{"id":542,"date":"2010-01-22T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/01\/22\/review-of-my-coffee-date-with-mermaid\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T01:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T01:50:00","slug":"review-of-my-coffee-date-with-mermaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/01\/22\/review-of-my-coffee-date-with-mermaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of my coffee date with Mermaid"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Hey, she asked for it!<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Mermaid and I try to go for coffee together at least once a week. Last minute meetings sometimes get in our way, but we generally manage to pull it off, usually by pretending we’re discussing work (our two bosses collaborate closely, and sometimes we do actually talk about their current projects). We rotate our custom around some of the (I think seven*) coffee shops found in the four blocks between our two work places. Earlier today, we met up at our current favourite, Elysian Coffee<\/a> (who are NOT paying me any kind of commission!) on the South-East corner of Broadway and Ash.<\/p>\n

Now, this place has the unfortunate nick-name of “Pubes”. As in “let’s have this week’s ‘meeting’ about the ‘sequencing pipeline’ at Pubes”. The reason is that in a previous incarnation of this coffee shop, Mermaid once spotted a suspiciously short and curly hair bobbing about in the foam on her latte. (And<\/i> the bread in my sandwich was stale. How gross is that<\/i>?) We never went back… and for some reason that place didn’t do very well and closed down soon afterwards. When it reopened with a new name, we checked that it was indeed under new management before venturing back in. And I’m glad we did, because the coffee is excellent and they make the best chocolate cookies in town.<\/p>\n

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I arrived a little later than Mermaid, who said that the scone that didn’t quite make it into this photo was delicious and highly recommended. At least I think that’s what she said, through the crumbs
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Mermaid does have a head, by the way, but wishes to remain pseudonymous.
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Pubes (the name will remain for ever more) is a bit of a victim of its own success – Fridays at 10:30 are almost unbearably busy, with a long long wait for your coffee and a scarcity of seats. But today we got a table and felt unhurried enough to have a lovely half hour conversation about Mermaid’s upcoming move, cats, the (possibly doomed) Olympics (there’s no snow<\/a> at what is now likely to be the mudboarding venue, and Whistler resort is going to be auctioned off<\/a> halfway through. Plus the opening ceremony is almost guaranteed to be embarrassingly cheesy. But we’re both still super excited about our respective event tickets and the party in general). Oh, and the anti-prorogue rally<\/a>, which seems to be getting a lot of publicity, an idea for a future blog post (about some recent papers on which our two bosses are authors – was too<\/i> a work meeting!), and cat poo.<\/p>\n

As we parted, Mermaid said that she was looking forward to reading my blog post about discussing cat poo at Pubes. I hope it lived up to those high expectations!<\/p>\n

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*Pubes, Mad Mike’s, Daily Perk, Bread Garden, Blenz, Starbucks, and Java Express (in my building) – did I miss any?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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