"I have roughed it in the past, yes," Julianna said. "I spent three months in the Austrailian outback to gather information for a paper I was writing. I toured Cairo and Rome when I was much younger, where I stayed in a youth hostel that didn't have hot water for showers. I've hiked, camped, spent time in the wilderness. I don't always sleep in a comfortable bed."
She also had a weakness for intelligent artistic types, but the times she'd spent with various struggling writers, actors, and painters wasn't a topic for conversation just yet. That clearly wasn't the type of 'slumming it' Devin meant. She would have to test the waters more before she could broach that subject.
"I won't deny that as I get older I enjoy my comforts, but I've been known to make do with less."
Their orders arrived, and the Watcher pushed her bread plate to the side to make room. "I hope they prepared your fish the way you like it," she told the writer. "I chose this place because it got good reviews, but I've never actually been here."
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ninetydegrees
no subject
on 2013-09-25 05:23 am (UTC)"I have roughed it in the past, yes," Julianna said. "I spent three months in the Austrailian outback to gather information for a paper I was writing. I toured Cairo and Rome when I was much younger, where I stayed in a youth hostel that didn't have hot water for showers. I've hiked, camped, spent time in the wilderness. I don't always sleep in a comfortable bed."
She also had a weakness for intelligent artistic types, but the times she'd spent with various struggling writers, actors, and painters wasn't a topic for conversation just yet. That clearly wasn't the type of 'slumming it' Devin meant. She would have to test the waters more before she could broach that subject.
"I won't deny that as I get older I enjoy my comforts, but I've been known to make do with less."
Their orders arrived, and the Watcher pushed her bread plate to the side to make room. "I hope they prepared your fish the way you like it," she told the writer. "I chose this place because it got good reviews, but I've never actually been here."