My life, my dominion

Okay most recently had a short session of archery and i'm glad to say i'm actually grouping pretty well. half dozen score of 54 marred by a stupid 7 but 3 in the gold! so altogether not bad.
Had freshers' fayre on tuesday hawking off myself to all the newbies and telling what a great club the archery club is and what friendly people. In fact we even came up with a great slogan to get jocks to join our otherwise geeky club. yes that's right we're geeky. anyhow it goes: we SHOOT! WE SCORE! a referenc to the weekly sports party in teh union called Score but if you don't get it nmind ignore this.
Right right erm edinburgh. Edinburgh was wonderful. very much like york, steeped in history. A very colourful one at that.
The most unforgettable memory i'll have is walking up the royal mile to edinburgh castle and the whole city was filled with bagpipe music because it was a sunny day so the buskers were out. It was incredible. Also i've bought 2 CDs of bagpipe music. heh so NEXT year when i live in halls. any dude or dudette want to annoy the hell out of me with their loud music will have to contend with Amazing Grace by the Royal Scottish Dragoons at 0730 hours in the morning. Well the irony of the title of the song is funny though heh. I'll give them some grace.
Also i thnk yo urarely get cities that have high land and the sea within reach of each other. to stand on Arthur's Seat and look out over the city and then to the sea is breath taking. nothing short of awe in God. People say you need ot retreat to nature to see the glory of the Lord's creation i disagree. It's you come to places like edinburgh and stand on a hill top and lok down on the city and realise that no matter how far we've come, mountains still tower over our sky scrapers, barriers still stand in our way and what we've taken 5 millenia to achieve, God far superseeded with just a thought.
It was also really good to visit edinburgh coz it was the heartland of the british reformation and to learn more about John Knox. Powerful as a preacher he was his grave puts everything in perspective. In many ways, John Knox was as powerful as Oliver Cromwell the man who beheaded Charles the 1st. His sermons against the catholic church and the harlot mary queen of scots (not my own words) were rousing messages or reform. HOwever, his grave is now carpark 23 behind St.Giles cathedral in Edinburgh, marked by a white square of paint. But on teh otherhand, for all my admiration of his firebrand ways and gift of oration, John Knox was somehow who had little space for forgiveness. I think that in that time there was a need to be highly straightforward and abrasive, but his political goals mixed with religion and ultimately culminated in his successful campaign to have Mary beheaded for being nothing more than a catholic. Sad isn't it. It's funny when you realise that the only religion to actualy carry (and it's a religion not just a religious leader) a jihad, or unbridled genocide and murder is Christianity. (i draw no lines between protestants and catholics at this point). It's very easy to take a puritan stand ad just gun down anyone. i think it's importnat to hold uncompromisable beliefs. that there are no grey areas. but the love of the lord should show. his compassion should show. his mercy should show through me. i'm not very compassionate. forgiving maybe, but i am rathe vehement in my beliefs shoudl i tamper them for the sake of love for my fellow man?

well on to uni. on wednesday we had our first trainig session of the year and it was MAYHEM. 70 first year turn up to learn how to shoot. and I must say i just can't delegate. i should have jsut given someone else the field captain post coz i was really not able to coach and supervise at the same time. made a few bad call which people were rather unhappy about. and though they tell meto take it easily i guess from my background it's hard not to. but i am learning a thing or two about taking criticism. it's not bad, it's constructive so never dismiss it.

yeah. right back to work.