waiting room-inations

I have a meeting soon. I have finished what I was doing earlier today (writing a sermon) and have got the coffee going for the participants in the meeting (except for my colleague Lynsey who drinks fruit tea. I must boil the kettle soon). I find myself with about 20 minutes before the meeting starts in which to ruminate, cogitate and exfoliate (couldn’t think of a suitable third ‘-ate’ word).

So what to do? If  I start reading a book I will undoubtedly be at a good / important bit when people arrive and will have to put it down, possibly losing my place or at least having to re-read that bit in order to pick up where I left off.

I could vacuum the floors, but I did that earlier (see how I subtly dropped in a bit of housework credit).

20 minutes is not long enough to watch a TV programme I missed while at the conference earlier this week.

I could play with practice some more of my new magic tricks, but when people arrive I will have to put them away hastily otherwise they may see some aspect of the trick they are not supposed to.

I have thought about surfing the web for some illustrations for my sermon, or for some pictures to brighten up the PowerPoint that will accompany it (so people have something nice to look at as they fall asleep). But having just completed the sermon I need to have a break from it before I come back to it afresh.

There’s always Facebook. But I am trying to be more disciplined with myself about how often I go on FB. In my self-designed weaning off procedure, not going on now is good for me (so I can go on for longer later).

It’s also possible that someone will arrive ten minutes early (it happened last time) so I had better not go to the loo now. (Should have thought of that sooner. Rats.)

So what to do? I know. I can always spend the time blogging… [short time elapses as I answer the doorbell. HONESTLY, it rang just as I typed the word ‘blogging’ but it was my daughter not bothering to use her own key.]

The only problem is I can’t think of a witty way to end the blog [cue doorbell].