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

Hiya!

It is indeed highly involuntary... It's part of my curriculum. Though I suppose it does me good, but I still don't like getting a grade in it...

I dunno... I have a thing for owning new things. I don't like buying used items. And auctions, at least live ones, are terribly stressing, and you often end up paying more for an item than what it's really worth. At least that how I feel. I think it's just that I feel it isn't really worth the effort. But I don't think that there's really anything wrong with auctions... just my mind, I suppose.

Øyvind

Right, I'm really going to bed now...

I've become positively obsessed with A silver mt.zion now... gawd, they're excellent!!! I've got to get a hold of some of their records...

Anyway, I'm off to bed this time...

Øyvind

aha... yeah we have the same over here at school... i always hated it... positively boring i thought.

Claire
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a silver mt.zion? y? you've totally confused me!

oh and did you ever get the Jane's Addiction album off your friend?

Claire
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Well, I can't say I really like it either... But I suppose it does me good. And we do play loads of fun games... Badminton, volleyball, etc. We've even had skiprope once or twice...

Oh, 'tis a band/group/ensemble/thing. It's like a fusion between classical music and modern... 'tis nice, and very emotional. If you haven't allready, I recommend you check 'em out too...

No... not yet. We haven't seen each other for a couple of weeks, we only meet at the practice for the orchestra... And last week he went to a Metallica gig, and then this week I didn't come... But I will borrow it... sure enough...

Øyvind

Damn, my English is horrible right now... I must be out of training...

I think it must have something to do with my visit to Bosnia... YAAARGH! Not that I'll ever regret going there...

Nor Glasgow, for that matter.

Øyvind

Oh volleyball and badminton... i always liked those too... i wasn't too great at skiprope though! i always found the boys were better at it.

your english is fine! in fact the worse your english the more likely i am to understand you! so "pas de
panic!"
Claire
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Well, I like skiprope too... But that's weird... over here, most guys suck at it... Hmmmm...

Well, allright then...

Øyvind

Hmmm... I suppose I had better go and get something to eat, I'll just summarize briefly what I've eaten these last days, to explain why I'll need a dinner at this late hour of the day...

Let's see...
4 pieces of bread, with brown cheese, or tomatoes.
1 pita bread with taco filling
1 piece of lasagne with rolls
3 pieces of cheesecake
2 pieces of snickers-cake
A large amount of orange yelly
Sweets... all to much
Loads of fizzy drinks
A pack of (that's eight) buns.
A litre of chocolate milk.

Yaaargh. Birthday celebrations are unhealthy... And I didn't get anything proper to eat today either, because I had to be in a church in the middle of nowhere all day...

Anyway, I'm off...

Spk.Soon
Øyvind

hello!

oh im so proud of you! yaay! you little sweetie junkie!lol

och don't worry about ti... i was at a soiree last night at my freinds house and whilst drinking 2 glasses of cocktails, some shots and some vodka and coke i had 3 packets of crisps and some chips! now THAT is unhealthy!... i've not been too bad today tho... and my skin's quite nice! ha! i should drink more often! tee hee.

oh and totally off the subject i went with my dad to the Clydeside yesterday whilst he bought a christmas tree(they buy a real one every year) and he rejected the Scots Pine in favour of the Norway Spruce... awwww! and with my approval too!

Claire
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and i know it's "friends" not "freinds"... so many people don't know how to spell that word properly and i ain't one of em!Lol

oh and i should really rephrase what i said about skiprope... the boys usually weren't too good at skiprope... in general the girls were better... however the person who was the absolute best at skiprope was always a boy... i think that makes a little more sense now.

Bonjour!

Weeeheee... Well, I didn't exactly choose it. Otherwise I would never have eaten that much, particularly yesterday, but there was nothing else... Anyway, I've managed till now, but I feel the need for something proper today... I'll have to see what I can get hold of in Oslo...

Hehe... well, I don't think I've ever drunk cocktails... But as long as you haven't got a terrible hangover, then that's fine.

Awww... that's nice... We haven't bought a christmas tree yet. Actually, let me rephrase that, we haven't gone into the woods and gotten ourselves a christmas tree yet... We always cut it down ourselves (we have a deal with the guy who ovnes the wood, so 'tis allright).

Oh, don't worry about that... I get your point.

Ahh... I see... I suppose it is the same over here

Øyvind

Salut

ooooh tacos though? great! hmmmm nah my head was okay... no serious hangover... i was quite surprised how good i felt actually!

awwww that's great! i'd love that... mind you i wouldn't know where to start if ihad to cut a tree down. well you're pretty late! tis 15th of December Oyvind!

Claire
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Hullo!

Well, good... Tacos? Did I say that? I think I had a pita bread with taco filling for breakfast yesterday...

I suppose it is a privilege we get from living in the middle of a HUGE wood...

Anyway, it isn't really too tricky... Especially not with christmas trees, because they are small enough to carry...

Hmm... maybe we are... It all depends. We don't really need the tree until the 23rd.

Phew... I just got back from the best classical concert I've ever been to. It was my teacher's exam. He's been studying for seven years at the Norwegian Music Academy. He is considered the best active classical percussionist in Norway... WEE. It was excellent. He played loads of microtonal music on home-built instruments, such as a quarter-tone marimba and a similar Vibraphone!!!

The best one was the recital piece, though, where he had recorded an inner monologue that was played while he was performing a ridiculously simple xylophone piece... "Right, right... now, a slow build up, and then a pause. WHAT THE H**L DOES THAT PAUSE MEAN? damn... almost lost it... Right, focus, and build up. Now, the improvisation... Gee, I wonder what time it is... etc." The whole audience was laughing...

Øyvind

hello!

Yeah im pretty sure you said tacos... well that that word jumped out at me anyway!

ooooh! lucky you! i have a small wood behind me... i don't live in a wood though...

yeah that's true right enough... but would you believe some people round here have had their christmas decorations up since November?! im not even kidding!

awwww that sounds great! you know if i ever come to Norway you're going to have to take me to some of these classical concerts!... i don't go to enough.

right... beddy-bye-boes for me.

Claire
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Hiya!

Hmm... maybe I did.

Well, maybe I am... but 'tis lonely out here, one bus every two hours, and that's it...

Indeed... It's the same in Norway. I hate it, christmas has becom over-commercial. I'm considering becoming a member of the Norwegian organization "Give back Christmas!", or something like that, there's no proper translation for it.

Hmmm... maybe, maybe. I'll check the programs, and see what I can do when the time comes.

Ok... Good night, then, and Good morning now!

Øyvind

hello!

oh well that's not great really... i can now see why you might quite like Glasgow... a little dose of daily hustle and bustle will make a wee change for you.

i live right near a train station so i really can't complain about lack of transport! i can be in Glasgow in less than half an hour and by not living in Glasgow i skip the pollution... quite a good balance really.

yaay!

oh well you could still say "Good Night" to me just now... tis really dark outside.

Claire
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oh and what you said about Christmas compels me to ask you if you're religious at all? i don't believe i've ever asked you that in the whole 6 months i've been speaking to you?!

Claire
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Hiya!

Well, I like the silence, really. I don't like cities much, nature is more my thing... But going abroad every now and then is nice...

Yup, sounds like it. Do the trains make a lot noise, though?



Hehe... 'tis the same here...

Hmmm... what did I say, I wonder? I think my point was the christmas has gone all commercial... The christmas decorations and christmas commmercials have been on since the beginning of November... I want christmas to be more... well... nice, really. I don't like the fact that what gets kids into the mood of christmas is the fact that the coca cola commercials are on again...

As for religion, I'm not Christian, I can say that much... But I'm not really an atheist either. I don't believe in any church, because I don't believe that there should be a system of power between me and my god... whoever that may be. I'm also a firm disbeliever in the whole idea of "sin". I suppose I just haven't found any religion that really meets all my thoughts and ideas. The closest I've gotten was probably buddhism, but I haven't had time to dig any deeper into it.

But I suppose what you've noticed may be my lack of respect for traditions... I don't like traditions, many of them are impractical, frighteningly silly, and at a whole not really very nice either. We just make 'em nice because we wish for them to be so... Mind, not all traditions are like that...

Øyvind