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

Okay Eccles my good man.

I have to admit despite the trouble before my leaving, the workload did give me another reason. Sub-editing alone took up a load of time and while I'd love to rush to their doors and ask for my badges back, having a job now is stopping me.

Eccles, who's Bop Ad?

No this time it was just a paperback, and is the main reason I wouldn't take my phone into the bath, though I have taken my ipod touch in with headphones and watched things on the iplayer. Which is fun and it didn't mind the moisture so far as I've seen.

If that's where you want to keep your books than very good, but I'd take them out in private before you lend them to anyone. You know, that's the plan, i'm going to nip to IKEA on Monday (nipping being a 2 hours round trip plus time in the shop seeing it's in Edinburgh) and get some more shelves and some baskets and I will ditch the chest of drawers. I'll probably regret it, but it's falling to bits anyway, so what's the point of it?



When I was in college one of our tutors told us a story about a trip they'd been on to a gallery, and one students reaction to a painting was to lick it. Fortunately for her, no security guards saw her, but my tutor clocked it and asked why, she said that the painting just looked "lickable". Artists are weird. Designers are far more sensible I may put my stars back up, I used to be able to see the stars when I in bed because it was in the window, now that the lilac has grown I can't see them, so the glowing ones are nice, or I might pin my fairy lights to the ceiling. I haven't decided yet.

Yeah, I enjoyed all the things I did, but they're big commitments if you do them properly. Much easier to mane when you're a student

You don't know who Bop Ad is? If you've ever seen Douglas Adams' signature, you'll understand why he got the nickname...

Ah, I'm sure things like tv's are going to become more common in (strange) places like the bathroom... All these people that can't bear not being connected...

I haven't lent any books to anyone for years... I don't think I got the last one back... Are you going to end up with shelves that go entirely around your room?

Only joking... you know I wouldn't really...

I reckon I can top that... At some [alright, most. Ok, all...] of the Discworld get-togethers we end up in the pub of an evening. One such establishment has what's become known as 'the corridor of shame' - we generally end up out there 'cos it's closer to the door (hence cooler!) and further away from any music (hence quieter). Anyway, it's not terribly big (but big enough for us to loiter in), and the door from the bar is kind of in the middle, and another corridor leading off down to the toilets. Well, one evening a couple of friends were stood either side of the door to the bar, much licking gestures at each other. Unfortunately for one of them, one of the locals chose the wrong moment to go through to the toilet... and ended up getting licked as he walked past! Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway ) he was a little surprised... When he came back through, on his way back to the bar, he gave us all some rather strange looks... And a minute or two later, he came back to the door with a friend, and pointed at the two that had been 'licking'... And thus the game of 'lick-a-local' was born! I think it was the same evening that someone made the observation that ginger people don't actually taste of ginger...

Okay, I've hit the wall in decorating terms - though not literally yet. My Rhubarb and custard room has reached critical mass. I've gotten my shelves up on the painted wall, but I've no idea how I'm going to dismantle the next set and still have space to actually move! wonder if I just neaten up the middle line I could live with it?

Speak for yourself! I went to uni at 8 in the morning, didn't get home until 6 or later every day and spent all my time either in lectures or the workshop! And the masters was the same hours but without the lovely long summer holidays in the middle. Just straight through from September to September. Not like maths degrees were you have a lecture twice a week and twiddle about on a calculator (Only joking, not about the jewellery degree hours but about you being a slacker )

Okay, I'm dim, I should have deduced that one shouldn't I. But I've genuinely never heard anyone refer to him that way.

I only watched TV in the bath with programs like Nurse Jackie which the Beeb in their wisdom kept changing the schedule. And only on rare occasions.

No, not entirely around my room, or there would be no point in painting. But 2 walls are almost exclusively shelves. Like I've said, I'm 27 and still in my parents house. Bar the shed my whole life is in this room.

The last three books I've leant have never rematerialised. My friend Kat has had my copy of High Fidelity for 6 years now, my masters supervisor has had my copy of The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour for 3 years and my dads business partner has had my copy of The Tipping Point for about 4 months. That's probably the only one I can hope to get back. I'm annoyed about all three.

I'll let you off this time.

Lick-a-local... don't think I'd want to try that one.

You never know, hitting the wall might turn out to be a better idea than you think You obviously need a to move some of your stuff into...

Some days I didn't *leave* 'til 6pm... Mind you, at least one year I only had one lecture on a Wednesday...

Really? You've never heard that before? Oh deary me...

'Rare' meaning... about once a week

I saw this the other day: <./>http://weburbanist.com/2008/04/28/20-brilliant-bookcase-and-bookshelf-designs-creative-modular-and-unique-urban-furniture/?ref=search&utm_campaign=googimages&utm_source=images&utm_medium=other</.> Not that I'm trying to give you ideas, or anything...

'nk you

Yeah... As I'm sure you can imagine, there was much mockery after that little episode! Thankfully, I don't think there's been a repeat incident. Although with some of the Discworld crowd, it's surely only a matter of time!

A would be nice...would probably just place it in front of the door and move in to it instead of redecorating

one lecture a week! The only time I ever had one lecture a week was in 1st year, we had lectures on a Thursday and they lasted from 9am until 1pm and then 2pm until 3pm...to be fair those lectures usually had two or three speakers but they were technically one lecture.

No I haven't, I only knew him as douglas Adams or DNA. It's not and if I have heard it it was probably years ago, so I think I can be forgiven for not knowing that one.

My bath time habits are not up for discussion.

In fact, Eccles my dear man, I have seen those shelving designs before, though not from that website. I particularly love the staircase shelves and the idea of cocooning myself in a book igloo is appealing and if I had a bigger room I may have considered it. I also love the rainbow book arrangement, though I think I'd probably just get annoyed trying to find books without alphabetising them. Did you see the others? http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/24/more-unique-creative-bookcases-and-bookshelves/ and indeed I have a board on pinterest dedicated to books and shelves - though I admit I've not pinned much to it of late: http://pinterest.com/eljb/my-co-ordinates-are-bookshop/

I think if my friends started playing lick a local I'd probably back away from them very slowly.

You know I've never read any Discworld. Though for years my mum and sisters who love them have been trying to get me to read them and assured me I would love them too. I tried not so long ago and found his writing style really difficult. Not that it was bad or I didn't want to read them, I really did, but i just couldn't follow it! Which I know sounds silly, but it was like there was too much information coming at me all at once. I think my big sis has some on tape, so I shall try those.

Ah, but if you moved in to the you'd end up with an even bigger decorating job...

No, not one lecture a week... Lots of lectures on the other days, but just one on a Wednesday... Sorry, wasn't terribly clear, was I? Would have been much easier if we'd had combined lectures like yours - depending on which modules you took, you could end up walking between campuses two or three times a day... A good fifteen minute walk (at normal pace), and you were lucky if you had ten minutes to do it in!

I think you probably can be forgiven for not knowing that one But now I know you know it, and you know that I know you know it...

snuff

I half-wondered if you might have done. I like (some of) the ideas - they're just not all terribly practical. Even though my bookshelves aren't terribly well organised at the moment, I know (roughly!) where everything is... And I don't think I've got enough variety to do something like organise them by colour Maybe arrange them by height...

Considering how the whole thing started, and knowing that some people never learn... It may not be deliberate, but it'll probably happen again at some point. Given how often that story gets told (*with* re-enactments of the licking gestures) I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was *during* a re-telling that it happened!

Mmmm, trying one of the audiobooks might be a good move. He does like having lots of things going on at the same time, a gradually drawing the threads together. Which one did you try? Some are definitely better written that others...

I wouldn't mind the decorating the , because at least you would have space to put things somewhere else to have a clean space. In my room i'm basically going to have a rollers width behind my bed to work with because I'm running out of space to put my stuff!

Don't worry dear, I just misread it. And don't worry, we had lectures when we had to run from one end of campus to the other, which was fine because they were mostly 5 minutes away, but always up hill and first thing in the morning



I have no idea where any of my books are at the moment, they were just piled up on the shelves to get them out the way. My books are sorted by genre to begin with Novels, Poetry, Textiles, Design and Jewellery (which is also broken down into technical and gallery) and then by Author and Titles...though in typical form, art books are always ridiculously sized, so I have to have an oversized section. I should mention my mum was a trained librarian, she may be wonderfully disorganised in the office, but books, CDs and DVDs have to alphabetised! Though I have to say, I like the aesthetic of books being the same height.

I seriously don't know what I would do if someone I didn't know randomly licked me...be weird enough if it was someone I did know!

I think it was Guards! Guards! but I can't remember. But you're right it seemed like there was so much going on that I couldn't keep track of the story! And given I usually have 3 or 4 books on the go, that's impressive for one book. I think it was Guards! I wanted to start at the near the beginning and that was the one I was recommended. I think they're definitely ones I need to listen to on tape.

You might end up with *too much* space in a - you'd have to remember what you'd moved where! Or maybe you could just keep looking for a room that was already decorated how you wanted it...?

Yeah, why do university campuses (or more to the point, the routes *between* campuses) invariably feature at least one hill? Is someone trying to send a message to students to get fitter?

I have had stages where books have been piled perilously high, on top of existing shelves. I've resorted to boxing some of them up (the ones that aren't going to get used - duplicates of ones I've got 'reading copies' of). Still a long way to go though!

Mmm, random lickage is... well... a bit random! People do do some very strange things, especially when alcohol gets itself involved.

You might also try the radio plays of some of the books. Most of them have been pretty good - although the voice characterisations aren't always what you'd expect. I've never really got into the audiobooks, myself. Not sure why, maybe it's just having the same voice reading the whole thing that makes it less appealing.

To be fair doesn't the redecorate itself with each regeneration? So if it was *my* all the decorating would be done and everything would be exactly where I wanted it

I expect so, though all the other jewellers were sticks (lovely sticks but sticks none the less) so I was probably the only one who disliked the hill. Our department was on two different floors too, the workshop above, studios below and that was on the top floor of the building not a good thing before coffee!

Good to know I'm not the only person who does that. Has a good copy and a reading copy. My favourite books I always try to get as a hardback, so the paperback can get trashed and the other stays pretty on the shelf. I'm particularly fond of Coralie Bickford-Smith's clothbound editions: http://www.cb-smith.com/index.php?/clothbound/clothbound-series-1/

True, and I thought chips, coronation chicken and cheese was weird enough drunken combination

I think with audio books it depends on who's reading them and whether they are of the monotone persuasion. I haven't actually listened to any since I was a kid, but I used to go to sleep listening to Narnia, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, so while I've not read them all, I kind of have. I've been considering and Audible Account, though I think I'd have to be using it a lot of make the money worth it.

It certainly changes when it regenerates... not sure how much you could really call 'decorating' though! Plus we very rarely get to see anything except the console room, so it could look like almost anything

Hehe... Who said that going to university was just about learning? Or even just learning the subject you thought you were going to learn...?

I think I'm slightly worse than that though. There are some books I've probably got four or five different copies of... Only applies to Discworld books mind, but recently there have been multiple different editions being brought out. So there might be a hardback, a limited edition hardback (some variation to the cover design), a slipcase edition, and (eventually) a paperback version. And at some point a paperback edition with a black (more 'grown-up') cover.

And you're perfectly right to think it's a weird combination! cheesy chips, fine. Coronation chicken and chips, just about. But coronation chicken and cheese? What planet are you from?

Very true - and knowing (of) the people who do the audiobooks, I don't think they've quite got the range of voices to really do the books justice. Mind you, this is without the benefit of actually having listened to one!

exactly, so it could be anything! So i'm holding out for a lovely bedroom, walk in wardrobe, library and a spectacular workshop/studio...if said studio could also come with some idea that would be nice. I think I'd rather the studio than the others if I'm honest. I'd sleep on a futon in my studio if it was a toss up!

Frankly uni for me was for finding something I love doing then on leaving having a complete brain fart. Oh and I think most people are sold on the idea that at university you're basically going to learn how to drink and do naughty things whilst skiving off the two or three lectures they actually had in a week.

That is bad though I admit I like having the same artwork for a series or indeed for a particular author. My mum's collection of Discworld all have the same covers, the ones Josh Kirby illustrated, but obviously since his death that's not been that easy. So long as any novel I buy doesn't have a film cover (ie with the DVD cover of the recent adaptation done) I'm happy. I hate film covers. I actively avoid them and it's all I can find I'll go on Amazon and find an old edition.

I've never eaten it but my friends did. Frankly the idea of chips and cheese isn't too appealing to me. I'm classy, I like black pepper on my chips. Om Nom Nom!

I suppose with audiobooks, it's assumed it's probably adults listening and you don't need voices as if you were reading to a kid - personally I wouldn't mind!

Hehe... I'm sure the is big enough for almost anything to be in there, so I a workshop or two probably wouldn't be out of the question!

For me a lot of it was not knowing what I wanted to do - so carrying on with a subject I enjoyed seemed like the best idea! Not that I ended up using it straight away... Took me the best part of a couple of years to find a job at all. As for doing naughty things... chance would have been a fine thing!

I think that might have been one of the reasons behind the black cover editions - so that you could get the whole set with similar artwork on the covers. The only book I can think of that I've got with a film cover is K-PAX. Not sure if it's at all similar to the DVD cover though.

Cheesy chips are great! Needs to be a reasonably strong though, melted nicely over the top of them...

Yeah, there's probably some truth to that. Although I'm sure it doesn't stop some people trying!

*sigh* I would really like a nice big open workshop. I love my shed, I do, but to have space in the house again would be nice.

I felt like that when I first arrived at uni, I'd been through college to build my portfolio, and I was pretty certain I would go into textiles. Then we had lectures on each of the different disciplines, this was about 8 weeks before the end of term, and I sat in the textiles one and was bored and then Roger - the then head of department - got up and started talking about jewellery...and I just knew. It sounds stupid, but it's true. I walked out of the lecture excited and feeling comfortable and happy and...I just knew. I wouldn't change it, but I wish I was more confident about it all, because the chances are the job opportunities will have to be of my own making. Literally. (Yes, the naughty things would have been nice, seemed easy enough for everyone else, but I'm only 27, it'll happen eventually!)

It probably is the reason for the black covers, but I think the guy who took over illustrating the covers hasn't done badly. I only have one film cover, for Never Let Me Go. Not that I've read it yet, but before the film came out I had very good intentions to read it first though since I've still not watched the film, so I guess I'm still keeping them ).

*sigh* I would really like a nice big open workshop. I love my shed, I do, but to have space in the house again would be nice.

I felt like that when I first arrived at uni, I'd been through college to build my portfolio, and I was pretty certain I would go into textiles. Then we had lectures on each of the different disciplines, this was about 8 weeks before the end of term, and I sat in the textiles one and was bored, completely and utterly and then Roger - the then head of department - got up and started talking about jewellery...and I just knew. It sounds stupid, but it's true. I walked out of the lecture excited and feeling comfortable and happy and I knew the way they worked was the way I worked and making something from nothing...I just knew. I wouldn't change it, but I wish I was more confident about it all, because the chances are the job opportunities will have to be of my own making. Literally. (Yes, the naughty things would have been nice, seemed easy enough for everyone else, but I honestly wouldn't have known if a guy liked me or not after the "unfanciable" comment boy happened.)

It probably is the reason for the black covers, but I think the guy who took over illustrating the covers hasn't done badly. The only film cover I have is for Never Let Me Go. Not that I've read it yet, but before the film came out I had very good intentions and bought the only copy I could find. Still haven't watched the film, so that's okay

I'll stick to the pepper and a bit of home made mayonnaise. Though if it's chippy chips then it has to just be Tomato sauce...there's something about the smell of chippy chips and warm tomato sauce which is just worthy!

Voices are okay with some books, but I don't think Anna Karenina or The Bell Jar would work with different voices

Sorry for the double post, battered the post button instead of the bottom of the text box.

Must get a bit cold in the winter, out in a shed?

It's weird how each stage of your education you get told 'this is the most important bit of your life' (and yes, I do have to propagate that!) - lies to children, as a couple of scientists have referred to things like it! For some, it will be the peak of their educational career - but for a lot (maybe even most) it's just a stepping-stone to the next rung of the ladder. (mixing metaphors a bit, but never mind ) I'm sure you'll get to a stage where you feel you *can* get back to designing and making again (I know what you mean, I don't always find it easy to read people. I'm sure there were some 'missed opportunities' somewhere along the line. Not very many though [as in not many opportunities, rather than not many that were missed!])

Oh yes, I like what Paul Kidby's done with them. While I like Josh's ones, they were sometimes a bit too far from the 'reality' of the story - like Twoflower actually having four eyes on the cover of The Colour of Magic. I'm never sure if it's better to read the book or watch the film first. It usually seems to be the book that's better - if it's a bad film of a good book, you always feel a bit let down.

Mmmm... you're making me hungry now!

Yes, there are certainly some books where it wouldn't be appropriate!

I did wonder what you'd done... Never mind Bluebottle, it happens to us all

Cold? Yep! Two years ago, when we were all snowed in for weeks, the whole shed froze! All my tools which involved water were solid and unusable, the windows had frost ferns and even my bottle of fairy liquid looked like a slushy. So I had to work in the house at my sisters desk and then tried to polish things on my big polishing motor outside, it just flung freezing cold air back at me so hard that I couldn't stop shaking. This is with the shed being insulated, kind of double glazed and with a heater up to full. (I was also in tights, 2 pairs of socks, leggings, jeans, boots, thermal t-shirt, normal t-shirt, jumper, jacket, scarf and hat.) I think we can say that was pretty bad. Come to think of it, I think even the butane in my blowtorch had started to freeze, since it was full but barely working. That of course was an extreme, last winter I went out a couple of days before New Year to make my gran a bracelet from dad. Took about two hours and I was lovely and toasty.

It is a wonderful myth, and one I am guilty of falling for. School was just a means to get to college, college to uni and uni to my career...somewhere between the last two the brain fart happened. With the designing I'll get back, hopefully sooner rather than later, but I actually need time! I keep having do do full time holiday cover, which started again next week for two weeks. So I've been in less the last couple...seriously these women seem to have holidays every other week! (I'm still a big sap when it comes to relationships. I'd rather have one for the rest of my life than dozens for parts of it. So the fact that there haven't been opportunties doesn't bother me the way it did when I was younger. That said would have been bloody nice! Certainly felt nice with the guy at school until he flipped.)

I like to read the book first, because then if the films crap I'm not put off reading it. Then again, unlike other members of my family, I don't always see changes as a bad thing or as something to get bothered by. We never bring up how they killed Lancelot in King Arthur, or my mum goes nuts!

Me too. When I used to commute from uni, I'd get home at night and sometimes put petrol in the car there. The chippy was across the road and it was so tempting. But I was good. Don't remember the last time I had chips like that.



It was just a dozy moment, it's one of the issues I have with track pads on computers, you inadvertently move the cursor and then end up clicking something you didn't mean too. Which I'm sure is every 15 year old boys excuse

Rather you than me! You've only got yourself to blame though - it's your fault be being so far north Maybe you need a shed in a shed (maybe in another shed?) to insulate it even more? Or knit a giant jumper to put over it. I'm sure someone's done something like that before!

That's one of the downsides of teaching, you don't get to choose when to take your holidays. And there are usually things to do when you're on holiday. But it's all good fun(!) (I'm with you on that one, relationships ought to mean something, and be taken a lot more seriously than a lot of people seem to take them!)

Yeah, that way round definitely works. It's interesting to see what changes get made in moving from book to film, which bits of the plot get left out or fiddled around with. Sometimes for the better, too often not...

Teachers often end up going to the pub after work on a Friday. At my last school, we often ended up ordering a couple of bowls of chips too - one cheesy, one curly (and no, you *can't* have cheesy curly fries ) and fight over the mayonnaise and ketchup. Didn't help the waistline at all!

That's why I always use a mouse And switch the trackpad off... I decided to invest in a decent wireless mouse when I got the laptop, and I'm glad I did, much less faffing around than a corded mouse. Plus it's got a few extra buttons (which most mice seem to, these days), some of which can be customised

You dissing Scotland again Eccles? It was pretty cold but we still reacted better to the snow than the English did you guys freaked out when an inch came down, we were okay until it was up to our knees, then we panicked...but only just

I'd actually love if I had a giant workshop to have a shed inside it. I'd put all the polishing stuff and things that involve getting mucky away and keep the rest clean. I know it would probably look a bit like a poncy art project, but I in my head that's what I think would be good (A Yarn Bombed Shed is an excellent thing! http://www.artyarn.org/index.php?/ongoing/shed-/)

I tend to take my holidays when my parents do, so that means lots of long weekends rather than 2 weeks off in a lump. But when someone's off up there it's better to be around a bit more just to pick up some of the slack. Even if I'm not upstairs it's good to be in the building. (I guess I'm quite traditional when it comes to relationships. Mum and dad met when they were 15, they got married when they were a little young than I am and are still together. They're best friends and I guess that's what I've always wanted. I mean I never thought I'd meet my ideal guy age 15, or even by 27, but I'd rather wait around til he turns up than sleep about .)

See, since I've been reading the guide I decided to listen to the radio show and also watch the film. Which I love, but I find it hilarious at the way people go up in arms about the infidelities in the storyline. I know it's not brilliant, but I liked it and have watched it lots and I love the fact that on the extras they talk about DNA and how he was always in and out of the writers/producers office with new ideas. Things had changed but it was still him changing it. Anyway, I'm in the minority on that subject. The film I really got annoyed by it's adaptation was The Time Traveler's Wife, which was a book I fell completely in love with and made me cry at the end. The film was miscast, truncated and left one of the main characters looking like a potential paedophile at one point. Which he never did in the book. It had such potential but it didn't work.

let's not bring up the subject of waistlines, I don't think it will leave anyone in a good mood. Chips might though

See a mouse doesn't work when you mostly type on your knees. I only recently built a desk that fitted my room, so I've spent about ten years with my laptop on my knees when I use it (excluding when I was at uni, work or the kitchen table). This laptop you can switch off the trackpad, I just keep forgetting

No, not at all Bluebottle... Just stating one or two facts I wasn't freaking out at all, I was just hoping to get a day off!

I like it! So long as there's a flap to cover up the window (couldn't tell properly from that picture!). I can see nothing wrong with a good art project, poncy or otherwise. You never know, it might even turnout to be useful!

Having a few long weekends is always good, but you can't beat having a decent amount of time off in one go (so long as you don't have work to do during that time!) (I don't know what my ideal woman would be like. I just hope I recognise her for what she is when I meet her!)

If the film was the only version that existed, a lot of people, probably myself included, would say how brilliant it is. But with the other versions, everyone's going to compare them all. And the film version cut out (at whatever stage in the production process) an awfully lot of bits that were *really* funny in the other versions. Which isn't the obvious thing to do... Can't say I've ever seen or read The Time Traveler's Wife. I think I spotted it on Film 4 or something, but didn't remember to watch it...

Chips will always leave me in a good mood

I'm sure it'd be much easier to type on a keyboard That's another advantage of a wireless/optical mouse - it'll (probably) work on a chair, settee, leg, arm... If you do remember to switch the trackpad off, make sure you remember to turn it back on again when you need it

Mum and dad walked to work for two weeks when we had all that snow! Then, once the roads had been plowed I drove them up and down for weeks. This was before I was working, so I stayed home and swept/shovelled our section of the street every day. So outside our house was the only part that was down to the actually road the whole time. I know that seems anal but where our drive meets the road the road dips, so if we'd tried the car without that it would have just done a nose dive into snow. Typically the Sunday most of the first snow that snowed us in came down was the day after my dad had gotten rid of his 4x4 poor bloke literally drove it back from the garage and it started and didn't have it out again for about two months. It was also a week before his birthday and no one had gotten any presents! I love snow but that wasn't fun.

I made curtains out of tea towels in my shed No, I don't see anything wrong, but remember I'm a designer, not an artist That and my little sister is a very traditional artist (a beautiful one too) but at art school there is a definite leaning towards poncey art projects and she was pushed towards it, told she was crap at it and she basically had a break down. She took a year out of uni, got so depressed and obsessive about her appearance that she barely leaves the house. Three years on, she's better, she's on pills and is happier and dare I say saner, but she's still not ready to go back to uni This of course is a topic of conversation in the last few days at home because she has to write to the uni and tell them ASAP. Anyway, I hate the fact that people who are traditional in style/method are thought less of, and this goes for me at uni too.

Sorry I'm doing the babbling rant thing this morning. I'm really tired and have more work to do this morning.

Long weekends are fine, but I still end up working through them because I have to write clinics up for Tuesdays. So it's a whole day gone. This weekend I've not been away from the place. I worked Saturday morning, then had so much work I didn't get done, I had to bring it home. I was setting up computers up there yesterday morning and tidying before my dads business partner's down tomorrow (he's a bit anal!) and I'm procrastinating this morning before writing said clinics. Then a full week begins. My room will remain a mess though now fully yellow (My ideal man? I don't know what he'll be like or look like either, I just hope he's funny and kind and can cope with me being a bit mental.)

I agree they missed a lot of really funny parts, but in an hour and a half you have to squeeze things in. But again DNA had a lot to do with those rewrites. Time Traveker's Wife is a wonderful books, absolutely wonderful. The film, meh, it's miscast and there's a lot of detail in the book which they miss out which they needed not too. I'd watch it again, but I wouldn't recommend it - unlike the book

Chips and bacon, those are the two sure fire ways to make most people happy. Though for me, you'd have to add in this Thai soup that we make at home, it's soooo good...we haven't had it since my birthday, so I'm desperate for it. I love spicy food

I'm used to the track pad, the only time I don't use it is when I'm using my graphics tablet...or when I'm at work. I'm the youngest by about 30 years so none of them are any good with a track pad