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

You know, I've forgotten all the smileys now. OK, time for the annual "What I've been up to" thing, for those out there still wondering.

1. I spent my 22nd birthday on Brighton Beach with friends, eating chips and getting yelled at by the overaggressive deckchair man (there are pictures on my Flickr account).

2. I went to Comic Con, whereupon I discovered how loud Quentin Tarantino is, how cool Samuel L. Jackson is, how a room of a few thousand geeks can smell, what Stormtrooper Elvis looks like, and who Karen Traviss is.

3. I got addicted to World of Warcraft. What a game! I hit Level 60 on my Tauren Warrior earlier this week.

4. I tried to like duck, and failed.
4a. I rediscovered the tastiness of beef!

5. I kept my job, and thus, tired of fighting on the internet. When you're working with people who complain and fight all day, there's a certain weariness to doing it when you get home.

6. I got better at photography. My Flickr photostream has had over 17,000 views since January. And following on from that, I became a extremely familiar with South Bristol street art.

7. I damaged my knee quite severely after buckling under my coworkers demands to go on a night out with them. Ended up on crutches for a month, physio for 3 months, and I'm walking with a pronounced limp. Still got pain, still doing the exercises physio gave me.

8. Even though I have someone I call my boyfriend (and I value him highly), the distance makes the relationship feel less serious. And I intend not to repeat the pattern of the last relationship I had, in which tiny mistakes ruined a Very Good Thing, so I am OK with this. As you can tell, that last relationship looms a little in the background, and I'm still waiting to tie things up. Will happen soon though.

9. Following on from that, I have been planning an extended stay in San Diego next March. It's expensive, I'm doing it with no one else's help and so it will be a lot more gratifying, I hope. I won't feel so guilty about watching Oprah and eating sushi for a month.

10. Moleskines for the win! Best notebook ever!

And that's all I can think of for now. Now I'm off to catch up on everyone's lives. Hope all is well with y'all.

(Flickr = http://www.flickr.com/photos/_saturnine/)

Hello again. You'd already forgotten the smileys the last time you dropped back here briefly. I had wondered what you were up to and visted your blog just last week (but didn't comment of course).

You make it sound (in #7) rather like your co-workers sat on you to make you go out with them and that that's when your knee buckled. I assume it was really an incident much later on in the proceedings though. I hope you get better soon. Do you think your physiotherapist was giving you sensible advice or might you be better off consulting someone else?

Ah, so I forgot that I had forgotten the smileys. That's even worse! My mind is going with my age!

Re: #7, my coworkers made me *dance*. Whilst plying me with drinks! Of all things! And my right leg went in two different directions (worst pain ever) and I ended up being carried out by a big sexy French man from the club.

I think the physio I had was pretty good. They got me walking again (I managed to lose the knowledge of how to use my leg), lessened the pain. But I still need to do a lot of work on my own, and I'm not progressing as fast as I could be. The doctor at the hospital did say that it would take about a year for it to heal completely. Just glad I didn't tear a ligament!

Well, knees *are* very tricky things. The joint's not meant to go in some of the directions it might end up going - particularly if you were attempting to dance while drunk! I do my dancing sober.

long time en all I've lost count of the number of alcohol/dance/injurys I've ended up with the last few years... broke my big toe by attacking a wall that 'was asking for it', did in my ankle, shoulder and got a new scar on my forehead when I attempted to walk through a low wall errr oo did my thumb and finger in falling down a staircase in a hotel.... did my knee in but only gashing it open luckily not actually messing up the bone/joint/tendons Good to hear your still about and doing well

Hello from a fellow h2g2 exile... I'll go and reply to youe e-mail now!

Word Sat.

See you here next year

Long time no see. Hope to see you around more these days.