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

Just popping by to say hi to a good friend.
And to ask if you & Fiona plan to go to the Reading Meet-Up on the 11th May, see: A694893
I'll talk more if I discover that you do have internet access!

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I do kind of, occasionally when the boss isn't looking at work. 11th May... we're going up to Wales on that weekend but may hopefully go via Reading for the meetup!

And check out the plans for the Southampton Meet: F53684?thread=168174 , A699654

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Will do Is there a vague date planned for that one yet?

June something - its in the forums, so go along, write something, say you're interested, and keep up to date.
And the amazing thing is it wasn't me who decided to organise it!

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Oh, and please join the Wessex Researchers Group: A395499

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So, how are you, and what are you up to these days, my friend?

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How am I? Well... I feel like a walnut, and have been acting like a nut recently. I might try acting like a coconut tomorrow. How are you?

I'm fine.
I'm currently unemployed and broke, which is surprisingly similar to last year when I was employed and broke, but this year I have more spare time.
Today I've signed up for a free course next week which may offer a job placement at the end of it, plus I've started getting some work experience in Horsforth Village Museum. Today I was labelling 19th century cobblers tools. Which was very interesting as, not being a 19th century cobbler, I didn't know what to label them as, except "Cobbling thing", "something involving shoes", and "shoe event horizon creating device". But it was fun, and I had and a biscuit free!

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That sounds interesting. And if there's ever an urgent need to cobble some 19th Century shoes, you're obviously the guy to call on.

Yesterday we watched a fountain.

Really? Any in particular?
I've got an interview tomorrow in a shop called "Borders", have you heard of it? Or Fiona? I also am on a course, starting tomorrow, which may give me a work placement at the end of it, so what I'll do if I pass the interview I don't know. Although I wouldn't mind working in a shop which should have a better class of customers in McDonalds, it's still a service job and not office work, which I hope to get into. The course may get me an office placement, but it won't be paid, but at least I would then have experience of offices on my CV.

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Ooh Borders is great! That's the bookshop with the coffee shop and stuff, isn't it? I love those. Fiona wants to work in a bookshop, she's applying to Waterstones, but I think she'd prefer a Borders if there was one in Southampton!
Offices are overrated... you have to answer phones and stuff... although I've successfully moved my desk to somewhere where there aren't any phone sockets in our office, meaning I don't have to answer the phone. Oh and I email people if I can, so I don't have to phone them. I hope to entirely phase phones out of my life by 2003.

I don't apply for Office Jobs which have the word "telephone" in the job description, unless it has the words "old-style dial" before it.
Yes, Borders is the bookshop with a Starbucks (Dr Evil's Evil Empire) inside - its an American company. Apparently if I get the job (I should find out tomorrow) I don't get a discount, but I get a pension in America...
I sent my CV to all the bookshops in Leeds, including Waterstones and Waterstones, not to mention Waterstones, but so far only Borders replied.

Are you doing anything special in 8 days?

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8 days? Umm.... probably going to Bristol, to see my nephew for the first time

Sorry, I mean of course 4 days, but I like the number 8 - its my favourite number .

Borders phoned up to offer me the job, but as they wanted me to spend 2 months shelf-stacking on nightshift from 9pm - 5am on a very low wage, I chose not to pursue it any further. Afterall, how would I get back at 5am? I'm not walking over 4 miles at that time of night through dodgy estates each day!

At the moment I've enrolled on a free course at "West Leeds Learning Centre", doing CLAIT, which is amusing. It'll be another qualification to put on my CV.

Remember to feel free to enter the Bikini Competition - I've only had one entrant so far, so am getting quite disappointed by the whole thing. So see if you can get Tinkerbell to enter too - the more the merrier, otherwise it won't be much of a competition! Just come along to here: F44375?thread=198617

Well, that's all for now,

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