I had a weird day yesterday. I had almost no powers of concentration. It was a bad day to lose my ability to focus.
First thing in the morning was handbells at church. We were playing two pieces we had done last week. I got us started alright, but partway through the first song, I blacked out. I was daydreaming or something, then suddenly, a whole page had passed. “Yikes!” I thought to myself. “Are we messing up? Is everyone playing okay?” They were, thankfully.
Next I went to my church because I was singing in choir. I was the altar assistant, so I was up in front. Suddenly, the Gospel reading was done and it was time to sing, and I was up in front still. I was supposed to be in the balcony! I speed-walked up the side aisle and ran up the stairs and almost passed out trying to sing and breathe heavy at the same time.
When prayer time came, I went up to the altar to read my parts of the prayer and left the binder in my seat that has the prayer requests. I had to go back for it while everyone stood and watched. Ugh.
Then during communion, I almost poured wine down some visitor guy’s shirt. He didn’t grab the chalice to help me tilt it, so I was trying to do it on my own. I wasn’t paying attention, and it sloshed all over his top lip. I thought it would spill, but it didn’t. Whew!
I wanted to just go back to bed, but I had a ton of work to do at school. I went straight there, and sat for the next four hours trying to do work, but getting nothing done. The last hour I was there was at least a little productive. I hope today is better.
Someone left some comic book superhero figurines as a late birthday present to help me get my work done. (Thank you, Carol!) They posed in inspiring ways while they watched my futile efforts.
Maybe I should have taken a cue from Dr. Strange in how to concentrate. …Or in how to rock out!
Ha – I love your picture captions!
I am impressed that you stayed all that time to power through the grading. What a rough day, but holy cow – you pack a lot into a Sunday. Church twice? With responsibilities in each service? And then you go to work? You need a vacation.
Ditto for me. Me like Hulk.
And I totally agree, that is an awful lot of work for one Sunday morning.
Aw, you figured out the handwirting on your board, eh? And I thought it was almost too legible for you to think it from me 😉 . (In point of fact, Thurman saw the set while he was out shopping, so props actually go his way this time.) Indeed – sitting in the lotus position to concentrate like Dr. Strange does would appear to help – but how would you get near enough to your desk top to grade anything then? ‘Tis a puzzlement…
AHAHAHAHAHA!! Laughing with you, not at you. But geez, you’ve gone downhill fast since your b-day! 😉
Maybe if you sneaked up on the grading like the guy in red on the left….it’d be more fun.
Thanks for the Monday laugh!!!!!!
What a horrific chain of events. Did the choir director wait for you to get to the balcony? Did you wipe offer the communion napkin to the man to wipe his lip?
Hope today is better.
The director delayed the music, but couldn’t wait until I got up there. I missed the first phrase. I was sorry to be so out of breath. I really liked what we sang. It was the Third Mode Melody by Thomas Tallis with the words “Lord Teach Us How to Pray Aright”. I like that old English sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXt-2BmgVbA
And for your entertainment, here is a dance mix version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXt-2BmgVbA
Yikes! I was letting the dance version play while typing that comment and I wasn’t watching the video. There’s some weird bikini-girl scenes. Do they not know that’s church music?