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Submitted by splinister on December 2, 2007 - 4:03pm.
How much coffee can a person drink to stay awake during Clarion West before his or her head explodes?
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To be honest, I was just
To be honest, I was just throwing out some radomn thoughts to test the forums. :)
Our ('06) class had a strong coffee contigent, along with some tea adherents. The first thing that happend most mornings was that someone set the coffee brewing. It was the first thing I checked when I wandered into the kitchen after my x hours sleep (x diminished the closer I was to deadline).
I reached the upper limit of my coffee tolerance during the workshop, and made a concerted effort to cut back on my consumption when I returned home.
I did buy a Gagia espresso machine after Clarion, however! (It's quality now, not quantity.)
Maura
http://splinister.com
Espresso Machine, you too?
Huh, that's funny, Lime and I picked up a Briel machine. Not the best machine in the world, but I'm getting so I can make good stuff with it.
As for the workshop, my coffee intake went way up as the amount of sleep I was getting diminished. Actually, though, I haven't been able to get back into tea since that summer in Seattle.
By the way, no insult to Seattle denizens intended, but I remember some of the furriners noting that there wasn't really s much "great coffee" as we'd been led to expect. There were some nice places around, though. I just went with the old coffee pot in the house, most days, though, since for me it was largely a caffeine thing. For pleasurable coffee, it was out of the house. I remember a neat place near the University Bookstore, but beyond that, it's hazy.
Gord
http://gordsellar.com
I remember that
I normally drink a fair amount of coffee, but at Clarion I drank even more than usual.
It wasn't an attempt to stay awake though. I think it was because if I needed to get up and wander around to think, the coffee pot was always right there -- so convenient.
I know, Maura. I thought
I know, Maura. I thought it was funny that Nisi thought it was me, 'cause I'm always so restrained....
Eileen
What Eileen thought
But see, Eileen, it's the fact that there's something there that *needs restraining* that's a giant tip-off as to the seething layers of id beneath your clam exterior.
Clams & Cuffs
Nisi, do I need to use the Fe+ marker when I refer to myself as restrained? Or will someone simply get the handcuffs?
My class hardly touched the
My class hardly touched the stuff. It was kind of weird. I think we had two coffee-drinkers and that was it.
Vylar Kaftan
CW '04, Clarion West Assistant Webmaster
http://www.vylarkaftan.net
Oh, we touched the stuff
There were definitely more than two of us drinking the coffee, but since the house coffee wasn't the greatest, we generally went through about one or two pots in the mornings and then got our fixes at the Tully's down the street. Plus, Greer had her special little latte/cappuccino maker, and there were a few pots later in the day. There just weren't big coffee gatherings.
Now Pop Tarts, on the other hand...
Oh really?
I must have missed that. I never ate any Pop Tarts either.
Vylar Kaftan
CW '04, Clarion West Assistant Webmaster
http://www.vylarkaftan.net
Lots of the '05 class drank
Lots of the '05 class drank coffee and tea, and we even had some mate drinkers which was really hardcore. At some point a bunch of us bought better coffee because the stuff in the house wasn't that great. Michael Swanwick probably drank more coffee than all of us combined in his one week there though...