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

I have a rather powerful New Yorker cartoon on the desk in front of me of which the punchline reads "Somehow it never occurred to me that if I lived to be ninety-six I'd be ninety-six for all eternity"

Very profound! But I won't be worrying about grey hair & wrinkles then

Personally, I can't think of anything better than spending your life with, and growing old and wrinkly alongside, someone you love more than anything in the whole world. Life like that may well not be perfect, but every experience would be a shared one.

It (my painting effort) wasn't a bad start - but not good enough for my walls, let alone the hallowed halls of the National Gallery .

As for the other bits, I haven't even made a start...how's everyone else getting along?

Well I certainly motivated you, didn't I, Spearcarrier? Delighted to hear it, and don't be so critical! I bet your painting is wonderful... I can't progress with my list yet, as I have just got my grandson back to mind, daily, until Easter when he starts full-time school. After that, I'll be a free woman {during school hours}... so I'll start working on my list then! Let us know how you get on, I am wondering whether to apply for a museship now, seeing as I inspired the artist in you.....
*hugs*
GB

I seem to have got some canary yellow ink on my white t-shirt. Oh well, that's what automatic washing machines are for .

I've done a painting which made a stranger pause - I painted "STOP" on the footpath outside my house.

Grow old (never mind worrying about finding someone to do that with, it'd be a bonus )
Go into space/another planet - or at least the nearest equivalent, seeing beneath the waves (for another planet and that feeling of weightlessness), take part in a parabolic flight (for true weightlessness), visit antarctica and at least one of the big deserts.
Get to the top of a big mountain.

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And I am sorely pi**** with that last piece of information....
I wish someone would tell me I am too young for something...
btw how old {I mean young} are you, Emily?

You'll probably have picked this up elsewhere before finding this... I'm 17, going on 42.

I want to

See Australia
Get one of my novel ideas published
Get my play staged
Be able to life in a warm country all year round

Advertisement for Emily's life plan:

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See also:

1) Win BP Potrrait Award (must be exhibited at least within next five years)
2) Carve career as marvellous novelist
3) Nick Simon Hattenstone's job at the Guardian
4) Glittering literary career...

5) Learn how to spell "portrait" correctly...

Well you have acheved the fith one at any rate

Yes... it'd bloody well better not be the only one...

1: Teach Bob not to blame docters (may as well try to stop the tide)
2: set up my own compony making a computer that does not crash when you sneeze in the wrong direction
3: finish writing my book
4: convince Bob to atempt to get his poems published (although they have gon soppy now and I ave no idea why)
5: Finish writing my Game

Now Vince you know you have no hape of winning the first one so why try. you are about as stubbern as I am. My poetry is not good enough to be published so I dnt try and you should finish your book from the peaces I stole off your computer it is really good. although you need to do a bit of work on the caricter of Raven

Re seeing Australia...I think its a bit overrated. Yes there are several spectacular, if not unique, things to see there but there are hundreds of thousands of square miles of pretty much nothing in between .

I was doing a painting of Howth head from Sandymount strand (see "Ulysees" for a literary reference) and a young girl (approx. 10?) stood and stared at me/it for a good ten minutes...so things are looking up.