Master Schedules

After a hard day of recording in Bridgewater, VA (which I wasn't ready for) I have made it home just in time to evacuate the structure tomorrow for a week in Maine. In this community where schedules tend to run into each other, we have considered making a master schedule that would coordinate Faith Builders, Meadville Mennonite Chapel, Shalom, and some personal schedules together. The solution to our double scheduling is improving coordination and cooperation.....or is it?

The fact that we now need a master schedule to keep from doubling up events is really a scary thought that causes one to break out with the hives. We now plan so many events and create schedules sooooo tight that we have to know that Thursday is the only free day that my brother has this week....that way I can be sure to avoid double scheduling and go ahead and screw his only free day that he has to spend with his family. Efficient use of the seven day work week eh????:)

While my community has not yet caved to the "master schedule," it is common for Americans to see such coordination and cooperation as a solution. Sorry Americans.... our problem is not a coordination problem....it is a mere number problem. We make schedules that would fit more comfortably in a 12 day week than a 7 day week.

Master schedules and coordination are sadly nothing more than a band aid that will only cover the wart until it grows larger. I hope that somebody will begin making jumbo band aids in the future because we'll need them unless we grudgingly cave to surgery on our schedules.

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