"I was just heading to class, actually." True or not, although it appears to be from the schedule that says she has Painting soon with a teacher, Charlie Jones, that she's helpfully noted has red hair and there's a hastily penned 'F' there, which she assumes is for 'Female' and not her grade. Although she imagines it reflects her grade as well, since Joan has never been able to paint a lick. She remembers trying to paint trim in her first apartment and even that had been a disaster.

"And you, where are you on your way to?" Please, Joan thinks. Let it be somewhere she needs to be soon. Joan needs to go somewhere and think, try to figure this out.