the Woods would be ideal--did you ever see that place? not sure if it existed while you were in Faiak, was on college across from Gulliver's), but even with being totally at peace with the idea of staying here the rest of my life, I'm not sure I'm up for that kind of time (and money) investment.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

I totally loved Into the Woods. It was my first semester of college that they were struggling and finally closed - I marched in the protest at the University. Great community of people, which (of course) is what makes any independent coffeehouse/bookstore/etc. work.

Alternatively, you could always move down here and help me run the bookstore. :) I was thinking I'd want to have a coffee shop in it, anyway...

[my-aerie.livejournal.com]

Oooh, now that's a thought (I'm at peace with the idea of staying here forever, but also totally up for moving away...heehee). Could it be cozy log cabiny like Into the Woods? That was why I loved that place, the warm cabin feel and the Christmas lights and the ambiance...the drinks were meh and the company was poorly run (by all rights, it shoulda shut down way sooner--it stayed open longer than it should have because the community fought hard for it), but just being in there was worth it...

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

So true - it was the ambience and sense of community that really sold that place. Sadly, one needs to have trees about to have a log cabin, and the environment around here isn't quite conducive to that (desert and all - it's mostly scrub, with some cacti and mesquite trees). Sierra Vista itself seems to be almost entirely strip malls, although there's nothing to say we couldn't decorate with some nice dark wood on the inside.

[my-aerie.livejournal.com]

hmm. I guess dark wood interior would be acceptable, so long as we got the lighting and decor right. We'd prolly have to be a bit better lit than Into the Woods, for the sake of selling books... :P

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

*laughs* True, true. Somehow I think between our artistic talents we'd manage nicely. :)

[my-aerie.livejournal.com]

*grins* Agreed.

Though, I could also see our strong personalities getting in the way of peacefully working together...

I think us working together would either end in fireworks or nuclear bombs. *nodnod*

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Either way, I'm selling tickets.