After complaining about a lack of privacy in Pubski yesterday, elizabeth and kleinbl00 both recommended I spend some time out of the house just to breathe a little. Today, I'm planning to relax at the coffee shop by my office after work, just to see how well I can really unburden myself there.
Klein taught me about third places, and I've been thinking about them off and on since yesterday.
I don't think third places are necessarily a social space in the status quo (as they might have been when they were conceived), but I love the idea of an intermediate and neutral public space that people go to relax.
So, where do you go to relax in public?
Supplemental:
The wiki article also suggests that we live in an era with "virtual third places". Do you have a virtual third place? Is Hubski a virtual third place?