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

Hmm. So I'm thinking about changing my h2g2 screen name to "Enyara †"... why? I really don't know why. I'm kinda bored, and I thought I could do with a change, anyway. But the name is actually one of my real nicknames, anyway... so it's not like I'm taking on a whole new persona. Well, that's ample enough warning....

Well... Enyara's a nice name. Where did that nickname come from?

It's a rather stupid story... but I'll indulge you.

I was going to one of my classes one day, after one of my cursed study halls, with my mind totally bored to tears (I must not have had much work to do or something, I don't remember). I started wondering, "what if we all had names that were *us* inside and out? Like names that defined who we were and such, rather than our given names." I don't remember what prompted that, probably some book I'd read, but then of course, the inevitable crosses my mind.... "What would be mine?" And out of the blue pops *pop* "enyara". I don't know how, I don't know why, it just did. So I told one of my best friends, and she's started calling me this once in a while, usually with "Empress" attached in front. Of course, Empress is another story entirely...

It's not a stupid story.

Empress Enyara... That sounds VERY impressive... Like a ruler of some distant galaxy...

By the way - I have discovered that in fact we do have study halls... only they're called "supervisions" for some unknown, and unfathomable, and probably completely irrelevant reason.

hmm... ruler of some distant galaxy... I like the sound of that. *biiiiig smilie*

anyway, lots of forums to check, must do five hours of homework and flute lesson today... more later.

Five hours of homework. Ouch. The most I manage is four hours, and that's on a good day. The least I manage is negative one hour, which is accomplished by watching TV for an hour...

Well, maybe five hours is stretching it (only slightly)... I've got a vocab list of twelve useless words to define, find antonyms/synonymes, alternate forms, and write sentences containing (which takes longer than it sounds it should), a bibliography for my English term paper to type up (as I speak) (this is my third term paper this year, by the way....), a bunch of Trig problems (which are the least of my worries), a stupidstupidstupid thing to do for my civics and global perspectives class (for some unknown reason I have to write down every single electric appliance in my house... that's what'll take me so long), and even BAND homework. BAND homework. It's *band* for God's sakes. I just can't believe that! It's incredible. Something about John Philip Sousa... we're doing a concert next week during school hours for the sixth graders in my school district (I'm not sure what that translates as in British schools).... so it's been nothing but Sousa Sousa Sousa for the last month and a half. I never ever want to see another Sousa piece again.... Anyway. I'm rambling. I'll be good and answer the other forum. (then when i'm done find something to do to get a negative hour or so)

That's quite an impressive list of things to do for your homework! Now, my list: um..... ah yes. Do a design assignment that I have no idea how to do, prepare for a computing lab that I don't understand, complete my maths homework, write up mechanics notes, and play SimCity 3000. Er... okay, the maybe the last one doesn't actually count, but if I was studying economics, then maybe it would...

J. P. Sousa composed that famous march, or something like that, didn't he? That's pretty much everything I know about him.

Sixth graders is sixth year at school, is it?

Sousa wrote bunches and bunches of marches... most of which sound pretty much the same to the average listener (or someone who just doesn't like marches-- me). He also rearranged a few orchestral things for band (why we're doing "Italian In Algiers", my only favorite piece from the repetoire).

Actually, sixth grade is usually the seventh year of schooling (because of kindergarten). Most of the kiddies are about eleven or twlve years old.. a year younger than my sister.

Ah yes. Well, I was on the right track about Sousa then...

I don't know what sixth grade translates to in British schools. I am one of the exceptions to the rule as far as the British schooling system is concerned, since I went to a Christian school (using an American system, no less, thus explaining my extensive and useless knowledge of American history and geography...) and then I was homeschooled for a couple of years.

Sew then... as the seamstress said to the needle... I better get back to work.

(Cackle cackle cackle... It took me about a week to think that joke up, and I am telling it to everybody to make the effort worthwhile... )

Any knowledge of American history is pretty much useless... no matter where you're living. but I believe we talked about that one a while ago, didn't we?

A week for the joke, eh? Well, it made me chuckle, so I guess that means it's pretty clever.

But I have very little work to do today *big, monsterous sigh*, so I shall bum around a bit.

Tonight I have far more work to do than I actually have time to do... so that's why I'm on h2g2 instead...

Why do amoebas (and I've noticed the same trait in human beings) always leave things until the very last minute?

Naughty... on h2g2 instead of doing your work... tsk, tsk, tsk. Actually, that sounds like me... if I have too much work, I just don't do it (usually, unlike this last week when I was sick and had a week's worth of work to make up so I had to to do work to pass the tests). I'm not sure why we're so lazy like that... but then, where would we be without procrastination? How would stuff get done, anyway?

How would stuff get done without procrastinating? Well, it would be difficult, I'm sure. I mean, there's a minimum amount of paperwork which is *required* for things to be done. Just ask any government in the world. I'm sure they'd tell you the same thing.

Governments (at least, the USA's to be sure) don't do anything till the last minute. Like the y2k "crisis" and the whole evnironmental thingie a while ago (which, to my knowledge still hasn't been taken care of)... never till the last second. Rather annoying, if ya ask me.

I was VERY disappointed with the y2k crisis. I had been looking forward SO much to something going wrong, and it didn't...

Exactly. I was so very much hoping that something interesting would happen, just because we'd gone to all that trouble. I was watching the ball drop in New York that night with a bunch of friends, "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" by REM playing on the stereo and I was just waiting for everything [electronic] to buzz to death. Nothin' happened. I'm incredibly disappointed.

I was hoping for at least the power system to go off, and preferably water too... Ah well. Better luck next time, I guess...

I kinda almost wished for some smart-alack at the power plant to just shut everything off for a minute or so at midnight... at least it would have made things a bit more interesting.

But of course, we all know that the *real* new millenium starts next year anyway...

I've never quite seen the logic in that. December 31st, 1999 was the last day of the last millennium, surely?