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

OK, it's good to look at your dreams, though - helps make them real.

hmm i have way more real life stuff to deal with than dreams. two jobs and a nightmare labrinth of girl issuses. plus going to college in three months.

dorian

I've always been told that having a vision of how you want your life to become pulls you forward towards that vision. The more concrete, the better. Don't you have such dreams or s vision. what do you think your life's destiny is? How do you intend to make the world a better place (or if you don't care about the world, how do you intend to make your world a better place)?

the first step is finishing my education. after college, no idea i don;t even know where i'll be in four years. NYC or on the west coast, maybe over seas. i have the plan and vision of buying a suburu wrx STI. when i get out of school that will keep me going in those boring classes and when i'm wrting long papers. (i live to drive, upshift downshift accellerate, corner) but really i'm just a twenty year old with not much of a clue of what comes after school. but that's why you go to an institution of higher learning right?

dorain

Fair enough! I didn't have a plan when I left college either, except I wanted to live and work abroad, using the languages I had learned. That didn't happen - I'd met someone and didn't want to leave him behind.

I often wonder what life would have been like if I had had a game plan. There's good evidence that those people who know what they want to be and do are generally far more successful in their lives than those who don't. There was the Harvard University study that showed at in a particular year, 3% of students had concrete plans about what they wanted to be. When they were followed up ten years later (I think), that 3% were earning as much as the remaining 97% put together.

interesting study

When I was at university, I had no idea of what I wanted to do, except use my languages and help people communicate. Now I'm helping people keep safe on the roads. It would really have helped me to have had someone to talk to me about my dreams and plan for my future.

Before you start there's a few details that you must learn
Technical specs about your unit to make things run smooth
In an effort to find an energy source our company's learned
The cheapest way to keep his battery running is with booze

*confused*

Are you saying that you run (best?) on alcohol?

umm i;m not sure.
i don;t remember writting that.

Ah, shall we start with a clean sheet/

New York was cool (apart from the weather, which wasn't).

Queen Mary 2 was even cooler - it has its own planetarium!

very cool, i love planetariums. they are so fun, amgerst college has one. i've been there twice i think. class trips and stuff

dorian

Little 's favourite part of the QM2 was the swimming pool, or should I say pools. One was so deep that he couldn't stand up properly, so he had to swim, which he did. As he couldn't swim without putting his feet down before, this was a big step forward for him.

Off to the Isle of Wight tomorrow to see mum and dad. Haven't seen them for almost a year. Weather is rainy at the moment. Hope it brightens up.

nice, i'm in upstate NY these days at college. Ithaca college. 6 classes and 17 credits. it's really chill, i';m in the theater department, way lots of fun.

drorian

This place?

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=922

IOW was mixed - rained a lot, but we went swimming and to a Roman Villa one day, which was cool. Amazing mosaics.

yeah, that's the place. the gorges are cool, i haven't spent too much time out there, i'm just swamped with work, it's the second week of school and i'm working my ass off, probably doesn't help that i'm taking 6 classes. craziness. but speaking of classes i'm off to sagecraft.

dorian

Sagecraft? The science of becoming wise?

stage craft, the art of the stage and theater design and tech

dorian

Oh, - what are the major elements of that?

not that much, i also skipped class today so i;m not sure what's going on. but from what i can figure us that i'm learn the different aspects, from a techical standpoint, that it takes to put on and stage theatrical production

dorian