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Life Update

Wednesday, 30 June, 2004

Everyone keeps asking how we are and I'm being lazy and don't feel like telling people individually so I might as well blog something about it. Life is okay at the moment. Ben is going fairly good on the new antidepressants but is anxious about all the work he has to do for MYC. On Monday and evening, before Matt and Duncan came over for dinner, he and I sat down, made a list of all the things he had to do and planned the rest of his time before MYC accordingly (making room for days off, etc.) He's preaching at Towradgi this Sunday and the material he's using in his sermon is the same as his MYC elective so that should save a bit of time. He and I are supposed to be leading the Wednesday seminar together but I'm not up for it and I haven't looked at any of the material. In addition, I don't even HAVE my own copy so we're going to negotiate on that one. I'm getting good at saying no. Ben's computer has died. He took it to be fixed on Monday so hopefully we'll get it back soon. We think it's just a power supply problem. At the moment it's no big deal but I can see things getting quite frustrating fairly soon if we want to print anything as my laptop won't talk to our printer through the USB port. (I did, however, manage to get it to print one page when Ben was away.) I am enjoying my job. The people I'm sitting with a lovely and generally leave me alone. (I don't know why but when I'm working, I don't like talking to anyone.) I like my supervisor and my manager and the work, though tedious at times, is mostly good. It's all web-design so my HTML skills are getting a good work-out. I'd like to learn Javascript but am scared because this is moving into the area of “real” programming and I'm afraid it will just be gobbledy gook for me. Philip has pointed me to this page which I haven't had a chance to look at yet but I might do so this afternoon when I get sick of cleaning up HTML gunk from the RAID pages. I should really be working at expanding my skills in this job. At least yesterday I got this script to conform to my will. I'm looking forward to my days off (count them: Thursday, Friday, Saturday and most of Sunday except for church). We hired out The Princess Diaries which should be an enjoyable piece of fluff during which I can switch off my brain. I also want to spend hours reading and get around to writing my newsletter. Oh bother, and prepare for MYC. I'm going to give an elective on homosexuality using the same material as Sleepover but am worried about the reaction and my reaction to the reaction. Something to pray about anyway.
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Are you deep in concentration at work and hate your train of thought being interrupted?  Is that why?
I’m the opposite: I love being interrupted.  Makes me feel needed smile

Posted by George on 01 July, 2004 5:34 PM

Re: homosexuality elective. Make sure you have evidence to back up your claims (and that its good evidence), think of every possible objection someone might have, check out your sources…and pray!

I understand where you’re coming from though - I think I may be in charge of a BGR seminar at church (BGR=Boy Girl Relationships ie dating). I want to challenge people, esp those dating to think about marriage and not dating. But I’m scared that there will be backlash eg we’re too young to marry, we don’t have any money, why are you pressuring us, we just want to get to know each other etc etc

Posted by Elsie on 01 July, 2004 10:53 PM

When is it, Elsie? I’ll be praying for you. It’s a shame about all the fluff you have to cut through to get to what you really want to say (which, I’m assuming is about purity in marriage and non-marriage relationships) but anyways, I think it’s good that you’ll be challenging them to think about it and how they can glorify God in their present relationships and to take romantic relationships more seriously.

George, I think I am probably concentrating too hard. When I get to work, I usually enter task-mode and exit people-mode. Not always a good thing.



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