BPM: blunders per minute

I've just got a quick post about liturgical silliness. I think this afternoon was a record score for our BMP rating.

At 4:15-5:30 we had our pointless class where we're now giving 20-minute presentations. I went first and gave my daily heresy. Gideon did the wrong assignment for the second time now. Then we went to evening prayer.

-The opening song was off-key.
-Then we magically started singing a morning prayer tune on the following page.
-Then we starting singing two melody lines on account of tone-deaf singers.
-Then we sang an extra verse out of sheer confusion.
-Then the cantor didn't start the correct psalm on account of it being Saint Luke's feast day.
-Then someone else started the correct psalm on the wrong side.
-Then Arul mispronounced "afflicted" so badly that our side thought we had the wrong page open like the cantor and stopped chanting.
-Then I let out a short chuckle at the absurdity of the situation. Not the best thing for me to do at the time, but totally justified.

So that's seven separate blunders in the space of approximately two minutes. I'm not counting my laughter as a "blunder".


I did, however, feel pretty bad about emailing my teaching committee and canceling this Sunday's meeting. It turns out that I'm going to fall off the face of the earth this weekend for our communications workshop, which is every bit as inconvenient as it might sound. But the seminary requires four whole days of my time and sharing is for protestants.