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

Just sitting round chatting is all I've been doing.

its sitting around doing something more than me i'm just sitting around.

i meant to ask, how did it go at the dive club? manage to do all that was required of you?

I just went down for a swim and to see if there was anything happening. Next is to get some paperwork done.

We've just spent the day throwing out... erm i mean filing papers in the office. its amazing how paper begats paper
i don't do this much tidying at home!

I know. I printed something out earlier to stick into my notebook. Only a few lines long but out came two sheets of paper (one totally blank)

Tidying. I should have done some of that last night, or when I got up this morning. Oh wel,l never mind.

i can't believe how much paper there is in here!

d'u have a good one last night?

do you watch the office on BBC2? did you see the last episode (no point going into it if you don't watch it, is there eh?)

Aye

I don't have a TV, so no BBC2 (about the only channel worth watching half the time)

no telly !!! you freak

goodness, you are missing out on filling your brian full of useless trivia and pop culture!

a conscious decision or just not gotten round to buy one?

Concious decision. Nowhere for it to go in my room.
Not had a telly for 5 or 6 years. After a while you don't miss it.

I've gone a couple of months with out one, when i first moved to dundee and i was living in digs, and you're right, i eventually got used to it (but i listened to the radio all day too). but i like to know what's happening in the world, i'd really miss the news.

you've missed some great telly over the last couple of years... okay so i can't think about any at the moment, but i'm sure there's been some

read and chat online (i guess music must play a big part in your life?)

the last para was meant to be a sentence (do you read alot and chat online, while playing music?) really badly constructed

I understood exactly what you meant What with reading, chatting and email all changing the use of the language and how interactions are constucted...

Music does play a big part. I used to listen to the radio at work. I then moved jobs and there was no reception so I started collecting mp3 files
I do occasionally see some TV when I go round to friends and if there is a match on in the pub but most of the stuff I see advertised I think, why would I want to watch that. There is some good stuff on tv but it's few and far between as I find.

**I understood exactly what you meant What with reading, chatting and email all changing the use of the language and how interactions are constucted...**

mmm quite, it just wasn't a very good sentence (you should try talking to stoners, a certain point normal words don't have any meaning, yet we understand perfectly)

when i think about what good things you might have missed, all i can think of is 'our friends in the north', which has, for me at least, the television moment of the century, Geordie, walking over the tyne bridge to the strains of 'don't look back in anger' hairs on the back of your neck stuff.

i'm a bit of a news junkie, so i'd miss that (i've been known to stay and wait for news 24 to come on [at about 1 am] if i've missed all the news during the day. i like my views to be an ill-informed as possible but you're right, there's a lot of guff on sometimes. in saying all that, i don't watch tv for tv's sake. if there's nothing on, i'll go and play music.

News junkie, Online is the place You have loads of news sources to choose from, just like anywhere else, truthful and not quite so truthful, biased and less biased, objective and opinionated.

oh the hassle of having to read ! I'm not quite in the 21st century yet, i just can't read things on screen, books/paper/physical objects are meant for reading. all-day sunday is reserved for a massive catch up of news

i'm really regretting wearing my sandals today, it's chucking it down

last night i was playing some cd's i hadn't heard since i broke up with my ex- i'd forgotten just how good moby's play and macy gray's cd are...

You just get used to reading from the screen in the end.
Today, London has been bright and sunny

Moby, very good Not got the Macy Gray one though

macy gray - its a good 'belters' cd - i mean, there's lots of stuff to sing to at the top of your voice - my jaw was sore on sunday night with all that singing (at least its getting some sort of work out )

i was wrong, it just sounds as though its raining, this blessed building skews all the sound and there are only two tiny wee windows in my office so i can't really see outside either - its been that miserable and dark that at 10 o'clock this morning it felt like 6 in the evening - ah what i wouldn't give for some flourscent strip lighting

Might be worth a try then

If you're wishing after stip lights then it must be bad at the mo

its bad today, it feels like permanent dusk, i really want to go home but another couple of hours left

major plans for tonight?

Not nice

I've got no plans for tonight yet. Things of course may change in the next couple of hours.