rantings about church politics. and an EVIL MINISTER

omg. arahrgahgh!!!

just when i was starting to think... you know, the minister isn't really all that bad...

background: on sunday, there was a scheduling conflict - i scheduled a rehearsal over the kids pageant rehearsal (unknowingly). and then the minister moved the location of a prayer circle to the same time and same place as both other rehearsals. this was ok with me, as several choristers wanted to go the circle. the re director, aileen, had to take the kids out into the hallway for their fifteen minute rehearsal.

then: before the circle starts, the minister tells me i have royally pissed off aileen with this scheduling error and i should work to make things right with her. this nearly destroys me in my fragile state because aileen is one of my favorite people in the church.

then: i e-mailed aileen with an extensive apology and offer to lick her boots and such things if she will not be mad at me.

in an e-mail from aileen this morning i learn: aileen was never mad at me and she never told the minister she was. she was mad at the MINISTER for moving the prayer circle. she would have approached me about our conflict and we would have worked something out. but the minister just kicked her ass out. she even yelled at the minister right there in front of everyone. so, not only did the minister then tell me that aileen was upset with ME (on the very morning i had had a breakdown on her), she also told aileen she should write an e-mail to everyone saying that she didn't mind that the prayer circle was scheduled over her rehearsal. aileen, thank goodness, has no intention of writing this. omg. minister is an EVIL BITCH!!!!

friendsy thing

i can't remember now where i got this...

what struck me as i was doing this was how i surround myself with good people. i highly recommend that as a life practice. i just wanted to say about everyone "i like you! ::hugs::" ... i tried to do a little better than that.

( that thing where you write an anonymous message to each of your friends... )

ok, enough fucking around. time to get some things done.

bad phineas

one of the pieces in the music service has the line, "ange-els and men with jo-o-o-oy will sing..."

i was just singing it to myself and realized i was singing, "ange-els and men with bo-o-o-oys..."

heh. oops.

he said it, i didn't.

gacked from ivyblossom...

if you haven't laughed your ass off at this yet, what the hell have you been doing?

whoops, time to add the fabric softener...

i've been kinda sorta productive today. feels productive to me but i was just doing the kind of shit i need to do to catch up to everyone else normal productivity levels. it kind of sucks being this much of a procrastinator. a lot of things suck right now. won't go there. as they say in senegal, bul dem foofu.

clean clothes, though, are almost enough to make me feel better about the world. clothes and my beautiful christmas tree. i really do believe it to be the most beautiful tree ever.

i just sent an e-mail to the evil minister with the service layout for sunday. at the bottom i included a wee note - don't worry, aileen wasn't mad at me. all is fine. we'll see what she makes of that. hmph.

[edit]: oh my god. those aren't fish. they're slugs. eeewwwww!!!!

oh, just go to bed already.

hey, camillafarfalla, where's the link to that story? get pimping already. :D

i'm all tired and cold again. i wish it weren't raining - all the snow will be gone tomorrow. ::sad::

rehearsal was ok tonight. yes, all around an ok day.

but i don't want to be tired. i want to write harry/ron. ::pokes brain:: i may have to resign myself to the fact that i simply won't have the brain power for this until the music service is over. meh. but what can you do? i'm all a-worrying about finishing up my program notes tomorrow and setting the order of service and we haven't run the whole vaughan williams through once yet and yada yada. so any writing attempt would not have full access to my brain. better to wait then, i guess.

m'sleepy anyway. i'll go to bed and read some lotr. god, i'm so boring in here lately. sorry 'bout that.

if you want interesting, go here and read the romance novel part. cracked me up.