I'm at a computer station in a dive coffeeshop in the Mission right now. My Spanish class starts up in a few hours and I went ahead and came down to the area to hang around, read, do some errands, and soak up local flavor. This coffeeshop, La Boheme, is a culture clash of white hippies with dreads, Latinos reading english and spanish papers, a guy teaching a kid how to play chess, mix-matched tables and chairs that look like they came from public schools, major left-y political people, mix of languages being spoken, and then, of course, your crazy people strewn about for the usual effect. New areas of San Francisco to explore.