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

A degree in divinity, not quite as practical as electronics but whatever takes your fancy.
They are quite different places to work. I was doing research so it was great

I've been here now for just under four years. I came over to get the uni job as it seemed like something interesting to do.

i've been to the village a couple of times, and funnily enough, thought it was just a wee bitty too big.

Oh, please don't think i'm religious (in case you had visions of this really prim and proper christian type, rainbow guitar strap an' all), good god no, after 4 years of study, i was more confused than before i started. its a great degree to have, everyone has an opinion on it. i would argue that it's just as useful as electronics - i could argue its more relevant - but that's the usual arguement i have with my friend arthur (he's a molecular biologist) science v's theology - studying it allows you to get good at arguing - what elese could an opinionated, gobby bitch like myself?

It is a bit big and I'm none too keen on living here, but it provides me with money to buy toys and get out for weekends away.

I always wondered what a divinity course teaches. It probably is more relavent than molecular biology

sitting around, drinking tea and having loft thoughts.

unfortunately glasgow being where it is, and what it is and the university pampers to it, it was all west of scotland presbyterianism - not much fun but at least the so-called christians on the course were fairly amoral.

were you researching anything interesting?

I was on a project looking into developing a novel low cost fibre optic link for computer display applications.
It was quite good in that the group members were spread round the country so we got to get out every few months.
There was us (UCL), Pilkington Optronics (Glasgow), IBM Displays (Greenock) and Fibredata (Redruth). The meetings also had a very heavy social element and social bits included a brewery trip (and as much as you could drink - straight from the fermenter) and a burns night celebration.

sounds interesting, pity the funding ran out! i'm beginning to see pattern ... the socialising.

The socialising was quite good on that project

you havin' a good one?

Yup. How about you?

Fair to middling i guess. little jonesy broke his pelvis, so cage-rest for a couple of weeks for him (have you ever tried stopping a cat from doing anything?); poor cat, having my mum mithering him all day

looking forward to getting away from here for a couple of days.

Oh no
You can never make cats 'do' anything. They will do what and when ever the fancy takes them

Thinking of going any where nice?

got any of the little bliters yourself?

not going anywhere nice, going to brum for a postgraduate conference, but at least its not here AND i get fly on an ario-plane!

standing in the q for superdrug, i spotted elle magazine (not one of my usual purchases - more of an fhm girl myself) but it had a free cd on it, the usual sort of rubbish (it was groove armada that caught my eye) but its got a jason downes track on it, so i'll need to rush home and listen to that - ever heard of Supreme beings of leisure - i like the sound of them.

Don't have (and never had) any pets, <dog or

Some good stuff in Brum. Been tehre quite a few times as some of my best mates from uni were from there. Where is the conference, at the uni?

Which Jason Downs track is it? If I see cover CDs I'll have a good look and try hard not to just buy the magazine
Supreme beings of Leisure, nice band name

not the fluffy kind? couldn't imagine the house without pets, especially when i lived alone, dave the cat was my saviour, of course, when i moved back to glasgow, he buggered off - probably trying to make it back to dundee, i've got visions of dave turning up at my old flat... and i'm not there!

the jason downes track is 'girls' featuring some person called milk (cool name)

funnily enough the conferences at warwick, which isn't in warwick, but conventry, should be fun.

you're a bloke - gerri haliwell or porker spice ....erm... sorry, mel C?

No pets at all. I could of course tell you where my teddy bear is

Girls, girls, girls, they're everywhere.
Reasonable and I guess representative of the album but there are others I prefer.
Milk is a new york rapper/producer.

Ah, I've been to a conference at Warwick. Really nice campus and the bars aren't too bad. It was something organised by work whe I was working in Swindon. A whole group of us younger ones slipped out after dinner to ignore the speach (it was good I was told) to go drinking

oh aye, what's teddy called and where does he live

mmmm.... i'm hoping that cos the conference is for postgrad students (and administrators) they'll be a wee bitty looser, if you ken what i mean, so no sneaking out when it all gets too much... a weekend conference - who ever heard of that? i feel cheated out of a jolly, i feel the same way as when they announced diana's funeral would be on a saturday, thereby denying us a public holiday- hope they don't do that when the queen mum goes - i want days of mourning- what elese are the royal family good for, if not for public holidays when they die/marry/have jubilees?

you didn't answer my question: which would you prefer (all things being equal) gerri or hamster spice (i'm sure you can guess the answer i really want to hear!)

The bear is called Arthur and he lives sat in front of one of my speakers (guess he doesn't mind going deaf )

It should be OK. At UCL they organise a postgrad conference in the dept and it is quite good.

When the queen mum goes I'm sure there will be plenty of mourning, especially at her bookies and gin sellers
I moved into where I currently live the day of Diana's funeral. It was great, the centre of london was really quiet

I'm not too keen on the current Gerri - look at my 6 pack- look. Ok it's better than it was but...
As for t'other one it depends as she seems to change her look more often. Hard to keep up (especially as I've not seen what she looks like for a while)

Hello - sorry - just sticking my nose in

PJ Harvey album is really good - never was in to her before, but really enjoyed this album.

As for Gomez v BDB - has to be Gomex for me, everytime - I love Tijuana Lady - stunning - viva la Mexico (OK can't think of anything else to type like it, but I always want to go to Chiquitos after listening to it heh heh heh)

Have you heard of Liquid or Banco de Gaia? Both good bands 2....

oh, okay.... ... there definately should be an 'eh?' smiley.

arthur sounds sweet - had him long?

just as an entire package i'd have to go with gerri, i think she looks fabulous now, but she looked pretty hot when she was curvier - the way god intended women to be. porker spice was on the radio yesterday and this sparked off a debate about which was the better (i'll be the first to conceed, that neither of them are actually very good). for personal reasons i have a real downer on hamster spice.

I definately prefered Gerri as the curvier more womanly look. Much as how I prefer to look at a picture of Marilyn Monroe to say Kate Moss.

Arthur, I've had for about 7 or 8 years now. Was given him as a present by a good friend at uni.