Initial Conditions

I make a point of taking it easy on sundays but today was no such day. Why? Here is a recap of the last 21 hours:

00:00 Leave Iain Proctor’s house to get home

01:00 Go to sleep

05:15 Wake up for Japanese Grand Prix

07:30 Set alarm for 09:30 to wake up again and go back to sleep

09:30 Alarm remains very much silent. I remain asleep and have a really strange dream which I may or may not recant later

11:36 After several minutes of thinking my alarm is going to go off any time soon, I turn on the radio: 11:36. Late for church. Stress and annoyance levels hit the roof.

11:45 After being really annoyed, I decided I should go to church anyway as the new minister vote was impending and I really wanted to be part of that.

11:50 Arrive shortly after the potential new minister’s sermon started. Luckily had a quiet entrance.

12:30 Church finishes. Election occurs, and minister is chosen by 109 votes to 4 (more on this in a later post). Get invited to dinner by Johanne.

13:00 Leave church and shake the hand of new minister. He saw I was late coming in and I was embarrassed to say my alarm hadn’t gone off. Told him I was lucky he had a lengthy sermon as I caught most of it. Shirked away in embarrassment.

13:15 Still waiting outside for my ride to Johanne’s. Try to call parents, but they are having lunch.

14:00 Arrive at Johanne’s and forget I had to do the Powerpoint at church tonight. Unwind by having a very nice lunch indeed.

15:30 Start to feel very tired indeed. Contemplate falling asleep in their spare room.

16:00 Alarm goes off reminding me that I was to do Powerpoint. Get annoyed by the fact that alarms seem to be picking and choosing whether it decides to go off. Parents then call apologising for earlier. No particularly great revelations from me or them.

17:00 Get informed that the guy leading worship at church tonight is likely to use his own songs i.e. ones that are not already pre-typed on the system. That equals much preparation to do before the service, and probably not enough time to do it in time for a 18:30 kick-off

17:15 Arrive at church. The Korean church was still there, but clearing up. Someone hadn’t turned the projector off this morning. Stress levels go up.

17:30 Garry Brotherstone arrives at church and says he’s going to be doing entirely his own songs- then says that he won’t want the words on screen, leaving me with nothing to do for the next hour. Play minesweeper for 45 minutes to destress.

18:15 Give up on intermediate minesweeper and stick the intimations up on screen. Wonder if the empty row of chairs might make a good kipping place for during church. Realise that this probably won’t go down too well, so bear it out on the really uncomfortable powerpoint chair.

18:45 Church is 15 minutes old, but worship consists solely of the guy singing and playing at the front. This is not a bad thing, but I’m really, really sleepy…

Approx 19:00 Fall asleep for about 5 minutes at the desk in the back. Wake up when the sound guy pokes me.

19:30 Church ends. I make light conversation with a few folk before going home to an empty flat and collapsing on the bed.

20:00 Realise I am hungry, make my tea, and realise that I should inflict my tales of today on the blogopshere. Thank you for reading….

EDIT: Maybe this doesn’t sound very stressful, but trust me, it was..