A flurry of activity - Day 2

Day 2 in the residential course house.

X Piry is not feeling so good............

By the afternoon I was feeling a bit hyper, and found it difficult to concentrate.

To use a term common in theatrical parlance, but not necessarily appropriate in funerals; I corpsed.

Our ceremony was for a young woman with small children. One of my colleagues was role playing as a small child. Now, I genuinely believe that a small child saying "I want to go to the toilet" would not throw me. However, to have a mature and elegant woman say it was just too much, and I got the giggles.

However, this was only part one of my inadequacies.

I'd been in charge of the script that four of us were working on, and I'd put some of the pages into the folder in the wrong order. That was a classic schoolboy error, and I felt genuinely ashamed about it. My colleague coped with it brilliantly, and the congregation would never have known, but I still felt absolutely awful.

Add fatigue to this and I was a very grumpy bunny by the time I was coming home.

In conclusion, however, I shouldn't dwell on the negative; we got some very good feedback, and are all moving forward to the next stage. My overall feeling is that it went well, so that's what I should carry with me.

(Famous last words).