Planning Ahead, Much?
so, the church i'm going to. i don't usually read all that extra-service stuff in the bulletin, unless i'm home. today, i went ahead and perused the thing during what i must admit was a painfully boring sermon on the ... development of halloween and the dangers of letting kids wear sheets and believe in the ghosts of tooth rot and corn candy. but the point of this is not to shake my head at the halloween-is-eeeeeevil crowd. the point is that i was looking at their calander for the month of november. these folks are really thinking forward.
there are two thanksgiving dinners, one the sunday before, and one two sundays before. wow. they've scheduled the sunday between dinners as the budget planning congregational meeting. not sure what that says about the bountious sunday dinners.
the *real* real reason for this little ditty, however, is on the 26th. they've got a two hour rehearsal of the christmas eve program right after the late service. two hours. and they're already rehearsing. this isn't lets-start-using-sunday-school-time-to-get-kids-singing-on-key. this isn't gosh-it's-time-to-pick-out-our-songs-and-costumes. they know what they're doing. they've got it planned out a month in advance. they're ready to rehearse a month in advance. this would indicate that by the time school started, they've had this in the works.
i guess i recall hearing little bits and pieces of this in the betty-jo-won't-you-stand-up-and-tell-us-all-about-XYZ time right before the service. but nothing to indicate a master plan this far progressed. maybe i'm not fully versed in this stuff [having done my damndest to avoid having any part in these somewhat silly events since the fifth-or-so grade], but i seem to recall the month of december being scramble time. as in scramble-to-get-this-planned-and-rehearsed. i must say, i'm deeply impressed.
so impressed that if i weren't going home for christmas, i might actually take the initiative to attend this program to see what kind of show power-planners can put together.
in other news, i just heard from a CUA friend [who was reading my blog for some reason]. i didn't even know she knew i had a blog. her card made my day, though, and probably my week-to-come. hi, mb!
this weekend, i have read about 20 chapters of ada [and still have 20 to go for wednesday]. i vastly enjoy the book, and had to stop myself from reading at a few points to go back and take notes over chapters. that's a good book. nevermind that i still don't know exactly what all the codes mean. [book is written by two lovers who take turns narrating, include their own notes in the margins and throughout the text, argue with one another over how things really happened, and wander off into french, russian, german, portugese, and twin code. yeah, they aren't twin lovers, but they are brother and sister. it's bizarre, but you tend to forget about the sibling thing for whole chapters until someone mentions it. then it's jarring all over again.]
i finally got the library lined up to talk to my classes, so lesson planning will be a handout on how to do their assignment. i already taught them a lot about the databases, but there's always more to learn, and this relieves me of the hassle of coming up with yet more to say about obvious assignments.
i'm thinking of my memoir. how i want to write it. etc. next semester's memoir course will produce at least five chapters of the thing, but i run into this problem. see, with any luck at all, my life is only about a 1/4 over. kind of pointless to write a memoir over that, right? so maybe i throw in some N-like tricks. tell it backwards, or from a stream of conscious pov. toss in a brief play, some uber cheesy and utterly metafictionalized poetry. have fun with the format. or maybe just stick to things like eggplant and cats.
the remainder of the weekend needs to include: retrieval of laundry started before even changing clothes; preparation of clam chowder from a starter bag; second load of dishes; creation of a DQ handout for presentation; rejecting of several stories for IH publication; vacuuming up of cat hair in the living room; taking out of much trash; lesson planning, and grading of some truly horrible student reviews [seriously, these kids don't know the meaning of "reflect"].
i'm thinking i can do it all. i did, after all, gain another hour in the middle of the night. this is my 25 hour day. i can do anything!
love and peace
there are two thanksgiving dinners, one the sunday before, and one two sundays before. wow. they've scheduled the sunday between dinners as the budget planning congregational meeting. not sure what that says about the bountious sunday dinners.
the *real* real reason for this little ditty, however, is on the 26th. they've got a two hour rehearsal of the christmas eve program right after the late service. two hours. and they're already rehearsing. this isn't lets-start-using-sunday-school-time-to-get-kids-singing-on-key. this isn't gosh-it's-time-to-pick-out-our-songs-and-costumes. they know what they're doing. they've got it planned out a month in advance. they're ready to rehearse a month in advance. this would indicate that by the time school started, they've had this in the works.
i guess i recall hearing little bits and pieces of this in the betty-jo-won't-you-stand-up-and-tell-us-all-about-XYZ time right before the service. but nothing to indicate a master plan this far progressed. maybe i'm not fully versed in this stuff [having done my damndest to avoid having any part in these somewhat silly events since the fifth-or-so grade], but i seem to recall the month of december being scramble time. as in scramble-to-get-this-planned-and-rehearsed. i must say, i'm deeply impressed.
so impressed that if i weren't going home for christmas, i might actually take the initiative to attend this program to see what kind of show power-planners can put together.
in other news, i just heard from a CUA friend [who was reading my blog for some reason]. i didn't even know she knew i had a blog. her card made my day, though, and probably my week-to-come. hi, mb!
this weekend, i have read about 20 chapters of ada [and still have 20 to go for wednesday]. i vastly enjoy the book, and had to stop myself from reading at a few points to go back and take notes over chapters. that's a good book. nevermind that i still don't know exactly what all the codes mean. [book is written by two lovers who take turns narrating, include their own notes in the margins and throughout the text, argue with one another over how things really happened, and wander off into french, russian, german, portugese, and twin code. yeah, they aren't twin lovers, but they are brother and sister. it's bizarre, but you tend to forget about the sibling thing for whole chapters until someone mentions it. then it's jarring all over again.]
i finally got the library lined up to talk to my classes, so lesson planning will be a handout on how to do their assignment. i already taught them a lot about the databases, but there's always more to learn, and this relieves me of the hassle of coming up with yet more to say about obvious assignments.
i'm thinking of my memoir. how i want to write it. etc. next semester's memoir course will produce at least five chapters of the thing, but i run into this problem. see, with any luck at all, my life is only about a 1/4 over. kind of pointless to write a memoir over that, right? so maybe i throw in some N-like tricks. tell it backwards, or from a stream of conscious pov. toss in a brief play, some uber cheesy and utterly metafictionalized poetry. have fun with the format. or maybe just stick to things like eggplant and cats.
the remainder of the weekend needs to include: retrieval of laundry started before even changing clothes; preparation of clam chowder from a starter bag; second load of dishes; creation of a DQ handout for presentation; rejecting of several stories for IH publication; vacuuming up of cat hair in the living room; taking out of much trash; lesson planning, and grading of some truly horrible student reviews [seriously, these kids don't know the meaning of "reflect"].
i'm thinking i can do it all. i did, after all, gain another hour in the middle of the night. this is my 25 hour day. i can do anything!
love and peace
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