I don’t have much time tonight. I’ve got to go to church to participate in a long, boring, meeting. I know it’ll be long and boring because that’s the only kind we do.
I agreed a couple years back to serve on a constitutional revision committee. Since then we’ve held zero meetings. I came to look on the obligation the same way we Boomers think back on the atomic bomb scares of our childhoods, something we feared then but need not worry about now (oh, wait…)
But the call finally came.
I’m pondering whether to attend the meeting or just kill myself.
Decisions, decisions.
Being dead is an acceptable excuse for non-attendance, right?
I hope that you don’t sit on hard folding chairs, feeling hemhorrhoids announcing “Present!”
I do.
Lars; I’m surprised they let you onto a church committee. Do they know you go around the country attacking people with a sword?
Lars; I’m surprised they let you onto a church committee. Do they know you go around the country attacking people with a sword?
It didn’t work for Lazarus….
This is why I attend a church which doesn’t allow women to serve on the board.
I survivied. But we didn’t finish the business, and will have to meet again.
If they only knew what a ticking time bomb I am, they’d never ask me to do these things…
What a coincidence. I just got back from 2!–count them, 2–church meetings. One was a congregational meeting to discuss and then narrow down a slate of possible new church names.
I know, that’s living dangerously. That’s small potatoes, though; this is a Baptist church–associated with the Conservative Baptist movement–and soon we’ll be discussing changing the church constitution to allow people who have been sprinkled to become members.
After that meeting, we had an elder board meeting. I’m currently suffering from church business overload.
Lars,
Are Vikings allowed to fall on their swords? Or is that too girlie?
You know, DLE, that’s an interesting question, and I can’t think of an answer. Usually a doomed Viking just fights to the death. It may have something to do with the Norse not having a native tradition of torturing prisoners, but I don’t know for sure. Maybe I’ll remember something.
King Olaf Trygvesson did jump overboard in full mail to avoid falling into the hands of his enemies.
There’s at least one warrior suicide in Volsunga Saga, isn’t there? As well as the woman who walks into a huge fire…
Not to give you any ideas about excused absences from boring meetings, of course.
I don’t recall the warrior suicide offhand. Gudrun does walk into the burning house, of course, but that’s kind of a different thing.