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not long now...
The cross (youth group) started back this arvo. It was nice to be a proper leader for the night, because last term i was a "helper"... whatever that means. Basically now I have responsibility and stuff, which is good. There is a lot to do though. I'll be busy this year.

The night was good, I had a rowdy bunch of people in my car... I didn't really feel like I got to talk to anyone there as much as I would have liked, except maybe myf. We talked for quite a while. I hope to re-kindle the culture of staying late at the hall after the cross. It was cool when everyone was there til like 2am every week. So much <3 in those days.

I've been having a very frustrating discussion on ausns with a guy called the fluffy duck about religion in general. Every time he writes something his post contains about 4-5 insults directed at my intelligence or whatever, and it also is written from an aggressive perspective that all religions are wrong and that anyone who belives in them is an idiot and a trouble maker. It's one of those webs of ignorance that is going no where, but entwining everyone who comes near it. I hope the spider if hypocritical internet arguments doesn't eat me alive before I can escape the web.

It's [retty late and I don't really remember what I've been typing... so to avoid the embarassment of typing something I've already typed previously, it is time to stop the post, and get horizontal.

posted by hunt @ 6:26 PM 0 comments  

ze night time is ze right time!
I've been up until like 3 or 4am every night this week doing video editing. It's been worth the painful zombie-like daytime periods though, because I finsihed the video last night and it is cool. I think it's probably one of my better editing jobs. The video is for werrifest (the camp from january that I went on) and I'm hoping to get the DVD out by friday to all the youth, although I have no idea how I'm going to do that many copies in 24 hours.

This chilean guy called chico was typing comments in spanish on sarah's livejournal today. I had a go at translating them, and I think I did OK. I've had three lessons in spanish, so I really only know the basic words + some words that are similar from italian. Here is the comment:

No es bueno cuando la gente en el Internet mira malos sitios. Mi hermano es muy malo, él ama desnudez, pero él la hace en mi computadora, así que consigo la culpa. No es justa. Él admite a ella sin embargo. Hace mis padres e I tristes, porque creemos muy fuertemente que la pornografía es mala, porque creemos en Jesús y su vida para nosotros. Bien, tengo que ahora ir. Consiguió alimentar mi gato. Ella come mucho. Ella es muy gorda. Adiós, y gracias por darme la bienvenida.

Chico.

here is my attempt at translation:

Something about not being a good man at using internet sites. You have bad things on your computer which make you sad, and you don't know who did it. it's not fair/right. You admit it makes you sin. You have friends you trust, something about very angry what pornography is sad. something about jesus and living with friends. good, , his cat signs off? he really likes ella. bye, and thanks for being a good friend?

and here is what babelfish said the text means:

It is not good when people in the Internet watch bad sites. My brother is very bad, he loves nakedness, but he does it in my computer, so with himself the fault. She is not right. He admits her nevertheless. He makes my sad parents and Is, because we create very strongly that the pornography is bad, because we create in Jesus and his life for us. Well, I must now go. It was able to feed my cat. It eats much. It is very fat. Good bye, and thanks to give the welcome me.

I reckon that's not too bad. I'm kinda more keen to learn japanese now though, because I was thinking of going there, but my heart remains torn between the two languages as my "next little project".

Some more interesting news is that I might be an internet radio host soon. It's for an internet gaming radio station, so it's pretty nerdy, but meh... I'd like to give it a go and see how I do. If it all comes through and happens, I'll post details here on how you can hear me do my thing. It'll be wednesdays from 8:30-9:30 if it happens. You might even be able to request a song, depending on how things go. I hope I don't suck at being on radio, that would be really uncomfortable. If I suck I think I'll pretend to be a quietly spoken hobo.

Other than that, there's not a lot else going on. I wasn't going to come to work today because I felt sick from these evil tortilla things that I ate last night, but I wasn't sick enough to stay at home without feeling guilty, so I decded to go in after all :D

posted by hunt @ 2:05 PM 3 comments  

Update
Apparently Dee is ok. I called him up before and he said he's fine.

posted by hunt @ 1:36 AM 0 comments  

ow my ear!
I've got this thing in my ear that I can't help but keep scratching. It's pretty bad because it looks like I'm picking my earwax all out, but in reality I'm just trying to remedy the frustration of having whatever-it-is stuck in my ear.

So I sold half my shares the other day :O that was pretty weird. I've had them all my life, they were a present to me from my grandfather. I think he'd be kinda happy I used them to help buy some land, because that's what he wanted me to do with them. I guess me and connie are pretty blessed. Even though I was uber poor throughout highschool, I wasn't in any danger ever of not being able to have a normal life. I'm pretty grateful for my upbringing. I think I got to see both sides of the fence.

Dee (my brother) is very sick at the moment. He has a fever and stuff :\ keep him in your thoughts/prayers please. Mum thinks he has maninga...menninga...that disease where your toes fall off that you can die from. The doctor disagreed, but said it is possible he supposes. So we'll wait and see.

Basketball totally sucked last night. It felt like going to work or something. I think I let it get to me too much though, so that's something I can improve on. Sport is like my achilles heel. I take it too seriously.

I been reading some more livejournals lately, I dunno if I'm allowed to link them, but at least check out sarah's at http://www.livejournal.com/users/chucky_tee/ her blog template gets an A+ for it's very satisfactory inclusion of a converse allstar shoe as the centrepiece :D

see you camels later!
comment and say hello if you read this blog and haven't ever commented. I took the counter off, so I have no idea who is stopping by.

posted by hunt @ 2:52 PM 5 comments  

You require more vespene gas.

Friday::

What a nice weekend. After the plea on my blog for something to do friday, coggo and chenny came to the rescue to organise some spur-of-the-moment skating at bass hill. These dudes there were jumping on a skateboard over two big otto bins piled on top of each other sideways. I think that's probably somewhere between belly button height and nipple height for me. It was great to watch, even if they did love themselves immensely. The park had a nice vibe though. Lots of people just skating around all at once, it felt nice. I managed to do a couple of little grinds which is cool, and some manuals. We skated til well after dark.

At about 8:30 these drunk dudes wondered into the park. One of them whipped out his shlong and urinated all over a ramp, so we decided to call it quits and head back to my house. I cooked some fried rice for coggo and chenny. It came out nicely. Coggo left, but me and chenny played some starcraft on the LAN. I think I'm going to try and get some more network games happening for such occasions.

Saturday::
Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. I had a drama meeting at 12. The drama team doesn't really excite me spiritually. We have so much opportunity but we don't really do anything. I think everyone in it is just too busy with other things. Phil is taking things over this year. I hope he whips us all into shape. It was cool hanging out with cutler and link a bit. They are crazy. After the meeting I walked back to link's house with them and put natural selection on link's computer.

The night time was spent at connie's cousin's engagement party. I pretty much just hung out with the kids the whole time and by the end they were all like putting on shows for me and trying to sit on my lap and stuff. It was nice to know that I was entertaining them, but I always feel a little uncomfortable with phyical contact where I feel like I'm being judged or taken the wrong way. It's similar to hugs amongst peers and stuff. I am sometimes stand-offish towards people with hugs for no tangable reason. I can only put it down to an irrational fear of people taking me the wrong way. Which maybe could be better channeled into my speech rather than my hugging behaviour. I think girls get away with it more as well. It's more socially normal for a girl to hug everyone, or to be playing with kids than it is for a guy. Anyways I was talking to the father of the parents afterwards and he was thankful for me entertaining his kids, so maybe I have nothing to worry about, but I do like to be careful. It would really suck to not be able to youth lead any more because someone takes something the wrong way.

After the party I played some NS with link. He did ok for his first go. It was pretty funny.

Sunday::

Cross meeting! Connie cooked me risotto for lunch (MMMMMmmmmmm!) and I went off to church for the start-of-term meeting. I have so much to do this year in terms of responsibility. It's good though because I can really trust the youth to help me do some of it, and I think that's God taking it from me and giving it to them. We'll wait and see what happens though - it's a long year. I'm organising talks, and doing about 3-4 nights a term as well.

I'm really excited about what this year holds. It's going to be a great opportunity to do something special, because so many people are enthused and ready to serve and do stuff, and there is vision and leadership around, it's only a matter of time before things will start to happen. I hope I get a chance to be a part of it all.

The sermon was good tonight. Our church is going to take a role in helping the community more. We're going to do projects and services for sutherland and hopefully be an asset to the community. I don't know if I'll be able to be a big part of that because I live in a very different community to where the church is, but I might try and apply the philosophy to my own area.

There's not much else to say really.
Everything is going quite well :D

posted by hunt @ 5:23 PM 0 comments