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University of Colorado - Colorado Springs.
They have a nice library, and tons of literary events/discussions going on all week, and the people (students, staff, community people milling around) are very comfortable and friendly. The large windows give a great view, of course, to those mountains surrounding this school that's actually situated on a hill. I'm here working on some papers I need to finish from last semester, and two hurdles.

1) the wifi is password protected, and they regretfully explained that there is no GUEST login... so I'm researching here, like a chump, on the THIS IS A PAY-FOR-PRINTS machine... which totally ruins my "I'm a local kid, don't worry about me" angle... damn. I'm here with the Gary Busey look-alike, sitting on these high stools like, as I said, a chump.

2) They close at 7:00. It's about 5:30 now. I realize they had their final day of exams yesterday... but this is still, from what I can tell, an active community where students from small Iowa schools come to work and make use of their resources.

Give me a guest login, you jerks. Just kidding. Once I have my resources in place, I won't need the internet to punch out these papers. I've become a much stinkier geek since the summer started, everyone. You don't, and won't, even realize.