SLIGHTLY ODWAY...

maps are fun i think
i think i'm rather sensitive about the chauvenistic view that women can't read maps. i love reading maps. i think many girls are actually better than males at directing from maps. of course there are many girls who are hopeless at navigating their way along a chart, but there are plenty of guys just as pathetic as that.
i'm currently working out my trip to wollongong and trying to decipher exactly where figtree church would be. they tell me it's in wollongong and that's all, but i have discovered that it's actually in a suburb called figtree. this does not help.
but anyway, i've found it.
now i just have to figure out which way i should go - the traditional way through sydney city or the more scenic (less hectic) way through ryde... i'v never actually driven through the city (in the driver's seat), but i know it well. i don't know the ryde way well. thus can you see my dilemma (which isn't really a dilemma, but still a debate)...
anyway, that's what's processing th'smorning

also churning over stuff from last night's soul survivor meeting, which was very productive, but very tiring (poor pete who had no idea what was going on).
and it was highlighted how much i use brackets, which i'd never noticed before, but i guess i do. brackets are good, coz they allow for background info which helps later on when you can't remember what that point was. eg. the 3phase distribution box comes in an orange box, thus i would write "(orange box)" because otherwise i aint gonna know where the heck it is and i'll stress out on the day coz i wont be able to find it coz i wouldn't remember what the heck it looks like.
anyway, my point is, brackets are helpful.

it turns out that the vanity tradesman just arrived at my doorstep. i'm glad nic's home, coz i can't be bothered to deal with any tradesmen today.

i had a fun weekend sharing this year's vision for ernie with other youth leaders. tom and helen are truly funny people. highlights included tom's dramatic reading of an old book we found at Helen's grandparents' place (with character voices, accents and sound-effects included), get-to-know-you games of things that we've done through the week that noone else knows about, owning up to untrue secrets, cafe-ing, Soul Survivor-ing, converting eachother to Christianity (proud to say that i wasn't converted...) and a ton of other fabulous things as well...
t'was fun!

i'm excited bout going down to wollongong this friday and saturday. should be interesting. i love my gong friends who i met down in soul melbourne. it'll be fun to see what they get up to. chuffed that sarah said i could stay over at her place. i like hanging out with new people in new places.
hanging out with new people in old places that i'm used to isn't as fun i don't think.
maybe i like new places

well that's enough for the mo coz i gotta get on with things coz i gotta be at work by 2pm...
cheerio!