The Universe decided that August would be the month to kill the Intern. There SHE is, in all her splendor souped up in neon orange cowboy boots and a planetary sized cowboy hat, shooting pistols at my feet. Dance, Intern, Dance!
You know, throw 4 major projects at me all at once and I’m liable to start to twitch and swear indiscriminately or make really, really stupid remarks in front of parishioners. Like, say, yesterday when I objected to our singing all five verses of a hymn.
Me: Must we sing every verse of every hymn? (whine, whine, whine)
Supervisor: Well, no. But if you skip verses you miss the theology.
Me: Well, it’s the theology I object to in verse five. (In my defense, it was all Reigning with Jesus on High language… um… yeah, NO!)
Music Director: Um, someday soon we are going to have to sit down and have a chat about your theology.
DUM, DUM, DUM… heh. I gracefully suggested that we all stand in different theological places and then quickly changed the subject. My supervisor was not amused. 🙂 She knows I’m a Progressive because I told her I was taking time off in October to go chant around bon fires meet with my ilk in Seattle. However, I think she might have been tipped off before that by my ending prayers in “In the name of the one you sent to teach us Peace, Amen,” as opposed to the more classic, “In Jesus’ name”. Run, Intern, Run!
Project #3 is well underway. And after staying up until 2:30 working on this:
I’m holding up–but just barely.
Drop by the website and take a look around. If you are in the Astoria area on the 10th–join us. I’ll be the girl in the corner twitching.
My what a busy intern you have been indeed! Hey that’s a great website too! I have a few projects for your designer… LOL
If you were my pastor, I would probably be at church every Sunday.
Translation: “We’re losing her soon, what have we not gotten off our butts to finish? Let’s give it to her before she’s GONE!”
I put the first practice in my Palm Pilot. Heck, I’ll go anywhere with free child care!
IZ: TY–you do amazing work!
Margaret: Thank you. That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever written in the comments.
Carrie: Would you believe this service was MY brain child? Heh… what was I thinking? And I’m glad you are attending. I need PROOF that offering child care is a GOOD idea: I’d say your darlings will suffice!
i totally care. in fact, tomorrow i will care enough to check out the site and say something intelligent. right now i’m busy drinking wine and being neurotic about the other gender. if you twitch i will kindly hand you cucumber slices for your eyes, though.
i am no help. i am used to this.
Hey, that 20/20 about the mess public schooling is in is on right now. I didn’t see it the first time, and I have to say I am appalled! We have GOT to stop throwing money at this bottomless pit!
I have been having problems with religion (period) lately and haven’t decided what I really believe and what I really don’t, although I strongly suspect that everything I was taught as a child isn’t right and true. This irks my husband incarnate even though he’s not particularly religious himself. Go figure.
That’s too big for these comments and if and when I can figure out what I have to say I’ll write about it. That day might never come, though.
Kat: Reworking those internal faith issues was the hardest work I’ve ever done. It’s hard to turn off some of those tapes. I’m looking foward to reading what you have to say. The only advice I can offer is: give it time. You are not alone.