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

I like your name...where did you come up with it?

And don't worry your page is fine and it takes ages to build it up just keep at it...i'm sure you'll make it greatit took me months to finaly get my page with pics and stuff...then we moved to the beeb and i had to start again!

I'm Em and i'm a GA.

I'm here to kind of be your guide to the guide

Anyway i have made a special page for newbies as the beeb do not really like large amounts of links in postings

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A562303

Hi Em!

Pleased to meet you. Thank you for being my GA, I'm feeling rather lost at the moment. Not to mention guilty as I'm supposed to be working hard on my PhD at the moment. I'm making flying visits at the moment, so it'll be a while before I get the hang of things!

How long have you been a GA?

Hi Em!

Pleased to meet you. Thank you for being my GA, I'm feeling rather lost at the moment. Not to mention guilty as I'm supposed to be working hard on my PhD at the moment. I'm making flying visits at the moment, so it'll be a while before I get the hang of things!

How long have you been a GA?

I'm not sure where my name came from. It sort of emerged from my subconscious in a gloopy sort of fashion.

So would you like me to be your GA (so you would be my Guardee) as you would be my first and i kinda think I have to do it through another post...its weird but i think it just helps!

I've been on h2g2 for a little over a year and have been a GA for just as long...I sort of hung around asking until I got to be one (You should really wait a whil you see)

So what is you PhD on...I'm only just away to start my Higher Course in High School on Monday (Had Standard Grades the last few weeks)

TTFN

Good morning Em!

Yes, I would love to you be my , that would be great.

I am starting to get the hang of this, I think. Famous last words...

My PhD is about feedback in hearing aids, you know the way they whistle sometimes, I'm trying to find a new way of making them stop whistling, or better still, not start whistling in the first place.

How did your Standards go? And, if I don't speak to you before, good luck for Monday.

Speak to you soon.

That's great I'll put another post about GA's later today

It does take a while to get into using h2g2 but once you've been here a while you just seem to do things without really realising

SO DON'T PANIC!

PhD sound good...no pun intended! Very worthwhile!...much more worthwhile than what I want to do when I leave school I want to be either a Costume Designer or open a shop that sells all sorts of stuff (I have a cunning plan!)

My Standard grades went fine...although I have a feeling I've done kinda badly in Chemistry but doesn't my teacher says not to worry because they bring down the marks every year...You'd think they would just make the exams easier!

And Monday wont be to bad...just a case of sitting round listening to what the teachers are telling us...I just hope I get decent teachers!

TTFN

Hallo again Em!

I've been a busy little student today (apart from bunking off at lunchtime to see my friends from the ballroom dancing society - I'm trying to get the hang of it), so I haven't been on H2G2 all that much, but I'm sure I'll be back frequently next week.

Being a costume designer sounds fantastic. Do you want to work in theatre or film or both? I always wanted to write scripts for a living, but ended up here. Mind you, I've taken up writing again. I'm trying to write a novel, but it's not going too well as I'm preoccupied with hearing aids.

I'm glad your exams went well. I did Chemistry A Level and managed to send a fire ball across the lab while attempting to distill ethanol. Ah, those were the days.

Have a great weekend, and I'll see you soon.

I want to work in either film or theatre...if theatre the RSC because I love Shakespeare!

And no telling but i've been trying to write a script strictly so I have something to design something for to see if I can come up with good enough designs

Fire balls ...a boy in my class kept setting gas taps on fire...it was pretty scary actually!

TTFN

Hello!

How's your weekend? I've just been doing the housework . The Powers That Be are doing a room check next week, so I can't have a layer of dust obscuring everything.

My knowledge of Shakespeare is woefully sketchy as I only did Macbeth at school when I was about 12. After that I changed schools and Shakespeare didn't crop up again until the A level syllabus. I wasn't allowed to do A Level English because I was doing Physics and Maths and had to do Chemistry to go with them. I keep meaning to read Shakespeare and improve my education. What do you recommend I should start with?

What's your script about? I'm writing a spoof thriller with a friend, and a fairly sensible one by myself. That one's not getting very far, but the joint one has topped 31 000 words!

Have a good day tomorrow.

My weekends been ok...tidying as well...becaus i'll be getting all new books adn work and stuff for 5th year

Shakespeare is brilliant and to start I would advice reading his comedies such as:

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
As You Like It

or things like

Romeo and Juiliet
Macbeth

Of course the option with the ones I've mentioned is that they all have videos with them which are all very good adaptations (The first i rad properly despite many prior attempts was Midsummer Night's...which was fun and I saw it at the RSC when I was on holiday...since then I've seen Romeo and Juiliet, As You Like It and Twelfth Night)

My Script isn't very could its my attempt at a Rom-Com it's kinda based around a mix of the films "Simply Irristitable" and "Sliding Doors" with a narrator though which is a bit of a twist...I'm also trying to base the bit about being 16 on myself purely because my life seems to be full of ups and downs at the moment(You see one of my best mates (Daniel) moved away and I kinda fancied him...and i think he fancied me and anyway I haven't seen him since and so have used that and then made up like meeting 10 yrs later and then it goes into the films)...but I've written about 26 pages already and I'm not even at the main bit yet...(I'm good at rambling

TTFN!

I shall attempt some Shakespeare at some point, I promise! I've seen a TV version of Macbeth and enjoyed that. I know that the library I used to work in has several RSC videos, so I might get one next time I'm home for a week or two.

Your script sounds fine to me! I liked Sliding Doors very much when I saw it at the cinema. You're not alone with the problems you've had with your mate. I had a huge crush on a friend of mine when we used to work together, then I had to go back to university for my final year and he had to go back to his university. I asked him out and he turned me down, but we kept in touch until earlier this year when he got a girlfriend and stopped e-mailling me. It's a pain, but it happens. I'm going to Bristol on Saturday to meet up with some friends and I know he lives in Bristol now, so I'll be looking over my shoulder all the time. If I do bump into him, I'll give you some material for your script.

Well, I suppose I'd better get back to work. The program I'm writing isn't doing what I want it to, so I think I shall have a (as there isn't a smiley for tea) and ponder deeply,

See you later.

Guys are a pain and the worst thing is with this perticualr one is my mate Louise asked him out for me...without me knowing i might add...and he basically said I don't want to go out with her not because I don't really like you but because were too god friends...which was kinda sweet!

And fortunatley i don't have the problem with bumping into him and I don't go to Inverness very often...as in at all!...but he has come down here to see his mates a couple of times...and my friend Roy says that he said that next time he was down (ie during the summer sometime) he's planning on visting which is a really bugger as I'll be running for the door everytime it gets knocked on...and I'll have to make an effort to look nice all the time which is a pain..as all I want to do this summer is sleep!

And have fun In Bristol That reminds me I must write to my friend Morbhen and ask if she wants to come down at some point (She left in P4 and then moved in P6)

gotta go I'll finish the message later!

TTFN!

There are times when I think men are a different species (most of the time, actually). If it wasn't for three of my dearest friends being blokes, I think I would despair of the existence of decent men. These three are kind, funny and generally excellent people and restore my faith in the male sex.

Just be cool about this guy visiting, otherwise you'll spend the whole summer thinking about it. Mind you, I can talk, I'm having to restrain myself from e-mailling Graham to tell him I'm in Bristol on Saturday.

I must go and wander across to the shops for some - my program is behaving in a most peculiar fashion and I need to get away from the screen for a bit.

See you later.

mmm... I not eating it anymore!...one becasue I've asked my mum to get me a dentists appointment (basicallY I'm missing 2 of my adult teeth....and when I say missing I mean gone...never where there!...so I have techinally 2 false teeth on a brace and hopefully this year I will be getting it off...YIPPY!) and I think I'm going to have to get a filling...I can feel a funny groove in my back moler!...and becasue I'm trying to lose weight...i want to go down another size or two before and during the summer...well I'd feel happier being a little smaller..not that I'm big...I want to be either a 12 or a 14 and I'm a 14/16 on top and a 16 on bottom (big hips) but I'm going to be good and cut out your typical teenage snacks...ie. crisps which I don't eat often anyway and chocolate!...also soft drinks...fortunatley I like cherry tomatoes which are much nicer than sweets!

It actually is really bad but all my best friends have moved away...talk abiut rejection...I mean my mate Mo moved but I still talk to her and Daniel moved...but I have some great friends...Von, Alice, Louise, Dougie...and a few others and sure I'm not going to be friends with them forever but there the best friends I've got!

Hiya!

Bit today as I went to a careers fair this morning and have been trying to catch up on my work all afternoon. I got a rubber ball that lights up when you drop it, so it was worth going. I got four pens and a mint as well. The best things about careers fairs are the freebies.

One of my friends has no adult teeth at all (he's nearly 24), he has all his baby teeth!

I'm supposed to be cutting down on as I'd like to be thinner, but my willpower is not good. The best thing to do is find something that's fun and burns calories. A friend of mine went from a size 22 to a 16 by line dancing! I go ballroom dancing and run up the 48 steps to my room and that helps. Mind you, it doesn't matter what size you are as long as you're OK inside.

It's always sad when friends move away. I'm kind of used to it now as most of my friends from school went to different universities and my university friends have moved to jobs all round the country. It's hard at first, but you'll find that you keep in touch with the people who are really great. I have! I'm seeing three of them on Saturday.

I'd better go, I have to write up this simulation and try to improve the runtime of the program. See you tomorrow.

Well today was actually not bad because im doing working with others as a short course and therefore have nothing to do for the next 2 weeks...YIPPY FREE PERIODS! and then another couple of weeks after the holidays hehe!

Schools not actually that bad at the minute because of the new classes. I've got practically all doubles every day and am doing all the classes I like

A ball that lights up when it gets dropped!...I'm gonna have to get me one of them!...chuck it across the room when your mad! Maybe one of those alarm clocks that you chuck and they shut up would be cool except I'd end up chucking my mouse and breaking my mirror

All baby teeth...weird! i've been taking good care of my teeth the last couple of days...morning and then brushing them with salt in the afternoon...this is becasue it gets rid of more plague than normal toothpaste...but it tastes gross but it should help and I figure if I take really good care of them for the next months or so then get an appointment at the dentist I should get it off this year YAY! I hate the dentist and the sooner I get this brace out the better! *ding minty fresh*

I've been very good today I haven't had any chocolate...well I think I haven't? Maybe I should start properly tomorrow especially as my mum is having to make something quick for tea...problems with accounts or somthing at my dad's buisness

I Don't really mind being the size I am at the moment but I'm sick of the comments My friend Alice is a size 12 - 14 but she gets called fat by the people who are a size 8-10 and think there fat...it's all very complicated! your right if your ok inside it doesn't matter what size you are...but you've got to admit it would be nice to be exactley the size you want For example do you dream with yourself being normal size (ie the size you are) or slimmer...if its the way you are normally your fine...if it's slimmer it means you want to lose weight and therefore go for your dream exuse the pun!

To be honest all the friends I have in High School there are only a few I want to keep in touch with and my mate Von She says she's gonna try and get a flat in Edinburgh when she leaves school (She isn't staying on) so both me and our mate Dougie can afford to live there...or at least that would be nice

The people to keep intouch with you will those who don't truely care about you wont!..and frankly screw them

I'm planning on doing little to nothing this weekend

Hello.

Quick note as I really ought to be working. I was in the lab for an hour and a half and it needs time to sink in. I'm also trying to resist the call of as I'll have dinner in a couple of hours.

Ignore the comments about size. Those girls that make them are very insecure about themselves and are taking it out on other people. In the end, it's your own opinion of yourself that matters.

Doing nothing at the weekend sounds great. I'm going to be tearing about the country. I'm in Bristol with the lads on Saturday, then I've got a picnic on Southampton Common with the ballroom dancers. They're talking about having water pistol fights. I think I'll wear waterproof clothing...

Right, I'd better write up all this stuff from the lab. See you later.

I'll write a proper message when I get a chance...and when my sisters are in the room looking iver my shoulder!

I'm just off for the weekend. Have a great time whatever you're doing and I'll see you next week.

PS I might be seeing that guy I once asked out in Bristol after all - he's e-mailled me with his mobile number! Now I just have to talk my over-protective honourary brothers into letting me see him.

See you next week.

Have fun and I hope it goes well!