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

Just thought i'll drop in and check up on you. How's althea coming along? can i have a look?

Found about Dadd. Found Dadd. Dadd is good. Hate what they did to him.

Am planning a book. It's still hazy, but if you want to know how it might feel, do check out my website:

http://groups.msn.com/bloodworks

Even if you don't want to know, check it out anyway - i'd really like you to read it.



db

Oh, the stuff is on the page called 'earth'. link on the left hand side.

Hey db. How are you doing?

I can't get to your work, the site is members only.

I'm doing better for the moment, at least I was before I came back to the awful day job. This place is driving me nuts, literally

Still, only five and a half hours to go till home time.

N

N,

i'd decided to keep the group a closed user group for a while, but i think i'll open it up for a while. Do try again.

I'm doing OK. I'll be going to Atlanta for a Masters this fall, and i'm basically busy wrapping up my work at HP Labs, and preparing to leave. Life does get a little heavy at times, but then there's always the blue sky and streets to roam. And books, and words.

db

i thought you might relate to this, too

http://www.oxfordmuse.com/selfportrait/portrait4.htm

The whole world seems to have gone off on their own trips!! And me here writing pages of diagrams and documenting my work to death But atleast the book is taking a (misty) shape

Did you ever get the feeling you cannot be part of society again? I'm a little afraid i've stepped out of the landscape, and now i can't find a way in...

*wonders why he posted this*

db

Hey db

I'm not away, just been haqving another agressively bad week. but things are getting a bit better again, I think.

Glad the book is taking shape. Mine's creeping along, about to embark on 1910. Nothing I want to show the world just yet though.

I've never felt that I'm not a part of society, I'm just off to one side, off to several sides actually, but it's interesting living in the margins. In what way have you stepped out? And do you really want back in?


N

hey N

sorry to hear about your week: i suspect it's something to do w/ the day job... why don't u take a vacation?

the last time i checked, 'althea...' had reached 16000 words: i'm still at 1064 and still haven't much more than a hazy idea of what i'm writing. matter of fact, i don't even know why i'm writing it, except that i must.

i guess your description of life on the margins is closer to what i had in mind than being totally outside; however there are times when i see the beast in action, and that i am part of what gives it life, yet i am not bothered by it. it's not that society finds me unpalatable, nor even that i dislike it - it's just that whenever i move around in it, it feels like i do it in camouflage: hardly anybody sees the Janus with a thousand faces that i am, only a face at time. There's nobody home, unless someone looks very hard. i guess it's in this sense that i say i am outside: i'm there, but i don't belong. don't particularly want to, i guess

you seem to dip and soar a lot: if you ever need to talk, my yahoo id is bambeday.


db

are you ever afraid without cause? just like that, not afraid of some thing, but just afraid?

db

Quite often when my illness is affecting me. Lately I'm more nervous and anxious but I still get night terrors.

And you? Was that a general question? Are you OK?

N

Me, ok?

I don't know. I wish i could forget. Everything. The only place i know where i'd find a no-man's land with no outside like that is with someone who doesn't want me there again.

It wasn't a general question. It's what made me write that post. And i'd like it if you didn't refer to it as 'illness' - it isn't one in my eyes.

Y'know, i'd love to talk, but i hate this asynchronous means of communication; can't really get into the flow of expression like this, so i'm not going to say more...

Live!

db

N,

how's it been? just thought i'd check on you. how's althea coming along? day job any less frustrating?

have you heard of Leonardo? It's a art-science-technology fusion community that is based at MIT. they have a conference on pain coming up, and i thought you might like to have a look see. it's at:

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/LEA2004/authors.htm#pain



db

hey! you're 26 now! when did that happen? anyway, happy birthday!