No news

Well, I lied. Things did not go back to normal on June 1. Now I'm just busy with boring things-catching up on paperwork, mostly. But I still feel like I'm racing around with too much to do. Maybe July will be better.

One fun thing I am doing is revising curriculum and making plans for changes to next year's programs. We are looking at adapting a high school program for a junior high program and I was talking to my boss about it. "This looks great!" I said. "Maybe just a little less sex." "Uh, no Wendy, we need to have plenty of sex, we're going to be hearing all about that at our next meeting with the state." "OK, we'll have plenty of sex then." She didn't laugh, but I thought this was hilarious. The fact that I get to say this kind of stuff still brings me a lot of joy.

Last weekend I attended a retreat sponsored by the Reclaiming Moral Values Forum of Progressive Action for the Common Good of the Quad Cities. The retreat was at the Our
Lady of the Prairie Retreat House, which I had never been to before. It was a good opportunity for me to start thinking about that part of my life again, which i haven't for a while. It was not as in-depth spiritually as what I would have liked, but then that is hard to do when you aren't coming to the topic with a common faith tradition. I met the pastor of our local Unitarian church, as well as someone who is a member. I am planning to check it out one of these Sundays.

I also met some good people, and am feeling enthusiastic about getting involved. Caroline, who is the PACG Organizer, coordinates a monthly Social Action movie night, which I've volunteered to help with. I picked out this month's title-"for the Bible Tells me so." I'm excited to possibly have a place to go and do some work, because i know that i don't do any when left to my own devices. I guess that's not altogether true. I've been doing a lot of changes in my personal life this year, but its time for me to go get active in the broader world, and that is easier to do within a supportive group. I went to a Peace Vigil that another PACG group has on Thursday afternoons. I've been wanting to do that since I found out about it in March, of course today, my first time attending, we had a major rainstorm. But it was really great, we got a lot of honks and waves and I found out that someone I work with is a member of the Peace Forum. I am hoping to make it a regular Thursday event.

So I guess there is some news, just nothing work related. Thats ok, time for some personal development, i guess.