Nuisance!

Among the things I do for my church is schedule the people who will help out in the Sunday Masses. The new schedule begins next Saturday afternoon, so people need to get it pretty soon. The process of issuing the schedule has several steps. First I make a schedule covering seven or eight weeks. Then I put each week's schedule on a separate sheet of paper, which the secretary will type up. I also write a cover memo. Schedule and cover memo have to be submitted to the pastor for approval. Then I can photocopy the whole thing and mail it out to everybody.

This morning I got up early to do the second and third steps: copy the schedule onto separate sheets for each weekend (and Christmas, this time), and write the cover memo. Only to discover that I hadn't finished the overall schedule. I had somehow taken it into my head a couple of days ago that I had finished that part. So I was expecting to get everything to the secretary and run it by the pastor during the day and get it into the mail this evening. But no!. It took so long to finish the general schedule that the secretary had left for the day well before I had the sheets ready for her. So I'm basically a day behind where I had expected to be. If all goes without a hitch from this pint, the best I can hope for is to get it into the mail tomorrow afternoon. Some people wight then get it on Wednesday, but Thursday is also a possibility — not ideal when you're telling people they're on duty Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning.

Well, it's my own darn fault for not bearing down harder over the weekend (and earlier) and having everything ready to go before this morning. If I weren't a world-class procrastinator all would have been well.