NORTHERN PLANNER

So it’s 5ish and I’m sat at my desk, thinking about a presentation structure. I need a quick break and decide to do a 5 minute post..

It’s been a hell of week – mostly great, but with some of those teething troubles you always get when you’re trying to learn lots of new things at once. I’m tired – but that good tired when you know it’s been worth it.

This end of the Church has been quiet for a couple of hours, everyone’s had their heads down getting stuff done before the weekend. Then someone plugs his Ipod into the speaker system……

There’s a palpable change in the atmosphere. The throbbing bass forms some sort of soundtrack to that final happy push to get things finished. We’re tired, but that’s okay, we like doing what we do and we wouldn’t do anything else. Some of us may be here for a long while yet, but we care so that’s sort of fine too.

This is the rythm of Friday afternoon ebbing away into Friday night. It’s the hum of people working as a team. They’re thinking and feeling all this without even knowing it.

This is where I work now.

Good this.