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

this is my fourth day away from work and back home! home, by which i mean my house in my hometown, and not that grotty little college room in which i reside when i'm at university.

the reason why i'm relaxing back home and not slogging away at the lab is simple: (1) i wanted to celebrate my parents' wedding anniversary with them, and mothers' day with my mum - i'm not sure when i last came home for these two occasions, and (2) i thought that it would be pretty hilarious for me to just suddenly show up at the gate and surprise my folks, never mind that my home is about 900 kilometers away from university.

to make sure that at least my mum would be home on friday (9 may), i phoned her up the night before and asked her if one had to be home to receive express mail. my mum took it to mean that i'd sent her something, and promised to stay home for the next two days. (i'm really, really sorry, mum) ran off to the airport the next day and hopped on the first plane i could get. called my mum again while i was in the taxi, asking her (yes, i know i was being mean) if she'd received her package yet. she guilelessly replied that no, she hadn't, the postman *had* been to our house in the morning but he hadn't called her out, so there was a chance it would come in the afternoon or the next day.

arrived at my house fifteen minutes later, surprising the heck out of my parents (it was lunch time), who had been patiently waiting for the postman.

i'm still not sure when exactly i'm going back yet, though. you see, i only got a one-way ticket...

sounds good to me! would give anything to get away from school right now (but do *not* want to spend any more time with my parents than i am already).
didnt realise mothers day was a worldwide thing. when is yours tho? cz ours was ages ago-some time in march i think.

Ours (and Farlander's too) is the second dontbry in may.

The story is great. Is there a specific time you need to get back to university or are you on vacation?

Hi! I havent heard from u since u fly on friday. How r u ?

How is ur parents ? Send my regards to them.

And....i was afraid with ur last statement.

Mentioned that u r not sure about when is going back here.

Er.....I m supposed to leave first. Not you.

C ya soon. bye.

mothers' day is in *march* over in the uk???? i suppose over there fathers' day is on the third dontbry of june, jen? i'm starting to get confused - my friend in canada recently told me that they celebrate labour day in august? september?

well, i'm planning to return to university this weekend, but have yet to get my ticket

oh, by the way, dr. t, since you're in here, let me introduce you to jen and arwen - two-thirds of bartok the bat (i'm the remaining one-third). jen, arwen, this here is my friend and labmate, dr. t... er, dr. t, may i disclose your name?

yep-mothers day is in march, and fathers day is in june-bout the 2nd week i think, as it's coincided with my sisters birthday before nowm on june 12th.
whats labour day? we dont have that.

Same father's day as Farlander.
And my dad's birthday is May 14, so when it's the same as mother's Day my sister and I make them both breakfast in bed.

Labor Day is the first Monday in September. It's a day off, a bank holiday I think, and many people have it off from work. Post offices are closed, I know that much for sure.

But I believe you (Arwen) had a day off recently that we didn't, maybe the same weekend h2g2 ran all the articles about horse racing in HYM.

yep-we have bank holidays on mayday (first monday in may) witsun (end of may/beginning of june) and things like easter monday, christmas day etc. think we had an extra one last year coz of the queens jubilee, and they were talking about putting one in to boost tourism after the foot and mouth crisis, but i'm not sure if they did.

yep-we have bank holidays on mayday (first monday in may) witsun (end of may/beginning of june) and things like easter monday, christmas day etc. think we had an extra one last year coz of the queens jubilee, and they were talking about putting one in to boost tourism after the foot and mouth crisis, but i'm not sure if they did.

you know.... maybe one of these days, after writing that bartok article, we could get together and write about how the same holidays are celebrated at different times of the year in different parts of the world...

i'd be up for that-if we ever finish the bartok entry!!

we will... one day...

isn't one of us supposed to be studying right now?

Yes, aren't we?

I will be able to work on the Bartok entry more after school is out or things slow down. All of my teachers are trying to fit in one more project before school lets out (which is actually the fourth quarter project that was planned since the beginning of the year but they all seem to be due at the same time). I will be doing one in French next week on a french invention (pardon me, I meant to say freedom-an ongoing joke in my freedom class about all that french is unpatriotic junk because they wouldn't support certain idiots in their descisions to bomb the hell out of Iraq) and how it will change in the future-I have chosen morphine as my invention. (oh yes, I'm completely innocent, officer. It was for school. I swear) So everyone wants to fit in everything (two of my classes are behind where we're supposed to be) before finals. We have just over 4 weeks left of school now, and teachers are startign to panic. So the workload is kinda heavy, not that bad but I don't have time for doing extra work-type stuff. But maybe one day I'll surprise you with the intro paragraph or something. (that would be easier if I could get someone to let me into the computer lab during study hall, the "class" that I normally don't get anything productive in anyways, but as a freshman I need a pass from a teacher, usually to work specifically on a project assigned for that class, and I have no way of getting one)
So I've been thinking about it, and progresss will be made, but not until school's out.

i'm studying!! i'm studying vv hard!! i now know exactly how to use h2g2!

and how would that be, arwen? lol

it's ok, you two - bartok's not going anywhere (the guy i mean), so it doesn't really matter. besides, i don't think anybody's going to be doing anything on him anytime soon. i'll see if i can tidy things up a bit these few days...

I use h2g2 for school too. It's the first place I stop when I'm doing a research project, to run a search. The edited articles are good to give a general idea of the topic.