The Cogs & Wheels of the Church Office

Thursday, June 8, 2006

OLeif would be gone for the following week with Jimmy and the junior high, to a place of which Collette had yet to know. Perhaps it was Illinois, or Indiana, or Kentucky. She was not entirely sure.

At work, there were more donuts from Ivy, and all sorts of ridiculous things that present themselves in the church office, which can’t be mentioned, or are so silly, it was usually embarrassing. But there was nothing interesting that day anyway, except for a phone call from a woman asking about the church (if it followed Joel Ostein’s material, whom she loved) and if the Presbyterians had their own Bible, like the Mormons. Collette knew she shouldn’t have, but she laughed. It was a good thing Ivy had taken the call.

And Ivy put a mug on Collette’s desk which read: You don’t have to be crazy to work here – it’s just a bizarre coincidence that everyone is.

The sewer line broke also, so no one could turn on the water in the church. Rosemary left colorful sticky notes on Collette’s desk in the shape of her initial. She had also left Ivy her own set. In addition, the missing wedding certificate had also been found, and Collette filled out the rest of it, though where Sinai was supposed to have signed it, she couldn’t quite figure.

Meanwhile, Magnus had made plans for the youth to get together at the park over lemonade and the merry-go-round (brilliant combination).