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

I've trying to pull away from the computer, you see. Otherwise I'll end up terrified of the outside world.

Had little mood swing.

How might you be m'dear?

I'm not so bad thanks. Hope you are too,
It's ok, I get the mood swings often enough, and one of my friends has bipolar that normally leads to extreme mania. So, it's alright, it's pretty much the norm.

Oops, simulpostythingie. The mood swing was mine, I wasn't implying one your part.

I spend too much time trying to escape into the virtual world. If you really thing you have similar pronle,, I fully empathise with your goal.

Thanks. I'd been trying to do the escapism for a while and then figured it wasn't helping me. I'm not any more confident for it, definitely not any fitter, and not really happier so I'm going to try and find something else. Even if that means wandering round with an insane grin because I've got "the soup song" stuck in my head, and staring sheepishly at the ground when people go past, and practically snarling when a chav does. Oh well.

Well my crunchy friend, I hope you don't leave the liquid broth of hootoo altogether.
You seem cool, intelligent and open minded (but not credulous) and open hearted. These aren't attributes to be trivialised or dismissed.
You're not weird or silly in any wat that isn't positive as best I tell.
You play the drums which isn't such bad excercise so you can developed your skill and stamina working out your emotions on that.
Wandering around being amused by your own mind is fine. Your mind is yours to play in any way you care to.
What ideas have you been pondering as an alternative?

Ahh, thank you. I may consider taking up swimming again, I used to go every week and now it's been nearly 5 years. Also, don't laugh too much, I have considered trying to find a dirt cheap skateboard, attempting to ride in car parks and very quiet footpaths before giving up after scabbing my knees a few times. Or enjoying it and going up skatepark, where I used to hang out before I somehow stopped being friends with the people I hung out there with. But I could never got the hang of getting to the top of the ramps, I've tried run ups, and getting someone to drag me up, but I never quite managed it. Sorry, I'm getting tired so I go on a fair bit.

Sorry, missed this before wandering off to watch Heroes, I can imagine why there was such a buzz about it before it reached BBC broadcast. It's surprisingly entertaining.

I've not swam in too long my self, was something I enjoyed too. I'm not sure I'll be swimming in public anytime soon though and my bath just ain't *that* big.

You've not gone on too much m'dear. Hope you're resting well. I should be heading bedways too.

You appear to be growling.

Yep, we had an extra 2 weeks of school holiday because they're building a new bit (had first day back today, it's quite nice. The magical massive circle sink, supposedly like the one in Harry Potter but I detest everything to do with that unless it's a parody. Anyway, it made up for the toilets being unisex .
Anyhow, the point is 8 weeks of nothingness is strangely stressful. Hence the grr.

I'm somewhat 'meh' about Harry Potter myself, perhaps that's why I'm not clear what 'magical massive circle sink' is. Is just a big sink that forms a circle or is circular...
Unisex toilets, like in Ally McBeal? I'm not sure if that's progressive or just a bad idea.

Nothingness certainly has a stressful quality to it, I know.

What's good with you?

Nothing particularly amiss. the sink is circular, with a pole coming throgh the centre and the taps come off it. It isn't that special now, just he novelty.
But I take it everything isn't ok for you...
It's probably hard to talk it off, normally in periods of numbness theres just nothing, but they go for everyone eventually. I apologise if I'm being patronising.

No, not patronising. What you say is true.

No, I've not doing so well or feeling so great the last few weeks. I feel alot better today that I did yesterday. I always feel down around my birthday. And Talk Like A Pirate Day is also, my former fiance's birthday. Both tend to bring up alot of thoughts about myself and get to judging myself in a way that I'm told is very harsh and unfair. My sleep and my eating have been very unhelpful/unhealthy. But, I've not harmed myself in more explicit ways, in spite on certain intrusive thoughts, which is progress on where I have been in the past. And as vulnerable as I've been feeling I have at least this week manage to make my appointments. Though I shan't be going out in Brighton to celebrate my birthday because it wouldn't be fair on the others who are celebrating their birthdays at the combined event if I started crying or harming myself.

How is your Grr-ness?

Ooh, you're better. I hope so anyway.
Still grr, for the past two days I've been quite angry, but I don't know what or who it's directed at, I have ideas, but so far all I've done is shout at everyone and lack guilt. The only people who get away are those who meet me with a sore throat and don't mind debates, which would so far be 1.

I think I'm doing better than I was.

With irritability I find burning things helps. You could burn a boat. Or a goat or moat. I think a moat would a challenge but I'm sure you could rise to the occasion. Kinda like draw bridge of pyromaniacal rage.

I hope you're mood balances out for you. In my experience feeling hostile for no rational reason you can think of gets old and tiresome pretty quickly.

Aww, you can't burn a goat, they're amazing.
I accidently on purpose tripped up a year7/8 t'other day though, they have no feelings

I'm quite happy because me and a friend and her younger cousin are planning to go to Reading/Leeds Festival next year. Quite mild music so I reckon it'll be an interesting first festival experience. If I get allowed to go and she can afford the tickets and no one mucks about with the age limits unless it goes lower. Not much to go wrong then

"I accidently on purpose tripped up a year7/8 t'other day though, they have no feelings"
Awesome!

"Aww, you can't burn a goat, they're amazing."

I used to really want some pygmy goats as pets. But I already had s s and s s and s to look after and nowhere for the goats to graze in the day and be shut away at night.

Bon chance with the festival. I've not done a music festival yet. I'll get to one eventually.

Quite a few pets then. I think one of my mates either had a pet goat or sheep. And several guinea pigs, but I don't think many are still around, and he has to feed Mavis with a syringe.

Is Mavis a lovely lady vampire that is obsessed with and keeps in a suitcase beneath his bed whom he feeds his own blood to with syringe but can never release because she would kill him? Or a cute wee guinea pig?