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

Your poem was on an Oxford Uni users page, which leads me to presume you are at Oxford, though admittedly I could be very wrong about that in some way I haven't bothered to think about. Anyhow, that's only intersting to me because I am too.

I am actually in Chicago. The DougSoc poem is merely my favorite poem, it's not one that I wrote. I had a brief and odd obsession with Colin Batchelor, but then I met someone in person who actually knew him, and the mysticism kind of faded. (It's a long, pointless story)

But anyhow, it's lovely to meet you. What are you doing at Oxford? I was in Yarton recently. Very very very very small place. I had fish and chips.

I study english and history, at the same time, without the aid os stabilisers or any other artificial stimuli. And I'm amazed to find someone not English on this place, I thought it was an English place masquerading as an International site, and I'm so pleased to discover it isn't. I quite like Americans, though not too much, wouldn't want to go over-board now would we anyhow, didn't like the poem very much myself, but poetry appreciation is something I'll never understand (why doesn't everyone agree with me?). I'd post one of my own poems but I'm a bit shy.

What no Americans around here, there's more than I can possibly count and all the ones I know are loveable and adorable... still they better be, I'm going to be in the States for four months next year and it'll be hell otherwise

oh I suppose the fact that I wasn't really looking would explain my abject failure to find any americans, until a few moments ago that is.

Well you see they disguise themselves as nice people, that's the problem

Oh hah hah. *chucking Ant in the shoulder playfully, and perhaps a tad harder than strictly necessary* You're lucky that I love the English, there, buddy boy.

So....hmmmmmmm...english and history. And you do this sans mind-altering drugs of any kind? *pondering for awhile* You see, I went to college for acting, so I spent my academic career creating three dimentional representations of my voice and contorting into interesting positions. You should have seen my dad when I told him that for my freshman year I would need a yoga mat and a yoga belt instead of any books.

Actually, I went to DePaul in Chicago which is second in the country and it was mind-bogglingly difficult. (it was still pre-school uni though)

*squidging Ant just 'cause I can*

What made you decide on english and history both?

My favo(u)rite poem is the one about you J. Alfred, as found at http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~ccm/prufrock.html - it's been sprinkled with links to bizarre gifs.

Actually, it's not my favourite - I love Stephen Crane poetry (and no, even the Americans have mostly never heard of him - but here is a sampling: http://194.52.240.199/~poems/poets/stephen_crane.html).

There do tend to be a lot of Americans here if you look. But most of us are fairly harmless, having started with the good sense to appreciate DNA and gone from there. I can't vouch for those many Americans who never heard of him though. C