h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*Sneaks in to remove 'the'*

Oh, my son is in London right now. A study trip. The class combines two subjects at high level - English and Music. They have tickets for a coulple of musicals/shows - and he and a friend will try to fit a soccer match into the program.

*sigh*

I'd better go back and write Danish.

I'm thinking I need a . It's been a very, very long and poltical day, and that's exhausting!

I thoguht I'd better read Going Postal before the new Pratchett, so I've just started that.

[Ti&R]

I'm not allowed to read any nice new novels until I've finished my essay.

It's getting cold in Nodnol - frost and ice on all the cars in the early morning, cold wind, clear days and bright, moonlit nights, odd patches of very depressing drizzle. Ahhh, Autumn. I've lost one of my favourite gloves. It must be Autumn.

I'm in the porcess of reading 'Making Money' the new Pratchett and I'm enjoying it so far.

Actually T it wasn't the spelling I noticed it was the "soccer" word, I haven't heard that word used for a long time except by American people. In Britin it is football or footy (which is very informal) and I don't even like football.
.....actually where does the word soccer come from it doesn't make sense? At least the word football makes sense.

Football as in the Soccer sence was originally and correctly known as Association Football as opposed to Rugby Football et al. According to Webster the etymology of Soccer is a result of shortening and alteration from as'soc'iation football and dates from 1889.

People in the UK still call their preferred version of Football (Soccer, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Gaelic, even some American) Football and can cause confusion if you don't know the background of the person you are talking to. My uncle calls Rugby Football, but some of his friends from years in the states and us who refer to Association Football as such can cause all sort of hilarity when we're all together trying to talk about sports.

{Teuchter}

Walter Mosley: the Man In My Basement is one of the best books I've ever read. I've got another of his books, half-read somewhere, forgotten what it's called but it's one of his Easy Rawlins books.

Soccer: Victorian abbreviation, like Rugger for Rugby Football. Exported to the US. It actually used to be very widely used in the UK- if you watch TV clips from the 70s, presenters like Jimmy Hill used to use the term "soccer" all the time.

As was pointed out above, there is confusion anywhere with all the different types of football and it tends to be the dominant one (In the UK, Association football, In the US gridiron and in Australia it's Aussie Rules or Rugby) that is referred to merely by that name.

Book wise, i'm currently reading "The Rain Before It Falls" by one of my favourite authors Jonathan Coe. Next up after that is Falling Man by Don DeLillo

As we're in a what we're reading now kind of mood, I'm currently reading The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde having finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Enjoying the first and very much enjoyed the second.

<< So... do the Union soldiers have Northern accents? Like Dr. Who?>>

Well, every country has a north! They probably do really bad impersonations of what most English people think an American accent is. Just as people who go to RenFests in the States do really bad impersonations of what they think Middle English sounds like.

Just finished Making Money, and now I’m reading the Dante Club by… somebody who’s name I can’t remember. I’m finding it difficult to get into, but apparently it’s worth persevering with.

Just for a minute. I must just pop in and say hello. My Florida guest has left so we are now in the process of preparing for the arrival of the tiny matriarch aka my mum. The house is in an upheaval and we have not managed to get any homework done yet. Halfterm break finishes on Monday and my mum arrives Tuesday ( 'just in time for Halloween' ...)

~wilma~

*doing laundry and collating 3 years' worth of sales tax records*

Who was it mentioned fire drills?

Just got back from mine. Our section was fine. However, initial feed back is that the Deputy Director and his VIPs did not come out and he had not even signed them into the visitors book.

We had a fire drill last week while I was on my lunch break. I was approaching the building after my lunch from one direction, while the other 500 staff were approaching from the other direction having spent half a nhour in the park.

[GDZ]

I belong to a service organization. Last night we had an interesting speaker from the Juvenile Court. She talked about all sorts of problems, including abuse. Libraries have been placed under the umbrella of tax suported entities that are required by law to report suspected abuse to the authorities, so I was glad to have someone to answer questions about it. We get these letters quoting statute numbers and requirements but they never give any specifics about what circumstances they consider serious enough to warrant filing a report.

DD, I have my own team to support. However, I was a Red Sox fan by proxy for years, curse be damned, because my husband was from the Boston area and was a loyal supporter. It worked out ok, since Boston is in the American League and St. Louis is in the National League.

When we lived in Texas we used to drive into Arlington when the Red Sox were in town. We'd drive over to watch the Yankees, sometimes. But usually the Red Sox.

And the real underdog from Chicago is the Cubs, not the White Sox. Being a Cardinals fan, born and bred, Cub baiting is one of my favorite pastimes.

Lil, that is such a great story. There are Route 66 clubs in the UK, as well. We get them through here sometimes. But Lincoln Regulators are much more fun than that.

The situation in California is horrific.