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Bryn

4:46 am Saturday 1 September 2001

We arrived around 3:30am I think; and we didn't get lost!!!!

Hugs and hugs and registration and picture for mugbook.

It took Bryn and I a full hour to walk from the ground floor up two levels to find Sean to tell him HI. We were happily interrupted for hugs and stories and all kinds of good stuff.

Talkin' to Bryn and Sean now. Bryn knows only 20 people that are registered.

Bryn was all, "I don't want this new 'technologically advanced' Silent Football."

"Would you be willing to simply hear the story of how the were created?"

"Yeah, but I won't play."

"That's okay; you'll be graduated soon."

ooohhhhh I'm just kiddin', well I'm not, actually, but you know.

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Bryn helped me study my spanish flash cards. Studying with friends makes it so much more fun!

Eggs

8:07 am Saturday 1 September 2001

The white-bracelet touch group's first task was to cook breakfast on Saturday morning.

For each egg in your recipe substitute 1-1/2 teaspoons Ener-G Egg Replacer mixed thoroughly with 2 tablespoons water, i.e. 1-1/2 teaspoons Ener-G Egg Replacer + 2 tablespoons water=1 egg.

So I was all, "hmm. I'm not measuring 16 ounces worth of 1.5 teaspoons of egg powder, nor calculating how much water that requires.." So I poured the vegan-egg-powder into a bowl, and poured a pile of water on it.

Mix mix mix mix mix

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It looked like a frothy mixture of water and dish soap.

Hmm. Oh well.

Poured 1/2 the mixture into a pan. Cook cook cook cook cook cook cook.

Slowly, the water evaporated, the mix coagulated, everyone watching evacuated, and it came out like a huge white blob of thick Slime. It was tasteless. Gross. Ewwwww.

Turns out, that this stuff is supposed to replace a couple eggs at a time in a mixture of something else that would normally require eggs. In short, it will replace eggs in any recipe... except eggs.

the pancakes were great.

Meyers Briggs

12:05 pm Saturday 1 September 2001

Just went to the Myers-Briggs personality type workshop. Before I fell asleep (for the first time at the rally), I learned that I am ENFP. Specifically,

E slight
N clear
F moderate
P clear

By far, most people were ENFP. She said ENFP was indicative of UU tendencies.

According to the workbook, ENFP is:

Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciateion and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.

According to the other handout she gave us, (and that she wrote), the middle two letters indicate a spiritual path-type.

NF personality type: the journey of harmony:

1. The quest toward authentic, actualized self-hood.
2. Mystical harmony
3. A life attitude of expectany
4. The importance of openness to healing and the place of the dream in this process.
5. Social idealism
6. Focus on the process in relationships, familial and social.

Mentors for this journey:

• Rabindranath Tagore
• Jesus of Nazareth (especially look at Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography by John Dominic Crossan)

12:19 pm

Right now Steve and Ryan are playing Beatles tunes on guitar. Bryn knows most of the songs; I know very few.

WTF

1:09 pm 1-9-01

I don't know what the fuck is going on exactly, but there are some rumors that Tulsa adults are "monitoring" this rally to determine if the Tulsa Adults want the Tulsa Youth to attend any more district level events. That is a rumor.

For some reason, we advisors have been asked to attend a lunch thing and let me tell you it is a fucking disgrace as I first lay eyes on this. fucking plates fucking silver ware and a fucking table cloth and glasses and a fucking gift bag in each seat. Not knowing WTF is going on, I'm immediately assuming these gifts are for us advisors. I'm pissed. I feel bribed.

The meeting hasn't even started yet, and the youth are down in the cafeteria eating sloppy lasagna on paper plates and they are looking up at us on the balcony going, "why are you up there?" "are you better than us?" They are asking in jest, but behind each joke is a bit of truth.

What The Fuck is going on??

I don't want to meet these people who have set up the lunch. I want to tell them, you all are a bunch of idiots. This is not youth empowerment. This is a tragedy to YRUU.

These youth are precious fabulous people who are simply learning their place and way and means in life. The rally is a sacred event that allows them to bond and interact and communicate and learn and create and without them I would not be 1 inch involved in UUism. Really. Really.

meeting now begins.

2:15 pm

I left the meeting, which was not actually even a meeting, but just a condoned exclusive adisor lunch thing. We were invited to introduce ourselves and tell how many youth we brought. I went approximately last, and said, "the best thing about those 3 vans and those 18 youth coming was that the youth organized the whole thing. The youth got the vans; the youth figured out how many people needed to go; the youth got drivers. The youth are empowered and capable of doing amazing things."

There was no 'agenda' in the meeting, so I left and played disc with Sean.

We are in a fishbowl now; non Tulsa peeps talking, expressing our concerns.

In the fishbowl, I said as clearly and gently as possible, "I felt sad and pulled away from the community during the lunch. Like it was condoned exclusive behavior. I'm here for the youth. I'm not here for the adults; I basically don't talk to the adults."

Chris says, "I have 189 youth on my list; I want my youth to attend the rallies. There's no reason that I can't have 90 youth at rallies. ... Our problem is that we're not providing anything meaningful to them. When I look at it as something new to them; 98% of what happens here is meaningful and powerful, but it gets pulled down by what the other 182 kids I've got find offensive.

"I want to speak with the youth who are not here; to see how we can bring them back."

Tanner: "You can't achieve your spirituality by crushing someone else's." and "This is a church." and "This is a community and we need to respect the community."

Chris: "Each church has its own values; we're asking you to respect our church's values. This has been a fantastic crowning success because we are having this discussion now. So we can have the conversation that asks 'are we doing what is buildng our collective ministry.'"

2:45 pm

Outside youth are now commending the Tulsa group on great rally, but wonder about when the repression will stop.

Ian: "I haven't been going around sying the fuck-word."

Steve Feinstein rules. He proved in one quick zing that adults have Adult Power just because they are adults. Excellent job, Steve!!

mr.the bibbster

sean talks about the day...

good disc just now. i love goin up with tanner and not hurting myself! earlier there was a 'fishbowl' but the leader of this thing didnt know what a fishbowl was so it was kinda screwy. i sat next to Steve. he took some good notes that i wanna read later. it was about the 2 new rules. and how people dont like them or whatever. i'm sure Rob wrote about it. well my weekend is all coming together, right now i'm listening to Steve play the guitar and singing beatles. well i guess i'll go give Rob his Visor back. p.s. my visor doesnt work with the keyboard cause of some driver buuuull-sheet. and our visors dont like to beam to eachother.
Rob likes oatmeal rasin cookies.

OATMeal!!! yipyipyipyipyipyipyipyipyip! Ah hah! ah hah!

no hood AJ

8:57 pm 1 September 2001

Chillin' by Sean in the sponge room now. We just looked through Vessy's pics from SWUUSI. They are *SO* good. Not just the pics, but they are all perfectly labeled. Every person in every picture is named. That is such aluable dedication now that will be so appreciated forever to come.

Sean is signing it now; I will in a second.

Sean writes:

AJ's hood is gone. here is the story.... so AJ is on the highway doin maybe 75 in a 70 right? ok well this jerk behind him desides to ride his ass really hard. and he's goin pretty fast. he is speeding put to like 80 at some points. hmmm...so AJ has to speed up right? right, but there is a grey van ahead of him doin 60 so that isn't an option. but then the car behind him drops back and changes lanes, but he is still close. so AJ is thinkin he'll pass the grey van and him....but no. hmm ok. 'i'm sick of this' he's gonna dart ahead of the car behind him and speed past the van leaing the whole mess in his wake. so he gets in the left lane. when SNAP-CRACKLE-POP!! his HOOD flies up over the window and bend so that it is formfitting the car's profile. there is one small triangle of a peephole in the bottom driverside windshield that he can look out of! so he's goin 80 trying to get out of this asshole's way and he can't see for shit. thank god he's not dead. really. he pulls over on the sholder and has to rip it off. rip rip rip.. ok it comes off!! Rob and I and some others were like 'what did you do?? '

'i threw it into the median and stomped the shit out of it!!' haha he threw it in the median (where it is no longer) and jumped on it. well do you blame him?? think of the adrenilne. he said that he put his arm up to shield his face from the glass but it didn't break. thank yaweh.

park

7:14 pm 1 September 2001

We are still at Zilk Park.

Short Term Memory (Sean has to remember this)

Sean put his white touch group bracelet on his cup. At first glance (for some people) it looks like a big cup stuck inside a small cup.

Two minutes later he tried to pull the big cup out of the small cup. "Hey, what happened to my cup?"

I thought he was trying to trick me. "False. It's your bracelet, silly."

"Ohhhh!!"

We took turns trying to trick different people. "Try to pull the big cup out. It's stuck."

About a third would try and a third would be suspicious and then try. Others were too suspicious to try. A couple people took the whole thing and tried to pull them apart.

Danny took one look at it. "It's a bracelet." Nice.

Bonk

After Sean and I totally schooled all the low rope course games, we tried a new variation of the walking two by fours. Basically we were using them as long snowshoes. We each held a rope to lift them as we lifted our feet. But the cool variation was that we were beside each other, with our adjacent legs crossing, sorta like a 3 legged race.

Be sure to get that visual; these represent our legs as we are standing:

  /\  /\
 /  \/  \
/   /\   \

I directed our motion. "Okay, inside legs," and we moved both our inside legs forward.

"Okay, outside legs," and we both shifted our weight to our inside legs and [bonk!!] we knocked our heads together. "Ow fuck!!!" and fell off the boards in pain and laughter. Ow ow ow.

It's been at least 15 minutes and my head still has a lump and it hurts.

(It's been 36 hours and my head hurts there if I press on it)

Torrey writes

howdy there... its torrey.. what is up!! all i read for the last document ahead was a lump n somebody's head.. THAT SUCKS. right now we are at the park.. and it's been fun,,, somebody was getting married today. YEA FOR NEWLY-WEDS!! and we did some leadership things and ut was fun!! me abd my partner like couldnt get across the thing.. we tried soo many diff. ways. abd our thumbs like almost broke!! ut anyway.. I LUV TULSA CHURCH I WANNA MAKE IT MY NEW HOUSE!! yes.. totally awesome,

well i will talk to the puter later now,,, becuz i have to listen to rob's funny as hell jokes now. - torrey

Hey whats up to all you people out there !! To all those who arnt' here at this kick butt Tulsa Rally... is hella fun here !! But anyways, so far duringg the rally we have allready done some realy cool workshope. There has been kick butt peronalaity workshop, and allso a leadership workshop... with trust and working with other. Allso we have been having many people running threw this crazy sprinkler at the park here in tulsa. Well talk to you pep's later. LOVE TO ALL OF YOU !! SHOUT OUT ! AND SOME WHO HOLLA !! '
-LISA-

zzz

11:52 pm 1 September 2001

In the youth forum now; it's almost over.

Chris: "We have done a really lousy job in our job in our church of telling our kids who they are."

I can see that they are trying to have good values in the rally, but I and others argue that UUism specifically *does not tell people who they are*.

3:51 am 2-9-01

I fell asleep while outside at the worship. I told Sean to wake me up whenever for Silent Football.

That was around midnightish I think.

No one woke me up, except I woke myself up at 4:30am and wandered around, wondering what happened to Silent Football.