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

It's actually very hard to make me blush...I think it comes from having a very embarrassing family

I wanted to be one of those "save the world" lawyers...but then I realised it wasn't gonna happen at Melbourne Uni, they seem to be a shark-lawyer machine...

Nice save!

Admittedly, I doubt that law could break Am; if anything, she'd probably break law.

Er... I don't mean that she would break /the/ law... just that... oh never mind.

You could be like Daredevil and save the world at night.

As far as Public Speaking is concerned.......Well I'd recommend that you guys take Drama. Certainly can't afford to be afraid of public speaking if you want to succeed in that class. So if you are when you go in, then if you participate in the activities you definitely aren't when you come out.

~*~I realise there isn't much I'm comfortable about sharing. Not that I feel embarrased or ashamed about anything in the e-mail, or that there's anything personally explicit, or that there's anyone who might conceivably read this posting and use it for malicious purposes or anything... but somehow I'm feeling that some things are better off personal.~*~

I know what you mean, and I agree entirely.

Aparrantly a phobia of public speaking will go away with practice. It would be nice, but it would involve practicing.
I've done a few presentations and such, so it's slowly getting better.
And I used to do stagework (theatresports and stuff) but then I discovered it was much more fun behind the scenes.

Thanks for understanding! Some things are just more special when you hold them close.
Like kittens, I guess. I like kittens!

It was the truth !

I could be like Daredevil, unfortunately lycra aint my thang

Well it's homoetime for little tanzens, so off into the distance go I...

There she goes!
Riding into the Sun!
She dissolves into a vapour asshe nears the burning orb...

Oh, and I've decided I'm going to print out the e-mail and put it up on my wall at home.

G'night my friend!

(Hehee! Homoetime! )

Putting it on the wall are you? I wonder how people might react if they saw it, not that it matters what they think of course.

I live by myself. The only people I let into my house are people I trust.

I can put it next to my quote for a plane ticket.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

hi jerms.This all sounds promising to me,but been an incurable romantic i'd love to hear things have taken a turn for the better,and that you've found the money for that ticket.'
Oh,i shall be trying to think of ways to get you both in the same country now
Really nice to meet you ,by the way.

It's ok (replying to 18 posts earlier), I just scanned it until I read my name. I should read your posts but I have a crappy concentration span.

Come to think of it theres 17 posts I havent read yet....

No wonder I don't understand so many conversations.

You could walk. Hitch a lift to Australia and walk to the very South East of that. Then get a boat to take you down past the Antartic (but not that close) and you'll come out at the top.

No you won't you'll come out by South America.

Screw that idea.

Except that from there he could walk or hitchhike his way up, assuming for the moment that we don't need to worry about National Borders.

Speaking of which, I am /for/ open immigration, because it just makes a lot of sense to me, but we don't have it.

Smurfles - "The same country" would be... well somewhere not here. Probably Canada.
She won't come back here again because she doesn't like it here, and I can't say I blame her really because I don't want to be here either.
And I've wanted to visit Canada for ages anyway.

As for finding the money for the ticket; I have two choices: Either I forget about my degree and just work full time and save up. Or I find an engineer who will design a chainmail machine, and then I can sell chainmail and save up while I finish my degree.
I'm going for the second option at the moment. In fact, I have an appointment with a designer tomorrow.

Job - I think you need to look at a globe, dude. For a start, hitching to Australia would involve standing next to an airport runway with my thumb out, and I don't think that would work for an international flight, somehow.
Second, walking from the closest point (Melbourne, I think) to the South-eastern quadrant would probably take me about two years, assuming I walk at about six kilometers an hour. (Actually I tend to walk at about 4kph but meh.)
Third, if I'm going to do that just to get a boat past Antarctica, I might as well catch a tour /to/ Antarctica from here, and then another one back to Chile; it'd be faster anyway.
All I'd have to do then is cross two continents and two international borders and it's all gravy.

This is starting to sound like one of the most random trips in the history of random. My dwarf would be so proud!

I recon you try it.

Alternatively, you could walk/ hitch upwards until you get to Russia (seas excepted) and just hop across the 7 mile gap between Russia and Alaska.

Alternatively you could stay lower down and get a boat across to British Columbia and visit Arisz.

I hope you'll keep us posted....in the meantime i haven't come up with any ideas, with the appointment today.

Appointment? Why wasn't I invited?

That would have been the appointment with the toolmaker about the chain machine. They called me to cancel anyway. I'm guessing they're a bit busy at the moment.

Still looking for a design engineer to draw a proper design; it'd be easier for the toolmakers and probably cheaper for me, too.

Unfortunately, my plan for the holidays was to get that ball rolling; now I'm back at uni and may not be able to try again for another six weeks or so.

But luckily I know my own personality; I've learnt that it tends to take me ages to get something started, but once it is, I tend to be /really/ good at it and it becomes a great success. I assume the same will be true with running a chainmail company.
And once I have a chainmail machine there's nothing really stopping me from becoming insanely rich.
Yay!

Aw,i wish i could you what you need !.Sorry they cancelled,maybe it just wasn't meant to be because something much better is just around the corner??

And if you even think about sending me chain mail I'll rip your head off with a rusty spoon.