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

Okay, so *that* was a random subject line...

What I mean to say is hello


joanna

Am I meant to do rhyming random words of related random words such as 'mosh'?
Anyway, Hiya!
I'd normally write more but I have a 3 hour exam tomorrow morning and then a job interview straight afterwards so my brains kindly shut down in order to prevent anything I attempt to revise from working
Still with eternal optimism I'm sure it'll be fine...

Well, a major Good Luck in that case...

Happily all the exams here have finished, people are now just stressing about what results they did or didn't get, or wandering around saying I don't get mine until.......{insert day here}

"I don't get mine til...er...17th possibly of something...er August perhaps but it could be later, that might be GCSE...er hang on"
" I don't get mine until the same day as our leaving ball"

Well what a fun day I've had...The job interview wasnovel I got to do role play with this bloke who was pretending to be a disgruntled customer with chewing gum on his trousers/arse and despite saying the correct thing all I could think of to say was "where abouts is it exactly sir, would you like to show me?". This was entirely his fault for being so attractive but I think I may have got the job as he gave me his popcorn

Which uni are you at? What subject?

I'm at Durham pretending, quite convincingly in fact, to study physics. But on Thursday all being well I shall swap from physics to physics with astropyhsics, which will make all of ten lectures difference next year... hmmmm... but it means in third year I get to do fun things like freeze to death on the roof of the physics department using the telescope... I've been up there and its cold...

Roleplaying in an interview? Thats a new one on me. What job were you being interviewed for? & I take it you're waiting on alevel results- which did you study?

Astrophysics? Cool, that was the only bit I was ever interested in but I didn't say that as everyone believs I have a deep rooted hate for physics and will instantly leap on me and demand I do maths and physics A-level (no really they've been doing for the past three years and show no signs of stopping).

I went to a lecture at Sheffield uni by Patrick Moore, and it was fascinating and then we got to drive to the middle of nowhere and use huge telescopes in this observatory and that was amazing. I love astronomy (if that's similar to astrophysics) and never get any work done at night because my window looks out into the middle of nowhere so there aren't any streetlights and you can see all the stars really clearly. I once dragged my mate up onto a field and made him watch the stars until it was well into the morning, needless to say he wasn't impressed particularly when it started snowing and I wouldn't let him leave

Anyway, thats irrelevant, I looked at Durham but wasn't sure about it. I did (that's great I can say did not doing, wow ) Psychology, Media Studies, General Studies and English language and English literature, all very non-scientific and very annoying to many people

Its funny how people are meant to hate physics; theres a definite *look* I get from people when I say thats what I study which says "are you *mad???!!!???*"

I wish I lived in a streetlight freeish zone. In Manchester (my version of home) you can see very few stars, just this orangish haze which is yucky. I can normally see a couple of planets and possibly orion and thats all. Durham's better, but I really want to go somewhere where I can see why the milky way is called ~milky~... did you know that the word galaxy derives from the greek for milk? Like lactic acid, or something...

The trouble I found with non scientific is that it implies essays, and I'm terrible at writing lots of words in a short time. I did one non scientific alevel, music- 1 essay per week is enough for me... algebra is marginally preferable.

Where are you hoping to go next year?