Meet Angela Crowley and her Bitchin' Kitchen

Angela is the owner of the yet unnamed diner. It's like the hub of social activity...kinda like Twin Peaks' double R diner. Every town has some version of this. Ours was Country Kitchen.(aka 'Bitchin' Kitchen') You have different types of crowds that show at different times. ie: the old codgers that settle in for a cup of coffee every morning. To discuss the weather, farming, and other such things. Then you get the disgruntled youths that are too young for the bars but old enough to chain smoke and guzzle a bottomless cup of coffee. Then there's the after-bar crowd. Looking for a generous helping of pancakes or eggs that they can consume without yaking it back up. Such is Angela's 'Bitchin' Kitchen'.

Angela herself is a mother-hen type. In her mid thirties, so a young mother-hen. She looks out for the old codgers, and other poor lonely souls who need a place to hang out. Doing what she can. She's an animal lover, and when we meet her, she's taking in another stray kitten and names it Cosette. She's an avid bookworm and would-be writer. Things managed to stay just scattered enough that she never finishes the novel. It's become an ominous organism. It's the only things she's ever written, and it's remained unfinished for 3 years now. She's a Columbo fan--She waits until the exposition has been laid out and sits down to watch it about the time that the Lt. Columbo enters the scene.(Anyone who's watched Columbo knows what I mean--how the first part of the show reveals the crime in its entirety before Columbo gets there)

Still need a name for her diner. And whether or not she'll have a "fling" with Brian Wagner, the High School English teacher. When I designed the two characters, it seemed to make sense given their interests. And they're both about the same age. She's a bookworm/would-be writer, and he's an English teacher. Makes good sense, right? Maybe this book'll have some romance after all......