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

Hi Walter,

I have been so flat chat busy I cant see if I'm coming or going. Things seem to be moving about the sale of the business and other chaioses are going on around. Not that I have noticed you on here much either :p

So I have not had time for things that look like fun lately.

Moondancer

Just as long as you are okay is all that matters. Fun and longer chats can come when their turn arrives.

Hi Walter
I have not the time to be on here but someone used the internet and left this on and it is very had to turn it off without just popping in to say hello. I hope you are getting stuck into your assignments that you had to have handed in ages ago . I use to frustrate me no end when I was doing VCE maths and I would hand my stuff in and the rest of the class (who were 17yr olds) would not hand it in till a month late. And I would not get mine corrected until every one had handed theirs in. They reakoned I was teachers pet .


see ya soon

Moondancer

Hi Moondancer,

I bet you were a teacher's pet, too. Yes, I have been in here for a good part of the day, doing essay number one, although it is far from being finished. Now that's devotion to duty, everyone else is enjoying the public holiday (it's Hobart Show day). I normally do get assignments in on time but just recently .....

You take good care, and will chat with you soon

Walter.

Hi Walter,

I notice you are on here now, I haven't been on here much either. I have to confess I have found another site. That is what we get when I went looking for Ancient Roman history, and it is an absolute terrible time waster because it is so interesting.

So have you got exams coming up soon or just essays.

I have been busy also, so all my time on here is stolen, and I don't feel guilty at all.

I will stay on here a little while you might see I have posted



Moondancer

Hi Moondancer,

Missed you, bugger. Like you, have been so flat chat here, and no relief in sight just yet. What is this other site that you are talking about? Is it a chat site or something? Take care

Walter.

Hi Walter,

It is called " Ancientsites.com" and It is roll playing and setting up a house in ancient Rome, Athens, Egypt, Celtic or whatever ancient you want to be. I went in as a roman and I'm stuck with it

not really it is fun and I thought you would be really interested

See ya around
Moondancer

Hi Moondancer,

How are you? I thought you were busy and stuff, and under all sorts of pressures and I was worried about you, and then you tell me you've been doing your Roman aristo bit on another site!!

The essay looks like about three weeks away from being anywhere near ready, but it has to be in on Monday next, so it will be another weekend in the office glued to the puter keyboard and monitor. I don't think I've ever had an essay that tied me up quite like this one. Still, as of Monday I'M FREE FOR NEARLY FOUR MONTHS!! .

It sounds like things are on the move with the sale of your business, or at least I hope that's how it is. If you manage to unload it in the near future, what will you do with yourself, like work somewhere until the trip comes up, or put your feet up, or do drugs, or run a virtual Roman villa, or what? By the by, you said I think that you live in or near the mountains - is that the Dandenongs? My daughter and her husband moved into their new (old) house last month, in Brunswick. Apparently it was a bit delapidated inside; they sent me some before and after photos, and they really have done the place up a treat.

Well, I've had my cup of coffee break, so I'd better get back to working out why contemporaries thought Elizabeth I's reign was a Golden Age. If you have any ideas on the subject please share them with me.

PS Do I figure in this high-class Roman pad, or have you just looked after yourself and that poxy Greek slave?

Take care,

Walter.

Hi Walter,

Thanks for worrying about me, I am all tied up and busy and under all sought of pressures, work is building up again which will be good for the new people to see.

Just even when I am busy, I get lonely here and you were not on much and the ancient site has interactive talk as well as postings.

So after you get rid of Lizzy 1, you might like to try it.

When I get rid of the shop, I think i have worked hard enough for a while, I'm going to put my feet up a bit, maybe do a couple of courses if I can find any between then and Christmas. Do drugs? No I'm too high on life always have been, a little alcohol to highlight it but that is all.

I will work on that virtual villa, but my hours are going to be halved down to 150 a month, but if I'm not tied to the puter I won't need 300 hours. And it was a bribe to keep me working, because I didn't get paid. I have not got my Greek slave yet but I am planning it, my husband keeps on volunteering for the job but I have told him he is better in real life. I would love you to join me in my very elegant villa, nothing poxy about it at all, and I am looking for a mews, that's the word I think.

I would love to help you with Lizzy but I would have to do it with talking, or even looking at what ideas you have already got, if you want to e-mail me, I can read it and make some suggestions if you really do want me to have a fresh look at it, but if you don't I won't be offended. If you want to the best place to get me is on [email protected].

Yes my home is the foot of the Dandenong's. Which is east to Brunswick being north.

See you around

:X :X :X

Moondancer

Hi Moondancer,

Lovely to hear that you are okay but busy - hey, if it stays really busy and takes off would you think about keeping the business?

Today has been another mind-boggling day. Just as I was really coming to grips with Lizzy (as you do when time is running out rapidly) a friend sent me a serious SOS so out I went and have only just returned to the office so as far as essays are concerned, today is a write-off. I like your reply to my weak sense of humour about drugs - high on life; I honestly think that applies to me as well.

Now as for the Roman site, I am itching to get into Roman stuff, explore, learn, be creative, think. So Moondancer, you can be sure that sometime next week I will be asking you what 'interactive talk and postings' means.

I will happily email you some pages from the essay, but remember it is intended to impress the Professor of History so it probably reads like very heavy going. The question, which I haven't written yet, is in effect 'Why was/is the Elizabethan Age considered to be a Golden Age?' o in a very real sense, the whole subject is about perceptions, images, impressions. I find that very often people give me some great leads not through what they actually KNOW about a subject, but rather what their perception is. For instance, Wazungu's impression was Shakespeare, men going round in tight yellow panty hose, Shakespeare and the Spanish Armada, and lots of filth everywhere. And when you get down to it, those are the sorts of images that a lot of people have. Anyway, if you still would like to have a look at where I'm up to, you are most welcome, and you don't have to feel you need to comment, you might just be interested to read about the topic. I will be in most of the weekend, so leave a message on this forum and I will take it from there.

Must go, but you take good care,

Walter.

Hi Walter,

Of course I am interested in reading what you are writing. I have never specifically studied Lizzy, but touched on the time in different things I have studied and her influence is a little large to miss.
Even if much of what I know is gleaned of the TV, I hope I am enough of a history absorber to know which bits to accept and which to dump.
So send me your stuff in enough time for me to look and have a chew over it.

The best work is always done close to the deadline




Moondancer

Hi Moondancer,

Thanks for your positive and ecouraging support. You are quite right, the best work is always done at the end - I think it is something to do with the greatest pressure concentrating the mind and energies, but it seems to be that way for just about everyone I know. I will be sending some stuff to you later this morning, but don't say you weren't warned. Probably about seven pages with no proof reading and no revisions - I always do that last of all. take care,

Walter

Got it!

:X

Moondancer

Hi Walter

you probably won't be back on here before you need to hand it in. But I have emailed you in return

Best of luck
:X :X :X

Moondanccer

Hi Walter,

How did you go have you got your essay in ?



Moondancer

Hi Moondancer,

Flicking through h2g2 while I take a coffee break and saw you are on line. How you been? Probably hanging out most of the day in that snooty villa of yours with that insufferably up himself Greek slave mincing around trying to get you to paint the south wall pus and pink. Talk to you tomorrow if not before.

Walter

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Hello Moondancer,

My patient and supportive friend that I have been neglecting. In about an hour I and my Elizabeth essay are off to my history Professor, along with a bottle of wine (which I haven't bought yet). I shall return to the office without either. It is as rough an effort as I have ever put in and it would have been really great to have another weekend to polish it up a bit, but ah well. I have written worse (but not rougher). Oh and by the way, I changed the intro again. 5400 words or thereabouts, plus maybe 3 or four thousand in footnotes. Hope you are having a really good day.

Walter

Hi Walter,

Having a slow unproductive day, I am very pleased to hear that Lizzy 1 is on her way and out of your hands, sometimes all the polishing in the world won't make some things shine.

That bottle sounded fine I suppose we will have to have a virtual one

My teacher use to say stop puddling, you are only making it muddy. And if your professor cant understand you he has not done is job properly in teaching you

Hope to see you back soon

Moondancer

Hi Moondancer,

I'm BACK!! No wine, no essay, but I am back. Your day may have been slow and unproductive, but don't forget the positives - you were there to give support when a friend needed it. I appreciate it like b****y, so take a bow, smile, and feel good about it. Okay? If I get a remotely decent mark, and if you want to, I will send you a copy of the finished article. But today, I will just let down, and maybe think about what sort of mischief I can get into in a Roman villa. Take very good care of yourself,

Clive Walter.