Caroline is not Complicated

Our Caroline is by nature an introvert. She is still recovering, filling her introvert cup so to speak, from her semester abroad last fall. In the interest of being a good guest and wringing all the opportunity out of her stay in Prague, she socialized, traveled, ate, drank, and was merry for more than three months. She's exhausted, and also very grateful she went abroad last fall and not this spring. Pure luck that it happened that way.

So, here she is at home, prevented from the need to socialize, with her family who loves her and understands her quirks. It is going well for her! I give you, a day in the life of Caroline . . .

9:00 (or 10:00) -- Wake up

10:00 (maybe 11:00) -- Procure her curbside pick-up of her morning cold press. She feels the need to continuing supporting the coffee shop where she has worked for four years, in hopes that they will still be around to give her a few hours of work in the not too distant future. Right now, she is letting those more in need take all the shifts. We, on the other hand, are simply glad her daily cold press is still an option. Caroline without her coffee is less delightful than one would hope.

The rest of the day until dinnertime -- No one really knows . . . we see her, sitting at a computer, wearing headphones, sometimes laughing, sometimes looking annoyed. Lectures? Reading? YouTube videos? Writing papers? It is a mystery. We don't bother her, she doesn't bother us.

6:00 -- Joins the family for dinner. Eats, talks, laughs, is generally good humored.

7:00 -- Some more family time, maybe, if we don't expect her to play a board game.

The rest of the evening -- No one really knows . . . she insists that she is not online, trading secret family recipes for toilet paper, but we aren't so sure . . .