of all times...

to blog after a rather lengthy hiatus, it has to be 12:07 am on a Sat night/Sun morning, however you define it! Maybe it's because I've got no major distractions/excuses right now apart from going to bed, which is always strangely tempting to put off, regardless of how much I regret my lack of sleep in the morning...


In defence of my lack of postiness, I did attempt too last week (procrastinating, of course there had to be some sort of blog involvement in there, to be fair). That would be post would've contained something like this:

Anthropology: Conflict and Crisis: Major Essay

Is conflict a performance?
If so, what social, cultural and political purpose does such performance serve?

Yes conflict is a performance.
But for the sake of this essay, I’ll say, no, conflict isn’t a performance.
Oh and look at that, because it isn’t a performance, is doesn’t serve any social, cultural or political purpose, so I may as well not go on because there is nothing else to say.
To conclude, this is an awesome and flawless argument, well deserving of at LEAST 100%.

Seemed fair at the time.

Needless to say, I did end up actually writing it after my attack of severe first-line-is-always-the-hardest-to-write-ness!

It was actually a very interesting subject (and essay, hopefully!).

How's about a brief recap of the past week of my uber exciting life...
In this past week I:

• Finished and handed up afore mentioned essay.



• Went to (and even entered!) the Foosball competition with Lib and Lisa, with money going to a great cause. It was lots of fun!



• Saw 'End of the Spear' with Lisa and some of her Teen Mission crew



• Joined Facebook (still holding out on Myspace...)



• Discovered I could throw sheep at various people via Facebook. I did so to Ez...



• Worked (about 25 hours...)(Bakers Delight at Norwood, feel free to visit me anytime...:)



• Discovered Mt Lofty gardens for the first time, with my family



• Developed a penchant for sitting on oil heaters, and my new beautifully warm slippers



• And other stuff... (my attention span is short at this time in the morning!)
  

At this very moment I'm sitting in front of our fire, watching the tri-nations on mute - yay the Wallabies have just made an awesome comeback (from South Africa: 10, Aust: 3, to South Africa: 10, Aust: 16!!)!

Also... preparing stuff for the first meeting about the 2008 pilgrimage which is happening tomorrow afternoon... eep! I'm feeling excited, and maybe even a bit passionate about it, though - I'm doing the what/why go on a pilgrimage section, which has been a clarifying process for me to go through as well (to know why a pilgrimage isn't just a 'glorified holiday'!)

Here's a couple of good quotes I found:

"A pilgrim is someone who goes on a journey in the hope of encountering God, or meeting Him in a new way" - Tom Wright (/N.T.Wright)

and

…" we may and often will meet Jesus in the most unlikely and unexpected places: not only in cathedrals and obvious holy places, not only in liturgy and music, but in the street, the school and slum, in the poor and the suffering" - (also) Tom Wright

And just to make it a nice rounded post with a piccie- I want this tee:!!

This brings us to the end of a slightly random and disjointed post!

Sleep well