Saturday, August 13, 2011

Late papers and guests will be penalized at instructor's discretion

Planning a wedding liturgy is an awful lot like designing a syllabus. There's a set form with a variety of constraints, but so many moving and movable parts. What readings? What prayers? What hymns? In what order, and done by whom? And once you settle on all those individually-appealing parts, you have to decide if they work well together and add up to a coherent whole. At least there are no assignments to devise, no stern policies to articulate, and no anticipatory weariness at the thought of all the grading that awaits.

5 comments:

meg said...

S/grading/writing thank-you notes/ though...

Dr. Virago said...

But you have to pay for a wedding, while you're getting paid to devise a syllabus. :)

Flavia said...

Guys: this is supposed to make me feel better?

Phooey.

meg said...

Heh. You'll have noted that both Dr. V and I are merely shacked up (to my knowledge). But you can mope all the way to the bank with that nice tax break.

Dr. Virago said...

Yes, ignore us shacked-up types taking the piss out of you. :) Heh. Shacked-up. I *love* that phrase.

And now I'm singing "Love Shack." Tin roof! Rusted!