you should befriend my cat, he talks allllll the time.

I've picked up and restarted multiple times... so I'm sorta used to the annoying and lonely times when I don't know anyone. So I am rather excellent at casual chit-chat and will point out that I don't know anyone and then invite people out for a drink. Even the casual time out that doesn't develop into a closer friendship is nice, because at least it's friendly. And sometimes you meet people through other people who will end up being the closer friends that you're looking for. Yay networking! But it's really annoying and lonely and stressful sometimes too.