[CUTC] [CUTC weekly email] Hurunui Water Project submission, t-shirts, newsletters!

[Giselle]

Oh hello there!

Welcome back to the fourth and final installment of the tramping club year.
This is the time where traditionally we become stressed out and sleep
deprived and staying inside our sleeping bags until 8am on Sunday feels like
the best sleep-in ever. You know the workload situation must have become
pretty dire when writing this email feels like a procrastination break. *(I've
already cleaned my room and done all my laundry (but I'm not touching the
kitchen, damnit, that is my limit!). Mind you, I'm soft - I'm not entirely
sure that Brian has slept in the last 2 weeks. - G)*

Oh, but we've got our priorities right. We might be zombies but we'll still
be cranking the CUTC. So what's ahead?

This week we've got Alan Williams, a keen member of the tramping club and
also a design engineer on the project coming in and lay down some facts
about this Hurunui Water Project we have mentioned in the past.Afterwards we
welcome discussion, as the club is making a submission and we want to
represent you properly. So in your copious spare time, get up to speed by
taking a gander at these:

   - http://www.ecan.govt.nz/Resource+Consents/HurunuiWaterProject.htm
   - http://www.hurunuiwater.co.nz/
   -
   http://rivers.org.nz/article/large-scale-irrigation-proposal-the-hurunui-water-project
   - http://rivers.org.nz/article/hurunui-water-project
   - http://www.greens.org.nz/actionalerts/save-hurunui-river


The latest edition of the newsletter will also be available for your perusal
and collection from the treasurer's table this week, and be there to size
yourself up and order a rather stylish club t-shirt too. They
cost...probably around $20 - $25 , they're comfy, flattering, will make you
a total babe magnet and are 100% sandfly proof (um, don't hold us to that
one).

Now to address something very serious. For some reason, only 2 people want a
free Therm-a-Rest. It's all very well to want to appear tough and to sleep
on the cold hard ground. But really, we won't judge you if you stay warm and
comfortable. We know this Therm-a-Rest only takes less than half the space
of a foam mat, and that it only weighs 570g, but we won't think any less of
you for carrying that either. Maybe you guys don't want it because it's
worth $220 and your friends might think you'd sold out. They won't! Instead
they'll be desperate to sleep with you.

At the moment this very high tech sleeping mat is sitting in our hallway
feeling unwanted. Tragic. We were going to give it away this week to the
writer of the best TROG story from term 3, but we've only had two
contenders! Come on guys! Perhaps you're in need of a TROG refresher...

TROG is the club's *tr*ips l*og*. Like our yearbook. It's content comes
straight from you, the club members. It has stories, reports, poems, quotes,
drawings and photos. We don't care if you're no Shakespeare, we want your
contributions! Kieran, our TROG editor has been working hard to compile
everything in order for it to be published at the end of this term, but if
noone writes any stories, it won't be much of a book. So send them to
trog at cutc.org.nz to make a TROG worth reading, with the added incentive of a
very sweet prize. To help get the ball rolling we have decided to ease you
into it with a collaborative article. Just answer the question "*What I was
doing instead of writing a trog
article?<http://cutc.org.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=117>
*" just one sentence will suffice! You can enter by logging into our forums
and going to the "Other" board, or just send a reply to us at
captain at cutc.org.nz

Catch you tomorrow!
Giselle (is a total dingus) and Brian
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