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Strange paradigm shift for me, but meetings aren't the place for getting things done, meetings are the place for confirming what has been done and for confirming what needs to be done, and you do all that you need to do before the meeting.

This is what 'they' mean by being prepared for meetings.

I finally set up a workspace at home after a few months of faffing about. I have a nice clear desk, and a large screen, and a slide away keyboard and mouse for my desktop machine (with Ubuntu, yeahhh). Means I get to work on the rest of my desk with paper and pen. Gonna make it heaps easier to focus at home, because I won't be setting up on the dining table (ick).

Jury is still out on them. They become this weird amorphous guilt work day, where I feel guilty for working when my friends tell me I'm lame, and I feel guilty for not working when I begin them with a slow morning and only do one or two things during the day.

On both counts, a bit of a waste of a day.

Strange relationship between these three.

I'm wonder if the most important 'additive' to make all of these functional is sufficiently defined rest. I wonder this because I'm lacking it.

Yeah. All the time. Gotta some how work out how to get ahead.

I've been jamming with the band Bremen Town for about two months now, when I can make it to the rehearsals and gigs. Pretty "rad" (as Andy the guitarist would say) crew of people.

Mary is an awesome vocalist, she's from the U.S. but has this unique mix of American and Australian diction which just colours the songs in amazing ways, and we can go from Aussie contemporary rootsy stuff to Yank folky style from song to song. It's pretty cool.

By measurement of the things that I value in what I do in the day to day, I fail. A lot.

As an incredibly disorganised and distracted dude, I regularly fail to organise my meetings 10 days in advance. I just as regularly fail to get agendas out 7 days in advance, I neglect to chase deadlines for tasks I've delegated, and my email inbox is embarrassingly somewhere where work and correspondence gets lost, rather than captured.

These are all things that I need to work on, and will often get me down if I don't achieve my personal targets.

Jane Franklin Hall is one of the Uni affiliated residential colleges at UTAS, and is the last of the three colleges to have a particularly lively community identity. It's the college we invest most of our time in each year, and each year will regularly run an evangelistic course at, because it holds some of our biggest opportunities.

It also has some of our shyest Christian students.

It's been a long time between drinks for me..

Well actually it has, but as far as blogging goes too there have been 100 and 1 reasons why I haven't blogged, and 100 and 1 reasons why that was a good idea, and 100 and 1 reasons why that was a bad idea.