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jackofallgeeksFeeling irritable after a long week on travel. I had two days of meetings on the west cost, which meant leaving Tuesday morning and getting back at 5pm on Friday night. I like traveling, generally, but I've definitely decided I do not like flying Southwest Airlines. I've never felt so cattle-like on a trip before, it was just borderline-degrading. Doesn't help that the whole second day of meetings was less-useful and much more like a big commercial for the contractors we were dealing with...
In my personal life, Meghan and I still don't have a date. Which, I guess, shouldn't really bother me much in that we've only been engaged for two weeks, but I wish it seemed like we'd made any progress. (It also doesn't help that it's the first question anyone asks when they hear the news, but I can't really fault them for that...) The biggest annoyance is that Meghan's parish office seems to be giving us the run-around as far as getting things started goes. We need to turn in forms and meet with a priest before they'll even let us look at a calendar, but no one seems very clear on WHICH priest we need to talk to, and no one seems terribly interested in helping us schedule a meeting with either of them. To be fair, we almost had a meeting set up with one of the priests last week, but then we were told that we had to meet with a DIFFERENT priest, so we canceled that meeting before it happened. Now it seems that this other priest can't meet with us any time soon and, what's more, can't do a wedding any time around when we're looking. (We're now at the point of considering pretty much any time between mid-April -- after Beth Harzold's wedding -- and mid June.) It's just... tiring. I wish they could just tell us what steps we need to take, but it seems all they're capable of telling us is what we're NOT allowed to do.
On a related note, it bothers me that it's so difficult to talk to a priest in this parish. I mean, it seems to me that if you're a parish priest, and someone in your parish needs to talk to you (for whatever reason), and it's nigh-impossible to get in touch with you, you're doing something wrong. I don't care how many great programs your running, if you aren't available when a parishioner needs you, you fail. Of course, I have to take a deep breath and take a step back and recognize that I'm probably more than a little influenced by the rather personal nature of my current issue, but still... I mean, marriage is one of the sacraments, and the sacraments should be more a priests' job than anything else. At the very least they should be readily able to schedule time with a young couple looking to get married.
Anyways. I should be sleeping. I'm full of nervous energy, though, and my internal clock is still skewed -- it's only 8:30 on the west coast.
In my personal life, Meghan and I still don't have a date. Which, I guess, shouldn't really bother me much in that we've only been engaged for two weeks, but I wish it seemed like we'd made any progress. (It also doesn't help that it's the first question anyone asks when they hear the news, but I can't really fault them for that...) The biggest annoyance is that Meghan's parish office seems to be giving us the run-around as far as getting things started goes. We need to turn in forms and meet with a priest before they'll even let us look at a calendar, but no one seems very clear on WHICH priest we need to talk to, and no one seems terribly interested in helping us schedule a meeting with either of them. To be fair, we almost had a meeting set up with one of the priests last week, but then we were told that we had to meet with a DIFFERENT priest, so we canceled that meeting before it happened. Now it seems that this other priest can't meet with us any time soon and, what's more, can't do a wedding any time around when we're looking. (We're now at the point of considering pretty much any time between mid-April -- after Beth Harzold's wedding -- and mid June.) It's just... tiring. I wish they could just tell us what steps we need to take, but it seems all they're capable of telling us is what we're NOT allowed to do.
On a related note, it bothers me that it's so difficult to talk to a priest in this parish. I mean, it seems to me that if you're a parish priest, and someone in your parish needs to talk to you (for whatever reason), and it's nigh-impossible to get in touch with you, you're doing something wrong. I don't care how many great programs your running, if you aren't available when a parishioner needs you, you fail. Of course, I have to take a deep breath and take a step back and recognize that I'm probably more than a little influenced by the rather personal nature of my current issue, but still... I mean, marriage is one of the sacraments, and the sacraments should be more a priests' job than anything else. At the very least they should be readily able to schedule time with a young couple looking to get married.
Anyways. I should be sleeping. I'm full of nervous energy, though, and my internal clock is still skewed -- it's only 8:30 on the west coast.
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Date: 2008-09-27 04:41 am (UTC)Give me a call tomorrow, anytime, and I can help you out with your Parish Priest issues. Matt and I went through very similar things as well.
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Date: 2008-09-29 08:06 pm (UTC)Despite this, everyone seems to have the attitude of "self-help" almost. Our marriage prep courses are basically here is the number to sign up and just bring us back certificates when you're done.
Does Meghan's family not really know any of the priests/people who work in the parrish office?