It all comes down to this

This Friday/Saturday is BACOM, or a weekend that I've been building up to for three official years and seven unofficial years before that. I actually started this blog on MySpace in the buildup to this event, and this time next week the Diocese should know whether they'll make me a postulant (that is, tell me to go on to seminary and then likely the priesthood) or not. I'm guessing that I will find out soon after.

I'm actually not that stressed about it. I've come to a place of amity with my old nemesis, the future. Whatever happens I'm confident that I'll be able to scrape together a living and a sense of purpose. I'm also relatively confident that I'll be put forward as a postulant - I've gotten significant support from a variety of quarters with no one telling me I shouldn't be doing this. Time and committees will tell, but as I said, I'm at peace.

In a point of interest to readers of this blog, at the end of last week I got a somewhat unsettling mass email about the weekend in which each member of the group was asked to prepare (quite literally) a song and dance, or some other demonstrable talent for the committee, to show 'another side of ourselves'. I'll likely be doing a reading of one of my postings from here. Probably not this one, although that is one of my favorite posts ever.