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Bulletin Board

Mental Health Awareness Week: 6-12 Oct 2003. 

World Mental Health Day: Otober 10th.
2003 International Theme = Mental & Emotional Wellbeing of Adolescence.

Activities

First Aid Training:  All interested contact the White House for details.

Computer Training: All interested, contact the White House for details.

Attic Art: Tena koutou katoa.  Nau mai haere mai. 
Usually Fridays from 1pm to 4pm. (Ring to check)
Everybody is welcome to come along and work on their own projects or use the materials in our art room. 
People have worked on their journals, painted, sketched, sorted out an entry for an art competition, and worked on bone carving. 
Lately I've been learning how to bonecarve, sculpt concrete, harekeke/flax, and Oamaru stone carving.  I would very much like to be able to do these things at the White House. 
I am looking into arts funding so that I can purchase more materials for the art room.  
- Haku hoki naa,   - Sapphire.

Interesting Websites:

Bi-polar Suite 101 is very interesting and I have made many friends.  It has a chat room and information on Bi-polar Disorder and how to go about dealing with it and other information on and about it.  People in chat-rooms are very understanding and also fun stuff to do and making your own website.

Some contributions from members:

 Robyn's own jokes!!!

w  You lost your trousers? Yeah, I'm a little behind.

w  You're a little flower. I wonder whether it's plain or self-rising.

w  Can I have a cigarette?  Yes, you can when you buy one!

w I feel like a banana - but you look like a lemon!

 

Book Review by Teresa Norris

"YOU COUNT, CALORIES DON'T.  The HUGS plan for better health.     by Linda Omilchinski R.D

I believe that HUGS is a must read book for anyone who has ever had an eating problem be it an eating disorder, compulsive eating, yo yo dieting or has a medical condition that can be helped by a healthy eating programme and way of life.
You're probably wondering why I got into the HUGS way of life.
Well, I had an eating disorder for over 15 years and this programme helped me immensely to overcome those eating problems although they still crop up from time to time but most of all it helped me to get a healthy perspective on diet, weight and exercise.
First of all let me emphasise that HUGS  is not a "diet" but it is a healthy way of eating and exercising for fun. In fact the first thing that HUGS  teaches it to throw away your scales which of course is totally foreign to anyone who has chronically dieted.  (Which I might add is most of the population).
The book tells us about our obsession with being slim however although diets have increased our awareness of weight and food they have not made people happier.  It also explains why most modern diets in the long term not only fail but most likely make you fatter than you were to start with.

The book helps you to:

·                End dieting forever

·                Be in charge of food and life

·                Stimulate new ideas and ways of thinking.

·                Improve your health both physically and emotionally.

·                Show you how you can be the best that you can be.

To end, I would like to quote my favourite passage in the whole book: 
"Growth does not mean trying to be someone else or comparing yourself to other people or accepting imposed standards of health and fitness.  It means striving to be the best that you can be with what you have been given genetically.

Poems:

UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS
by Robyn Burtenshaw

You are facing it
Always thinking about it
Making it
No more steak
Just bread now
And forsaking it
Wish I could break it
I want to work
As any other
Time is on the upper
Hopefully not in the gutter
I will get another
Satisfaction is there
And I might be waiting
Till time there after


THE RADIO
by Warwick Naylor

Artificially zombified insect
Men making music
Created by electricity
Clicking and buzzing
Where's the bloody on/off switch
Song ends.  What sneaky little bastards
Next
Electrified kitchen demolition team
Mocking the creator.  Swooning
Drunks having a ball.  Notes bounce
Back and forth like echoes
Flying through space.
How
Lao Tzu sends his messengers
Mumbling men make their move
Through the wall.  He who is at one with the Tao falls asleep
xtremely quickly
He who is not must lie awake angrily.

A HELPFUL EXAMPLE OF A JOB APPLICATION!!!

This kid will go far!!!

NAME:  Greg Bulmesh
SEX:  Not yet.  Still waiting for the right person.
DESIRED POSITION:  Company President or Vice President.  But seriously, whatever's available.  If I was in a position to be picky I wouldn't be applying here in the first place.
DESIRED SALARY:  $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style severance package.  If that's not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.
EDUCATION:  Yes.
LAST POSITION HELD:  Target for middle management hostility.
SALARY:  Less than I'm worth
MOST NOTICABLE ACHIEVEMENT:  My incredible collection of stolen pens and post-it notes
REASON FOR LEAVING:  It sucked
AVAILABLE TO WORK:  Of course! That's why I'm applying.
PREFERRED HOURS:  1.30 - 3.30 pm Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS?  Yes, but they're better suited to a more intimate environment.
MAY WE CONTACT YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER?  If I had one, would I be here?
DO YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL CONDITION THAT WOULD PROHIBIT YOU FROM LIFTING UP TO 50 LBS?  Of what?
DO YOU HAVE A CAR?  I think the more appropriate question here would be "Do you have a car that runs?"
HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL AWARDS OR RECOGNITION?  I may already be a winner of the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes
DO YOU SMOKE?  On the job, no; on my breaks, yes
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TOP BE DOING IN FIVE YEARS?  Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy, sexy super model who thinks I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Actually, I'd like to be doing that now.
DO YOU CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE?  Yes, Absolutely
SIGN HERE:  Aries