Hi there. Donna's Palm Pilot here. I hold her calendar, because she has all the organizational skill of a Bassett Hound. I need to ask for a favor, especially from you churchy folks.
Please, I'm begging you: stop scheduling things for the week after Easter. So far we have had to pick from 2-3 conflicting events every day that week, and Saturday the 18th and Sunday the 19th are the equivalent of scheduling armageddon. There must be 20 different places we could be that weekend (when, by the way, we have church, because unlike every other pastor in the free world, Donna doesn't take Low Sunday off).
The thing is...we don't really want to be anywhere that weekend. It's the weekend after Easter. We're both ready for a break. I've been ringing alarms and popping on and off for four days straight the week before. Well, weeks beforehand actually, since Donna can never remember what time she decided for the Seder.
I'm sure I speak for the calendars and devices of all of the other leaders at Abiding Peace as well. It isn't just Pastor Donna who works hard Holy Week. The good people of Abiding Peace are busy cooking and leading worship and helping set up and clean up. And they don't get to count any of that as work. So give them a break as well and don't ask them to come to things that weekend after Easter either.
I know you scheduling people wait until after Lent and Easter to plan your events and trainings and parties and concerts and meetings. I know you check your own Palm Pilots and Blackberries and notice that April 18th is the first Saturday after Lent and Easter. But there are actually thirty-six other Saturdays in the year.
Wouldn't it be possible to schedule a few things on those Saturdays?
Just asking.
Thank you for your time and your consideration of this request.
1 comment:
Well you poor thing. Sounds like that you need to turn yourself off and rest.But if Donna did not have you she would be lost and wandering the wilderness. And she would never get anything done without your help. Your mission is to be, if you decide to accept it, is to remind Donna of appointments and such. Bless her heart, she would be stopped in her tracks without you. I know that, because, I too have to have posty notes everywhere to remind me where I need to be, who I am to see and what I am to do. I do not have a Pilot. You are so lucky to be Donna's assistent. Yeah, people could schedule things way after Lent and Easter, but what would you do then. You would be so bored. Am I right? TEH
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