Information pours into my brain like

Sugar into my coffee.

I feel the weight of its expectations pressing

Against my skull more painfully

Than a punch from Rocky Balboa.

1:45.

Adios! computer lab!

                  Relief

floods my body.

The Student Center is like a lighthouse

In the midst of hungry students

And I press the elevator button as it lifts me

To my stomach’s second home.

“Barbeque chicken sandwich, please.

No vegetables. Well, I’m trying to be healthy,

So just add some lettuce and jalapenos.

I guess we’ll do whole grain instead of white.

Oh, and melt the pepper jack cheese.”

She puts my sandwich in a paper bag

Anxious to get to the next order

And I scurry to my “bliss of solitude”--

(Pretty sure it’s better than Wordsworth’s)

The empty table.

I smile with glee and take out my

Jaybird earbuds and open up Netflix.

SVU, Criminal Minds, or should I try something new?

Nah

Student voices are blocked out by

Mariska Hargitay talking in my ears.

A/N: this was for all the introverts out there who sometimes needs to sit at the empty table (but tables with close friends are cool too ;) if you don't know who Mariska Hargitay is, she's the star of Law & Order: SVU.