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

1) Buy pens and notebooks and other little stuff.

2) A small new tattoo for my arm.

3) Get my lip pierced.

4) Persuade Bob the Farmer to put up with me for another night.

5) Buy alcohol.

6) Somehow get to the January meet and end up having my photo splashed across the net (no thanks)

7) Go shopping in the January sales.

8) Buy 2 CD's.

9) Buy some books.

10) Save it.

Were you to go to the meet, you could accomplish 4, 5 (you'd have it bought for you), and 6 on one easy step. Besides, where better to go shopping than london (thusly eliminating 1, 7, 8, and 9).. and since you'd be having alcohol bought for you, you'd be saving money you'd otherwise have spent on it. (10).

Also, I detest having my photograph taken. To date, there's been one frame of me at a h2g2 meet online. And I intend to keep it that way. .. if nothing else, you can always hide behind me. I'm good at avoiding cameras.

.. how're you doing?

*drinking romanian merlot*

BRAVO!

cl - ? What was that about?

Njan - I am OK. I only have £40 Xmas money (providing my Mum will swap the vouchers for cash). So I am thinking of bulking up on my stationary and getting on with my writing for the next few months. I need to get stuff in order career wise. I also still don't feel like going to the meet. I am too anti-social. Still, a little time to reconsider...
I have also drunk too much alcohol & there is still a bottle of Babysham, some Bacardi Breezers, vodka shots, liquer (sp?) chocolates and a fifth of a bottle of vodka left in the fridge How are you?

ok. *nods*.. .. we need to get you a nice apple mac laptop so that you can sit in cafés with a cup of latté and tap away, all the while staring off pensively into the distance.

.. well, I'm not the most social of personages.. and there are lots of people there that really don't like me.. .. ah, well. s all the same. If you do reconsider, you know how many people'll love to see you there and hug you to pieces.

.. be carreeful. Speaking as an exalcoholic, getting drunk on your own on anything approaching a regular basis isn't fun! (says he who had a whole bottle of red wine last night).. trust me on this.

Still.. .. you'll be famous one day, and then you can organise your own h2g2 meetups at your phenomenally large mansion in the middle of nowhere. .. or perhaps with some of your royalty money, you could buy hootoo off the bbc..

I am developing a fast disdain for a few researchers that cannot disinguish between me offering another side to the argument, and me offering an opinion. Why is it that some people are so closeminded?

Anyway.

I *do* really really need a laptop right now. I have to knuckle down (already started to re edit a few short stories to get back into it ) because Bob liked my first four chapters, so that has given me a little life and a and I have to have some kind of cash by the middle of the year. I really don't want a proper job I'll have to put up with my chunky WP until I can get it all finished. Oh...it's so boring now. Old concepts drag me down.

I don't have an addictive personality...stop making non-comitted comments like I am drinking all the time. I'm not, I don't, I won't. This seems to be a big thing in people's perception of me...I start talking about something, and they perceive me to be an addict. I NEVER binge drink, and I have had about 3 hangovers out of the whole year...most of it from vodka, some of it wine, and I have never gone past the sleepy warm feelin' good stage. OK?

Re : meet. I want to go. But then I dn't. I have to force myself to keep on track. And I am too anti-social for it all. Meeting people. Having to live up to my reputation. Too much stress. But THEN I think it would be fun. Then I think *I need to buy some floppies, some pens and some back up notebooks*...

All very confusing, so I think I shall stick to what I know. I need some money

I HATE LIFE! I wasn't ready for any of it, and nothing makes sense...

...especially these posts...

eep!.. that wasn't aimed at anyone here, was it?

*doth hide*

.. well, you did post to askh2g2 about this, and I'm sure you got wonderful replies.. but if you do need advice in buying one of the wee beasties, I'm sure I number amongst the many people who'd be prepared to offer assistance in procuring / settingup a laptop. .. jobs are bad. .. on the bright side, at least you're not doing what my () father did when he wrote the few books that he's penned.. the whole house was covered in paper. He used to use a typewriter back then, but never bothered for books.

ok! .. I'm just concerned, is all. I always and unmistakably take every situation.. weigh up the merits of it.. and then take everything which people say in the most sceptical way in which I possibly can. I even recognise this in myself, but..well, that doesn't seem to make me stop. (I don't want to, in spite of.. well, it's all perplexing and confusing, really). I also have a history with alcohol, so.. I suppose that raises my awareness of people drinking too much up a notch as well, even if I'm 'being aware' of things that don't exist.

It's also extremely hard to guage exactly what a person's doing based on the electronic version of a piece of thought which they'd put together to represent how they were at time of writing. .. take it as a good thing that I'm concerned.

Well.. hmm. I'd like to think that anyone who liked you would like you, not your reputation. That sounds trite, but it is true; back to reading the electronic version of a pointed thought, when I see people post on h2g2, it's rare that I take everything people say at face value (and if I do, it tends to be because there's a lot more than the face value of the person which I understand already). However, you can glimpse at a person through what they right, and I think that's what I, for one, would say I'd done in talking to most of the more interesting people here, amidst which you rank as a member: I claim neither to know nor understand you, but I've glimpsed at someone rather interesting, and I'd love to meet you, whatever you're actually like. .. (that seems awfully impersonal, but I think it's representative of what people think, don't like to think, or should think, anyway.. .. I consider you a friend, all the same. *blinks , having put himself on the spot*)..

Aaanyway. If you did go to the meetup, I got given notebooks for christmas, and I have (literally) hundreds of floppy disks. .. you see, coming to the meetup is an all purpose utility trip. Just think of it in terms of pure economics and add the hug factor on top of that.. .. (sorry, I'll stop badgering you about this. eventually. )

Yeah.. I'm £600 in debt to one bank (after buying an airfare for a certain someone.. pleh.. ) and about £1900 in debt to the student loans company (slightly more, now I think about it), not to mention owing money to the abbey national.. .. money is bad. Why can't we all just be given a state allowance that fills all our needs? foo!

.. .. I'm sorry that it doesn't make sense. .. *hopes that out of the mess, you at least manage to pick up one or two beautiful little shards of life, and somehow manage to live through appreciation of the small, unseen, pieces of beauty which do exist if you look hard enough*



*doth be in strange mood, and makes excuses for posting thusly*