Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

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Cloudy's Cafe



Come in, be welcome, be comfortable, be yourself

Welcome to Cloudy's Cafe, a place to have a cup of coffee or a good
darjeeling and the finest in conversation and camaraderie.

The proprietor asks that you follow a few simple guidelines:


this is a real conversation zone, not a role-play zone



* no flaming; if you disagree with a viewpoint expressed by any patron, please do so in a civil manner

* any topic is fair game, but keep posts to the standards that Ziroc has set for the entire forum, please (ie: foul language is not appropriate and things should be suitable for all audiences)
-a side note from Cloudy: I see this as a place for those short
conversations about a new baby or the latest soccer fiasco, not for things that are big enough to warrant their own threads, by all means give those things the space they need and post separately!

* Please, no one word or smiley posts (Ziroc has declared them 'real spam' and the proprietor doesn't want the reputuation of "good spam" to suffer!)

* do feel free to be serious or silly and enjoy the company of others while you are here. By all means POST if you have something to say, even to start another topic , we can handle multiple chats, we're a CAFE!!! But be courteous and don't disrupt a conversation just to disrupt it.

Come on in! The bar is stocked with coffees, teas, juices and waters from around the world. And purple napkins, of course!

The lighting is low, the golden oak counters and tables glow with inviting warmth. Near the window, the lighting is brighter, as comfy, plush leather armchairs wait for those who'd like to read a book while relaxing to music or just lazily watch the world go by.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Woohoo! First cafe of the new year, first post!

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Evening all.
I have a test today, and I got two hours sleep on my friend's sofa last night. And then walked half an hour back in the freezing cold back to my halls.
In hindsight, maybe I should have got a taxi.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Ugh! I have a test as well. The teacher had the "brilliant" idea that you have to have references from ALL of the books on the course.

The problem is, I don't have one of them, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this. It's expensive and only showed up as a reference on one single lecture, and only in general terms, notspecific pages or chapters.

To add insult to injury, there's only three copies available in an entire university with 30 000+ students, and you can only borrow home one. There's 60 students in my class and probably not more than 10, at most, have bothered to buy the book.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Wow. Suddenly, that makes my test look not too bad by conparrisson.

I am back home now, at last, so I'm going to go pass out on my bed until my next lecture at four.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Those were the days... home at 8, sleep until 2... either side of the clock... ;)

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Yeah, it pretty much ruined my day.

Anyway, I'll just ace my way out of this one. I write the paper using the other books I have, then next week run the library early in the morning to snatch the reference copy before anyone else does, and selects some random sentence to quote to fill the quote "quota".

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Aaargh, stress.

Pretty much, I have exams on minerals, which is the part of the course I am worst at. I'm ill, and getting hardly any sleep because my throat is so bad and I can't breathe. I'm also going through a bad patch (I've had a fight with depression for about a third of my life, although I have been better the last couple of years). Also I have decided to go and get my ears pierced again on Saturday (with my sister and boyfriend along for support - It hurts like hell) but most of the people I know are complaining at me not to get it done. The lack of support is a bit annoying.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Sorry, but I'm pretty jaded with the whole drink, get drunk, puck, pass out and what ever else stories.

They just found an 18 year old boy who decided to walk home on New Years eve, frozen to death. He was waiting for a ride, then decided to just walk, without telling anybody.

It's stupid and senseless on too many levels.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

...generally I always walk home on a night out. It's usually me and my mate who get sick of waiting for taxis in the middle of town where all the clubs are, and then walk "up the road a bit" to find a taxi. Then we keep walking, find trolleys, etc. etc. and usually end up home. Never frozen to death before like.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

After one bad experience, I don't drink until I throw up (only takes one time to teach me) and I have never passed out.
I usually walk home, but the area I was in was a rough one a way away from my halls that I do not know well and the people I was with wouldn't let me leave until morning (they locked me in the house).

I haven't found a trolley lying around in years Ivelliis, what did you do with it?

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Numerous videos on my facebook of me in it and my mate pushing. Him in it and me pushing. Me and a girl in it and him pushing. Good times.

I blacked out once on a ferry to Amsterdam when I was 17. Free champagne (we won it at bingo, it probably wasn't decent) and I don't remember the night, sicked up green and brown that night, had a fight (I think, it wasn't much of a fight) and was too hung over to walk around Amsterdam, nevermind drink anything. Urgh.

We don't walk through the best areas going home but it's not the worst. In Newcastle (where I am now) I usually get a taxi because I never go out with just one other mate, usually a big group at least 4 of us getting a taxi back.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

F*ucking hell! I had to buy the book I was missing. All the reference copies had disappeared. $40 bucks down the drain, basically. I'll only need two references to the book. I wont need to even open the book anymore after that.

But I still had to buy it. I suddenly got this urge to kill someone. :1disgust: :1pissed: :rambo:

ETA: Hey, what's wrong with the smilies?

ETA 2: I pretty much look like my avatar right now.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Brrr.... morning, all! Freakin' cold out here... the weather forecast for the next few days is a countdown. 14... 12...9...7... and them ain't Celcius temperatures! Wind chill is lousy... but apparently it's even worse up in Cloudyland :brrr:

Bummer about the book, Stratos. Can you resell it, will it be useful later, or is it now just a paperweight or blunt instrument waiting to be used?

As for the whole "going out drinking until you (nearly) pass out, then stumble home" game, I played that a bit in college. Gave up when I realized that I didn't know what my limit for drinking was, and believe me, it wasn't for lack of research. Decided I had no interest in finding out where that limit is and gave up searching for it. 'Round that time, drinking became something that added to an evening's enjoyment, and was no longer the source of the evening's enjoyment.

I'm pretty sure my limit has dropped since then, and I could probably find it. Still not interested.... ;)

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

I can see why, in the dead of winter and you want to attach metal to your body? Madness :P

I can relate to the depression part though DS, nearly consumed me for about half of mine. It's better than what it was though, thankfully.

Cripes, it's subzero outside. It's so cold, there's ice on the inside of my window seals. And I've got to walk a mile and a half back and forth to work, ugggh.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

THanks!
Probably not in the near future. The course it's used in wont be held for another year. No, just more weight when you move. Pretty much, yeah.

Oh, what the heck. I have plenty of books I don't much use for anymore. Ut's just a bummer that I had to buy one that I used for such a short period of time.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

As for the drinking bit, I briefly fell asleep in a graveyard going home for a club once. I'm dead serious.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

How was the graveyard? Comfy? I only sleep round people's houses, mainly because I'm paranoid.

And yes, Gangrell, middle of winter and here I am aiming to get myself covered in metal? I must be mad :P Oh wait, we knew this already.
Depression sure is a bitch.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Try not to get your tongue stuck to your piercings :P

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

If I could lick my own ear, I would be impressed :P

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Many people would, I believe... :wow:

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

How's the weather forecast looking Bung? Still cold?

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

I think we hit double-digits today... but I don't feel bad.

A guy I know in Minnesota (a couple of states north and west of here) reported that it was cold enough that ski lodges closed because it was too cold to ski, and that snot dripping from your nose would freeze before it got past your top lip.

I know... more details than you probably really wanted to hear. At least you've got an image to carry you through the weekend.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

negative double digits, or positive?

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Positive... we've been negative double digits on the Celcius side for a couple of days. Hoping for negative single digits there...

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Yeah, it's pretty cold even further south here. I have to walk to work everyday, it's about a half an hour walk there and back. When I left the house before the sun really came up, the temp was 0.

My God, talk about painful, when the wind hit, it felt like a punch to the face.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

I'm enjoying a nice 57 degrees F at the moment. For south Florida thats slightly chilly.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

If you could lick your own ear, you'd be a porn star... :wow:

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

How do you know I'm not already? :P
Joking, joking.

Eh, all that is going on here is that I am having trouble with housing arangements for next academic year. The people I was going to be sharing a house with, as far as I have been told, have decided they would rather have someone they met last week live with them instead. So I'm trying to find out if this is true, and also make back up arrangements. Problem is, I don't know many people here, and the ones I do are either in that group of people or already have houses lined up. So I could be in trouble.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Thank god someone else (albeit a different part of the country/different uni) hasn't sorted houses out yet. It seems everyone who was in halls has found accomodation/people to live with next year. I went through clearing so I got a flat with a mate, his mate, and 3 lads we didn't know. It's alright apart from not liking one of the lads (he doesn't clean up, he leaves his shit everywhere and he's just in general a dick.

To leave you with hope, we (Me and my mate) found our flat on facebook a week before term started :)

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Because somebody would've already offered you a place to stay... :laugh3:

Good luck with the housing problem. My nephew recently moved across country, and he found a place by advertising on Craigslist. He had a few leads looking for other people's "roommate wanted" ads, but got more responses when he put up his own "looking for a place" ad. Just a thought....

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

The housing thing so far -
The girl they have decided to move in with (I think) won't talk to me about it. Two of the guys won't talk to me about it. And the one who will has mainly been kept out of the loop, so he doesn't know what is going on.
I've started asking other people is they have or know anyone who has a space next year, but to be honest, I'm not holding out much hope right now. I mainly just feel rather hurt that they decided to leave me out on my ass with no warning when I have to have housing sorted out soon, ideally.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Update on housing -
The people who screwed me over are still staying silent. However, it turns out that they have also messed around with another of my friends, who is in the same boat as me. He and I have decided to band together, got another friend who is unhappy with his current living arrangements on our side, and have decided we should move into a house together when we get a fourth person.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

wow, cafe dropped to page 2? that's just weird.

Anywho, temp dropped to around 39F tonight. Coldest for my area for as long as I can remember. I imagine it's much colder by my brother up in Sanford. The amusing part being that I'm towards the end of Book 2 of The Dragon Bone Chair, lending something of a boost to certain portions of the story. Too bad it's not mid-summer, it'd be like the story just leapt off the pages.

Any updates on the housing situation DS?

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

39. Bah.

We get 39 up here, too. We just have to add a few days together to get there... ;)

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Hmm, but remember, this is south Florida where I am. The natives here complain about the cold when it gets below 65F. The funny thing is that they also complain again when in the summer the temperature is over 80F. I blame it on a sedentiary lifestyle that leaves them out of the elements far more than is healthy.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Housing update - I haven't done anything about it for a week, I've been staying in a nearby city to take some time off, see some people, that sort of thing. I also haven't had internet, which is why I've been away for a little while.
One of the guys (Mike) has a couple of spare places in the house he is living in now for next year, and I am all for going there - it isn't too far to walk from the uni. I'm still up for looking around, but there seems good. Mike also says it is too early to be looking for houses, and thinks we should wait until June or July (!!!).
However, Chris looked around the house, and the words he used to describe it were "a slum" - rather harsh I think, I have seen Mike's house and it is pretty good for student housing. My sister has and is currently living in worse. He is looking at more expensive housing a longer distance away - we are talking voer 40 minutes walk. And as far as I am aware, only Mike and I can drive, and he hates to and I can't afford the insurance, or the car itself, until I'm 21. And I don't really want to havw to get up any earlier than I already am.

Like I say, I don't know if this has changed, because I'm not in Portsmouth right now.

In other news, I can't get my earrings out (the backs are on too tightly), I am going slightly deaf occasionally (probably related to my recent bout of being ill) and I pulled a muscle in my neck and shoulder pretty badly crawling out from under a bed a few days ago. it was agony and I couldn't move my left arm or my head at all.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Damn, DS! You're falling apart!

Hope the housing situation clears up soon. Just remember... that which doesn't break you makes you stronger.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

Or alternatly it leaves me a shattered, whimpering wreck in the corner :P

Thanks Bung, I'll work on gettign the housing sorted properly after I get settled back in at uni. Having lectures again is going to be weird.

Re: Cloudy's Cafe, a conversation zone, January 8, 2009
 

But you'll be a STRONG shattered whimpering wreck in the corner... ;)