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

I've been away from h2g2 for... 31 hours, and there's more backlog than I can be bothered responding to... I think I'll just post in a couple and disappear again. I'm really only writing this because I aven't written in this journal for ages, and I thought I should write something, on the pretext of being active... is anyone convinced?

Yep!

More convinced than I was that I'd *really* just post in a couple of places and disappear?

Well really, how convinced were you of that?

Well, perhaps not *entirely*

So um... yes.

I almost tried, I was hungry, and tired, and there wasn't really anyone on...but somehow I stayed here for a while, and then you came on!

I was going to be good today, but well.... I lasted until now!

Good? Define this 'good' thing of which you speak...;-þ

Study, clean the house, do all the things I really should do, but usually put off....

Y'know, I never EVER caught up with the backlog when I was away at residential school....

Oh, those things, I see the problem now, you just ignore them... And practice glaring at anyone who says 'You should" at all...

Hehehe I do! That's the problem!

Ah, I see, so your problem is actually misidentifying a most noble and praiseworthy virtue with a problem...

Oh well, I'll stop worrying then

I declare a moratorium on worry!

Is that like an amnesty? Do we get to hand in our worry without fear of prosecution?

Only if it doesn't contravene the rules.

And what, since you just dobbed yourself in, are the rules?

Hm. The rules are:
1. I make the rules
2. If the rules are to be changed, I change the rules.
3. I may or may not disclose any or all of the rules.
4. Non-disclosure of the rules does not constitute grounds for breaking the rules.
5. I decide who breaks the rules.
6. If a dispute about the rules arises, my word is law.
7. The rules may change in all four dimensions as I see fit.
8. Special dispensation from the rules shall be granted at my pleasure.

Does that help?