Almost quitting time

It is sunny and fifty degrees out - no wonder my concentration level today stinks.

Not much on tap for the weekend - if I have any money left after filling the gas tank, I may get the car washed. It's a bit like getting my hair cut: it needs doing, but something always gets in the way.

The student group for which I'm assembling a quilt dropped off the supplies Wednesday. Their spring break began Thursday (and runs until 3/25!); while they are gone I need to hammer out a design, leaving room for the squares they don't have yet, but think they will get. This is going to be a challenge, for a number of reasons. When I have pictures, I'll post and explain.

Sunday the Occasional Choir is singing. I'm doing a monologue as well - a woman who has just seen Jesus' procession into Jerusalem at the start of holy week. Reciting the whole thing a billion times is a big part of tonight and tomorrow's plan. I have all of it memorized, but sometimes blank out for a second on the connections between paragraphs, particularly at the points that were break points in my memorization process. While I've been doing Scripture readings in the service almost since I started at New Day, this is the first bit of acting I've done for them - and the first bit I've done at all in a longish time (not to make the worship leader nervous, oh no, or me either =^)).

Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor? He's created me with the ability to memorize huge chunks of dialogue, but the inability to reliably recall where I left the car keys (or the car, on one memorable occasion)(no, I wasn't drinking; I was at a very crowded mall and there were tons of black Civics in the lot)(I didn't notice until the third time I hit the auto unlock and the door wouldn't open that the stuff sitting on the passenger seat of the car I was trying to get into wasn't my stuff).

Somewhere in there I have two sets of lesson plans to do, one for my own Bible study, one for a study I'm substitute teaching. Maybe break from usual habit and find a nice sunny coffee shop Saturday afternoon instead of heading out early to Panera.

MU plays Pittsburgh in the semi-finals of the Big East tonight. There is very little hoopla on campus (well, the students are gone, duh); the attitude seems to be a bit "So what? Come around when we are in the NCAA tournament." In fact, one of our student workers is working this week, but is going on a road trip next week with a few girlfriends to follow the team to whatever venue they play at for the first round. Assuming we get in, that is.

Better start cleaning the desk off - hate to come in to a mess on Mondays.