Well, I've done it

I just put my name in for a parish.

I went back and forth about this for ages -- this place looks like such a great fit, but we can't really move right now, but look they do Compline!, but surely they want someone who's been a priest longer than five minutes, but but but . . .

For some reason I couldn't let go of the idea of putting my name in. What finally put me over the edge was finding a review of a service in that parish in an academic journal. Seriously. I'm standing there in the Sewanee library, killing time while I wait for a friend, and I'm leafing through the current periodicals, and there it is. And it wasn't the mere fact that the review was there; it was that it made the place sound like basically my idea of the Ideal Parish.

OK, I get it. I'd better get on this now, before hands start appearing out of thin air and writing instructions on the wall.

No doubt this won't actually go anywhere, but that's not really the point.

What exactly the point is is an open question.