Thoughts of a student and disciple
See You Tomorrow - sunset by beforethealtar
Hey everyone!
I’ve begun a new challenge in my photography, submitting a new photograph each day to my deviantArt account. This is literally just a quick post to let you know about that, and to tell you my gallery can be found here: beforethealtar.deviantart.com
I hope to be doing it for as long as possible, so you can follow along the way with me!
I pray God blesses you all; bye for now!
One of mine. High-Dynamic-Range photograph.
DISCLAIMER: Motivation to write this blogpost comes from the recently acquired confirmation that yes, this blog is actually read by some people.
I need to write an update on this post about things I had lost:
My winter coat: FOUND!!!
My iPod: STILL MISSING BUT NO LONGER MISSED.
My computer dongle: REPLACED!!
My scarf (at uni): REPLACED!!
My guitar capo (also in my room somewhere): FOUND IN MY ROOM SOMEWHERE.
I haven’t lost anything lately. So all’s good.
Since my new housemate moved in, let’s call her ‘Mandy’, I feel a resurgence in my bones of generally bad, often very immature humour and RAOW – Random Acts of Weirdness. We’ve sat around together on some evenings and had moments of: “I really feel like having some [insert food type here] right now,” and just made it! So YAY! for apple/pie/raisin/cranberry crumble (last night), chocolate cake (couple weeks ago), and fluffy American-style pancakes (months ago). I don’t feel weird walking into Mandy’s room and doing a really bad dance, then leaving. Often, she’ll join in. This is what I attempted last time, though imagine it without the tap (just on the spot running), without a cane (but holding up an imaginary one up in front of me), and without any real ‘dancing’ resemblance to it (think: white person clubbing).
And now it’s OK to talk about bodily functions like we still have them.
There’s something hugely satisfying about going through a to-do list and being able to tick everything off, one by one. For me there was double the joy in that I wrote it on a sticky note and got to crunch it up and throw it away as well.
I feel that I’ve had the most productive morning ever.
Well, I say morning, but it’s 12.40 now and I started at 12, however apart from breakfast it was the first thing I’ve done since I got up. (Which was 10. I like slow mornings!)
One of the things I always get behind on are e-mails. In gmail there’s this brilliant ’star-ing’ method where you can put a little star next to an email (I suppose simliar to ‘flagging’ an email, but much cuter) and I have a habit of starring an email with the aim of replying to it later.
However, later comes and goes and it gets to the point where my eventual reply would always begin with a mass of apologies and excuses for my extremely bad time management.
Perhaps you’ve received one of those, to which my deepest regrets I put forth:
My bad.
But today was good, I managed to send out Christmas present thankyou’s (not so bad in that the one gift I only received a week ago…!) and sorted out MEC things. MEC is looking AWESOME folks, start signing up now!
I had the MEC cheque on my desk for a couple of days but just had to throw it away because of a massive tea ring stain on the bottom half. I’ve lost the form as well. I think it accidently ended up in the paper recycling last Sunday.
Which brings me to another thing!
Someone STOLE our green recycling bin! It was leaning in this handy hole in our house by our door, so someone had to walk right up our path, past our front door, pick it up and walk all the way back – not like it could have been ‘mistakenly’ thought to be theirs…! Marilyn has a conspiracy theory and thinks the government steals them back so we have to pay for replacements.
However replacements are free according to the website. And so we should be getting a new one within two weeks! For now, all our glass and stuff are stacked up in our house..
Other happenings – the lightbulb fixtures in our kitchen and bathroom have broken so that they can’t hold the bulbs anymore, so we’re having a great time cooking in the dark and showering by flashlight. Joy…
I thought I should post, but then realised that I don’t really have anything to post.
Though one funny thing did happen to me: On the way to town on Monday, the pedal fell off of Debra’s bike. So I had to keep screwing it back on with my fingers, and then when I was back-pedalling, hoping that might ‘help’ screw it in, the chain got stuck and I got grease all over my hands trying to loosen it and pop it back onto the gear.
I spent five minutes washing and re-washing my hands in the Bullring toilets, it was really funny.
Then I spent half an hour trying to find a tool to screw the thing back on, but no luck. Nothing in Bullring, nothing in the pound/99p stores, nothing in Sportsworld’s ‘bike section’ – (consists of two display bikes stuck to the wall) – and Bullring market didn’t have anything either. One good thing though, I managed to learn what tool I need – I ‘think’ I need – a ratchet, with a size 13 or 14 socket (a), to turn the ‘thing’ which is actually a hex flange nut (b).
(a)
(b)
I’m hoping I have something in my tool kit, because it’s a really nice day and I want to cycle to work.
By the way, it takes 30mins to cycle to Bert’s from my house, 15 mins to cycle back. Stupid hills… Awesome hills! 20mins gets you to town, and it takes 30 mins to walk to Botanical Gardens and 1 hour to walk to town – while taking pictures of the canal on the way.
I’m leaving tomorrow for London, then off on my missions trip on Friday… pretty early.
I’ve just finished ransacking my room and packing everything up – nearly everything – and it’s pretty crazy. Still, not as big as Bert’s moving-ness, so that’s no reason to mention it really. 
Just putting everything into a friend’s garage until I return home in July.
Right, I’m off to bed. Later!
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