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Too confident?

I had my meeting-cum-interview with the OMF Irish Council this evening. It went pretty well, they really only asked me 3 or 4 major questions, which I answered with, possibly drawn out, but all encompassing responses.

They seemed pleased enough, but one of the questions left me wondering… They asked me what my expectations of the trip were which they then embellished asking specifically what fears I had. Unremarkably to me at the time I had very few fears, but quickly thought up a few minor ones to throw out to them as I felt I should be saying something.
Afterwards Ian (The representative from 1st Antrim’s Missionary and Student committee) mentioned to me that he hadn’t realised just how daunting it would be to leave home for a year and go so far away.
On the short drive home (via Thaitanic to get some dinner - yum!) I thought about the fears I have, or lack of. Perhaps I was being too naive or too relaxed regarding the whole thing. Maybe I should be more concerned about it, like what if I don’t make any friends, or what if I can’t adjust to the culture, or what if I do something else thats not good and so on.

Later on I was on MSN and was talking to Kevin (the korean-japanese-canadian-bass guitarist-break dancing-all round nice guy from the team last year) and he mentioned that he is applying to go to Japan again next year, and the place he is applying to go is about 40 minutes drive from me! Talking to him and hearing how excited he was about it all just reminded me how many people have been praying for me and how I have been guided to this point. Then I was reminded that Christ told us not to worry about tomorrow by Mel and instead we should focus on the problems at hand today.

So I’m not going to worry about it, I’m going to focus on getting these exams sorted out and done. Besides my mum will worry enough for two of us!

Schedule…

I have been thinking about all the things I have on at the moment and coming up…

Right now I am studying for exams which are beginning next Monday (23rd May). I’m not looking forward to them, but I am really looking forward to getting them over and done with! My first is artificial intelligence, it sounds complicated and it is kinda complicated… I’m really not looking forward to this one. I missed a few of the lectures through the year, but all the notes are online so its not so bad.
Next is computer architecture. It shouldn’t be quite so bad, but the problem is as it was a 9am lecture on wednesdays I have missed a few here and there. Now Dr Ferguson, great project supervisor as he is, doesn’t put his notes online. So I don’t have them. My friend holly has offered to lend me or send me ones that I missed, my problem is I’m not sure which ones I have missed!
Then comes image processing. It should be fine, it is fairly easy content to take in and there isn’t that much of it. So should be ok, I already have a good handle on it from the coursework.

But then, and this is the fun bit, after my exams I am FREE! And I’m going to make the most of it More »

New domain!

I got a new freedomain for flat3d. I figured I’d like to keep www.flat3d.tk for the old Flat3D site. Also .tk were starting to put more adverts into their service, initially it was simply a banner pop-up that the new version of IE caught anyways, but now they have caught on to it and have put in a temporary redirect advertisement. So I had a check about and went to .co.nr and got a domain with NO advertising, simply a little button that you can now see beside the counter icon below the sidebar. Their only other requirement is that I get so many visitors per month (or 90 days or something), so please change your bookmarks to www.flat3d.co.nr!

Decisions?

This afternoon there is a day of prayer on in Belfast on the drive of Stormont, Mark and Mark are planning to go and are wondering if I will go with them. I remember it from Deeper a while back and thought “I’ll go to that!” But I have a problem…
Last week I missed playing in the band due to not feeling well, this week I don’t really want to miss it again and the day of prayer doesn’t finish until 5:30pm which means not getting back in antrim until prob 6:30 or later.
So I am torn between whether I should go to the day of prayer, which I am sure is very worthwhile, or to stay home and play in the band tonight, which is a long running commitment I have…

On top of it, I have the beginnings of a stinking headache from my internal clock timeshifting that went on last week as I was working to get my project done and dusted.
I’m thinking I should perhaps take the Sunday as a day of rest and get back up to speed ready to face another week of frantic work as I prepare for my exams.

It’s funny, there is so much Christian activity going on that I actually might have to abstain from some of it… A complaint that I’m sure many Christians would love to have!

So long and thanks for all the fish…

Went to see the Hitchhikers’ guide to the galaxy tonight with Jonny, Cherith and Natz. What a funny movie! They really did the originals justice, some of the jokes seemed to lose an edge with Arthur Dent not coming across as such an uptight guy, but others really came out of the woodwork…

I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone!