and i believed you and called you sire

[phineasjones]

mmmmm that's better. warm, dry clothes and hot tea. much better. it's crazy out there. we never get more snow than predicted. well, except today i guess. weehooo!

i just got this e-mail from the evil!minister:
can you please pass on to me any and all choir news that has a "pastoral" element - no matter how seemingly trivial -
i.e. - ill family members, ill choir members, job loss, other issues or crises?

um. no? i mean... i don't know, does that seem weird? sure, she's the minister, but it seems to me that people would tell her if they wanted her to know. the choir are a fairly tight knit bunch... they should be able to talk amongst themselves without it being reported elsewhere. and what, as soon as someone tells me something personal, i have to run and tell her? a lot of them don't like her... i feel very weird about this. am i out of line?

work was ok today but then my brain died and i had to leave. i extra-special-love the snow today because it got me out of things i didn't want to do - playing chauffeur and seeing a gospel choir with R tonight. bleh. i want to stay home and cuddle up on the couch and watch when harry met sally. acquiring that movie may present some issues though, cuz i'm certainly not going to volunteer to dig out the car.

Comments

privacy rant

[anabelwumpkins.livejournal.com]

ooooh what a terrible, invasive, dictatorial request! you are absolutely not out of line at all, and i'm certain that the choir members to whom she is trying to 'minister' will appreciate your respect for their privacy. that kind of invasion never fails to make me furious, as few things have the power to do.

which reminds me... last night i was watching a news segment about a new device parents can attach to their computers to record every little thing that their kids type and i had to actually leave the room to take some deep breaths. down with big brother!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

you're not out of line. it's not like she's your superior in a military chain of command. you're not even obliged to tell her you won't forward stuff, but if i were you i'd point out to her that that seems rather unethical. uu ministers shouldn't go through life being assholes in that respect, at least, not unchallenged.

[scottxwl.livejournal.com]

Yo. What they said.

[camillafarfalla.livejournal.com]

Amen brother! to all of that. Er, sister!

And re. filmage... man, it sucks I didn't come tonight bc I own "WHMS..." and thus we could have had it with no car-digging required. I'll bring it tomorrow if you want, but it may well be moot then.

Yay for seeing you tomorrow!
::kisses::

::and some extra kisses for Cake and Molly::

pastoral element

[emriver.livejournal.com]

I don't see anything wrong with the request, as long as there's no coercion behind it. Compliance with the requet is something else. Is this a normal thing for church choirs? In your place, I might be inclined to announce to the choir "EM's asked me to pass on to her your news about thus and so. So if you want me to do that, let me know and I will" and don't pass on anything to EM unless the subject asks you to pass it on. Is there a "standard practice" for churches for this kind of thing? Could you condense choir news into a hymn that you could perform for EM? Perhaps a chant?