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

'ello! Just me checkin' ya out and dropping a line. Hope you have better luck teaching yourself guitar then I did. Then again, you have a basis in music with other instruments, which I never had. G'luck.

PS: What's a cacaphony of chrsanthemums?

I think a cacophony of chrysanthemums is a whole bunch of flowers making a lot of noise.
Other then that, it makes a pretty good alliteration. And I'm a Thingite, so I had to have a crazy name to go with my crazy personality.
Thanks for the good wishes for my guitar. I think I need it. I can play "About a Girl" by Nirvana, and "Time of Your Life" by Greenday, and also "Behind Blue Eyes" by Limp Bizkit, but apart from that, not much else. I think I need some new tabs to learn...

tabs...?

I started killing myself over getting chords right, then my father taught me a handfull of songs, then I got frustrated with some of the really tough chords and didn't have enough time to practice because in school they think we have nothing better to do then study and be forcefully involved in extracurriculars, (and this is with class ending at 5 every day) so I gave up. Every once in a while I think about taking it up again.

(That IS what a cacaphony of chrasanthemums must be, [what do they sound like i wonder] i was just wondering if there was some logic to it. Like, a triple order of chrysanthemums intended for a parade float showed up at your parents doorstep the day you were born, or something.)

Oh yeah, that chrysanthemum thing happened the day I was born - I forgot to mention it... sorry.
Tabs are like a grid which shows the first (I think six) fret bars on a guitar, with the strings going across, and a dot on the fret and string you're supposed to press and where you're supposed to (did that make sense?)
They're mainly useed for showing chords, I think.
What does LeoAlpha mean? That you're the alpha male on here (or alpha female - are you a guy? I can't tell...)?

Oh, those are called tabs?

Leo is my astrological sign.

I'm the alpha female!

OK - I'm a Libra, myself.

hold on while I find out if we're compatible!

You do that, then...

http://www.astrology-online.com/leo.htm

This is more about me than I ever knew,


http://www.astrology-online.com/libra.htm
and here's everything about you that I ever didn't need to know.

I found someplace that discusses the compatibility of the two, but they do it like it's a love-match. Oh well.

>>Leo and Libra
When Leo and Libra join together theirs is an agreeable union. Being situated two signs apart in the Zodiac, Leo and Libra experience a deep understanding of the inner-workings of the other. When the Lion's unbounded energy mixes with Libra's natural sense of harmony, there is great balance. Leo and Libra are both outlandish versus reserved, direct versus peace loving. They can enjoy a very smooth relationship because each can appreciate and benefit from the positive attributes of the other.

Libra calms and soothes Leo's flamboyance. Libra lays on the charm and good manners, which tame Leo's direct and acerbic personality. But Leo is far more decisive than Libra.
Leo is ruled by The Sun and Libra is ruled by the Planet Venus. The two Signs coming together form the basic foundation of relationships -- warmth and passion. The Sun and Venus go well together. The sun is a masculine energy and Venus a feminine, so this relationship strikes a balance between energies. Venus is about the beauty of romance, and The Sun is about invigorating life spreading warmth.<<

Hee hee hee - it said you're masculine...

well, once I was something of a tomboy...

and you are supposed to be very organized and orderly. (are you?)
I think musical fit in there somewhere too... (so you should be successful where my leo induced inpatience failed)

It depends on my mood, whether I'm organised and orderly. My locker, for instance, is tidy unless I have heaps of homework, and then I tend to just chuck all my books in at random. My room is tidy too, except on the weekends. I clean when I'm bored - it's just something I do...

Its OK, I can forgive you, despite my occasional no-doubt-leo-induced-sloppiness. (My mother cleans for fun.)

Is boarding school at all like summer camp, just for longer?
Come ta think of it, I bet you can mention a few things that are pretty essential for someone who's going to be boarding... like me in 10 days.

You're going to be a boarder?
What kind of school, and where and all that?
Basically, try to be nice to everyone and not make any enemies, because if you do, you'll have to live with them day and night (unless you're one of those people who enjoy being hated).
I've never been to a summer camp, but I guess boarding school's like that, except you get homework and you have to go to school, and you're let out into civilisation a lot more often...
What else do you want to know - I'll help you if I can.

its kind of a super-weird mix between college and finishing school, so they think we are delicate young ladies and provides a dorm. .
The real deal is that it's abroad, so I get to become travelled and cultured and away from home in one shot.

Any *thing* that you need in particular that I might not think to bring? Like, oh, some basket or something for keeping shower essentials in? In camp you have to hike to the showerhouse, so you need that. Can you just leave your stuff lying around the bathroom in a dorm?

It kind of depends on where you're staying. For example, in my boarding house we have several floors, and on each floor there are two bathrooms, each with two showers and two toilets. These four showers and toilets serve as bathrooms for the whole floor (about twenty people), so it's generally not a good idea to leave your stuff all over the bathroom, because people get mad when you make a mess in their space. All boarding houses are different, just like all schools are different, so read up on yours if they give you a booklet on the procedures that go on there.
Which country is your new school in?

um... they didn't give us any booklet. massive oversight, I guess. Oh well, I can always buy things. I imagine the school isn't located in a vacuum. (Then again, for the first few weeks I'll probably be too chicken to take the bus anywhere. It's in Israel. still not sure if I'm being suicidal.)

Whoa, Israel. Should be... uh, interesting...
I don't know if I'd ever want to go there, especially considering their current state of things. Where's your home?
Well, good luck with boarding, anyway.

yeah. Tell me. And my parents said that South Africa was out- too dangerous. Go figger. Still, it's a cool place, with all the charm of a country that is half stone walls 1000 years old with men riding donkeys and half super-high-tech everything else.

I'm from New York. What's your native city? (You are boarding in Sydney [??])

Sorry...I don't do eavesdropping too well.




LEO YOUR MOM IS LETTING YOU USE BUSES?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hah. Mine is convinced I'll be sent home in a shoebox if I do.