G'day God dodgers,
Sitting, reading on the beach the other day, letting the wavelets wash my feet, a small boat came ashore just a few oar lengths to my starboard. Thence an elderly couple commenced heaving their aluminium dingy ashore.
As is the way down-under, we exchanged g'days and I inquired whether they'd 'caught any?' .. to which the old 'lady' replied in typical ear jarring australian; "naaarr ? wet arse 'n no fish!" Being an old fashioned and somewhat anal-retentive ol? apostate I was a tad taken aback at the use of such slanguage by one so advanced of years ... my brain offered no rejoiner .. so I just smiled and got on with my lazing.
This was an interesting year for me. Bulldozing and slicing up several hundred very big gum trees took some time.. phew!! And after thirteen months of submissions (providing council with bushfire plans, engineering details, approval to use state forest roads, drawings, drawings and half a drawing etc..) my final approval arrived for building my hobbit world in the forest. Whoo hoo!! I can now build stone walls to my hearts delight! No more dealing with bureaucrats for as long as my beard shall live - ahmen!.
This, my first year of University, after leaving school at 15 to pioneer (like any good JW boy), was great. I passed with good grades from both the Commerce and Arts faculties. ß brageth me) It was a year dominated by the rhythms of study, essays, exams, slicing timber, uni bulletin boards and classroom tutorials. Yes folks, much of the work done at Uni these days is on internet bulletin boards ? geez and some of you recon Simon is tough on posts ? try having your posts assessed, marked and graded by lecturers and professors of English and such!)
So.. for those asking .. there you have it ? the reason I?ve not been around these traps much.
I haven?t been here enough to judge the breadth and depth of apostate talent of late but to anyone reading this who can write a half decent essay and think an occasional original thought, I have a squidjen of advice ? go git yerself educated - at a university! If anyone here sees someone resembling such a person please encourage them to do so. Academic writing is a more exacting skill to most of what passes for intelligent writing on the internet (objectivity rather than subjectivity is the general order of the day in Uni) but I?m sure some of you here are up to it. Farkel? who mentioned Farkel?
All those years of Theocratic Ministry Schooling and public speaking did help in one way ? I mean, I already knew that a good essay has an introduction, a body and a conclusion. (not much to fuck?n salvage from a life of watchtower slavery L
So how was this year of Shelby's Lord 2003 for you? Wet arse and no fish? .. well, better luck next year soggy-butt!
Seasoned greetings all! be jolly, be naughty and nice, with youse in spirit, unclebruce
Go on ya lazy buggers ? go to uni! If I can do it anyone can .. never know .. you may just like it .. there are student parties to go to (i even got to dress up as a pirate - ala johnny dep) and the womens outnumber the mens five to one! :) go on plunge into the deep end of the knowledge pool, education might even take you from the camaraderie of the lost to the fellowship of the found.