Internship
I finished my last paper for this quarter today, so after tomorrow's class the school year will officially be put to bed. Finally, I will have free time to... frantically clean house for when my sister and her family come to visit.

Anyway, in the fall I'm taking a course called "Theology of Pastoral Leadership," which requires you to hook yourself up with an internship somewhere doing, well, pastoral leadership. Most of the people who are on ordination track use the field placement that most denominations require as their internship; but since I'm not on ordination track I have fairly free rein.

After talking to various people around the diocese, I will be interning at Saint Mark's Cathedral next year under the liturgist. Partly I'll be her assistant and gopher, but there's also some ongoing liturgical work being done with the cathedral services, and I'll be heavily involved with that.

I'm excited about this. It sounds like a lot of work, but it's right up my alley so it should be fun.

The only downside is that it will mean being away from St. Andrew's for most of six or seven months, since I will perforce be at the cathedral on Sundays. That also means I won't be able to teach Sunday School, which I really enjoy. But, it's only for a few months, then I'll be back; and in the meantime -- cool liturgy stuff.