I’ve had five days off. I made the most of it by doing nothing. I mean really… nothing. I sat here in front the computer most of the time. Writing. Well… blogging anyway. I still can’t think of what I do as writing. And Reading. Other Blogs mostly. Shitty Blogs. But that ’s OK, they know they are shitty. They are in the club.

Today I was back to work. All and all it was ok. I had to entertain an intern. We bring in high school kids from the Local Tech Center and let them “intern” for us. I guess the probably get school credit for it. Personally, I think they don’t really contribute anything and I prefer not have a kid tagging along with me as i go to support users. I hope he got something out of it.

Yesterday, I saw something that made me … well let’s just say it made me very happy. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is going to be a movie! It looks great. I loved those books.

I read them when I was in the 8th and 9th grades. I was completely taken by the originally and creativity of those books. And, of course, the humor. I had a teacher in the 10th grade. Ms. Sopher, I think. She 22 or so. She taught Composition. (She wouldn’t believe you if you told her that I write every day now.) She was always using these Anne Tyler books, like an Accidental Tourist, as example of good descriptive writing. She made us hear some passage about how the cat was curled up like a comma. I guess it was an ok example but it didn’t do much for me. I gave her my Hitchhiker’s Trilogy to borrow for the summer. I told her that there was some good descriptive passages in there. Of a different kind, but still good. She thanked me and told me she would return them to me the next fall.

She got married that summer and quit teaching. I never saw her again. And she still has my damn books. I was 16 and broke. I bought those books with my own money. But I digress. I have bought new ones since then. I am pumped for this movie. These thing were written to be put on the silver screen. Well the small screen anyway. They were written as a BBC Program, I’ve seen it. Pretty good, but low budget. I hope this one doesn’t disappoint.