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

Okay, just because today has been a day of interesting things, I shall post. Amazing how I do that, isn't it? It's rained roughly four inches now in the past four days and everything is muddy...and green. Three of my favorite things: mud, water, and green stuff. My orchid is still in bloom, and my father just killed a rattlesnake that was as big as my ankle with a chainsaw. I don't want to know how he managed that, but he and my darling little brother decided to skin it. I received word today that the state will not certify me to scubadive and my doctor refuses to okay me for it. He will 'reevaluate the situation in a year' if my condition has improved. Occassionally, I wish he and my mother would feel fit to inform me as to exactly WHAT my condition is. I should be rewriting my birthday list which I stupidly threw away and/or arranging what I want scheduled for school next year, but I don't want to. Wow, more heat lighting and thunder. I suppose I'd better go.

Somehow this story is more interesting if you read it in a southern new south wales accent, don't ask me why I was testing that out, I just was. It is a interesting story though. 3 inches of rain? BASTARDS! We haven't got more than 2cm (less than 1 inch) of rain in the last 4 months and even less before that!
I have already made myself clear on the snake subject.
Your now 16-17 yes? if so you (should) have all the rights to access your own medical file and find out your medical condition, if of course that is the local law (it is for me and I have seen mine) I didn't actually mean to see it, it was in the cabinet where my mum keeps all the important files, it just happened to be accidently opened (being home by yourself is grouse)) if its not start lobbing there is an election coming up.
Yes maybe you should, but you guys have weird semesters so I have no idea when you should start planning for things.

Well at least your life isn't boring, you can't complain about that .

I love thunder, but what is "heat lighting"?

Actually, we've gotten FOUR, hear me, FOUR inches of rain as of last night.

Want this snake, do you?

16, and I have my medical file, and I know that I have asthma. That's why the pulmonologist refuses to okay me, but I've been scubaing since I was EIGHT. I can see my permanent record, however, in two years...YES!

I'm skipping highschool next year, so I have to pre-register for college classes.

Heat lightning...hmm, just lightning up in the clouds that doesn't make contact with the ground. Happens when it's hot and humid out.

Hehe, you could've had some of ours, that's for certain...

Nah, rain's lovely.

Ah, see, we don't get "hot and humid" over here. Our weather types are "grey", "grey with drizzle" and "blue skies and blotchy red skins".

Whatcha doing at college then? Anything exciting (go maths! go maths!)?

I love the rain...more than snow, now that I think upon it.

Blotchy red skins? I don't burn, but then I don't tan. I stay an interesting shade of cream year-round. Gray? All of the time? No snow or rain or sleet with it?

What *am* I doing at college? I'm missing a year packed full of social growth and development, as my darling older brother says. Hahahahahahahahha, okay, now back on track. I'm wretched at math and can't do anything but insanely complicated things. I can barely divide and subtract, but I can rotate graphs and give you equations and pinpoint limits faster than anyone has a right to. Though I'll probably end up in law, I'm starting off in biology. I'm good at biology, but I'm wretched at chemistry. Cells are so blessedly simple, while atoms...atoms are just...well, insanely complicated.

Depends on the type of rain, but I'm inclined to agree with you.

I have some interesting Spanish genes mixed up in my gene pool, as i've mentioned earlier, so I tan quite easily.

Hahahahahahahaha. What an odd older brother. Sounds like a total bore to me... Anyway, at least you'll soon be done with maths, no?

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in mid day Sun. Apparantly I have Viking blood; I blame that.

I was exaggerating English weather. Its not like that all the time really. We get about half an inch of snow every third winter too .

Its good that you can change subjects around at College in the USA. Universities over here, well we start a year later but we pick a subject or rarely a joint-subject and are expected to stick to it for the course. My ex is off to start a 6-year course in medicine at Cambridge in October and she's only 16 . Crazy...

I'm sure you can make up for your "missing a year packed full of social growth and development," right here on Hootoo .

I'd think if I'd burn, I'd tan, but I don't do either. Ah, well, so much for my skin cancer, eh? You toast, Bouncy?

I love rain. I love snow. I abhor sleet. I LOVE hail.

Usually, you have to declare a major after your second year. I thought y'all started a year earlier than we did...? I'll have to see how it goes, really, and I will never be rid of math. I'm dreading the math placement exam I'll be taking in June. I want to get in calculus so I don't have to take another year of math. You see, that makes sense. Why wouldn't you start early? By the time she's done with her schooling, she'll be in her mid-twenties. By the time doctors over here get finished, they're in their late twenties.

I'm socially arrested, according to my mother and teachers. I could have skipped first and second grades, but I wasn't 'mature' enough for my mother. I really wasn't, but I would have been in college by thirteen and out of school by thirty. I blame my father for my behavior problems and ADD. Eet'snot maaaay! Eet'snot maaay!

I have a sudden feeling my depression and anxiety disorder are going to come back to haunt me some day because of all of this, and most likely my bronchitis, damm dust and bad breathing. I mean what can you do with "low mussle tone" I mean what the fudge does that mean? Damm doctors. Operation when I was 4 on my foot. Hmmm still have scars.

You have bronchitis? I thought you walked?

I had bronchitis it died pretty good when I was about 12 but if I really push myself it comes back for about 2 weeks and goes again.

Ah, you're a chronic? That sucks. Do you swim?

Poor thing.

I have to be honest in saying it hasn't been back for 3 years now since I haven't done anything to aggravate it. I can quite happily run with ada and it doesn't come up, however if I sat on my rump for two weeks and didn't do anything it would come back then quite annoyingly. Of course its not like it stops me from doing anything it just means I cough up disgusting phlegm and have coughing fits, its not like asthma where you can't even breathe properly. I feel sympathetic to people with asthma, my old best friend had asthma really bad and couldn't do anything for half a day when he got an attack.

I did used to swim until I got sick and tired of the local pool and how bad other people are in it, they get in the way, do things in the toilets which I rather not talk about. I just could not be stuffed. I even competed when I was a lot younger, got to the semi's and lost every time so I didn't pursue it much (since the semis where 1 step from the original race).

Of course colds bring it back like the plague.

*shudder* Public pools here are enough to make me want to vomit.

So if you stay mobile and don't get sick, you don't get bit in the ass? Sounds like a winner; I'd take it.

Well 'college' in the UK can normally start anytime from 16, but its a different thing completely. University normally starts at 18. Being moved up a year is rare but happens, I'm unsure what reasons are normally given.

I still think its a little early to expect people to know what they want to do. If someone had asked me say a year before I sent in my application then I might have chosen maths and what a move that would've been. 8 hours of maths lessons a week is too much as it is thank you very much...

I burn slightly worse than pale blonde people generally do .

Stacy: Not getting a tan doesn't mean you don't get skin cancer. Rather the opposite, in fact. Getting a sunburn is never good, but the production of pigments reduce the damage the UV-radiation causes, and somewhat reduces the risk of skin cancer. I suppose you don't go sunbathing, so that would reduce the risk anyway...

We don't start studying till we're nineteen over here, leastways not for academic studies.

Viking blood, you say? Where does this come from, I wonder?