Captain's Corner

So today was weird… I’ve been workin’ like a dog for a few days between my actual job and trying to get our new apartment ready… I haven’t gotten much sleep, my eyes are irritated from all the paint and cleaning product fumes, etc… Anyway, back to today… I come in to work a little late, kinda draggin’ my butt on the ground (figuratively) and I kinda almost pay attention during rehearsal. Then service starts and I give it the old college try. For once it’s almost like I know what I’m doing… but I started to notice something… I wasn’t the only one who stayed up late the night before, and it shows. Now there were no ginormously glaring errors made… just a lot of little ones by a lot of different people (including one missed transition into a song due to a lack of musicians on stage…) and it struck me that none of us were mentally prepared for that service. Heck, we’d run an extensive rehearsal the day before, in addition to the one service in the can already… but we just didn’t have our head in the game at 9:30. And while overall the service was fine and no one will lose their head over anything, it really had me thinking about how important what we do is, and how important it is for us to be physically and mentally rested and ready for our work. On that note I should probably head to bed…

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