I was disappointed last night.

I’ve been looking around to find a church I like. Since I went to college, I’ve discovered I like non-denominational churches with progressive, modern worship styles. (I don’t use the word “contemporary” – churches that advertise “contemporary” worship usually mean they think it’s “radical” and “edgy” to have an acoustic guitar and drums.) Also, I’m trying to find a church with a strong post-college singles demographic. Frankly, I don’t think the second exists in this town – there simply aren’t many jobs in this county that require a college degree. However, last Sunday I found a nice non-denominational church with the style of worship I like. The preaching was . . . worthwhile.

Anyway, they have a cell-group structure, and they told me this one certain group had a couple of people in it who were my age. So, I was really looking forward to going to it for the first time on Wednesday night. Then I found out it was cancelled. I was bummed. I needed something to do.

There weren’t any good movies playing (see yesterday’s post), so I went to the video store to rent some movies. They had changed their name AGAIN. I think they’ve had four different names since they first opened up about 15 years ago. I thought I’d have to sign up for a new card, but it turns out I was still in their computer system from five years ago. I gave them my new phone number, and I was good to go! There are some advantages to small-town life.

I rented a bunch of movies, but I went to sleep before I could watch any of them. I went to sleep at 8:30, slept until 2:30, read for a couple of hours, then went back to sleep until morning. I had lost some sleep the night before, staying up late to grade research proposals, so I guess this was just making up for it. Still, it was pretty disappointing to be denied both fellowship and movies.