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

Gee, I make my first journal entry in a year and then follow up with another one within two months! This must be some sort of record for inconsistency...

I've experienced much over the last couple of years. I have known loneliness, confusion, embarrassment, frustration, fury and not a little pride, all of which I know to be wrong. There is currently some comfort in loneliness, although no consolation - and little in the way of other diversions. I think about myself far too much, I think.

I am very sorry to the people I have betrayed. There are far too many of those, and the only excuse I can plead is that I wasn't thinking about what I was doing when betrayal occurred - but then, the same thing could be said about a lot of tragedies, and nobody benefits at all except the lawyers.

I am also sorry to the people I have mis-maligned. There are also far too many of those - my misapprehensions are likely to kill me one day, but in the meantime they just seem to cause people stress and inconvenience.

On the flip side, I've read some great books (the nice thing about being by yourself is that you can make time to read!), and my own writing has been coming along. I've been consistently employed for the first time in several years: the sacrifices I am having to make to be so are not nearly as serious as my pride would make them. I've learned a little more about the internet, as well as about the nature of truth - a subject which I vaguely remember concerned me a lot when I first got here.

Not as many nice people are turning up as used to do - but that'll probably turn around. I've also discovered that a few of the old reliables are still here, too... It's always nice to know that it's not as bad as you sometimes think it is.