claudine_c

Tomorrow I'm going to an Anglican Benedictine Abbey in Camperdown, western Victoria for three days. Then on Friday I will be grilled by have a few nice chats with a panel of people who will decide whether to recommend me for training for ordination. I think I am as ready as I'll ever be. Time has passed quickly -- when I started inquiring into this process about 18 months ago, I wouldn't have thought that I'd be ready to face the panel so soon.

The following Monday I leave for a Student Christian Movement conference in the Blue Mountains, followed by a few days in Sydney. I'll be taking my laptop and some work that I need to catch up on, but I don't expect to have internet access during the conference, so I will probably be mostly offline until 10 July.

To take my mind off the interviews, I was given 70 undergraduate essays on the history of psychiatry to mark last week, and still have five left to mark this evening. This is my first attempt at marking, and it's been an eye-opener; hopefully I won't be so anxious about my own writing, now that I see that a tutor can only give about 30 minutes' attention to each essay!