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

I know how you feel. I am surprised at myself at the moment, that I really don't seem to care what my results are going to be. Ah well.

You did say you were a perfectionist, so your "bad" results are probably better than most of my "good" results...

I wouldn't be so sure. A comfortable grade for me is a B+ or thereabouts (approx. 85%-89.9%, in case English and American grading systems are different). Many of my final grades were well below that. Not failing, but low enough I'm kicking myself in the pants for not studying enough/at all.

But enough of this school talk...

Exactly.

What can I say to that?

You can say, "Awwwww.... But I LOVE going to school!"

However, I wouldn't advise saying anything of the kind...

I wouldn't dare to anyway... the walls in this room have ears...

Who knows what they'd tell my teachers for next year?

The walls in this room have ears? I thought they had deer's heads? Or was that the other room...

Doh. I posted to this forum, but the list on my page says that I haven't. So I'm posting again in the hope that it updates somewhow.

By the way, I like your new name Is there a story behind the name, or is it just a random choice?

Sort of a story behind it...

the archeress part comes from the fact I like archery, but I suck royally at it. Well, not quite that badly; it just took me a week to figure out how far to pull the string (is that the right word? sorry, I got up about twenty minutes ago) back to get the arrow all the target. Once I realized it wouldn't snap against my face, or any other part of my body for that matter, it went right to the target. I've got good aim after all.

The wolf part is sort of a joke, sort of a story. I'll tell it later when I'm a bit more awake...

I tried archery once, and failed to hit the target.

Last year I joined the rifle club at uni, and went to the range a few times - the first time I went, I actually managed to hit the target!

Then I discovered that what I had just hit was the target to the left of mine, and I had just done the person to the left of me a favour...

(I'm not joking)

I'll eagerly await the wolf story...

The wolf has to do with a little vision/dream I had in school this year. A lovely grey eyed, grey wolf kept on popping up in my head, so that's where it came from. And I like wolves.

This year was the first time I ever tried my hand at archery, but we only got to do it for a week or so-- just when I was getting good, the teacher decided to switch to golf. *Golf*! I can't think of a sport more un-sport-like.

Two thing I will always want to learn to do well: archery, and swordfighting. I don't know why... but I've always thought they might come in useful one day or another. Just something interesting to put on my college application, I guess.

Archery - I used to enjoy that, as with the BB we went for an Activities Evening each year, including golf, archery and shooting. I was reasonable at the Archery for a beginner, but it wasn't that tasking as the target wasn't that far away.

As for golf, that can be fun. I went to Brown's Gold Course on Friday evening, and I must say that the Red 10 hole is brilliant. (They have 4 courses, White (easy) Blue (fairly easy) Yellow (Getting harder) and Red (Hard). Red 10 is a beautiful hole - I'd like it in the garden.

Go on, ask me what it looks like.

Don't tell me, it looks like the Isle of Wight...

After years of practice, I finally managed to perfect that desultory clap that people give just after a good shot in golf... It is, by far, the most important skill to have when watching a game of golf...

Yep, it's a perfect giant model of the Isle of Wight, complete with Needles lighthouse. If you get it in the moat all the way along, though, you've no chance of getting it in the hole. You should see it - it's great.

Yes, well, judging by your enthusiasm, I knew it had to be *something* to do with the Isle of Wight...

I am enthusiastic about things other than the Isle of Wight - I bet I know more about Southampton's history than you, old friend

I know... I wouldn't dare to disagree with that.

But (thanks to you, mainly) I'm learning...

The trouble is, history is fashion orientated. People only are interested as a whole in:
What life was like when they were a child
How places have changed in their lifetime
Nice ships and cruise liners
Nice photgraphs.
Pictures of the War
If it isn't photographed or happened this century (it ain't 2001 yet), it isn't history as far as the general public is concerned.

VERY irritating.

I'd have to agree with that. I guess this would account for so many people constantly repeating history... they rarely learn/understand anything further back than 100 years. (like, as I think I've said before, most of the history courses I've taken at school have started no earlier than the 1750's... so I can very safely assume that there are some kids who swear that nothing existed before then... (because there are some very VERY stupid people around here)).

*cheers, cause there's yet another person who is intelligent enough to realize the millenium/century doesn't end until 2001*

I'm not sure if that's the same here - some periods of time are popular, such as the Romans. But generally all the books that sell have photographs in, and are of photographs of the last century as that's when cameras existed.
Sadly it seems that most people are like children when it comes to buying history books - only getting ones with colour pictures. Which means that all local history books mass-sold seem to be very basic, with a lot of illustration.