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Saturday, 05 April, 2003

Sorry guys, didn't realise that last entry was appearing twice. It's hard going back to our home internet connection when I've spent so much time on LAN at work. That's one thing I really miss. My keyring is lighter because I handed back all my keys, I can no longer check my work email address, my access to UNSW's student system is probably being removed as I write and it's all a bit strange to me—as if this door has suddenly slammed shut and all these areas (physical and virtual) that I used to go to have all become cut off. Which is what it should be. And please don't think that I really want to be doing Faculty Office stuff again. I just find the whole leaving a job process strange. Knowing that I will never look at a BA transcript ever again. That I will never have to tell a student how many subjects they have to do to graduate ever again. That I will never view the grey panels of NewSouth Student ever again. I spent so much time writing manuals for other staff on how to use the system but I will never use it again. Unless I go back to work at UNSW some time in the future which may happen when Ben is at Bible college ... who knows? So I have spent the past week mostly hanging out with ECU and getting used to the way another university works. Things happen on the half hour here instead of on the hour. Buildings are known by numbers instead of names (I keep wanting to call the Arts building Morven Brown but it's really Building 19). The food area has microwaves for the students to heat up their meals and the bookshop is really a bookshop/newsagents/convenience store all in one. I went to both Arts and Creative Arts Bible Study groups this week and met some new cool and funky people. I was surprised that a lot of them don't carry around Bibles. I guess I've grown used to CBS-ers who never seem to leave home without one. I hung out at the Chaplaincy a lot and remembered wasting a lot of time there when I was an undergrad. I went to staff meeting on Wednesday afternoon and read all their newsletters to be more informed on how to pray for them. I went to girls' staff training on Thursday morning and heard Bronwyn talk about stress and how to manage it. I made an appointment with a friend who had to cancel because she was running late. I got a taste of what MTS is going to be like. And I've been writing. Writing like crazy and procrastinating at the same time. (Usual method of writing is to sit in front of computer, freak out at the constant problem of “What's going to happen next?”, go away and play a couple of games of Freecell [which is fast and satisfying to see the cards disappear], come back and then freak out again because the problem hasn't been solved in the meanwhile.) I'm supposed to be writing three pieces for Issue 07 and, so far, I've only written one. It's currently 7,000 words long. Hmm. Wonder if anyone would really be game to read the whole thing off the internet. Well, I'll post it up and see what happens. With regards to the other two, one has a title and an introduction but no body; the other has no title, no introduction but a lot of body. Yes, Issue 07 is going to be very very late. Should definitely change the “every-two-monthly” bit in the H/E FAQ.

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