Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy @ MindSay

I like to collect Books (as well as DVD's and CD's). I don't collect any particular type of book just ones that inerest me. Last night i was bored so i went shopping. i bought a pair of shorts at SEARS and then went to the book store. on the bargain book table there was what I now think is the coolest thing in my collection. I bought the complete "Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" series in one omnibus. all five books and a short story in one volume, how cool is that? Very Very amazingly cool. the book is the size of a dictionary. I have not read it before. i have heard a couple episodes of the radio show and i saw the movie that was out a couple years ago. i read a bit of it last night.
any way... new subject... (like that transition there?)
we were a little busy at work today we had two wedding receptions. i hate weddings, i put them in the same depressing catagory as funerals (someone has to lose their life). these wedding always make me think. why do we always make such a big deal over weddings. hundreds of years ago the tradition was to have a small wedding with the families, witnesses and maybe friend or two. the receptions were put on by the town. and there was a dowrey (a tradition i think we should still have). where did this stupid overdone crap come from.
I don't know if i've shared it or not but here is my idea of a perfect wedding.

1. Buy two tickets and fly to Las Vegas
2. Play some Black Jack
3. Go to a chapel get married
4. Go to the $1.99 all-you-can-eat steak buffet
5. play the slot machines
6. Win lots of money
7.  Come home and call all your fiends, have a casual reception.

I am reading "The Hithchhikere Guide to the Galaxy". It is quickly becomeing a favorite of mine. I love how the author mixes subtle british comedy in with wacky sci-fi stuff. All the funny made up people and planets around the galaxy just have me laughing.

One of these names I think is a really good name. It's the name of the secone humanoid character. Trillian (Trisha McMillian). I Like the name. If I had a daughter I wold name her Trillian.

Maybe I would  consider nameing my son Ford or Zaphod but Trillian is by far the coolest name in the book.

I kind of like how the name sounds with my last name, Trillian Michaels.

Anyways, Just some random thoughts.

 

Thanks for Reading,

Mark M.

 

Last night I decided to do something I hadn't done in a while, get drunk. I wanted to get drunk so I could feel anything other then my fucked up depressed shit. So I stopped by a Speedway and bought a six pack of beer. I went home turned on the tv and started drinking. I only drank four of the six in like three hours. I ussually drink alone. The beer didn't help. It just made me feel more fucked up. How come in our wierd society is it that we turn to a depressant like alcohal when we feel fucked up? I wound up not sleeping at all becasue for some reason the beer made my insomnia worse.

In the morning I was hungry (and still a teeny bit drunk) so I decided to go to Mickey-D's for breakfast. I order the big breakfast with the pancakes and eggs and all that stuff. I now remember why I stopped eating at McDonald's, that place is fucking nasty. I had a stomach ache all morning until I ate some lunch. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a hangover I only had four beers.

This weekend my Dad, Mom, and two younger sisters are vacationing in Traverse City. I had to watch my dad's shoe store today and again tomarrow and monday. Oh well I'm getting paid. This week is always the slowest for business (that's why my dad takes a vacation this week). I was so freakin' bored.

And finally Last night I finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy an started The Resturant at the End of the Universe.  

 

Thanks for reading

Mark M.

I'm a dork.

Tonight I listened to the last episode of the "Hitchhiker's Guide" radio series -- the "Quintessential Phase."  It premiered last night on BBC's Radio 4.

And when it ended, I started applauding. And stood up. A standing ovation of one for this radio series. K was puzzled for just a moment at the gesture -- until she remembered that she's married to a big dork.

They ended it well -- the first 20 minutes are true to the fifth book in the series. But the last 10 minutes? They manage to pull characters and story arcs from all five series into the finale. And yes, they bring back Marvin.

And even Douglas Adams and Peter Jones make appearances in this episode. (Both are dead.)

Good stuff. Listen if you have a chance...

bad day.



I have a meet on Saturday which I'm going to spend hours at, just to throw the discus three times and the shotput three times and then I'll be sitting around doing nothing.

Saturday is also the day GAB decided without me last Friday cuz I had another track meet, that they'd watch HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I helped so much on raising money for. My gf is going, and she has to go cuz she volunteered for her Dad to drive people there because the dorm students need rides. I decided that I might go see it Friday night instead, and fortunately, Alexis said she'd go with me. At least I'll have company, but I won't be able to see it with my gf. And obviously, that'll make me so jealous again. I need to get over that.



I also just failed my math test. Who needs to know polar coordinates and parametric equations? Who needs to know how to make a flower or a cardiod on a polar graph? That's useless! ARGH!

I have another quiz in Eastern Traditions in less than two hours. The teacher doesn't even teach the right things. His facts are wrong, the readings we use translates the original text incorrectly, he misinterprets everything and just kills the religion for all the other students one by one. ARGH!!!!



My allergies are also not helping. It hurts to walk because I can't get enough oxygen when I breathe. I can't run now or it kills. Just walking to class sets off the pain.



K... try.. to.. stay... calm......