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

Well, things have got worse and better since the original posting:

On the topic of my magazine: we got the new computer. It didn't work to begin with, but it's sorted now. The situation re: next edition remains unknown. The creation of the creative writing magazine is almost done - final pre-print session tomorrow. Student editor is convinced, but will his boss be equally pleased? Anyway, too late to change much now. We have limited access to the old machine and the new one can't read any of our old layout files.

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I got thrown down some stairs Friday night. Not injured - apart from my pride. The other person is having a really hard time and is very, very heavy. No apology yet; not expecting one. Got so angry that I forgot a couple of deadlines, then got stressed again Saturday and resolved to drop my work and go home. Proceeded to spend most of Saturday afternoon getting home. Thames Trains' franchise has been taken on by First Great Western Link (snappy name, I know). Little has changed. Well, apart from the new logos everywhere, crudely painted/stuck on. Oh, and the fact that the staff at Oxford station have new uniforms - not that they're any better. And they still call it 'Thames Trains'. To add to the fun, Network Rail have celebrated the bank holiday weekend with masses of engineering works everywhere - including between Banbury and Leamington Spa, again. Wind up on a rail replacement coach, which spends almost 20 mins driving around Banbury side streets for no apparent reason.

But now, things are clearing up. I'm stressed, tired and behind with my work, but now I'm laughing again. *doing the happy dance* (apologies for the 'baseketball' reference...

Whoami?

I hate replacement coaches for the trains, they always seem to take the most confusingly contorted route

Hope you're not too from your 'fall'.

Mel

As I said, I wasn't injured. Just upset, really. The saddest thing is that it was entirely unprovoked - this guy is having a really hard time but he won't talk about it with me at all. Since he was violent, I've stopped trying. He's a nice guy except when he's being given trouble - he just seems to think that it's somehow OK to take it out on me. Anyway, I can't let it disturb my exams and have resolved to get on with looking after number one and leave him to work it out for himself.

The coach journey wasn't actually as bad as it sounds - it only takes about double the usual time (which is OK since the usual time from Banbury to Leamington Spa is 20 minutes). I spoke to some French people - good practice for my oral exams next week...

Whoami?

Ah, oui, les orales, bonne chance pour tes examens, j'espere que tu parleras francais mieux que moi!

Mel

J'espère que les moderateurs/moderatrices ne veulent pas éliminer la langue française de ces messages!

Anyway, thanks for the encouragement!

Whoami?

Je suis sure qu'ils peuvent comprendre les dernier deux postes!

Meme s'ils ne peuvent pas, on a le systeme reactive maintenant donc ils voient les postes seulment quand on les !

Mel

I wonder if yikes takes ir/er/re as a verb. Surely not re, and ir would be wierd. So it's 'yikeser'. I won't try to conjugate it - I'd only mess it up!

That was why I used the smiley

Je yike
tu yikes
il/elle/on yike
nous yikesons
vous yikesez
ils/elles yikesent

Would be my best bet at how to conjugate an English verb in French!

Though the way I have done it would make the infinitive 'yiker' and the verb irregular, (since I kept the 's' in for nous, vous and ils).

The french would probably be more likely to use it as a noun and have it as 'faire un yikes' though that is just going by their use of the word texto which they use for sms/texts

Mel