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

Here is my list of random thoughts for your reading pleasure.
~There are many circles. Unfortunately I seem to be outside most of them.
~Cast your bread upon the water, and it will return after many days. This also applies to forum postings.
~Everyone should comment on everyone else's journal entries.
~I should build up a slightly higher alcohol tolerance level, but only slightly.
~Physics is bad.
~Music, especially Allegri's Miserere and Tallis's Spem in Alium and Tippett's A Child of Our Time is good.
~Everyone should smile more
~The world will be a better place... tomorrow.

You wanted everyone to reply to journal entries

(<-- Look smiling more too )

Thats so sweet... the number of people that must have read that entry and totally ignored it...

I didn't ignore it I only just got here. Sorry for the delay, I've been meaning to get here sooner, but I've been setting up the PostOffice.

So, how bad is your alcohol tolerance level?

Very... I've not been to the bar for ages, and was feeling decidedly the worse for wear after only one drink!!! Aaargh! I'm a *student*! This should not be happening to me!

Another reason for staying teetotal, you cannot build up a tolerance to lose and no-one finds out hat it is anyway

I like a little, but not that little. I don't drink to be drunk... in fact, what on earth am I trying to justify? Why do I feel defensive?

So you just want to build up a tolerance so that you don't get drunk on one drink?

As for being defensive, it's probably because I can occupy the moral high ground

Yes, and Is it a nice place to be?
I don't drink to be drunk; I never have been, I've never had a hangover and I've never done anything 'under the influence' that I've regretted. But drinking a *little* is good for you, and I do genuinely like TiaMaria & cola...

It gets a bit lonely up here occasionally, but you get a great view.

I know a lot of people that just drink to get drunk, though a lot of them are cutting down a little now they can drink legally.

I certainly didn't do much underage drinking... not that I wouldn't have done. I didn't have the opportunity until I was old enough to know better, and seen some of my aquaintances regret it...

I've known a few to be victim of that "done something that they regretted" rather than drinking too much. I never knew anyone who got alcohol poisoning until I came to uni.

Rumour in the shape of Palatinate, the Uni paper, has it that theres a drinking soc. at Cambridge where the idea is to be the first one to have your stomach pumped in casualty...
Hild&Bede has the Carrots society, people in my house have *seriouly* regretted that.

I think that would have been won in the first week here, there were a couple of ambulances called when we went on the fresher's week pub crawl

oosh! thats painful. We've not had quite that bad here, but pretty close

It's one of the problems associated with organised drinking binges. Better in the first week than when lectures were important

I started drinking when I was twelve, but with my parents. The odd bottle of wine or half crate of lager while at home. My parents were always there to make sure I didn't drink too much, and I quickly learnt when to stop drinking. Don't think I've ever done anything that's I've regretted in the morning, except lending my brother my car to pick me up from the pub and having to walk home to find he'd crashed it.

I'd consider that early to start drinking, but obviously it turned out to be sensible. I was offered to drink from about fourteen or fifteen, that glass of wine at the table, but never took it up.

Oops!
My mother is teetotal; my grandmother is more than willing to give me lectures on the evil of alcohol, but it did get to be a pain at family gatherings when I was the only one having to drink lemonade where my *younger* cousins were drinking wine.

You can feel a little left out in those situations.