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I want my Sabbath!

Monday, 10 March, 2003

It's been about two weeks since I had a day off where I can just rest and do nothing and I'm really feeling the effects. Work has been incredibly busy since we just went through Orientation Week, the last of the commencing student enrolments and the mayhem of Week 1. Now it is just starting to settle so I might even get to the filing tomorrow. Weekends have been packed full of social engagements one cannot turn down—the ECU car rally and barbecue, an engagement party for the couple I talked about here, a birthday bash for a friend we haven't seen in a long time—along with official MTS business (picking books at Koorong for ECU's Commencement Camp bookstall; unfortunately they've run out of $15 paperback ESV's), church commitments and endless housework. Weeknights fill up with dinners with friends, IBM functions and Bible Study.

For us, Sundays just never works out to be a rest day. I'm usually doing the washing or the ironing or various other bits and pieces of housework. Ben and I are supposed to prepare our Thursday night Bible Studies on Sunday afternoon. The Sunday School leaders meet at 4:30 before Sunday School starts at 5. It ends at 6 and lately I've found myself spending the next hour helping people clean up after the kids. Church starts at 7 and ends at 8:30 and afterwards we hang around to chat to people. Usually we don't get home until 9:30. In three weeks I will start singing up the front during the 7 pm service at St. Michael's with two other girls. The evening band is splitting into two and acquiring more singers. Bands will operate on a five-week cycle: two weeks on, two weeks off and one week with everyone with a rehearsal earlier in the afternoon before Sunday School. I'm excited about singing again because I miss the workout it used to give my vocal chords and the feeling of being part of a team, making music together. It's also great that I don't have to do it every week.

Saturdays is becoming more and more of a Sabbath. I can usually get the laundry out of the way in a couple of hours and spend the rest of the day doing nothing. My idea of “nothing” entails sleeping in to 8 o'clock, watching movies, reading books, playing on the piano while singing, writing stuff, updating my website and spending quality time with Ben. Need more quality time with Ben; the last fun thing we did together was to watch This is Spinal Tap on DVD.

This weekend is ECU's Commencement Camp. To stop me from crashing and burning, I've organised to have Friday and the following Monday off. I think I'll need them to recover. I also want to spend one of them walking my CV around campus and dropping it in at the various Schools and Departments at the University of Wollongong. I've been told there's always casual admin work available; it just depends on who you know and who knows you.

Three weeks to go before I quit work ....

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