St Edmund

• Usual AM weekday routine.
• Dealt via carefully-written email with a modestly vexatious issue that seems to have an extended shelf life. This took longer than I had anticipated, as it generated a handful of secondary emails.
• Extended telephone conversation with the Chancellor.
• Kept abreast of more late-breaking emails.
• Began to wrestle with my exegetical notes on the readings for Advent III (St Luke's, Springfield) toward the end of distilling a homiletical message statement.
• Broke off from this for a lunch of leftovers.
• Re-engaged the sermon work, finally emerging with the mission accomplished.
• Took a modest walk with Brenda, stopping to pick up some dry cleaning.
• Made an initial effort toward summoning an ad hoc Board of Examining Chaplains.
• Attended to an ongoing administrative project.
• Touched base with the Senior Warden in one of our "vacant" parishes over a couple of small details.
• Broke off to work for a while in my basement, which will continue to be a black hole of need for some time yet.
• One more small bit of administration, this one involving the diocesan archives.
• Evening Prayer with Brenda.