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Monday, 25 June, 2007

Thursday was a very bitsy sort of day—I just kept doing bits and pieces of all sorts of things. It was staff lunch day and we had food from The Tea Inn (my goodness! The portions! The portions! But the duck noodle soup had too many bones in it). I had dinner with my mum at Pinocchio's, then went home. Fish and Ben were hanging out and watching Heroes. I spent an hour or so converting the CASE news mailing list over to our server's announcement list system, then emailing everyone about the changes. And then I stayed up way too late, chopping up chicken breast and watching Stick It to relieve the boredom because if I didn't chop up the chicken breast, I wouldn't get time and then it would go yucky and I wouldn't be able to freeze it.

Friday I did the final changes to “From the Dean”, printed the whole thing out again and bound it to give to the Dean. Hope he likes it! I was feeling rather awful—like I was coming down with something (this has happened for the past couple of weeks, have you noticed? I get to Friday, feel like I'm coming down with something and then sleep a lot on the weekend and get over it, only to have the same thing happen the following Friday). I decided to have a snooze in my office to see if I would feel any better (and yes, I did have permission to do this!) I only meant to sleep for half an hour but it turned out to be an hour. I think it was good for me though. At 3 I left for counselling, then afterwards I came back to pick up Ben. PEC Women's Fellowship was on again but I decided not to go because I was feeling yucky (I was sad about that though because I like PEC Women's Fellowship, I've missed the last three meetings and Bron was speaking on joy). I ate leftovers and watched the week's television, then went to bed when Ben came home from doing boy things (and recruiting more Facebook members).

And then Saturday was Word by Word and we had 13 people! We did a writing exercise where I got everyone to write about a person who arouses strong emotions in them, and then turn what they wrote into a poem. I wrote a poem about Ben:

He was worried from the day he was born.
Slow curling hair, soft pale skin, chocolate eyes,
unable to filter out the world,
the seemingly innocent seemed funny—
“Especially heinous!” “Self storage!”
“Τους λογους!” “Your mum!”
When he laughed, the whole world was funny
(except when he laughed at me).
He'd laugh, and you,
seeing as him, would laugh too—
you'd laugh, and you'd like him
for giving your laughs.
But he was worried from the day he was born
the world was out to get him;
laughter, the weapon of fools and comics,
his one defence.

Ben then gave a fabulous seminar on how to write songs, complete with musical examples. It went overtime but we didn't care—it was so interesting. One of the more useful things was him suggesting that we look back over the poem we just wrote and see where the stresses are (the emphases of each line), and then try to make a melody that will match them (unlike Bloc Party's “Song For Clay” which is appalling). He said that anyone can write a song, and we should be encouraged by the example of Bob Dylan who can't sing and can't play guitar.

We had lunch after that, then workshopped a comic by Haoran, then had some writing time and wrapped it all up.

After that, Ben and I took Guan home (and he gave me his birthday present) and then we went on to Elsie's where we hung out for the rest of the afternoon until people started turning up for her P party (party to thank the people who took her driving while she was on her L's). We had steam boat for dinner—so yummy! And I ate so much! And we even got leftovers to take home!

We left pretty early because I was tired—it had been a big day and I was still fighting off the cold—and then slept for 12 hours or so.

Sunday I just did laundry, Word by Word minutes and just general tidying up of stuff. We had a guest speaker at church—James Allman from Dallas Theological Seminary. He preached on Romans 3:21-26 but it was weird because it was a lot like a New Testament theological college lecture (complete with grammar and Greek bits) rather than a church sermon. Encouraging stuff though.

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