I think I have come to a new level of disdain for meetings. Most meetings seem to be the product of the culture I have been raised in, yet over the last couple of weeks, I have come to a disdain or even a hate of meetings.
I serve as the Sunday School president of my student ward. I have an attitude its my calling, I will do what I can, but I can't add much more to a meeting than what is in my purview...about a month or so ago, the bishop asked me to attend an 8 am "ward council" meeting every week, instead of the twice a month it was.
I should note, I unlike others around me as well as family, have a strong grasp of time and the amount of time it takes to get things done. So long as I am only dealing with myself, time has no meaning, but if I am interfacing with people, I strive really really hard to be early by at least 5 minutes and then to get things done as soon as possible to not tie up other lives with useless waiting. I have yet to attend an 8 am meeting that started at 8 or close to it. [Introduction of an annoyance]
I attend a meeting that the agenda has nothing on it. [A second annoyance...meetings should have purpose beyond we need to meet to talk]. So for 30 minutes in ward council we sit around a table and people try to come up with something important to say, I have nothing to add, I normally attempt not to say anything. I tend to keep track of random statistics of the ongoings of the meeting to keep myself awake and entertained. [the average arrival for the meeting is 15 minutes after 8...in other words 5 minutes after the meeting gets started 10 minutes late].
I spoke up and asked that if the meeting was an 8:15 meeting than change it to 8:15 so I am not showing up at 750 and waiting for 30 minutes. It shows a lack of professional conduct.
I didn't go to church on Sunday. Due to circumstances I had a limited control over, I didn't sleep well the night before, when my alarm went off, I looked at the time and turned off the clock and went back to bed. I awoke around noon and felt like i hadn't missed a thing. I need to set the stage for a couple of things that happened. I got out of bed and dressed around 1230 after I got done reading. I ate a bowl of cereal and then took Jordan to work at 215 when he came out of his room. I came home and spent time between playing Mario Kart on the Wii and attempting to figure out what I was doing with the next 7 weeks of my life.
At 4, there was a knock at my door. There was the bishop and the 1st councilor wanting to talk. [Annoyance: people who show up and want to talk about nothing.] After some level of formalities I think I got a little to annoyed and started to show the entire annoyance to the visit that had not purpose. I end up getting a tad persnickety and asking the bishop what he wanted. It may or may not have had the desired effect I wanted. They left shortly there after, but this comes from weeks of the bishop showing up or calling just to talk about nothing. This past week, the 1st councilor was over just to visit about nothing.
I have been formulating a list in my head of why these visits to see me. I have come up with a couple of plausible scenarios. First, the bishop has it in mind that there might be a worthiness issue with me. I have evaluated my life, and can not determine that there is such an issue in my life. Secondly, the bishop is having thoughts on my calling as Sunday School President. This might be a likely thing to occur as I have been not wanting to teach a Temple Prep class if there is no one in mind to have the class taught to and it serves no purpose other than taking up time and resources. Lastly, it is closely associated with the idea of my calling, that the thought is in the bishops head I am in the wrong calling or shouldn't have a calling right now, which wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit. It wouldn't be the shortest time I spent in a calling.
I don't think I interact with family as much as the bishop is trying to interact with me on some issues. It is really odd to me.
Needless to say, I think if this continues, I might just stop going to meetings. Inactivity is looking pretty sweet to me.
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