A Curious Girl: Bash a Fresher

Fresher's bash last night. Whoo. Actually it wasn't that brilliant, but there was a huge bouncy castle... yay! But then it might have been a bit less good than I'd hoped because no one I was with seemed to be in the mood. I wasn't, really...

Got talking to 'a graduate fresher' named Alex who told me all about how brilliant at dancing he is and how he got on the radio and a DJ at a nightclub played his mixtape. I really couldn't work out if he was saying this to boast or just for conversation.

Duck... hehe... no, actually I didn't link your guestbook signing with male intuition (should I have done? :) ). It's just been something I've been wondering about for a while now...

I also discovered last night/this morning that the whole 'praying for your enemies' thing gets a little difficult sometimes. I'm sure God didn't intend me to pray 'Please deliver X from the spirit of being a complete moron and make him see that he's not cool, he's a prat.' Hardly very spiritual. Grr. I wish I could love this person and not judge etc. etc. but it's so hard!!

Actually University has been a rather strong upheaval as far as my faith and my goals for myself are concerned (which can only be a good thing ;) ). At home I had a neat system worked out on how to be good, and most of it involved avoiding people I don't really like and biting my tongue when talking to James. Perfect - it's quite easy to love difficult people in very small doses.

Here, the difficult people (and the nice people too!) live all around me, and I can't get away from them whenever I like. I don't have any enemies as such, but there are plenty of people who irritate me.

Also another thing I've felt challenged about is about having a servant spirit. Emily on my corridor is a very giving person. On the first night, waiting for taxis back from the pub, she hung back with the STYCs when there were too many of us Freshers for one taxi. None of the rest of us were willing to concede - after all, we could be losing an important bonding moment or something. She's always generous and always hospitable (In fact she even made the penultimate sacrifice and gave me some of her bacon...). I've met a lot of nice people challenging me to be nicer...

Which is cool ;)

Random word for today: Antidisestablishmentarianism

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