{"id":44,"date":"2007-10-12T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=44"},"modified":"2007-10-12T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T03:32:00","slug":"meandering-update-on-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/meandering-update-on-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Meandering Update on Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

L<\/span>et’s start with some geeky Church news<\/a><\/b> portion of today’s entertainment. Never mind Catholic \/ Orthodox rapprochement (a thousand years of schism can’t be wrong!), it seems the Russians are upset with Constantinople<\/i> (that’s Istanbul, for you young Turks out there). I blame Estonia. If they’d only converted to Unitarianism, none of this would have happened.<\/p>\n

And as I’ve long suspected, the Pope really is crazy like a fox<\/a>. I won’t bore you with his other chess moves (they’re mostly liturgical), but for those who thought this would be a transitional Papacy, Benedict is increasingly making Pope John Paul II look like he<\/i> was the transition.<\/p>\n

And when did BBC stop capitalizing G<\/u>od?<\/p>\n

On a more personal note, my schedule has really screwed up my praying of the Hours. I’m trying to fix that, but it’s been a struggle. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, wedding plans are the chaos that wedding plans apparently always are. Still, we’ve finally got another planning session put together, so that’s a good thing.<\/p>\n

My plans for continued employment with Catholic schools in Tacoma is collapsing like a startled souffl\u00e9. <\/p>\n

Plan A is proving a difficult sell – a month I’ve been on-and-off working on a presentation to the Principals and Pastors, and it only started coming together yesterday in any meaningful way. Trouble is, the plan only makes financial sense if you assume that the goal is to (eventually) open several more schools. It’s rather difficult to get these folks to that view, when their paradigm is built on “can we afford to stay open for another year?” <\/p>\n

The demographics support twelve or more schools where we currently have seven, but I don’t think I can get them to look that far ahead.<\/p>\n

Plan B is increasingly looking unlikely. The Archdiocese just hasn’t budgeted for the position I’d fill.<\/p>\n

Plan C involves sending out r\u00e9sum\u00e9s. This, I started yesterday. Looks like Frank Russell is looking for a FrameMaker guru. Why not?<\/p>\n

Oh, and my laptop finally died. There went my savings account.<\/p>\n

Woo hoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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