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

This isn't really a journal entry, so much as an excse to waste time. I'm bored - bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored. I'm so bored, I've even considering starting to spell the word 'bired', just to see if anyone notices.

So, anything positive to say in the middle of all this boredom? Not really. I've finally learned to decline the relative adjective in Latin... and here it is:

hic, haec, hoc,
hunc, hanc, hoc,
huius, huius, huius,
huic, huic, huic,
hoc, hac, hoc,

hi, hae, haec,
hos, has, haec,
horum, harum, horum,
his, his, his,
his, his, his

It's great fun reciting the dative and ablative plurals, because it makes you sound like a French snake... 'heess, heess, heess...' See... I'm starting to find that sort of thing amusing... I'm that bired!

I was also amused by a Simpsons episode I watched this morning - called 'Bart-Mangled Banner', it contained a great rant from Grounskeeper Willie at a postman (mailman for those in the US):

"What did you say about my mother? I'll have you know, her feet stink because she works in manure all day - but it's still the best damn Starbucks in Glasgow!" (He even pronounces is 'Glesga', for added authenticity).

So, would that be the Byres Road branch?

Oh well... what to do now... I could either learn more Latin (ille, illa, illud...) or I could write a review of 'Van Helsing'. Hmmm... decisions, decisions...

R25968 23/5/04 18:33

Hahahahahahahaha, I was so bored that I practiced handstands instead of studying for my chem. exam, so I can commiserate.

Well, that's fair enough - I've never been able to do handstands at all, so I can't do that.

I can't do them either, but I tried.