{"id":4265,"date":"2019-02-08T17:27:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T22:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2019-02-08T17:27:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T22:27:40","slug":"the-swipe-out-take-me-on-a-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4265","title":{"rendered":"The Swipe Out: Take Me On A Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James<\/em><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s jump right into it: Valentine\u2019s Day is right around the corner, and we\u2019re broke. I\u2019d like to consider myself to be a low-maintenance and non-materialistic girl (but I\u2019m a Capricorn, so we all know that\u2019s a lie), but when I go to Walmart, my heart literally swells up with joy of getting a $30 stuffed animal, a $15 candy bouquet, a $3 card and a $1 Twix bar – but I\u2019m willing to compromise for any and all RC bachelors who want to wine and dine me on a budget…or a swipe. But then comes the question from what every guy is dying to know: \u201cwhere on Earth would Shamira, the prettiest, most stunning, most hilarious, most level-headed, most fashionable and most sweet girl on this campus want to go to eat, Commons or Cavern?\u201d Well, let\u2019s talk about it!<\/span><\/p>\n

Commons has its pros for sure, when the meals are on the more gourmet side. If you want to sweep me off my feet, the food definitely has to do with it. While I love tendies or lo mein, they don\u2019t exactly scream date food! Take ya girl to Commons when they\u2019re having blackened chicken alfredo or Hidden Valley Ranch chicken BUT only with the baked potatoes, and that\u2019s half of the date in the bag already. Commons is also full of people almost all the time. So, if you get to that part in the date where maybe the conversation stops and it gets too quiet, you can almost always count on a friend or two to come up and say hi. <\/span><\/p>\n

Cavern might not have the gourmet restaurant scene Commons offers but don\u2019t sleep on it. Quite personally, and this is me fully exposing myself: I like to \u201cdo homework\u201d in Cavern and people-watch. And while I should be working on something for seminar, I\u2019m usually taking mental notes of the duos that come into Cavern. They don\u2019t sit exactly <\/span>across<\/span><\/i> from each other, it\u2019s just close enough. When they tell jokes, they lean toward each other and laugh instead of throwing their heads back and cackling like my friends and I. IT\u2019S SO CUTE AND I WANT IT. It\u2019s comfort food + a cozy setting; the vibe and the conversation is bound to be magical with that special person. <\/span><\/p>\n

So now I bet you\u2019re wondering, \u201cWow, Shamira is so well-spoken and talented and I understood both of her beautifully-described points so well! But where, oh, where can I take her to profess my undying love for her?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, I\u2019m with Cavern on this. While in Commons, I can get a good meal served on a teal plate, it\u2019s the lowkey vibes of Cavern that I love. I feel like the best conversations I\u2019ve had with anyone, romantic or platonic, have happened in the basement of Colket, and that\u2019s what it all comes down to. Can we talk and get to know each other in a setting that\u2019s not too close for comfort, but just close enough? <\/span><\/p>\n

It also comes down to you using a swipe to get me more sides, because a girl needs her carrots and ranch. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James Let\u2019s jump right into it: Valentine\u2019s Day is right around the corner, and we\u2019re broke. I\u2019d like to consider myself to be a low-maintenance and non-materialistic girl (but I\u2019m a Capricorn, so we all know that\u2019s a lie), but when I go to Walmart, my heart literally swells up with joy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}