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Wednesday, 16 March, 2005
Last night was an absolute shocker. Despite persuading Ben to leave the packing up to the rest of the church members who came to training so that we could get home by 10 and despite being in bed by 10:30, I got a bout of insomnia of the most vicious kind and was awake 2 am. At 3 I decided I should stop bothering Ben with my constant nose-blowing (my body giving me conflicting messages about being too hot/too cold) and went into the kitchen and read the first chapter of A Biblical History of Israel (our Old Testament 1 textbook). My goodness, liberal historians are weirdos; why do they want to talk about the history of Palestine without using the relevant books of the Bible? I feel that Deb, armed with her 1st Class Honours degree, ought to do something about them.
I decided to be wise and stay home today with the aim of resting some more and perhaps catching up on sleep. Unfortunately I couldn't sleep for most of the day so I spent it indulging in reading for pleasure (Neil's American Gods). I'm now 200 pages away from the end. The similarities between Shadow and Richard what's-his-name from Neverwhere are quite striking; both seem to be rather passive characters—things happen to them rather than them taking the initiative. Murakami is a lot like that too. Come to think of it, Gaiman and Murakami have several things in common but that is a thought track for another time (or Lucien's library).
I also spent my day going for a walk halfway to Connell's Point (passing that lovely red-brick house with the ivy that looks like something out of the original Parent Trap movie—at least my memory of the house in Boston), watching Clueless and Sunday and Monday's Law and Order. And it turned out our Doctrine 1 Lecture was cancelled anyway because John Woodhouse was at a meeting; he told us to read an article that I haven't read yet but will read once I finish this blog post (it's on the Revelation of God). So it was a good day to stay at home and I only missed an hour of Pastoral Ministry 1 which is non-assessable anyway (but very interesting!)
Coming up: Friday is the due date for my 500-word interview for Societas and the B&M social (we're eating Thai for lunch). Then we go with my mum to Lightworks, the FEVA fundraising art exhibition where I expect to catch up with Elsie. Ben has put in a bunch of digital photos, including a terrible one of me that looks like a rip-off of the cover of the Evanescence CD. Saturday two of my good friends are getting married and I hope my throat holds out so I can sing the item. Saturday night Mim is having a party but I'm not sure if I'll go and Ben is expecting that something else will be on so I'll play that one by ear. This means that Sunday ought to be for some serious resting, though I should do some work for college as well as my laundry. And then there's church.
Blinks:
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How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
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Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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My vivid imagination told me it was a haunted house as a little girl. I used to think the addams family or someone scary lived in there
Never actually walked down that far to Connell’s point. that walk up lynwood street is steep. Did I mention I’m lazy?
are you doing sunday school stuff this year, or is sunday going to be more of a day-of-rest type arrangement?
enjoy the reading-for-pleasure that illness affords: maybe there are some upsides to being sick after all!
Denise, you and I should do the walk together!
Dave: not doing Sunday school stuff this year. Saturday is normally my rest day (except for weekends with weddings!) Sunday I do laundry and other miscellaneous housework and prepare for the next week of college. BTW, met a friend of yours at church the other week—you used to do Uni with her.
I got asked if i was doing a walk with you. i said I have not on the premise there was no existing decision on both of us deciding to go together on one.
However, in light of this, I am responding to your.. ‘you and I should do the walk” by saying, yes that would be good. let me know when you’re free, and we’ll figure out some time to do it. and i won’t bring my camera otherwise it will be a stroll and stop click. although picture of haunted house. tempting.
Send me your home no.—don’t think I have that.