Tonight I went to the Promise Keeper’s Event at the Met.  It is a Friday night/All day Saturday deal.  It has been pretty worth it so far, and I imagine the Saturday will be just as rewarding.

I just realized something.  There was a guy standing at one of the ministry booths wearing a sandwich board sign stating “I regret lost fatherhood” or something very similar.  I think most people just walked past him.  I walked past him, gave him a eye-contact nod and kept going.  I walked past him like three times.  I’m not sure why but for some reason I found myself treating this guy like any other protestor I see — I ignored him.

And then just now as I got out of the shower, I realized that I should talk to him.  He’s likely got a story about abortion that I need to hear.  I am so dense!  I’ve been thinking about this issue for almost a month or more now, and now there’s a ministry that could have some insight and I don’t even get it.

Thank God there’s another day in the conference.

So what’s going on?  Not much is really happening that is blogworthy right now.  Well, there are lots of exciting things going on in ministry, including people coming to weekly meeting who are searching for God.  And also the chance to do some leadership interviews with student federation peeps.

I also got my bike trimmed down to its minimal parts — no fenders, no ‘cross tires (now using full on slicks), and actually showing a little bit of logo on the frame as I removed the electrical tape from some of it.

Recently I watched 2 movies.  Fireproof at evening service at church, and Narnia: Prince Caspian later on at home.  Surprisingly, Fireproof didn’t let me down almost at all.  It contained good humour, good lessons on relationships, and pretty decent acting actually.  It’s worth the watch for sure.

Prince Caspian was pretty good too, although not having read the books.  I’m thinking I’ll get started on the Chronicles because I’m looking for a good fiction series to get into.

What I realized after all that movie watching was that I actually tremendously appreciate entertainment that is mature (not just rated G like most Pixar movies) but contains nothing questionable.  That is, watching clean and inspiring movies is actually so enjoyable.  I don’t feel like I have to “lost out” on all the mainstream crap that is out there.

Not having a TV, I almost forget that there is this whole other world that exists with Heroes and American Idol and Jeopardy and all the other crap that is on the TV that people revolve around.  I actually feel really good that I don’t care about TV.

In some ways I feel out of the loop, but I don’t feel like I’m missing much.  Whenever I’m at someone’s house watching a hockey game, or at the laundry, it feels like such a novelty.  What a feeling haha.

I had been visiting some old European city and was very excited to see a few new things when a big commotion started happening at the metro station nearby.  Someone had done something dramatic and now everyone was flooding out of the underground.  I ran against the crowd and down the stairs to find others in an area cordoned off as the constables began to search the platform for the man who was making such a scene.

Somehow I ended up having to stay out at another person’s house because I was stuck and couldn’t get back to my hotel.

The next day as I slowly got back to my hotel, I stepped into a fierce battle between camouflage-wearing protestors and their enemies.  Men and their young sons were shouting and firing rifles at others; it was an all out urban war.  My short little vehicle was quashed by a young woman in a tank with treads, but somehow my little vehicle (not unlike a recumbent bicycle) made it through.

As I found a way out of the battle zone, I arrived at the main square of my hotel, to find one of my co-workers just hanging around.  Dead tired, I managed to summon up, ‘can you get me to my room, Shuesty?’

Then I turned around, and there was Shelly and a few other co-workers.  They looked at me and briefly remarked, ‘just another day of vacation eh?’

I now get email and Google Talk to my phone.  Hurray!  Now I don’t have to bring my computer to school some days!

Ok, so I think I’ve come to a conclusion that certain words are becoming old and I can’t keep using them if I’m to be relevant.  However, I don’t think they are being replaced by words that are actually “new”.

Chillax is apparently old now.  I don’t use this word too much (I hope) and I typically only use it when I’m actually trying to sound trendy (I’m not sure if I ever was that trendy..)  I will continue to use “chill out” and “chill” when describing “relaxing” and “taking leisure time”.  However I will use “chill out” a bit less.

It seems like “chillax” is being replaced with “hang out”.  But that isn’t really that new at all.  I guess it just never really got old.

Maybe I have some other words that I want thoughts on, but I’ll post them later.

By the way, I’ve always found it a bit amusing when people (even people I am close to) say “shop’peen” or “clos’een” instead of “shopping” or “closing”.

I might say “shoppin” or “closin” when speaking quickly, but I don’t ever do the “een” sound haha.