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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Stress Rears Its Ugly Head


I had a mildly unpleasant Exec. Committee meeting at the Fellowship. We are having to make some difficult decisions about the budget. But the thing that bothers me the most is the way the interim minister refuses to cut down on making copies. I asked him to email information to the board members or just bring one copy that we can share and he insists on bringing paper copies for everyone, which they won't read. When I asked him not to, he said he would buy a ream of paper. "It's not the money," I said. Perhaps when I am not president, I will create an environmental concerns committee.

And I have to be at the test scoring building at 8 am, to finish training and qualifying by noon. I was having a little trouble yesterday, first falling asleep and then (after drinking some Coke) being fidgety and restless, making it hard to concentrate on the training. I was eating some candies and was scolded for making too much noise and distracting people. I was mortified. I was also biting my fingernails, but apparently that's okay.

I also don't know when I am going to make tonight's supper...I didn't end up doing as much planning and cooking as I meant to during my time off.

In the morning, we played two games of racquetball, after dropping Mommy at the Y. I brought ALT a surge protector that I had found during my tidying up. They had a computer plugged directly into an outlet...and very grateful. Ate the sandwich I had brought and talked to Heather and Nancy some. Went to the bank and got to the test scoring building right at 1. I went directly to the Fellowship for my meeting and Ray cooked and brought the ziti for potluck. He also brought me a plate during the meeting. Only a couple more months and my term is up...

1 comment:

  1. I hope your scoring and qualifying session went well! Yes, I imagine that those Exec. Committee meetings can be stressful. That's too bad about the minister not taking suggestions about reducing paper use. People have had a lot of clashes with our minister over the last couple of years, resulting in several long-term members leaving the church, to our sorrow. We miss them! She's a great preacher and administrator, and I'm sure it's a very tough job, but it's frustrating sometimes, and we feel like we have to be kind of careful or we'll end up getting mad and leaving the church, too.

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