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

I thought I would say hello, I like the site...mine is pretty bad (at the minute). SO, what is it you do at 'school'? Plus, what kind of fantasy are you interested in?

hello, i've seen you round, but i don't remember where...ah, that's right, i think i went to welcome you at some stage, but somebody else had done the honours...on the other hand it may just have been in a conversation somewhere...on one foot *determined to acknowledge all possibilities*

At school: I am made to cram considerably dull and useless facts into my tiny mind, damage my little body running around chasing a bit of leather and sit on a hard floor listening to an idiot drone on about the dangers of belly-button showing.

Now don't get me wrong. I love learning stuff, but the stuff that *I* want to learn. And also it makes me so sad that there's all that manpower going to waste when it could be saving the world, or something moderately useful like that. Don't get me started on politicians and their sheer lack of intelligence.

Just to show you that I can do things other than moan and whinge, I'm actually in a very good mood today, very much helped by the fact that I just got an email from someone I'd been madly trying to get a response from for the last two weeks and I'm going to see a film this afternoon, and I'm feeling very happy and well today, and I've found a book to read, so I'm best expressed by using a after every second word

Fantasy...well. I like the hobbit, not so keen on the LOTR, I like Ann McCaffrey, and Harry Potter blush>. I don't like fantasy that makes me feel too depressed. by types of fantasy, what exactly do you mean?



GP

What was the film you went to see? I recently saw Vanilla Sky and was pleasantly surprised, I thought it would be one of those narcissistic type films...a little bit true I suppose, but I liked it lots nonetheless.
By fantasy I meant what you replied..and maybe more, that is the great yet conversely terrible thing - words have so many connotations!
I agree about education, I find it bizarre that I sit through hours of classes with people 'aiding' me in the interpretation of books etc., just so at the end I have a little piece of paper that doesn't mean much anyway. But there are other reasons for continuing my education, I love to learn, but also I have a slight terror about being a fully signed-up member of the 'real' world, in which people generally have 2 days in a week to be 'free' and do as they choose, and a fortnight in the year to go somewhere warm and get a suntan. Alternatively we can decide not to live within these harsh and rather ugly parameters, but this is not necessarily an easy thing

How true, I think setting out into the real world will be rather scary.

I've seen most of Vanilla Sky (long story) and what I saw wasn't too bad, though it's been reviewed poorly here. I have to tell you the last TWO films I saw, because I like them both so much:
THE CLOSET is a french film, a comedy, but it deals with homosexuality being a reason not to fire employees, but to keep them on. It's very interesting and funny, and the cinema here kept saying "last two days...definitely last showing...no more showings after this...absolutely last four days..." you get the picture!
AMELIE is also a french film, and it is so sweet and captivating. Unfortunately, I went to see it with my good mother, who is an english teacher, and afterwards she wanted a dissection of its themes and ideas , which I rather neatly sidestepped, if I say so myself!

I haven't read a lot of fantasy lately, to be honest, but I would like to finish Anne McCaffrey's dragon series...they always seem so bleak to begin with, though, and that often puts me off.

GP

>>>wow, that is pretty weird...(as in first weird thing - dumping). Today I went out for dinner with a total stranger, stripped in front of them, then went home.
Maybe not weird, but not the kind of thing I normally do.<<<

Are you going to tell us why?

GP