"Get a haircut you hippy!"

Well I did! As many of you know I don't like having my haircut which is why its so long usually! For once I like it though so that's a good thing! I've got an interview for placement next week so I've got to look slightly presentable. I would tell you who I'm going for the interview with but I would have to kill you. Seriously... Anyway the annoying thing about it is that I'm going down to London on Wednesday for this interview, staying at my house that evening. Coming back up to uni for 1 more day of lectures (which I will not be going to because its the 15 hours of Christmas) and more importantly Matt and Mim's wedding on the following Tuesday. Then the very next day I'm going back down to Kent again! I will have Pete for company though this time which will make the journey much more interesting!

I'm still amazed by the amount of information on wikipedia (as you can find out if you follow any of my links today) they have everything! Nothing much to say really had a manic few days so I'm off to bed. Tomorrow night I'm off out to the School Disco that the Students Union is having. Usually everyone dresses up as school girls/boys but this one is special because it's the Nativity Play theme, so I expect to see lots of shepherds with tea towels over the heads, a few too many inflatable sheep, a few angels and who knows what else! The CU is also doing carol singing outside the Union before the whole thing which will be a good outreach and pretty funny I'm sure because we'll all be dressed up too! Pictures at some point!

A picture of lake back home, can't wait to get back!

Information Overload!

Good and reasonably productive day today, I haven't done any work but it's been one of those days where I got lots of little important things done. So now hopefully I can concentrate harder on doing some work. I sorted out the tax exemption form (because student don't have to pay it woohoo!), set things in motion for getting an interview for placement next year sorted and ordered my new phone (very excited about that one!).

These past couple of days I've had the opportunity to help out my good friend Matt Maude who is getting married in just under 2 weeks now. He's just moved into his house so has loads of things to do so I've been helping him get things sorted wherever I can. I've been lifting heavy stuff, making flatpack wardrobes and things. It's really good fun actually I haven't had any real experience doing that stuff and it's good practice for me when I eventually go down that road myself!

Also if your bored (and if your reading this you probably are or at least will be by now) then check out this site I stumbled upon the other day http://en.wikipedia.org. It's an online encyclopedia that anyone can add too or change. There is so much information in there it's crazy I spent all afternoon reading about Jehovah's Witnesses, Freemasons and all kinds of other things. I think as a Christian I think it's important to know what other religions/cults believe in relation to what I believe it's pretty fascinating. This site is really cool because anything your unsure of is bound to have a link explaining it, also almost any name or place mentioned will have a whole section of its own too. I could easily get lost in this site for hours!

I'm trying to get into the Christmas spirit, need to do my shopping bigtime! Here's my new wallpaper! As always from http://www.vladstudio.com check it out!

House party

Once a year the CU goes away together for a weekend and that my friends is where I have been this weekend. We all met outside the union at 4:45 and at 6:00 we left; traffic was to blame but we all knew we wouldn't be leaving on time and anyways we got to spend an hour in the bar instead. The next 3 hours were spend in one of the 3 mini-buses that too us, it would of been a great journey except Westwood was on the radio for the last half an hour or so... If you don't know who Tim Westwood is count yourself lucky.

For the next 2 days we were in Newcastleton just the other side of the Scottish borders a little place called Whithaugh Park. I Love the country side and this place was awesome miles from nowhere, no TV or internet just 2 days full of Teaching, Worship and a game or two of Risk.

The speaker we had with us was amazing, his name is Steve Braye and he had his son with him too. He's an ex-military guy who used to be in the SAS which would of been enough to keep me interested for a weekend but he has the most amazing testimony and his relationship with God really just shines out of him. The teaching was a mix of a lot of things which was actually really good because it just gave God a chance to do more in me. If only the weekend was longer! Now I have to process what went on there and it was a lot. Choices, The way of the cross, sexuality, freedom in Christ and a whole bunch of other things. Lets just say God's doing a lot way too much to talk about here but I'm sure this isn't the last you'll hear of it.

This is Newcastleton the somewhere in the background is the place we were staying at, Saturday afternoon a bunch of us walked into town though. I'll post some more pictures when I get them.

Romans (8:38-39)

Had a pretty good day today this week it was big group instead of small group, I'll explain. Basically instead of having small group every week at church we have small group one week and big group the next. It's a pretty cool idea because it gives all the small groups a chance to get to know each other more. Tonight we were talking about spiritual giftings, something I've never really been sure of is it what my giftings are. So when they asked if people wanted prayer I was up and had a really cool picture from Matt Maude (such an awesome guy) saying that I would be leading the spiritually poor and seeing them turn to God. I've had words about leadership in my life before I suppose one of my issues is thinking that I don't have what it takes. That's not cool though because it goes against what God is saying, I have no problem with having faith and trusting in God to see other peoples lives changed but when it comes to my life I don't have so much confidence. Change that GOD!

Found this while looking though my photos of our outreach in Texas! Very cool it's on one of Deliverance Bible Church's walls!

"These are the things that make me free
I feel like I'm stuck in "stand by me"
This night was too good to be true."

The Ataris - San Dimas High School Football Rules

Fable

I've decided that it's time I started giving my blogs titles, the reason they didn't have them before is laziness but now that myspace won't let me post a blog without a title it looks like I'm gonna have to start using them!

These past few weeks I've been playing Fable I played it last year on the xbox and when I found the PC version I thought I would give it a go. It's just as much fun as it was on the xbox and even more so because they've added loads of new quests for the PC version which I didn't get to do first time round. It's also helped me get over not playing World of Warcraft anymore, I miss wow... It was a great game but the trouble is it never ends! That's the trouble with all MMORPG's they just never end! I think for the sake of my sanity and social life that games should always have an end! Which is why I picked up Fable it's a great RPG (similar to wow in many ways) but it has an end when I finish the game I have to stop playing because there's nothing more for me to do!

Back to Fable anyway by far the best thing for me in the game is the voice acting it's just so funny! Lionhead Studio's are really good at this in all there games but in Fable it's classic really extreme British accents, not the posh ones but all the other stuff, the geezers, the farmers the stoned guys at the start! It's hilarious! The story line is ok not great it seems to take big jumps and I didn't really know why I was doing certain things. It also has loads of mini games like archery competitions, fist fighting, you can buy rent out and upgrade properties to make some cash, you age, you can get married (if you like) or go to the brothel! The big feature of the game is that you can choose to be good or evil. This seems to be happening in a lot of games now, the actions you take during the game govern the way people around you react to you presence. If you really nice they will cheer but if your evil then they'll run and hide. Not only that but your appearance also changes over time if your really good then you'll end up with a halo over your head, if your bad then you'll get devil horns! Of course I went for the good side but I might re-load one of my save games and just be all out evil to see what it like.

My Character in Fable

"We hung out at the rainbow where we drank til' half past two.
Nothing could go wrong anytime that I'm with you.
Like crashing a hotel room or leading up to that first kiss
Or searching for a high school that you know doesn't exist..."

The Ataris - San Dimas High School Football Rools

Ahhh Blogspot, how much the people at myspace have to learn. Today I spent a few hours sorting out what my profile and blog looks like over on myspace, I'm semi happy with it now, happier than I was anyway. Since a lot of my friends use myspace I've decided to start posting my blog there too just so that I get a little more of a reaction. I'm not happy about it but it's got to be done I guess. If your bored go take a look but I warn you it's horrible!

Last night I went to see Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire overall I would say it's a good film nothing to get excited about really it's an improvement on the other films (I know that's not a difficult thing) but it still could of been a lot better. It felt too long for a start and yet being a big fan of the books I know how much they missed out. The acting... Well lets face it there getting better Daniel Radcliffe does make me laugh sometimes though it's just that bad and did they actually have any lessons at Hogwarts this year? I think there was one lesson in the film. They did do a lot of things well though, the special effects were very good as always, the Tri-Wizard Tournament was very well done I thought and all the stuff that they really should of got right they did e.g. The Return of "He who must not be named" was excellently done. The fact that it was a 12a certificate this time really did help, made for a much darker film. Oh and a few of my friends who had seen the film before were saying that Hermione Granger (aka Emma Watson) was kinda sexy... I just have to say NO! Wrong, wrong, wrong! She's 15!

This is my Favorite Picture of me :D On a lake in Canada

"Last night I had a dream that we went to Disneyland,

Went on all the rides, didn't have to wait in line.

I drove you to your house where we stared up at the stars

I listened to your heartbeat as I held you in my arms."

The Ataris - San Dimas High School Football Rools

I just finished watching episode 8 of Lost (series 2) . I have to say that up until now series 2 hasn't really been that great. I suppose the first 7 episodes were a big build up to this one episode and now the story can get back into it's normal What the hell is going on, Twists every episode and Lots of weird stuff has happened but we won't explain any of it but I Love it! I've defiantly never been this into a TV show before it's just not normally the sort of thing I get excited about. Apparently the writers have enough material for another 12 years so if you haven't started watching it yet then you've got plenty of time.

Hurley (the guy on the right) is defiantly my favorite character he's a bit of a legend and Charlie who is good in Lost but I think he will always be a hobbit to me.

I thought about posting some pic's from season 2 but most of you Brits probably don't want me soiling anything for you.

I'm off to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire tonight I'll probably post a review of it tomorrow.