Newport CU / Chaplaincy / Del.icio.us (I know like 5 yrs after everyone else)
Sat with half an eye on the Heroes marathon in BBC2, and just thought I’d fire off a blog.
It’s been a really busy weekend – spent a few hours yesterday with Justin on campus at Newport Uni in Student Services handing out donuts and chatting to some of the new freshers (apparently all part of being on the chaplaincy team…). Then joined the CU later on yesterday and again today to help people unpack as well as just generally trying to make ourselves useful around campus as new students move in.
All-in-all very tiring, but I think very rewarding.
I’m really proud of the CU guys who came up with the whole "helping people unpack" idea – what an awesome way to just serve their peers with no agenda or ulterior motives. :-)
The Lab tonight was amazing – one of those times when God just kind-of shows up and you can feel how close he is. We used a clip from "To end all wars" which was really moving – think I’m really going to have to find that film somewhere – it looks incredible.
Started using del.icio.us properly for my favourites – I know I’m about 2 years behind the rest of the world. You can check out some of the stuff I’ve been looking down a bit in the sidebar on the right. Also slowly beginning to use Firefox a lot more over Internet Explorer – it integrates with del.icio.us much better. Guess it must be my inner open-source-linux-computer-geek coming out – think he’s been repressed a bit recently.
Off to Bristol on Wednesday for my first teaching days – got a bit of reading to do before then as well which I need to get out of the way tomorrow. Guess I really should get off to bed sometime soon…
"Save the cheerleader… save the world" – I’m sure there’s something deep and theological in there for the Lab…






