Holidays and absences [2]

David H wrote:It's going to be a grand adventure for you Julia, and this is what all adventures feel like at the beginning! 

I will take my trusty Hobbit book and dip into it when times get tough.  

The big attraction, especially for a graduate student, is to be able to sink yourself totally into one topic. You rarely get the chance or resources to go that deep again, so just throw yourself in and enjoy the heck out of it.

And the kibbitzing and networking with like minded people can also be a peak experience. Coffee, wine, absinthe cellars....

Not heading into the wild: if you forget a toothbrush you can buy another one. Hell, you even speak the language.

Then you've got Mr Figg with a warm welcome mat to come back to, it's not like when your parents tossed you out the door for college with hopes that you'd only ever be back again for tea and holidays.

With all of that, why should you be stressed?  

(and we'll always be here for you.)

that means a lot Halfy, youll be setting me off again with the pocket handkerchief if you keep on being nice like that.

absinthe cellars sound groovy  

Mrs Figg wrote:
absinthe cellars sound groovy  

Well, um...they kinda make you sick like nothing else. But it's a bonding experience, right?  

Cross the border and you can have buckie Mrs Figg.  

I'll get vacinated first  

There is always london to come and visit if you feel like you need a bit of civilization! Jamies Italian is round the corner from me and sure I could smuggle you in to my building for some good views of the city!!

... i am sensing a forumshire meet-up... making history here :O

If I visit Londinium I will take you up on a coffee Lance  


a forumshire meetup would be cool we could have the Brit chapter, Ozhobbit  chapter and the US   chapter, and the  Fyordlandian chapter.

If I visit Londinium I will take you up on a coffee Lance- Mrs Figg

But not to Scotshobbitland for a buckie and a fight!  Fine!  

the fjordlandian chapter would be awsome.

Well as the Scotshobbit chapter consists of, me, I will just have to try harder and party a lot more and drink a lot more to make up for it. Its a burden I must bear stoically.  

yeah.. but scotland is part of UK isn't it?

Don't remind him!

 

i was trying to cheer him up...

u're not alone, Petty!

Pettytyrant101 wrote:If I visit Londinium I will take you up on a coffee Lance- Mrs Figg

But not to Scotshobbitland for a buckie and a fight!  Fine!  

do you have buckie flavoured coffee? plus Lance will show me the view from a huge erection, what are you going to show me, the view from your barrel? theres no contest.  

u're not alone, Petty!- Norc

A Scotshobbit is never alone with a buckie Norc.  

do you have buckie flavoured coffee?- Mrs Figg

In theory, yes.

Lance will show me the view from a huge erection- Mrs Figg

Yes and that view will consist of concrete as far as the eye can see and his erection will probably set you on fire, and not in a good way.

"what are you going to show me"

You are asking that of a drunk in a kilt?

'Yes and that view will consist of concrete as far as the eye can see and his erection will probably set you on fire, and not in a good way'. Petty

 

Ill have you know I have been drinking plenty of cranberry juice!!

Oh the sites you can see on top of my erection Mrs Figg. You would be the envy of all forumshire!

Dave will be glad to hear about the Cranberry juice Lance  

yeah I bet that view is magnificent, do you see the Thames meandering? I would sit there all day just looking out and daydreaming.  

The Thames doesnt meander- its like the Ankh in Discworld, you only know its a river because its moving very slightly faster than the land on either side, and if you go fishing in it you have to jump up and down on the hooks to get them to sink.  

What you want Mrs Figg are proper Sottish rivers, with Salmon in them and willow trees along the banks.  

and thousands of midges driving you barking.

There gone- its past midgie season now.  

do you have Starbucks near Scottish rivers though? its kind of important.