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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.

had another day of training the new Team Xers today. it went pretty well. we ran our G2KTX programme, then used that to look as triggers and transitions. i got a chance to run my brand new Uniqueness programme this afternoon. i think it’s going to be pretty cool.

had a haircut, then went into Wgtn for WIT. i drove around for 1/2hr before finding a carpark. i didn’t have enough coinage to pay for one, and i don’t like paying anyway, but all the free ones were taken! argh! WIT was pretty cool. we’re looking at doing some more long form improv for our show for the Comedy Fest.

on the way home, my right ear blocked. it made me angry. i remember that last year, i got a blocked ear and it made me angry, so i checked my blog, and wouldn’t you know it: March 4 2007 i mean…c’mon! who get’s an anger-inducing blocked ear exactly one year after a previous anger-inducing blocked ear?!!?

i don’t feel so angry now though, which is nice. just a bit off kilter. unfortunately, it doesn’t say in my blog when my ear became unblocked, so i don’t know how long i’m going to have to wait…hopefully it’ll be good when i wake up!

good day: picked up Marie this morning. she came into the Team X office and helped out today. it’s always good finding someone who like making workbooks. i spent most of the morning updating the Team X website and adding new Papakura content.

played Catan. sorted out most of the presentation outlines for this term. Marie came back to my place and we hung out. watched The Incredibles on DVD. dropped Marie at the station, then came home and mucked around.

bad night: i installed Firefox - an internet browser, then managed to delete all my old Netscape preferences and e-mails. suck! so now i have an empty address book, no e-mails, and no bookmarks. i can’t remember any of it. that’s why it everything was bookmarked! so i could just click on links!

i’m really gutted about losing my e-mails. it’s the second time it’s happened in three years. last time, i managed to recover most of them, but not this time. boohoo :’o(

so now i don’t have any of your e-mail addresses. you need to comment on my blog, or e-mail me so i can start building up my address book again.

i’m in such a naff mood. i can’t be bothered blogging right now. i will later, and i’ll update you about stuff…

i need a break from life.

went into Wgtn today for my Praxis cluster groups. missed my train, so i used the extra time (30mins) to read my RAP reading, but by the time i got into Wgtn, i still hadn’t finished it…oh well.

read some of my Reflective Prac reading in the 10mins before the group started. turns out only one person had actually read the whole thing, so i was sweet. read my Counselling reading at luchtime.

don’t you hate it when you tell yourself that you’re going to do something, but you know that you’re not actually going to do it anyway? i told myself that i was going to do more work on my assignments when i got home, but i didn’t. i procrastinated.

procrastination techniques used:

• check e-mail
• visit bash.org and oots
• post letter
• check e-mail
• eat pie
• watch TV
• check e-mail
• swear that i’ll get up early tomorrow and do some
• play StarCraft
• have grandparents arrive from Dunedin
• talk with family
• check e-mail
• download latest version of DOSBox
• watch old school Future Crew demos
• play old school DOS games like Hi-Octane
• check e-mail
• update bebo site (i don’t even use bebo!)
• post this blog entry

oh look, now it’s too late to think about doing study. i’d better go to bed.

went to church this morning. it started off alright, but then one of the guest speakers went on and on and i tuned out. so did the people sitting around me. generally not a good thing.

had a Team X meeting afterwards and went throught the programme for next week. we’re going to be helping out at a STARS camp for most of next week, so we won’t have any time to come into the office and practice.

i learnt what i’m teaching at the camp tomorrow. i wish it was something that i knew how to teach already…but it’s not, so too bad if i suck.

came home and re-read over the Line of Choice presentation. luckily i’ve got notes, so i can always read from them if i get stuck…turn what should be a professional presentation into a 4th form quality speech. put that aside and wrote up my assignment for Praxis. i figure, i paid for Praxis, i should put some effort into it. i neither paid, nor am getting paid to present this thing at the camp tomorrow…

…not that money has anything to do with it.

i’m angsty at the moment because my right ear is completely blocked due to my stupid cold. on Friday i had the same problem with my left ear, but it unblock most of itself. for some reason, having a blocked ear(s) makes me feel incredibly angry. i just want to punch something. hard. or swear. loudly and profusely.

i should probably go to bed before i end up smashing my keyboard or trying to put my fist through my screen…getting angry always makes things worse…

went to my Praxis cluster groups today, even though i was feeling sick. my cold is progressing through the stages. my throat only hurts occasionally now, but my nose is blocked and i’m coughing. hopefully i’ll be all good on Friday for Team X and Battle of WITs…

came home after my cluster groups and went straight to bed. so much for doing my assignment. i’ll have to do it later…

stayed in bed all afternoon and blobbed out in front of the TV all night. decided to tape Prison Break, ‘cos i need more sleep…

my computer had a brain haemorrhage yesterday. she stopped working. this morning, i performed open-case surgery and removed a lot of dust clots, but she’s still touch-and-go. she’s not working at the moment, but maybe she just needs to rest after her operation…

apart from that, i had a pretty boring day yesterday. i won $2 on a scratchie, which i then spent on another scratchie and won $6. but mainly i watched TV.

don’t you hate it when the exciting thing that happens in your day is the bad kind of exciting? the kind where you have to ring a phone number and get some guy to come out and remove the wheel clamp that’s on your car?

i had that kind of exciting day.

i parked at Queensgate, like i usually do if there’s a chance of rain, ‘cos then i don’t have to walk far in the rain to get to my car after work. i even moved my car at lunchtime so i wasn’t in the same parking space for over 4hrs (the Queensgate parking time limit).

but it wasn’t enough. my car got clamped! suck!

boohoo…poor me :o(

it got a bit interesting though, ‘cos i only had to pay $95, and then this conversation between the wheel clamp guy (wcg) and me happened:

wcg: “so where do you work?”
me: “EMC up on Dudley Street.”
wcg: “you’ve been a hard one to catch.”
me: “eh?”
wcg: “you move around too much.”

which can mean one of two things: (1) they’ve actually been on to my Queensgate parking scam for a while, but were too dumb to catch me ’til now, or (2) he thought that i was some kind of fish.

on the plus side, i know how the Queensgate parking guys chalk your car…they chalk (at least) one tyre, then if you’ve got a towbar, they chalk that too! and if you don’t they chalk your exhaust! so look out for chalk in more than one place if you’re planning on staying in a carpark for longer than the limit.

at least my car didn’t get towed!

my internet is broken…Telecom has sucked away my broadband. it’ll be up and running in a couple of days, but until then, i can’t stand waiting 5 minutes for a page to load…blog.com has a lot of stuff to laod apparently, so i won’t be blogging for a couple more days. check back next week, when *magically* posts from the last few days will have appeared!