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:: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 ::

Ash Wednesday update
Doing penance for my introversion:

9 a.m.: Attend cabinet meeting with roomful of extroverts.
9 a.m.-11:55 a.m.: Endure insufferable blather from domineering extroverts.
11:56 a.m.: Potty break.
noon: Begin next meeting.
1:15 p.m.: Escape from meeting; dash to nearest sandwich shop.
1:30 p.m.: Return to office to phone messages and e-mails, all of which are urgent.
1:35 p.m.: Sneak into lunch room with reading material; attempt to eat lunch uninterrupted.
1:40 p.m.: Have lunch interrupted by co-worker (also an introvert) who turns on lunch room TV.
1:55 p.m.: Attempt to duck into office to recuperate.
2 p.m.: Hold impromptu staff meeting to update co-workers.
2:30 p.m.: Attempt to end meeting before small talk sets in.
3:15 p.m.: Adjourn meeting.
3:16 p.m.: Vegetate.
3:30 p.m.: Read and respond to e-mails, phone calls, in between staff interruptions.
4 p.m.: Hit the blogs.

Was it penance? Or purgatory? Or just another day in an academic bureaucrat's life, which only seemed like hell?

Today's lectio divina meditation
This morning was so hectic -- getting ready for meeting hell -- that I forgot to post a thought about today's lectio divina. The morning scripture focus was from Psalm 19, especially:

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight,
O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Psalm 19:14

Forgive me, Lord. I flunked today.

:: Andrew 16:35 + ::
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