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

The ID thing was done at my school, but only for teachers. We students simply had to have ours on our person. Here at college, we have to have ours on our person at all times, and it's really not that bad. Plus they're like credit cards that we pay for stuff with, so it's a good thing to have ours with us all the time.

We have to wear ours and it is not very fun to have last year's school picture on both sides of a card around our necks so everyone can see it. It, of course, matches with no one's outfits, unless you happen to wear bright yellow. Oh well. Sorry about complaining- it just made me angry.

I took my jane eyre test- it went pretty well I think. she gave us 10 essay questions and we had to pick 5 to do. I have my Oddyssey test on Monday, but I am not too worried.

How is school for you? I bet you are having a lot of fun!

School's going pretty well for me... I have my first exam tomorrow in Philosophy. I'm a little nervous about it, though. It's also a little dull around here on weekends, but that's okay... I can relax. Otherwise, I'm having fun.

Today was horrible.

I found out about all these attacks in homeroom today and I didn't believe it till they turned on the radio...

It's crazy- why would someone do this?

I know a lot of people with family involved in this and many people were pulled out of school by their parents because of it. I have family in D.C. but they are all fine. None of them work at the pentagon.

Everyone was just numb today in school. We didn't know what was going on because there were so many false reports about stuff that didn't happen. It was confusing. Needless to say, it was a very long day.

Oh, and also my friend's bio teacher had a heart attack in class. Wow. Definitely a good day. I am so glad its over.

I'm just in total shock... I learned about it going to my first class today. And I was like, o, just two planes, nothing fell, it will be okay in a few hours.

I'm an idiot.

I have no family in the DC area, but I do have friends in the military who are active and all my male friends are drafting age. I'm just ticked off more than anythign else... who dares to do this?

I want to move to another planet...

Well, this has been a very long week.

I am amazed at how our country has come together like it has because of Tuesday. I saw all the pics on the news of people coming together and remembering all the victims, even across the world. There are so many people who want to help. I volunteered at the Salvation Army today with some people of a club I am in at school taking phone calls from people who wanted to donate or volunteer in the NYC disaster relief. There were so many people who called with donations. Also other countries are really behind us, more than I thought they would be.

I talked to my friend online whom I havent talked to since camp- her dad was supposed to have a meeting in the WTC that morning but it was cancelled. My friend's uncle works there and he was just walking in the door when the first plane hit. He walked right back out again and was fine. Of course I know a lot of people whos' friends and relatives weren't as lucky.

It's scary to think that we could have a war because if there was a draft people only a couple years older than me, and if it lasted for longer than that, my age people would have to go. there will probably not be one, but even if there isn't, I know a couple people either in or joining the marines and navy and it is scary to think about what could happen. But I think we have to do something to show them they can't do that to up without any form of punishment.

It bothers me that some people think that the US needed this wake up call and that there should be a lesson learned on our part. Ummm...Excuse me? But what did we do wrong? These are just a bunch of crazy people brainwashing others to beleive that the US is evil. I have seen much of it on h2g2 and frankly it kind of makes me not want to be here. But the rest of the site I like so I will excuse those comments.

Exactly on all accounts. I have two friends in active military duty, one in the Marines (probably my best and closest friend), and one in the Army (who I actually met here), and I don't want to lose them.

Personally, I think if we find anyone alive connected to this, they oughta be exiled to... somewhere. Not killed. Murder's too easy, and besides, if we declare war on terrorists and start shooting up civilians, we're no better than them. So mental and emotional anguish. And the surity that if we don't get them, God will and that's worse than any punishment imaginable by us.

Don't let the few dissidents around here bother you. The large majority of the *planet* is supporting the US right now. There are several American researchers who have left because of the amount of flaming here recently, but I am absolutely convinced to stay. I love this place, I love the people, and a few ticked off people who're just trying to make a ruckus will not make me leave. If I leave, the terrorists strike again metaphorically...

I don't know what we should do to the terrorists. I think that we should kill them....and their entire terrorist ring. And severly punish the governments that help them and keep them safe. I don't know....If we exiled them they would just keep terrorizing people...but from a different place. We have to get rid of them so they cant hurt any one else. But i want to keep the innocent people dying to a minimum. it is almost impossible to stop that from happening but we should do all we can.

And I think we should rebuild the WTC. To show them they can't hurt our country.

Last night our area if not the rest of the counry had this thing where at 7 we would light a candle and put it outside to remember all the victims and their families and friends. We put a candle out and, it went out after a few minutes. It was quite windy outside. When I saw that it had gone out, I went out at about 10 to relight it. I thought it wouldn't last very long but I hoped it would. This morning I woke up at nine and went downstairs. It was still burning. That made me happy. I have been an agnostic for most of my life but now I am kind of questioning it. I mean, I doubt I will ever be the kind of person that goes to church every sunday, that is just not me. But I am thinking now that maybe there is a way to be a spiritual person and not a religious one. I am confused (which happens a lot ). I dunno, maybe I am just strange. But I sure feel different about it all since Tuesday...

Also, since Tuesday, I haven't really wanted to do anything fun. I havent wanted to watch TV very much either because it's the only thing on. I feel kind of like I shouldn't be having fun if all those people are in that situation.

Hmmm... not much to say except I'll quote my one youth group leader....

"There's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole" This ordeal will lead many to-- and back to-- God. If that's the only good, I have a feeling it's good enough.

Oh man, I am so sick of this NY thing.....Not that I don't care about it anymore, I just don't want to hear about it anymore. I think it's time we get on with our lives now because there are other things going on in the world that we need to know about but we only hear about the terrorists.

Today one of my friends asked me to homecoming. I dunno what to do because I hated homecoming last year and I didnt want to go this year. Also I just don't want to go out with him because I like him as a friend and nothing more. But the problem is that he told a million people that he was asking me and now I don't want to make him look bad in front of everyone. We were going to go to my dad's college for homecoming this weekend because my parents want to visit colleges already but they said that we could do it next weekend so I wouldn't have to make him feel rejected and I would say that I was busy. My parents really want me to go with him because they like him but I don't. It's kinda funny though because last school year I wanted a boyfriend and this year I told myself I wasnt going to care about guys, which I have been doing pretty well at. I figured it was dumb to let that stuff rule your life.

I'm sick of it too, but since it directly involves a few of my closest friends, I kinda have to pay attention to it. (I have a friend in the Marines and a friend in the Army).

Sounds like you have your head on straight with the whole guys/homecoming issue... just stick to your guns; stuff'll pop up without you looking for it, and it'll be good stuff. Trust me, I've been there.

Sorry I haven't written in a while; I have been really busy. I have had about no free time lately. I spend 7 hrs. at school, and thats on the days without any extracurricular activities. Then I come home and do about 5 hrs. of homework. Yesterday it was really bad because I had a paper due in English the next day on comparative mythology and I had most of it done until she told us we had to compare stories and not gods or their ideas or anything. I had to do it all over. But I turned it in this morning, and I am really glad it's over. Phew!!
Of course, yesterday my AP US history teacher assigned us another paper....

So how is college going? I am sure you are having a lot of fun. But it must be a lot of work, also. But hopefully there is more fun than work.

Some of the work is fun--- and some of the fun is work. And there's a lot of both, to be truthful. I know a few people who suffer from an excess of fun... not a good idea.

I have 17 hours of classes a week (well, offically, but technically it's a little closer to 19), and ten hours of actual working, plus homework and stuff. And personal fun things, like working on my composition, going out with friends, and so forth. But sometimes they can be both fun and work... I just played a concert Wibble night in the wind ensemble that absolutely brought the house down (fun), but we rehearsed for it since the beginning of the year (fun work). I wanna do it again... and I will... on the second of November. I love the concert schedule here!

AHHHH!!!!
THIS IS THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!

today is horrible! well, yesterday was pretty bad too, but today was worse. I had two major things go wrong, among others. I got a fish tank for my birthday this year. It took forever and a lot of cash to get it all set up,which is bad because I am trying to save up for an outward bound trip this summer, and I don't have a lot of money. I bought all my fish, and one of them brought this horrible fungus disease in. It killed two of them during the past week, two more were dying so I had to flush them down the toilet yesterday, then two more today. I got medecine for it but it takes too long to work, if it does at all. Two more fish show signs of it, and the rest probably will soon, so I will end up starting all over.

My dog attacked another dog today also. My neighbor let him outside and he saw a dog he didnt like for some reason and bit it but he just got the fur, he didn't actually hurt it. He is a Golden Retriever. He loves people but lately he hasn't gotten along with dogs. We can't figure out why. He used to love going on walks with his doggy friends. He is only 3 years old. My parents want to give him away to this organization that takes care of aggressive dogs. My dog is a wimp, and I would be worried that another dog would kill him. He is the sweetest dog ever and I love him so much. It kinda sounds dumb, but he is almost like my baby. They said if he can't be trained not to do that or if he can't find a home from the foundation, he will have to be killed. You have no idea how much this sucks and how sad it is. I can't do anything to help. I would miss him sooo much if he was gone.

Sorry I am whining so much, but it feels better to get it all out. Thank you for listening. It might not have been very much fun, but it helps. I guess I just have to think that a lot of people have it much worse.

Aww, hon, I'm sorry...

Don't worry about whining-- the community part of h2g2 is here as a shoulder to cry on some days.

Wow. I havent been able to be at H2G2 very often lately. Sorry about that. I have had a lot of schoolwork to do and havent had the time. It's amazing-- all of my teachers think that their class is the only important one I have. Oh well. But since winter break starts soon (2 more days!) I will have more time to be online.

My dog is doing ok, we are training him but if he doesn't get better we have to give him away. I disinfected my fish tank and got new fish only to have them all die 2 wks. later from another disease. But I really don't care about them very much.

Well, how are you? I am sure you are having a lot of fun in college. I can't wait to go to college- I am sure it's a lot more fun than high school!

Know how that work thing is... I'm off h2g2 most of the school week... catch up on my backlog on Saturday and Sunday. But I'm on break, so it's all good!

I'm glad your dog's getting better... I just hope he gets completely better.

It's great to be home... I just had to leave an inordinate amount of stuff at school so I'm kinda bored here.

oh my gosh i'm so sorry i haven't been here lately! over winter break i had to take driver's ed which was dead boring but it lasted forever. Then straight into school from break they slap me with all this work!!! AHHH!!! i am really lightening up on my workload next year. I mean this year and all the schoolwork is do-able, but not if you want to keep your sanity, also!

well, what's new with you? i sincerely hope you are having a better time with your schoolwork than i am. I will try to be online more often than i am now, because all my friends get mad when I don't respond to their emails for a really long time like this. Actually, I think this weekend is the first in a long time that I don't have to write a paper for English or any other class. The last one we did
(last weekend) was analyzing characters from Julius Caesar and that was a killer. oh well. That one's over. If i don't get an A on it I will scream.

Don't worry about not writing much... I have tons to do as well and even with time between classes and so forth, sometimes I don't get a chance to respond to emails or posts as often or as promptly as I would like.

But school is going well... everything's peachy keen.