7 Scattered Takes

One

I don't have time to blog. I'm at Cana Synod and it turns out 8am morning prayer comes really early in the morning, even if you do wake up at five.

Two

I just wasted all my time deleting a huge pile of blog spam. Oh how I hate blog spam. Oh how I wish I knew something about anything and could get rid of it without actually having to personally wade through all the drivel. Yes I know you, spam generator, think I have written an interesting post. No, I don't want to buy shoes. Ack.

Three

I'm here at Synod without the children and am mortified that they weren't that sad to see me go. I've only had two phone calls, one to ask where the swim suits are, one to say they don't have time to talk. Sniff.

Four

I didn't clean the house very well before I left. I tried really hard but basically everyone worked against me. I've been sitting here in the quiet of this lush beautiful hotel room imagining, in all kinds of lurid detail, what kind of horrible things they are doing to the house because I didn't manage to put anything away.

Five

Am reading the kids Tom Sawyer, which I've never read before, and had no idea….really, no idea at all. Read three chapters yesterday as I was heading out the door and decided, in the most cowardly fashion, to, what's the word I'm looking for, sanitize (?) it. Oh my word, I freaked out silently in my own mind. I can't say these words out loud right now. I can't talk about any of this stuff. Why are we reading this book right now? Why didn't I read it first? I would have had all kinds of conversations ready in the hopper if I had known. Why didn't anybody warn me? On the upside, when I get back, I guess we'll be having a nice long history lesson and civic lesson and race relations lesson. Fun times.

Six

I should have read the bible, since I'm at a church meeting….but instead I blogged! So you're spared the little clever biblical insights today.

Seven

But don't despair, the reason I've been waking up so early all the time to write is not because it takes me three hours to write a blog post, but because I've been quietly and frantically toiling away on a little tiny, um, I'm so anxious to say it out loud, the word I'm searching around for is, Book. I'm writing a book. And I'll tell you about it just as soon as I have thirty seconds to sit down and have replied to all the comments on this blog.

Pip pip.

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