Saturdays

I didn't give myself enough time this morning.  The meditation was ten minutes short (I made it up after Mass) and Prime was rushed.

I got up at 5:00 AM, a bit tired.  But that wore off once I got headlines going.  I took about fifteen minutes too long with headlines.  That showed up in the abbreviated meditation.

"Reassuring Thomas," Duccio

I wanted to take my time getting going this morning, but I let it go on longer than necessary.

It's one thing to check headlines and even to get deeper into some interesting articles, but to waste time online and make the prayer suffer for it—that's just lame.

So, more concretely, I got to the church to open up at about 6:25 AM.  I'll need to make that 6:10 AM next time.  Since shower/shave was after coffee because it is a Saturday, and coffee was done by 5:20 AM, this means it I spent over an hour between headlines and finally opening the church.

Here's what it looked like:

5:00 AM: Up/Coffee
5:20 AM: End coffee/continue headlines
5:37 AM: Sent an email about Inaugural Ball
[this is the no man's land I'm concerned about]
6:25 AM: Open church

Also, because I was rushing, that whole Matins & Lauds were also rushed.  Hence the need next week for a 6:10 AM opening.

Moreover, since there's no break before going into Prime, the whole thing needs to be on time.  Two things about this: 1) all the more reason to be punctual, not to schlep parts and rush others; and 2) that's a good two-and-a-half strait hours in the Church every Saturday morning.  A mundane caution, watch out for the need to visit the restroom in that time.

Lastly, yesterday I wrote this many thank you notes: 0.