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

If you happen to be looking for new titles (and don't know them yet), I liked

- Buddha Da by Anne Donovan (http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/2003prize/shortlist/donint.html)

- The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (http://www.featuredbooks.com/last_samurai.htm)

Ta very much, I'll look them up!

hi, Agapanthus


I'm not a letter writer, but if the occasional paper postcard - with about three words on it - would also be welcome you can let me know where to send it at:

manuela [dot] schwendener [at] unibas [dot] ch


speaking of postcards: do you know http://www.flyyy.com/public/English/ ?


* waves *

ps - please make sure your subject line is recognizable as non-spam..

pps - remembered that you _do_ know flyyy.com - that's where the came from


how's your job hunt going?

Let's not talk about the job hunt. I am trying to convince myself there is more to life than job-hunting and glaring at the kettle.

Tell me stuff about you. What are you up to and is it fun?

* wishes her a good job and SOON! *


* wonders if Agapanthus recognized the offer earlier in this thread as such? *


Do you play an instrument? I suppose you can only read _that_ many books per day.. by the way, I'm quite sure you'd really like 'The Last Samurai' ..



hmm, what am I up to? Calendar Girls with Julie Walters just started being shown at the cinema - hope I'll get to see it soon!


As for the cash, I'm working as a librarian (IT department, no contact to any readers required...), and I really hope your hunt will soon be successful.

Here _is_ the place for people who 'can quote John Donne and Shakespeare at will' and no need for PowerPoint so far


With my Ottox we were in London at the h2g2 meet this summer - would have been great to meet you! I think there is one every half year though, so who knows..

upcoming events: A435791
The Official h2g2 'Back to Basics' Summer Party: A1045946


hmm - what would I do with too much time? Are there any skills that you could acquire or something you always thought you would do if you ever got around to it?


and to show you there's other things to glare at than the kettle:

http://muttscomics.com/art/dailyarchive.asp?month=10&date=24&year=2002

and I hope you know all the 'Calvin and Hobbes' strips by Bill Watterson?






(ps - probably won't be online before Monday)

Ooh yes, had recognized offer. I've been asked to do errands for every single member of my family for the past two days, and have been running in and out of Sainsburys (there's one just up the road from me. Darn it) because everytime I settle down and think I've got a mo to do some thoughtful communicating, my Mum phones up and asks me if I can go and buy her some of her favourite tea becasue she can't get it where she lives and send it to her as she'll need it on Friday. Or my sister hissy-fitting about baby vests and where can she get organic fair-traded ones for nasty nylon prices? (She's having a baby in November. We are all a little flustered about this).

Do I play an instrument? Yes, the guitar, very badly.

Speaking of movies, I went to see 'Spirited Away' (free preview) on Wednesday. It was absolutely beautiful. I'd recommend it to everyone.

And I love Calvin and Hobbes too.

'Our storm is past, and that storm's tyrannous rage,
A stupid calm, but nothing it, doth swage.
The fable is inverted and far more
A block afflicts now than a storm before.'

(Spot of John Donne for you)

What I'd also do with to much time is go for walks if the weather allows it. Not leaving the flat for a whole day would drive me



* do I hear anyone muttering 'that explains a lot?' *



Oh, and if you don't know it yet please do read 'Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are dead" by Tom Stoppard. Or possibly even better: try to see the movie, also by him.

* won't admit she doesn't know anything by John Donne *

If you don't know them already you might like the books by Jasper Fforde:

The Eyre Affair, 2002

Lost in a Good Book, 2003

The Well of Lost Plots, 2004

(the next one to be published this July)


Ignore the critics who compare him to Douglas Adams. The books are a very pleasant read in their own right.

Ooh oooh oooh I've got all these, and I've read them, and I adored them! Aren't they clever? Lots of larks and adventure for everyone, lots of in-jokes for english graduates.

How've you been, anyway? Now that I do actually have a job, I've become incredibly slack about keeping up with people. It's all that having to talk to people in reallifeland.

Have some and .

mmmmhhhh, and


I'm well, thank you


The is doing a great job so far today!


so - did you ever get around to have a look at The Last Samurai by DeWitt?

Do you get to read on your awfully long commuting journey (no, I don't mean at 6 in the morning - but maybe on the way back?)


Congratulations on your badge!





oh, and

are you writing a nice new introduction?

A shiny new intro!