Never the traveller or some seeking casual friend...The weekend was good. Got some good God time and had some social stuff planned. Brent came and relieved me from my studies and we went and watched the rugby at a friend's place with a whole lot of med students. It was cool, pity bout the score, but it was a good time. Also had the Hawke family come over to my parent's place on sunday night, I've know Cameron and Virginia since we were about 2, and our families have done heaps together. Funny how those bonds don't get any weaker, even though you haven't spent any time with someone for ages.
Depite the all study, I ended up having a bit of a cruisy afternoon yesterday. I went to a meeting about The Network (formerly Cutting Edge National), which went well, but was also a good lesson in marketing/politics or anytime you don't have relationship with someone and you're talking to them about something. That finished earlier than expected, so I went off to church with the best intetions of doing some work before my tutorial. There were a lot of people at church, most of whom I didn't know. It turned out that it was the regional pastor's lunch. So instead of hiding out the back, I found myself talking to a pastor from Levin whilst eating a very nice filled roll. Score. After helping clean up (both dishes and extra food), I waited for my student to turn up. and waited and waited and waited. Finally I had to call her dad to find out where she was, because my phone is still being fixed and no one had her number. So I went for a walk, before my next appointment at 5. I ended up bumping into someone I'd met at Stillwater's church a while back, and she'd locked herself out of house. So we went for coffee- well juice cause it was hot.
Ever met someone who's passion just blows you away. Kat's passion was social justice. It was incredible what she could quote at me, and her thoughts on things like the poor and Iraq were really interesting. Partly because they were so different from mine, yet we still share the same God. Still, it did kinda die down quite quickly as we hit the uncomfortable, "let's leave it at there" point in the conversation and we parted ways. None the least someone who really made me question what I thought and why.
Because of my conversation yesterday I ended up thinking this morning during my quiet time... what am I passionate about? M-E-D-I-C-I-N-E. I could learn about it for hours. Although a lot of it is dry, boring, and sometimes downright hard, there's nothing I'd rather do. I figure it's cause God wired me that way. What do I love about it? Probably that it's the ultimate blend of science and people- always having a tension between the very impersonal objective science and the very subjective, personal people. I love the trust that's involved in knowing details of people's (sometimes very private lives). The possibility of then taking that data and turning it into something useful. I'd never make a very good leader or visionary- as I just like helping people get from where they're stuck to where they can get on with it by themselves. It seems to reflect in my realtionship with God too, which is an interesting thought. That in many ways, God is my doctor, my counsellor and my provider, and that I'll tell Him all my problems. Actually I was joking with David J yesterday that I'm generally so calm, because I have a Go(o)d psychiatrist. By the way, what's your passion?
Actually, something else that I'm getting into at the moment is my uncle's music collection. I managed to go through my entire CD collection while writing my thesis earlier this year. So I figured seeing he has so many CD's just sitting there I could start listening to them as background music while studying. Yes I need noise while studying. Actually really enjoying some of his eighties stuff... especially Talking Heads, and van Morrison. But that can wait for another time.
P.S. Becs- what's scary about the last post is that it's convincing me that the public health stuff is actually true. Heck, it might even make a "true science" catergory before long =P.
P.P.S Site meter has now been added to this site.
