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taught our remaining three Maidstone classes today. they went awesomely. watched some of the kids play volleyball at lunchtime. i’m pretty sure that i was no good at volleyball when i was their age. it’s interesting watching a game that involves either no one trying to hit the ball, or about four people trying to hit it at the same time. but they do try so hard

came bcak to the office and started assessing, then ran through the Line of Choice presentation with Rose and Lané and started tearing it apart. gutted it pretty well and took out a lot of stuff that we don’t actually need. it’s looking more like a Team X presentation now. i still need to come up with a ‘Choices’ programme, and will probably use chunks of what is left of the Line of Choice presentation.

played CivIII tonight. got a good game started and had to force myself to stop playing. haha…just like old times.

went into Wgtn for Praxis this morning. the first cluster group was pretty standard, and the second one was at a café. bonus. went into Lower Hutt afterwards and talked to Leanne about some info for one of my Praxis assignments. i can now say that i have actually started my assignments haha.

came home and watched Night at The Museum on DVD. it’s a good fun movie.

spent the night YouTubing.

ran the Power of The Tongue programme at Maidstone today. it was cool. i like this programme. not so keen about next week’s Choices programme, but only because the main teaching is something that we stole from someone else and it doesn’t really fit well with the rest of the Team X programme. i’ll be working on a new Choices programme over the next couple of terms i think.

came home and went to bed. fell alseep. how do i know? because i woke up later. you know how sometimes you just go to bed and rest, but don’t sleep? yeh, well, this wasn’t one of those times. man, Team X really wears me out. i need a lot of sleep before going into class…and i wasn’t even running any of the major presentations today! eek!

i’m getting old. i can’t keep up with all these young’uns…

spent the night watching TV and eating Pineapple Lumps

caught up with Carl today. took pizza round to his place and we played PlayStation all afternoon. played PlayStation…there’s a sentence fragment that shouldn’t logically make sense, but does.

we played Buzz (which Carl won) and Tekken 5 (which i won). based on previous PlayStation experiences, those should have been the other way around. Carl is the first person who has consecutively beat me at Buzz, and indeed one of the few who has beaten me in the first place…made easier i s’pose by only playing with two players…

…and i won Tekken…i guess i’m a better button masher (another weird word combo). i actually started pulling off legitimate moves that i meant to do.

came home and Facebooked. that’s another neologism that has recently appeared. i’m not quite sure what kind of work ‘Facebook’ is…noun, verb, adjective, etc…but it leads to bad English regardless. for example: “do you have Facebook?” is equivalent to saying something like “do you have computer?” i have a Facebook account, as i would have a computer, but no one cares about that. soon we’ll be able to play PlayStation on our Facebooks and Google Maps our competitors’ locations.

church this morning was pretty cool. unfortunately, due to a technical error and the fact that i was not in the office on Friday afternoon to supervise, the notice we put in the notices was only half there. in the condensing from A4 to A5, someone neglected to change the font size, so only half the information about our movie fundraiser was listed. there was a verbal correction during the service, but i don’t think it had as much impact as we would have hoped. next week, i will make sure to get a proper notice in and make sure it is the correct size.

sometimes it sucks being the only person who cares about technical and electronic proficiency in our office.

bought Zoolander on DVD on the way home. it cost me nothing, thanks to a 25% off sale, a $5 off voucher and a $10 Whitcoulls voucher that my sister gave me. watched it when i got home. it’s a great movie.

spent the rest of the day doing nothing, as all great weekend days should be spent. watched TV all night.

meh…

i love sleeping in! it’s like having a reason to be lazy

played Black & White all day, then got to a point where (again) i just couldn’t care less about trying to teach my dumb monkey how to perform miracles and how not to eat people, so i gave up. that game is now shelved for at least a year…

went into Wgtn tonight for the final night of Catch 23. Team Xtreme Lightening played, and we came third. again. much like we did on April 19th. but the night was awesome and we had heaps of fun, which is what counts more. as soon as it becomes about the winning, it’s like doing volunteer youth work for the money - in it for the wrong reasons…

also, today i noticed that every post so far this week has had a one-word title. not on purpose, and not something that i’ll likely continue for a long period of time, but might just do so until the end of the week at least…

taught at Adventure school today. it was cool. the kids are an awesome bunch and fun to hang out with.

came home and was bored. there’s some kinda void in my life, and nothing seems to fill it right. there are brief fleeting moments when the void is very tiny, but there are other times when it is all-consuming. i wish i knew what shape the void was so that i could better look for whatever i need to fill it.

right now, i am going to go and fill it with sleep and a space of not thinking. over-thinking these things does not bode well for me.

ran the Self Worth programme with our three Thursday classes at Maidstone. i can usually tell how good a day it has been by how tired i am when i get back to the office. i was tired. it was a good day. also, when i got back to the office, my own personal WITH MY OWN NAME ON THEM!!! business cards had arrived. w00t! first time i’ve had my own personal WITH MY OWN NAME ON THEM!!! business cards.

spent some time working on my cardboard hand, then came home and finished it. i like it

Adam

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went and saw ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ with Eugene and his mate tonight. the original trilogy was good because it was plausible to a point. the latest installment is unique to say the least. it’s kinda like Indiana Jones meets C&C: Yuri’s Revenge on the scene of the X-Files movie…but there’s just not enough of what made the original movies great.

went to Praxis this morning. my cluster groups went alright.

went to KFC for lunch with Lané afterwards, then we went to a café and met up with Jen and chatted for a while.

came home and made up a page for the CFUH notices advertising the Team Xtreme movie fundraiser. we’re having a showing of Prince Caspian in a few weeks.if you want to come along, it’ll be $20 for the ticket and nibbles and to support Team X. 8.00pm at the Ascot Cinema in Upper Hutt on June 25th. let me know

Team X today was really cool. went to Maidstone and ran our Self Worth Programme. three classes full of awesome kids hung out back at the office for a while afterwards, then came home.

went to WIT tonight for the first time in a few weeks. it was pretty cool. Team Xtreme Lightening is playing on Saturday night. hooray! i get to play again. now i just need to e-mail everyone to tell them all to come.

if you’re reading this, then come along on Saturday night. if you need more details, let me know and i’ll let you know.