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

No, you don't. Many many MANY drawbacks...

Not if you have a good day job, like being an engineer.

Yeh, but then you wouldn't be a writer. You would be an engineer with a side hobby.

Nothing wrong with that. I need a hobby.

Do it then. Just...um...don't say I didn't warn you...

Oh, I didn't say I was going to. Just that it would be nice if I were inspired enough to write a book about something. As it is, I don't know enough about anything to fill a book anyone would want to read. The closest I ever came to that was writing a 50 page report for my senior project in college.

You know, there's surprisingly little difference between the smiley and the smiley.

You wouln't know it, but I am ish right now...alcohol never seems to permeate my brain. I wonder why.

If you want to write a book, then just do it. All I did was take a concept, and make it my own. I wanted to make an image - and not being a very competent artist & having a word-fetish, I had to write a book. I so far have learnt many things. One being, don't let a concept stick around too long...it drags you down...

I figure my attention span is just about the right length to write short stories. If you've ever read Robert Sheckley, I've always wanted to write stories like that.

I haven't. I don't know who I want to write like...just like me I guess. No point trying to be like someone else.

I have had FIVE VODKA and cokes...

5 Vodka and cokes? Sounds like an interesting evening.

So what does this whole rubbing thighs thing mean? Assume that I'm never going to get to see that TV show.

It's just a general expression of lewd lust...

I have decided to drink tonight (a rare occurance)...but it's not very interesting. I just end up zooming out into my head. I mean, could you really tell if I was drunk right now if I didn't mention it? I can't work out why it never affects my mental processes...

Beats me. I slur when I get drunk and/or tired. This manifests itself when I type, so I take twice as long to go back and fix typos.

And yes, I'm Chinese. I'm one of those peculiar "American born Chinese," which means people in America assume I'm not American, and people in China assume I can't speak Chinese.

So you are pure Chinese? Nice one. Bob the Farmer is spankalicious, so I will assume you are the same. When I saw you post that you are Asian American, I thought you were Indian...don't like the term Asian. too many varieties for such a broad title...

I sit VERY still when I am drunk and ponder stuff...and maybe dance. My behaviour is usually pretty much the same sober or drunk...

...I just enjoy moving more!

Well, round these parts when someone uses the word "Asian," they mean from the far east end of Asia: China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thai, etc.

I'm told I become much more of a ladies man when I get drunk. In fact, my friend's exact words were, "When he gets drunk, he turns into Don Juan." I personally don't think so, otherwise I'd get drunk a lot more often.

I used to too...but I had that habit kicked out of me by an Indian friend who hates being called *asian*. She is right, it is a slack term...usually used in terms of anything from Indian to Thai to Vietnamese to Japanese...all of the continent.

I find it hard to explain how I feel when I am drunk. Like the whole post-orgasmic chill...slightly outside but waaaaay inside my own body. Not too bothered with anything but lying down and enjoying the feeling. With the mind I have, it isn't suprising I get the biggest kick out of the simplest things...if I took anything stronger, my brain would rpobably explode. I'm on voka&sietcoke #6 now. You couldn't tell. I find it weird, because everyone else seems to lose it when they are drunk. Bizarre...

Post-orgasmic chill, eh? Never thought of it that way.

That's the only feeling I can liken it too...

I think the "losing it" part of drinking is the part that comes after the "post-orgasmic chill" part. The only times I've been truly sloshed was when I wasn't keeping track of my drinks, so I went way past my usual amount.

I've never lost it. Not once. I'm just naturally quite strange and carefree...

dRuuNk.