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This morning was a bit of a slow morning. Ended up waking up around 10:00 AM. After breakfast, I ran an error to get a supplement for stress. I then went to the mall and spent some time working on a drawing in my IPad in the bookstore cafe. The plan is that I took a photo of the drawing in my sketchbook that I could finish because I ran out of alcohol marker ink, print the drawing and then past it over the original drawing. 
It was a quiet day at the mall. The mall is what people would consider a dying mall because most of the big stores have closed, but I spend a lot of time at the bookstore because I stared playing D&D and made so many friends there.
I have been going down a rabbit whole learning about how there’s been a loneliness epidemic and one of the causes is a lack of a third place. I was learning that society had three places. First place which is our home, the second place is work, and the third place is where we go to socialize with people outside of home and work. I’m bringing this up because I’m realizing that the bookstore at the mall has been my third place and I’m really thankful for that because I got to meet some great friends and it’s a lot of fun playing D&D. I like being able to create a character and go on adventures. One of my friends who works at the bookstore started a book club and we’re currently reading Dracula. It’s nice reading the books and having conversations with people about the story and the vampire genre.
I went home around 7:00 PM and decide to tweak some of the colors on my drawing some more.
