Cambridge Chat (previously New Cambridge Students Entry 2004)

I. Am. A. Rower!!!

I do not fit the stereotype of a boatie in any way. I don't drink, I don't go on crew dates, I don't steal the flag of other boat clubs and I'm actually quite good at rowing. Thus, I can't be a boatie.

Yep, that was me, falling asleep slightly Didn't see you though *is feeling stalked* I spoke to KHL in the queue for MMR though, which was oh-so-exciting. Didn't hurt much, really. But my back still wrecks from yesterday's rowing accident, and the outing today didn't help, though we were a lot better as a crew.

I'm not all that bothered about going home - I'll just sit around and not do much except feel guilty for not working more. Christmas will be nice but weird without Grandma, and of course there's the huge anticlimax on actually getting home - in Cambridge at the end of term I'll be all excited about Christmas, and then I'll get home and realise there are actually still three weeks to go

isn't denial such a wonderful thing?

Didn't see you though *is feeling stalked*

i've seen MNS once outside my window

See, boatie is not a term we use at university level, it has always been used in the intercollegiate sense. As I rarely, if ever participate in bumps racing, added to the fact I also compete for a professional club, I can't be termed a boatie. It's a bit like calling a Premier League player a Sunday morning hacker, it doesn't make sense.

(and the sandwich guy's food is too good to miss, and cheaper than Sainsbury's)

Ahhh that guys sandwiches got me through the first year (also made me fatter considering it's cheap enough to not only get one!). Dominique or something isn't it? Saturdays were always so depressing at 9am when he wasn't there.

On another note there was a very very nasty looking accident on the lensfield road/trumpington street roundabout this evening. Looked like a cyclist was trapped underneath one of those big VW van taxis . Seriously didn't look good, there were two firecrews, two ambulances, two doctor cars and three police cars there when I went past.

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Oh my god! I hope they're OK... "Another" one? Is that a really dangerous junction for cyclists then? I used it this morning

I said "another note", though I think I might have seen one there before too (or maybe it was on the crossing round the corner). It's the trumpington/pembroke street one that seems to get a few (but mainly low speed). The Newmarket road and especially Coldham's corner roundabouts are supposed to be death traps for cyclists but I've not cycled them.

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Oh sorry, misread it

Coldham's corner? Is that where Staples is?

*going to refuse to get on bike in the morning*

It's the trumpington/pembroke street one that seems to get a few (but mainly low speed).
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i seriously considered writing to the council about putting some better crossings round pembroke. crossing the road to new museums (unless you walk up to the other crossing. yeah, i know im lazy), crossing pembroke st at the trumpington st end, and crossing tennis court road outside downing site are all really hard.

i got hit by a mad cyclist on TCR

plus I mean me and shuai hear all the traffic that goes along pem st. and at night especially they go SO fast. I dont know if cambridge has boy racers like we do at home (our town centre is full of attractive red plastic bollards to try and stop them, i dont know how they think it would work) but it certainly sounds it. some of them go zoomnig past and its so dangerous.

i seriously considered writing to the council about putting some better crossings round pembroke. crossing the road to new museums (unless you walk up to the other crossing. yeah, i know im lazy), crossing pembroke st at the trumpington st end, and crossing tennis court road outside downing site are all really hard.

crossing queens road between old court and mem court