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

Posted Sep 7, 1999

It's difficult to realize just how much you hate work while you're there - but I've now had 48 hrs. to contemplate just how much a "career change" would benefit my life. It's nice to not have to move or talk to anyone if I don't feel like it...

We took a wonderful little trip up the "Great River Road" - a stretch of highway in St. Louis that travels north along the Mississippi River. I'm thinking about writing a piece on it - alas, lately that means "outlining" and idea and letting it sit on my page un-tended to for weeks on end. Productivity is definitely an issue here. If this place where a factory, I'd have been canned a LONG time ago.

Today - I will spend as much time downloading mp3's as possible until I collapse from exhaustion. It'll be fun!
 

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Latest reply: Sep 7, 1999

Boring, boring, boring!!

Posted Sep 5, 1999

Dear BoB!! The internet is as dead as a cat who got run over by a trash truck in the street and then, realising that it wasn't quite all-the-way-dead, limped over to the side of the road where it was promptly re-run over by a horde of screaming third graders on ten-speeds racing towards the ice cream truck, whence the cat found itself very, very dead.

I'm really, really bored. But guess what?!?

I HAVE THREE WHOLE DAYS OFF!!! Woo-Hoo!!! *Happy dance*

Anyway, must be that whole "Labor Day Weekend" thingy that's making everything online sooooo dead. Perhaps I'll just kick back and watch the telethon...or venture outside...hmmm, there's an idea!

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Latest reply: Sep 5, 1999

Ahhh...sweet rejection.

Posted Aug 26, 1999

So I get an E-mail today...my one and only submitted entry...rejected. Ahem, from the editor(s): "Wow! It's intriguing stuff! But it's much better as part of a user page
than the official guide: perhaps "wacky" is the word I'm looking for
here..."

mmmm....Wacky. Oh well, I didn't have my hopes too terribly high. I think it was the suspense that killed me.

Better luck with the others then.

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Latest reply: Aug 26, 1999

Seven months and counting...

Posted Aug 25, 1999

 Mike and I celebrated our seven month anniversary yesterday. Wow - it went by really fast. And now, in less than two months, he'll be in Chicago and I'll be in Norman, OK. A mere 826.3 miles apart. Crap. It's all starting to hit me now...

So, to make myself feel better, I've made my user page even more froofy than before. I hope you enjoy it.

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Latest reply: Aug 25, 1999

How about that? A real Journal Entry (and about time too).

Posted Aug 23, 1999

It's been a rather odd night. Even for me. It's really funny how the slightest things can make you realize and appreciate the "bigger picture". I've gone through so much in the last few months that I've sort of drawn into myself, which has been good for me, I guess. But focusing in on myself and withdrawing from interpersonal relationships has also given me a ring-side view of people I've never had before. You can see a lot about how people "really" are when you aren't busy interacting with them, and as a result I've found myself repeatedly disappointed by what I've seen. And just when I think I've had my fill of people and don't really want to have anything to do with them - whop! I get knocked upside the head with this idea that I have much more in common with others than I thought I did. Not all people are bad...not all are good, either. You just have to be "selective". But open minded.

The really funny thing is that I find myself getting along better with my friends online rather than the people I know in "real" life. I wonder if it has something to do with...well, common intrests, obviously. But also, maybe, it's easier to be yourself when you're a line of text rather than a a body and a face. This society is so eager to judge one by their cover, rather than the interesting stuff inside...the mind, the personality, etc...

My gosh, this is long-winded!
 

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Latest reply: Aug 23, 1999