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

Whoops sorry. Posted to the other thread. have unsubscribed so hopefully no lurkers. Will keep an eye on it quietly in future.
Boots you are bad dog...basket!

It shows up in my conversations list, but you probably get more lurkers around your page than I do. Many thanks for the thoughtful unsubscribing. Actually I think I'll unsubscribe from the thread as well. I really don't want half of hootoo traipsing by my work in progress . The reason I've got it up here is so that I can get at it in work should the mood take me. I should be replaicing what's there with something over the weekend.

Speckly

Lizardy says 'two eyes' should probably be 2I or maybe 2I's but she's picky. Oh dear and now she's lecturing me on the history of the bloody place. See what you did!

Off to lurk some more while cooking.


Speckly.

She's probably right...I'm too young to remember My you do lurk well!
night night and take care
boots

Fresh draft up at A1049032.

Much panic right now. Spoke to Tony Curtis this morning and am going to the next residential, in February. That means I have to have something together to hand in by the start of next week. So, not doing anything but writing on days off. Tis good for me though. Having no choice but to get it done is the best way to press on. I could wish I had done more but that's not going to change where I am now and that's where I have to work from.

Besides I don't care anymore if I show them something that's 'not good enough'. It's a working draft and they can help or get out of the bloody way. If they judge me what does it matter. Says more about them than me and all that.

I'm good. I know it. Time to stop proving it over and over because that's just crap and it gets in the way of the words.

Reading really well now. A beautiful relationship and the daily details so carefully crafted are a delight to savour, ellipse, now perhaps we need a protagonist?
take care
boots

Not going to have time to redraft, just have to push on and get the work count up and the class will just have to see it warts and all.

How do you mean protagonist? More of Althea or Constance?

Oh and , Hi! How are you, haven't seen you around much this week.

Not sure. I sort of need to know more about the journey, why they are there? where they are going? The relationsips are lovely and I love the pace and ease of space, I just want to know why? Maybe there isn't a why but there usually is...a before that led to now or a now that is leading somewhere else. I'm just the nosey type ignore.
take care
boots (trying to multitask the book and a post column and not winning so think I will go and finish my book)

the reading of not the writing of.
Fine but the closer it gets the trickier it gets. Everything will change forever on feb 14th and that is something I'm not looking forward to facing...dives back under the duvet.

Ah one sees. Part one of their story is already writ, or at least first drafted. You're jumping in at the start of section the second.

I'll dust off a copy of section one and send it to you if you like. After the deadline though. I'd be working now but I'm working now, if you see.

Sorry, I'm being daft today. Got a bladder infection and the tablets are making me dehydrated and light headed. Roll on hometime and a really long bath.

Can't they run the piece that was going to go in the first 'missing' Post? That'd give you more time to concentrate on the book.

Feb 14 will come and pass and you will manage because you have to. That's how it works isn't it, we get by and scrape along and if time doesn't heal at least it shifts things around and gives us a different set of crap to worry about. You have wit, wisdom, talent and no small ammount of charm. You'll land the right way up, even if you do bounce a bit at first.

Speckly

Good advice all round. Sorry about the plumbing problem hope it sorts itself quickly. Looking forward to the read...thought there must be something missing
Have just had final home alone meal with ravager pup. He goes on Monday but you can track him http://www.hardyhemmingway.com
Good to see he thinks some of mother's ideas are worth plagiarising
he has also made me do some work as in eggs pebbles sand stuff that I think I may have just grasped concept of...boring proper discipline almost grown up behaviour but unfortunately he is cleverer than I so obviously right.
take care
boots (one more ciggy then off to bed!)

I can’t help but think you might smoke pot. If you don’t sorry if this reply is a bit offensive. I once ate a ¼ ounce of mushrooms and tried to watch yellow submarine. The movie proved to be a little intense for my frame of mind at the time so I shut the move off with some difficulty and put in Abby Road. Somehow the cd ended up on repeat. By the time I realized this I was a bit to lost in the cacophony of my subconscious mind to really do anything about it. One of the few clear memories of this night I have; aside from the dubious revelation that while in fetal development our thumbs grow out of our nostrils (go a head, stick em up there, I bet they fit), is the overwhelming sense of emotional relief which fallowed “I Want You” and lasted through “Here Comes The Sun”. I doubt that a gallon of ice cold water in the middle of the desert would be more soothing than those few moments were for me that night.

voon

Not offensive at all. I have been known to smoke pot though I'm not a stoner and I don't really indulge any more. Got me a fun mood disorder that doesn't go well with being stoned!

If you want a really bizarre experience try watching Magical Mystery Tour while off your face. It's a bloody odd film sober...


N

Can’t really say I indulge any more either. Oh those good ol’ days. I do share the opinion of the late Bill Hicks, that even though I don’t do drugs anymore I still don’t think there is anything wrong with them:

“ if you don’t think drugs have done good things for us do me a favor, go home take all you albums, all your tapes, and all your cd’s and burn them. Because those musicians who have made all that great music that has enhanced your life throughout the years……rrrrrrrrrreal f@%king high on drugs. Man the Beatles were so high they let Ringo sing a couple of tunes. We all live in a yellow submarine, do know how high they were when they wrote that. They had to pull Ringo off the ceiling with a rake to sing that f*%$king song.

(in brit. accent)

-John get Ringo he’s got a song he wants to sing, something about living in a yellow tambourine or something. Hook his bell-bottom, hook his bell-bottom. Oh look at him scoot. Ringo you can come down now Yokos gone we can party again.-

They were really f@%king high, they wrote good music, drugs had a positive affect, end of debate.”


-Bill Hicks

You should look into his career as a stand-up for more on this subject, and some of the best comedy ever. And yes by the way M.M.T. is one of the oddest things ever put to celluloid. I don’t even know where to start on that one so I won’t.

Voon

Hey Nadia how goes it?
Are you two alright?
Can you believe a year almost to the last Feb 14th? It will be odd not tying flowers for people this year.
Have been playing in the real world for a while and it is not too bad.
New job, made it to India, old friends still taking care and new life beginning to feel more comfortable.

Nothing wrong with drugs in my book as long as you use them and not the other way round. The nicotine still has the upper hand unfortunately but I am realising I am stronger than the alcohol! The rest are just for R and R (a bit like posh frocks and weddings).
Are you still studying? Have you penned your first masterpiece?
I highly commend two books 'Holy Cow' by Sarah Macdonald, who captures India completely and makes me laugh out loud on trains and, 'The monk who sold his Ferrari' by Robin S. Sharma, which made me want to 'do better'.
Lovely to see you again and will try and lurk more often.
Take care
boots

We have lurked your page off and on and have been very pleased to see how well things have been going for you. Proper grown up stuff, you go girl. You worried us at Christmas! Took quite a bit of lurking in all sorts of odd places to make sure you hadn't gotten really really soggy.

We dropped below radar range for quite a while. Had a bad six month stretch. I'm medicated now and it's been interesting getting used to that. Dropped out of the masters, I had just missed too much but I got a call from the big honcho writer who says they want me back on the course as soon as I'm sorted with meds and feel ready. So, not a dead end, just a pause. I have a couple of things in the AWW if you fancy a read.

If you want to know more about the Boys and drugs there's a good book called Revolution in the Head which gives a chronological review of all their songs and speculates quite a bit on the drug influences. It's an interesting read. Lizardy knows sooo much more than me about all that.

N