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

As I was wandering around people's Spaces, it amused me that most people who I know who have been here for a while have quite short Spaces. I know mine has reduced and reduced from its mammoth beginnings down to its more modest state today. I don't even give my original name any more.

Just idle wanderings.

I farmed most of the stuff on my page to other pages
The other thing is that now hootoo is just one of several Internet presences I have so perhaps it is not quite as important to me as it once was... although it's still in my top three Internet presences along with http://www.last.fm/user/happydufus/ and http://happyfrood.livejournal.com/friends/

NB: how the hell are you?

Yeah, I kept a back up copy of my original Space linked to my main page until it became totally out of date (and a little embarrassing).

I have you as a friend on LJ (I'm at http://fairylaura.livejournal.com/). Don't recall seeing you posting a lot of late though (apart from today, obviously. ).

As for me, I'm doin' okay. A bit tired for some reason, a little broken too, but otherwise okay. I've just finished my basic training course for my new job, and I've lasted four weeks without hating it completely, which is all good. Leeds is treating me well, R and I are still working out, and I'm starting to sing with two different choirs, which keeps me happy.
How about you?

I'm not too bad other than getting very bored with w**king nights (15 years of nights ) so maybe it is time I start looking for a new job.

I am afraid I'm not terrible good about opening up about myself on-line so my LJ post tend to be somewhat infrequent and er... just linking to something I found of interest

I am quite enjoying Last.fm though

"...other than getting very bored with w**king nights"

I find it's always a bit risky in broad daylight.

B

>>getting very bored with w**king nights, so maybe it is time I start looking for a new job.

Now that sounds like a good job

I can't remember how long my page has been just a poem or song, quite a while now I think.

I tend to leave the rambling and rants to post. Not that I've made many of them recently.

True enough.

Hi, Vip, you clearly haven't looked at my PS. It is huge! I keep meaning to give it a strict Edit, but never seem to get round to it.

You don't give much away about yourself do you. I gather you are in Leeds and previously (at some time) were in Birmingham.

How's the job going, or daren't I ask? Oh, and thanks for the input about English Canals.

See you around,

Websailor

I did say most, not all. And look! You're trying to edit it too!

I used to have all manner of stuff about me on there, but I'm become a little more... uh... paranoid, I guess. Plus my old Space had become so so out of date it was silly.

I spent four years in Birmingham, three of which were wasted doing a Music degree at the University of Birmingham. I moved to Leeds about six months ago. I like it up here, as much as I think I can ever truly like a city. I'm still a southern country girl at heart.

The job is okay. It's probably the job I've hated the least so far; I don't mind it, and sometimes I even enjoy it. But then, six weeks in you'd really hope so! Once they start targeting me for sales I think I'll really discover if I can stand it or not.

As for the canals, that the main thing that I miss about Birmingham. I really is the centre of England in that respect, and having only the Leeds-Liverpool seems so dull!

Speak to you soon,

Three years on a music degree can't have been entirely wasted surely? No experience is, in my experience!!

I think I have a foot in both camps - half country girl, half townie as I live on the edge. The canal protests got some good coverage over the weekend, and it isn't over yet.

TTFN,

Websailor

"Three years on a music degree can't have been entirely wasted surely?"

No. She drank lots of beer and met lots of interesting men. A perfectly valid use of her time.

B

There were no interesting men.
You be quiet.

I didn't meet all of the interesting ones through h2g2. No no. Actually, I think there was one that had nothing to do with h2g2 whatsoever, and that was U212097, if you remember The Guy With The Brown Hat.
And, in fact, you Acid- I met you by asking if you had Tube map so I could play Mornington Crescent (on h2g2), so that's you as well.

Well, Websailor, although I managed to graduate, I didn't enjoy the degree, and once I left it took most of a year for me to feel any liking or enthusiasm for music. Finding any sort of job took me three and a half months, and I started with a couple of sixteen year olds straight from school. So, for three years work, I came out disheartened, disillusioned, and pretty much unemployable. Had I not gone, I'd probably be in a job similar to the one I'm in now, but four years' further up the ladder.

But then, of course, I wouldn't have met so many interesting people, and been through the experiences that made me me. I wouldn't change it.