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Sunday, 02 July, 2006

Monday 26th June

Wrote the covertext for DBK III and edited Mark Baddeley's “A Brief Guide to Modern Theology Part III”. Of course we use the word “brief” with much elasticity ...

Was going to meet up with Elsie to read the Bible and pray but she was having a car crash sort of day and couldn't make it. So I went home and did 10 days' worth of laundry and packed for the following day.

Tuesday 27th June

Got up a bit later than I normally do and caught the train to Chatswood where Glendon picked me and Gordon up and drove us to The Collaroy Centre for our two-day editorial staff conference (instigated last year). The others were late and I suspected it was because of the soccer. Glendon got us sticking stickers on copies of The Briefing to pass the time and we kept working on them in all our spare moments.

We kicked off the day by working through Colossians 1-3:17 and thinking through how the passage answers the following questions:

1. Who is Jesus?
2. What is his gospel?
3. What is gospel growth? What does it look like?
4. How does gospel growth come about?
5. What things threaten or hinder gospel growth?
6. How can these challenges be met/avoided?

And then we proceeded to think about what things we were doing at Matthias Media to encourage gospel growth, and therefore what should be our publishing priorities over the next couple of years. It was a very interesting exercise but also very frustrating as we are limited by time and resources.

During our stay, we were stuffed full of food, what with morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper. After lunch there was some free time and I decided to go for a walk down to the beach with some of the others. I think it must have looked very strange to any outsiders—six men in their mid-thirties to early-forties and one twenty-something Asian girl walking along barefoot on the sand. But it was a very nice walk on a very nice day and I got some much-needed exercise.

Discussions continued well into the night (with Sandy joining us after afternoon tea) and we didn't stop until about 9 pm. It felt quicker than the year before but I was still glad to retire to my room, have a shower and read myself to sleep.

Wednesday 28th June

Breakfast was at 8 am and we were in the little private dining room which had a fantastic view of the coastline. There was cereal and toast but we didn't realise that there was also hot breakfast as well so we all felt thoroughly stuffed before our meeting time began again at 9.

Again, the time went by fairly quickly but we still managed to talk about everything we wanted to talk about, and we left at about 4:30—Glendon dropping me off at Chatswood so I could catch the train to Town Hall and get to the Cathedral on time for the Healing Service because my mother-in-law's boss was retiring. Afterwards during supper I ran into Helen and Phillip, and Phillip told me that he had met a guy in Alabama who was teaching doctrine to his class using The Selected Works of D. Broughton Knox Volume II: Church and Ministry and not to get discouraged about working on DBK III because it really was very valuable stuff.

Then we caught the train home and I unpacked and went to bed later than I should have.

Thursday 29th June

I expected work to be hectic because we had to do Briefing stuff, I had to go through web stuff with Guan and I also had to go through Teaching Little Ones stuff with Simon because Simon was going on leave. Plus Tony roped me into the conspiracy of what-to-get-Guan which resulted in much running back and forth between the office and my printer, trying to get the thingy to print on the colour laser and it wouldn't and then at the end of the whole thing, I realised that I had stuffed up the payment somewhat (oh well). Plus we had staff lunch in Guan's honour and he picked the menu (with assistance from me and Glendon). Plus I had to leave at 4 pm because Ben had the car and I had to get back by 5 to meet with Cyndi. So I finished the day feeling a bit stressed (especially looking at the way the MM site has been set up—Guan wasn't kidding about those hamsters, not that it is his fault because he inherited it all from someone else). But I managed to get home in time for Cyndi (except she was late) and we had a good session and agreed that the time wasn't too good so we decided to change it, and then we had pizza for dinner with the rest of the Bible study crew, and then Bible study (Amos 6 and 7—we're almost through the whole thing!) and then I asked Ben tape Samurai Champloo for me on his computer because it was a double episode and the VCR was already going with Law & Order but he got the channel wrong so I lost half of the first episode. It looked like a clip show anyway so perhaps it was no big deal but it probably would have made the ending funnier.

Friday 30th June

Got up almost an hour later than normal and drove to New College to work. Dealt with the emails and some of the financial stuff, then Greg came in and I lent him John Safran vs. God and Coraline, and then Paul came in to go through design stuff with the CASE website and teach me how to use TYPO3 (scarily comprehensive content management system which tries to eliminate the need to know how to code). Me and Greg also had a very interesting conversation about writing and the books which most influence people, and he shared with me an idea for a thing for next year which I'm not sure I'm allowed to divulge (should have asked him before he went on leave) but it got me excited about it and I've been excited about it all weekend and I'm still excited about it. Oh yes, and he also gave me the link to Regurgitator magazine (and I recognised a few familiar names on it! ;P)

I left at about 4:30, came home, tried to make some headway with my email and then Ben and I caught the train to Central and met up with Louise and Ed for dinner at Spice I Am which is a very yummy Thai restaurant and then gelato for dessert at Aristotle's on Oxford St. It was good meeting Ed properly (I'd only been introduced to him briefly on previous occasions) and getting to know him better (he is a West Wing fan!) I can hardly believe they're getting married in just a few short months.

We came back home on the train and I spent the rest of the evening watching the rest of The West Wing Season 4 so I could return the DVDs to Liwen the following day.

Saturday 1st July

Prayer breakfast 8 am at Malcolm and Julia's place. It was so hard to get out of bed (so nice and warm!) but we did and were late. Breakfast was beef and stir fried vegetables plus pancakes with maple syrup, pears with cloves and blueberries (except I didn't have any blueberries because I don't like them). Malcolm read us bits of Isaiah and we prayed for each other and for our link missionaries. I started feeling rather ill (I've been staving off a cold all week) so afterwards, instead of walking to Fisher library and getting some quality writing done, I went home with Ben, went back to bed for a few hours, and then got up to catch a bus to Glebe where I met my friends at Badde Manors for lunch. They had only finished the breakfast menu at 2 pm so we didn't actually eat lunch until 3. And we spent most of the conversation talking about the Myers-Briggs personality test.

Afterwards, we wandered around the Glebe markets (where I bought leather journal for $10, a backpack for Ben for $20 and a pack of five notebooks that are supposed to be used to practise calligraphy but I thought they would make good writing journals for $5 and I ended up giving one each to Liwen, Anita and Ramya, and one to Ben at home), and then Sappho Books and then Gleebooks until it was getting late and Liwen dropped me home.

I spent the evening in front of the box, knitting and catching up with the week's TV—Law & Order, Grey's Anatomy, The Simpsons, House, NCIS, Veronica Mars and Samurai Champloo.

I should probably do more writing and watch less TV.

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