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Today when my Jennifer and I were sitting outside at Cafe Corner eating our lunches, I decided that it would be pretty neat if I could someday open a wimmin's coffee house/bookshop. How excellent would that be? The cooler thing was that my best girl was sort of interested in the idea, too.

I wonder how that sort of thing works. I know nothing about business or entrepreneurship. But it sure would be a cool place to hang out! I wonder if we really could pull it off someday.

Date: 2003-08-24 02:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] photodork.livejournal.com
it worked on the 'ellen' show. :)

U Can Do!

Date: 2003-08-24 04:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dianamarie.livejournal.com
That's really a great idea! Admittedly, there is a lot involved in starting a business, but if you're serious, ping me via email and I'll dump some of the info from the MBA classes on you. They've got to be good for something, after all.

I really think that you'd make a wonderful environment for folks to relax and mingle and just be themselves in, as all true coffee shops should. You have that knack!

Date: 2003-08-24 05:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] osuptygal.livejournal.com
start a loose meat sammich shop like Roseanne :P

Date: 2003-08-24 06:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smithee.livejournal.com
Call the SBA and they will send you a starting a business packet for free and it has just about everything you need.

Date: 2003-08-24 08:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
Ooh, thanks for the tip! You are the greatest.

Date: 2003-08-24 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
'Cause TV never lies, right? :)

Re: U Can Do!

Date: 2003-08-24 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
Thanks for the compliments! If I ever have my IMs on (which is so rare), and you happen to be on (also rare), I'd love to hear what you have to say!

Date: 2003-08-24 08:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
Ewww, meat!

Date: 2003-08-25 12:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffholton.livejournal.com
Is wimmins coffee inherently different than mhennz coffee?

Just wundrin'.

;)

Date: 2003-08-25 05:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prettyvacantone.livejournal.com
Hey Jude-a-licious...I'm back in town and I want to see you!!!!!!!!!!! (All those exclamation points mean that I mean it.) When can I?

Date: 2003-08-25 06:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pica-nc.livejournal.com
Oddly enough, I was just talking to my parents this weekend about doing the same thing. I asked my dad is he'd be disappointed if me, with my college walking papers, gave up the real world for a beachfront shack and a job as a manager of a "weird, women's book shop coffe place."

Dad said, "would you be happy or miserable? I'd only be disappointed if you chose a job that made you miserable. I taught my kids better than that."

Mom said "No one is going to marry a poor bookstore worker!" I said they would if I had a beachhouse in Nags Head.

Ive got a bar and beverage license, coffee house experience, bookseller experience, a degree in PR and I like women. Can we set up an interview?

Date: 2003-08-25 07:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rachelmichellek.livejournal.com
i want to open one too.

Date: 2003-08-25 07:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] biophile6.livejournal.com
Someday, Im going to be a strip mall king. Or queen. Whatever's best. And in the strip mall, I will have:

Service station
Laundromat
Coffee shop
Bookstore
Acoustic cafe
Nails and Hair salon
Cinema and Drafthouse

All units are connected in serail. You must go through one to get to the other. So, you go in, smelly, unlaundered and disgusting, on a saturday afternoon. Leave your car with a pack of caring lesbian mechanics, to get the emissions approved. Drop off your clothes stuff, get your coffee and muffin. You find a book, and you hear new grrls on guitars, who also write poetry. After the, um, "earthy" portion of your day, you head off off to the spa, and get bathed and massaged. Then you have your hair and nails done, and go off to the movie house, where service minions travel the walkway pits between all the recliners that are positioned in front of the screen. Alternately, you can lay in a mud bath and watch Lara Croft onscreen. Or whatever.

The only probelm for me is whether I am a guitar guy, the masseuse, the hair person, the business manager, or someone else. Of course, I'll need about a dozen cucumber grrls to staff, so that we can cool out the lazy clientele for all phases of the day.

Date: 2003-08-25 07:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
Ha! No.

The coffee would be the same. The books, maybe those would be tailored a little bit.

But of course you could be there every day! :)

Date: 2003-08-25 07:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
Wow, that's a lot of exclamation! I will match it with this: BRANDIEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am going out of town from Wednesday-Sunday to see my parents and grandparents. Thrillsville, I know. ;) I could see you tomorrow, perhaps, although I'm supposed to be packing tomorrow night. Hrm.

Date: 2003-08-25 07:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
The lingering question is: Is there room in that beach house for two more?

I have an obnoxiously outgoing personality and a cute smile - that's got to get me something. And I used to work in food service! And The Girl can do all of our graphic design!

Date: 2003-08-25 07:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
Wow - look at all these bookshops! :) We'll have to compete.

Date: 2003-08-25 07:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
I would totally go to your strip mall, except for the nails part. Unless they just wanted to make sure they were clean and stuff.

I like the idea of getting all of my errands and pampering done at once. You, my dear, are a genius!

Date: 2003-08-25 07:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prettyvacantone.livejournal.com
Aww I don't want to distract you from your packing...you might get to your family's house and realize you didn't have any socks all because of me and I'd feel terrible. I suppose I'll have to wait ever impatiently for your return.

Date: 2003-08-25 07:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
Ha! You could come help me pack, and touch my underwear! ;)

Date: 2003-08-25 08:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pica-nc.livejournal.com
Rooms for four - gotta save space for my future girlfriend, where ever she is. ANyone else want to work at the JudeRanch Books and Beverages?

Date: 2003-08-25 08:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffholton.livejournal.com
You best hang a sign on the door that says, "No shirt, no shoes, no service. No smoking. NO OGLING (that means you, jjustj)!!"

Date: 2003-08-25 08:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prettyvacantone.livejournal.com
Tee-hee, if I helped you pack, all I'd end up doing is running around with aforementioned underwear on my head. You'd never get anything done!

Date: 2003-08-25 09:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hopemcg.livejournal.com
There have been 2 of them open and close since I've been here in Columbus and that's only been 8 years. I think they had bad locations, though...

Date: 2003-08-25 09:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
But think of the photos!!

Date: 2003-08-25 09:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
Hee hee.

People would come by and ask, "Who is jjustj?" :)

Date: 2003-08-25 09:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
Of course. Then our grandparents can make comments about us to their friends:

Oh, you know, she runs a bookstore now. And lives in a house with three other women. They never bothered to settle down and get married.

Date: 2003-08-25 09:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
Dude, I'm not staying in Columbus. =P

Of course you can!

Date: 2003-08-25 10:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] k-g.livejournal.com
Jude, I don't know why you couldn't open a bookstore for wimmins and have it be successful. I think you can do anything you put your mind to. (YEAH! Dangling preposition!) You'd probably (along with Jen) be the rockingest owners ever. Take some business courses along the way and then make your dreams happen, girl! You can do it!

Re: Of course you can!

Date: 2003-08-25 11:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
Ugh.

I don't /wanna/ take business courses! Business sounds so ICK ICK ICK to me. (Maybe Jen will want to do it, heh.)

Maybe I need a silent partner.

Date: 2003-08-25 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffholton.livejournal.com
Wow.

I'd be famous.

:)

Date: 2003-08-25 02:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
You already are, to me!

Date: 2003-08-25 03:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffholton.livejournal.com
Woohoo! :)

But...you never asked for my autograph.

I may want yours someday, though. I should get it now. That way I can tell people, "I knew her when..."

Date: 2003-08-26 06:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
You have my postcard!

Date: 2003-08-26 08:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffholton.livejournal.com
I have your ADDRESS! I KNOW where you LIVE!!

Muaahahahahahaaha!

Date: 2003-08-26 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
*gasp*

You do?

Date: 2003-08-26 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffholton.livejournal.com
Well, unless it's fake.

Date: 2003-08-26 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
I'll never tell!

Date: 2003-08-26 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffholton.livejournal.com
I'll never find out.

:)

Date: 2003-08-26 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
True. I want to be mysterious.

Date: 2003-08-26 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffholton.livejournal.com
You and the Pyramids of Elisium.

(Say...maybe that's YOUR face!)

Date: 2003-08-26 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffholton.livejournal.com
You and the Pyramids of Elysium.

(Say...maybe that's YOUR face!)

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