Contrary to what the social skills people woud have everyone believe, there is more than one 'right' way to Friday night. Esp. in a town that was essentially founded on nerdery. :)
... I thought there was no question about it being Silas who first spotted the tent? ...
Well, Gran claims in his journal to have done it, and (not in his journal) that there was a general agreement to give the credit to someone less politically sensitive – the Norwegian lady across the desk from me at SPRI today certainly believed this. Unfortunately, as with most conspiracy theories, it's impossible to disprove definitively because contrary testimony falls under 'well he would say that', but logically the weight of probability is very much more on Silas' side. Of course the conversation sent my brain into rabbit-chasing mode which made it fairly difficult to concentrate on much during the afternoon, so it was good to get it all out ... And yes, in Nerd Town this is hardly unusual recreation, but I didn't see anyone else at the pub scratching away at a thesis. :)
but I didn't see anyone else at the pub scratching away at a thesis. :) They were probably all sitting in coffee shops and cafés instead. I've certainly done that after the library closed for the night. Pubs tend to be a bit too loud for my concentration (and I don't like beer, so no particular incentive to go pubbing instead).
But that's the baffling thing – cafés and coffee shops in this town are all closed by 8pm! As a Vancouverite used to 11pm closing being pretty standard and some places open all night, I was perplexed at how anyone got anything done ... until I learned that each of the colleges has that sort of work environment within their walls, so of course the town's cafés wouldn't be packed with students late at night.
Luckily there are enough sedate pubs around here that it's possible to find a similar work environment to your average café – many don't have piped music, and those who do don't play it too loud; most don't have TVs either. You can certainly find a loud pub if you go looking, but it's a blessed bubble of low-intensity niceness, down the floodplain of the Cam.
What?!? No late-evening open cafés in Cambridge? In Oxford we had the three G&D cafés, open 8-midnight seven days a week. I don't think I've ever seen the one I lived nearest empty any late evening, regardless of what day of the week it was. But it's good you have quiet pubs to use instead. The pubs in Oxford were quite loud, at least on Fridays and Saturdays.
We have one – well, two; the same company, two locations – that's open till
11 and has music nights and stuff, but yeah: if you want a late night latte
and pastry and flat surface to draw on that isn't the desk you've been at
all day, you're kind of out of luck. But Cambridge is MUCH smaller than
Oxford!
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... I thought there was no question about it being Silas who first spotted the tent? ...
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They were probably all sitting in coffee shops and cafés instead. I've certainly done that after the library closed for the night. Pubs tend to be a bit too loud for my concentration (and I don't like beer, so no particular incentive to go pubbing instead).
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Luckily there are enough sedate pubs around here that it's possible to find a similar work environment to your average café – many don't have piped music, and those who do don't play it too loud; most don't have TVs either. You can certainly find a loud pub if you go looking, but it's a blessed bubble of low-intensity niceness, down the floodplain of the Cam.
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We have one – well, two; the same company, two locations – that's open till 11 and has music nights and stuff, but yeah: if you want a late night latte and pastry and flat surface to draw on that isn't the desk you've been at all day, you're kind of out of luck. But Cambridge is MUCH smaller than Oxford!