On Happy Places

[jehanette]

My happy place is a whole mess of things, honestly, but if I had to narrow it down, it'd be the top floor of my college library. During the term after my roommate attempted suicide (she's doing better now, but it was a really rough time for both of us) I'd pack up my laptop and whatever books I needed to read for homework and huddle in one of the armchairs by the windows. I had a great view of the sidewalk leading past some frat houses (which may not sound like a great view, but when I had the time to spare, it was fun to watch people walk past on their way home or to class or just around), and on sunny days the chair would be warm but never too warm. I'd do all my reading, and then I'd write either my own projects or on a role-playing site until I had to go back to my dorm and plug my computer in. (I never bothered to bring along my charge cord. Don't bother asking me why.)

Because people have been sharing their fandom happy places, here's mine: a spaceship. I have mild insomnia, and sometimes when I have trouble falling asleep I put on spaceship engine white noise. Sometimes it's the Enterprise-D, sometimes it's Serenity, sometimes I go for Deep Space 9 (which I know is not a spaceship but it's spaceship adjacent). Funnily enough, I don't tend to write sci-fi, even though I often plop myself on a ship in my daydreams.