The lagging jet
Monday, 03 October, 2005
We're home! (By the way, we weren't that close to the bushfires in LA though we did glimpse them across the San Fernando valley and they made the sky look like a Turner painting. They were certainly never a major threat.) I've spent most of today chilling out, doing laundry and catching up with the copious amounts of mail I've gotten. I'd like to sit down and pound out a long extended commentary of the trip with photos like I did for Melbourne but the yearly Greek exam is in about three weeks and then after that it's full throttle on the study pedal and I must brace myself to stop the weekends in October filling up so fast. But tonight I cannot sleep and I wonder if I should take a sleeping pill to get me back into this time zone. This morning we woke up at 4 am after going to bed at 10 because we were hungry. This evening we made Vietnamese spring rolls but didn't eat them because we weren't. I think I am obsessing and worrying over things which I really need to give over to the Lord's hands, like speaking out about disrespect on a mailing list (and being misconstrued) and writing one of my friends about Jesus because she asked what made me turn to God. There are days when I think, “I'm really not cut out for ministry,” and the preachers of days gone by gently remind me, “You are in ministry. Every Christian is. Ministry is serving God.” Anxiety keeps me awake, not travelling to the other side of the world. Maybe that sleeping pill will help that piece of mind that needs peace of mind.
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
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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