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It's Day 2 of my new job. Everyone is very friendly, I like my manager and the team I look after, I've found an Oporto's just round the corner and I'm looking forward to getting my fitness club membership finalised so I can go to Pilates at lunchtimes!

First impressions? This place LOVES its acronymns.

Second impressions? I think I'll like it here.

Just get it done.

That's my motto for the year, I think!

Things I can tick off this week:
Finishing the Great Satay Drive flier
Making a farewell present for Betty
Organising a surprise farewell party for Betty
Go to the dentist
Finalising the teams for Easter 06
Thinking up an announcement for Easter 06
Return some books to a work collegaue
Handover my job!

Things that are next on my list for this week:
Script for Easter Sunday drama
Musical item for Easter Sunday
Runsheets for Easter Sunday (can you see a theme??)

As an aside, why are memories like the corner of our minds?

I was thinking today about emotional residue. You know how people associate smells with certain memories? Well, recurring emotions can remind us of a previous experience and that can detrimentally affect our current situation. Do emotional memories shape us or scar us?

I was chatting with a friend last week, when they said something that triggered one of those memories. Suddenly, mixed feelings of trepidation, anger and excitement washed over me - it had nothing to do with what they said (which was perfectly innocent), but just that one little remark brought up all these memories that had abundant emotions associated with them. Like one of those amazing facial recognition computer systems they showcase on NCIS where the computer suddenly finds a match and layers one face on top of another and presto, they're one and the same. I digress.

I was frozen to the spot for several seconds, because suddenly I wasn't talking to my friend, I wasn't in 2006 - but I was reacting as I would have to another person entirely - a world away and a veritable lifetime ago. Strange things these emotions, how they can betray you.

Capote... excellent
Photography... growing on me
Work... 2 weeks and counting
Church... the snowball effect
Thai food... getting used to it
Social life... ridiculously busy, but loving it (I'm in an "E" frame of mind this year)

Favourite song of the musical. Favourite song of the movie.

And the rest of the movie? Hmmm... there was the good and there was the bad... the character arcs and plot movement work better as a show I think, there just wasn't enough subtlety and continuity to make a cohesive film, but a good tribute to the stage phenomenon with a ton of the original, and very talented, Broadway actors. I didn't know Idina Menzel was married to Taye Diggs! There you go. Loved Jesse L. Martin as Collins. The boy can sing! (and dance!)

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?

In Daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.

In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure a year in the life?

How about love? Measure in love
Seasons of love