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

...but the rejection letter from Pink Planet hit my doormat this morning.

Suprisingly I'm not actually bothered.

Onwards and upwards men!

Oh well, their loss. And yours too of course, but we won't dwell on that

Hmm. I guess I should be more bothered by it all.

I'm not.

Nah no reason to be bothered, as KerrAvon said their loss

Won't shop there ever!

They don't know what they missed.

Well, it's only a poxy job.

Onwards and upwards I say!

So what you are saying, Saturnine, is that you are bothered about not being bothered by it? How very metaphysical of you.

I got a wonderful surprise in the post yesterday so I'm having to try hard not to bounce all over people about it - especially if they wish to reserve the right to be despondant.

How goes the great novel?

The great novel is also despondant. I am now despondant. Not about the lack of job, but other things. But the great novel sits in the WP because I can't get through a bunch of chapters that link the beginning to the first part of the middle.

I'm trying to concentrate on poetry right now. Got to enter a poetry competition - 3 entries cost £10 - because the first prize is £500, which will buy me a cheap week away somewhere if I am lucky. However, I can't find anything good to submit.

You're not supposed to find something - you're supposed to write it! Now that little misunderstanding is sorted, you can get on with actually doing it.

I have to go through my old stuff before I write anything new.

Got writers block y'see...

Won't any of these crazy conversations do as inspiration? You could even try the random article finders (or that random quote thing). Maybe h2g2 needs an official/artificial muse like the business-speak mission statement generator. Or is there already a specific topic to this competition?

Mission statement generator? Where, on this site? I think they (Mission Statements) may become the single funniest thing the nineties ever produced.

"Hey, nice...memo."

"It's...uh...more of a Mission Statement actually."



Name that film!

Haven't the fogiest. Did you look at *!!!* yet? I think it's DNA.

My favourite was when they asked a salesman at my place what he thought the mission statement should be. *Why...to make lots of money, what else?*

HEY! I just clicked onto the necessary link to get here, and a "Come to British Columbia" advert came on my TV!

for Sat.

(I got a rejection letter for a job today as well, but am not as disappointed as I thought I'd be. Whether thats because deep down I realised it wasn't the job for me, or because I'm at the tail end of a nasty flu infection that started last weekend and still slightly trippy on the contents of my body's own medicine cabinet, I'm not sure.)

I hate the whole business. It always reminds me that part of me wants to leave town and go and live somewhere else for a while. And that I can't. And a million other more unplesant tihngs about my life.

Awwwww.

I think I've lost the thread of this conversation since I'm not sure which "whole business" you hate. Multiple choice options: pink planet, applying for any job, writing in general, writing for this competition, hearing mission statements, seeing adverts on TV...

While you're answering that one, how about naming that film for those of us who are clueless. I could actually put quite a lot of characters into those roles but I'm rubbish at remembering names.

Also on the subject of mission statements: what's the explanation of the one which now appears at the top of any of your journal / conversation threads. I mean the technique as well as its content (which probably just matches your mood). Manda is one of the few others to have one and he claims to know nothing but I think he is merely feigning ignorance since he's got quite a large one and it could hardly have appeared by accident without him noticing.

Oh, you've wandered off.

Never mind. Manda finally confessed to creating his conversation thread header - and I didn't even have to beat him up a little bit or recite any Vogon poetry at him.