I have been to New Zealand; learnt to snow­board; entered a coun­try alone for the first time; updated Face­book as a mat­ter of first pri­or­ity — sur­pris­ing Clau­dia by turn­ing up a day early was sec­ond, I should have reversed the two!; pre­sented CYIADA (the name is chang­ing, I haven’t shared it here just yet) to a large num­ber of inter­nal stake­hold­ers, with whom the idea went down fairly well; started to feel on top of work; decided I’ll be doing less uni this semes­ter (and prob­a­bly will be on my own in the course, which is sad); started research into a project I’ve been want­ing to get off the ground for some time now, with mod­er­ate degrees of suc­cess; and not spend­ing nearly enough time on free­lance com­mit­ments, but know­ing it will pro­vide good expe­ri­ence for CYIADA’s immi­nent imple­men­ta­tion of sim­i­lar things (yes, the free­lance clients in ques­tion are aware of this motivation!).

I’ve also hit a bit of a slump in bible read­ing which isn’t mag­i­cally solv­ing itself… I put it down to play­ing too much catchup when I got back and not pri­ori­tis­ing God’s word any­where near as highly as I should have done. But now it’s a mat­ter of actu­ally resolv­ing that before all of a sud­den I’ve been back a month and still haven’t! Prayer is wel­comed, of course.

I have also been sleep­ing well (if anti-socially?) — New Zealand does good things to you like that. I think I could quite hap­pily live there, though a few more warm clothes would need acqui­si­tion first. That said, I have no plans to run away. Quite enough is keep­ing me here for the next 2 years or so, methinks. This is the lat­est I’ve been up in nearly a month methinks, so I’d best be off. More reg­u­lar updates may be forth­com­ing at some point in the future. Life gets in the way of blog­ging some­times — it’s not all bad!

p.s. yes, Harry Pot­ter comes out in about seven hours. No, that does not qual­ify as ‘life’. (Close, though)

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