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

Apologies, this is probably going to strike a lot of people as rather self-indulgent but I've just been hit by one of those 'woah' moments.

Whilst looking for a CD-ROM with some pictures on, I found a CD I forgot I had, a CD a friend made for me on my first trip to his new place. Listening to the CD is bringing back a lot of crystal-clear memories of the trip (all of them good incidentally): I can remember what we did, what I ate (mostly cereal and pizza), I can remember meeting a guy I ended up in a fairly substantial relationship for the first time, I can remember my friend meeting the woman he's still with and I can remember it all as if it was pretty recently.

The thing is, the trip was nearly exactly 9 years ago (9 years on Tuesday to be precise), I was in my first year of Uni and recovering from my first set of Uni exams. It seems bizarre that I can have such clear recollections of an event such a long time ago (even weirder, I've just checked and there's a record of it on here). I still haven't got my head around the idea that I'm nearly 30 and some of my best memories come from a decade ago.

It's also made me realise I've just missed my ten-year dnanniversary: I joined Talk Buffy on 23rd January 2003. Can't remember exactly when my first hootoo post was but it was roughly May/June time that year so I'm coming up on a decade here.

Man I'm getting *old*.

> Man I'm getting *old*.

I've been getting really morbid recently, for some reason. Must stop it.

TRiG.

Hey, Old Man! Hippy Buffday!!

And may you continue to have such wonderful memories!





lil xx

Noodles!!


I'm only 9 years old and still can't speeell

So what if you've been here 10 years? I think that's great and I've enjoyed reading your journals. And self-indulgent is what they're supposed to be. Otherwise they'd be entries. The joy of h2g2.

Well done for sticking it out here and thank you for all your insights into teenage minds, politics and unusual family structures, being gay, and all the other stuff you tell us about. I for one, consider you to be of great value to the site.

I agree with TC, it's not self-indulgent when it's a Journal.

And it's great reading what you've written over the years because, of course, we are completely different generations etc so I get to see things from a completely different POV.


Don't worry about feeling old - if 50 is the new 30 you're still a very young thing.