~...even later~
The Effervescent Priest found, not just one, but two correct numbers.
The first correct number connected me to a nun who had been the Vocations Director ten years earlier.
The second correct number belonged to the current Vocations Director, who was sick. Her substitute returned my call and gave me a third correct number, which I lost when I accidentally deleted the voicemail.
~
One day I talked to the In-Lieu-of-the-Vocations-Director.
"You will come to a sign that says 'Administration', with four parking spaces in front of it. Go in that door."
So I went to the sign that said "Administration" with four parking spaces in front of it and went in that door. I had to drive 'round and 'round to find it, and in between, I took the wrong road and approached the Really Spectacular Solemn and August Retirement Mansion. Two old nuns were taking a stroll down the road, a short one and a tall one, and they waved at me, all smiles. I turned around quickly because I did not belong around anything that Majestic, or anyone that sweet. The letters in "Administration" were faded and some were missing, or almost missing. I thought how tacky an entrance it was, in comparison to the Really Spectacular of the other building.
The lady at the desk had no idea who I was or who I needed to see. I sat in an office chair in everyone's way. Boxes were going in and out of the doors beneath the "Administration" sign in front of the four parking spaces. I had thought that a pixie-cut would be cute but I was mislead and no one knew why my hair was too short and I sat on the crooked chair in everybody's way.
They found my appointment after leaving several messages on several different phones. The secretary asked the Unhappy Clerk to guide me to the inner region of the other end of the building, and I waited in another office where I was no longer in anyone's way while another secretary made more phone calls, and then I followed a Much Happier Clerk who had me sit outside the Last Office.
"Under the sign that says 'Administration,'" sighed the In-Lieu-of-the-Vocations-Director (ILotVD) when she arrived.
"I did."
"No, THAT one." And there was a Really Nice, Very Impressive Sign that said 'Administration' with no letters missing, above four newly-painted parking spaces, right outside her office on the opposite end of the world.
So I went to the sign that said "Administration" with four parking spaces in front of it and went in that door. I had to drive 'round and 'round to find it, and in between, I took the wrong road and approached the Really Spectacular Solemn and August Retirement Mansion. Two old nuns were taking a stroll down the road, a short one and a tall one, and they waved at me, all smiles. I turned around quickly because I did not belong around anything that Majestic, or anyone that sweet. The letters in "Administration" were faded and some were missing, or almost missing. I thought how tacky an entrance it was, in comparison to the Really Spectacular of the other building.
The lady at the desk had no idea who I was or who I needed to see. I sat in an office chair in everyone's way. Boxes were going in and out of the doors beneath the "Administration" sign in front of the four parking spaces. I had thought that a pixie-cut would be cute but I was mislead and no one knew why my hair was too short and I sat on the crooked chair in everybody's way.
They found my appointment after leaving several messages on several different phones. The secretary asked the Unhappy Clerk to guide me to the inner region of the other end of the building, and I waited in another office where I was no longer in anyone's way while another secretary made more phone calls, and then I followed a Much Happier Clerk who had me sit outside the Last Office.
"Under the sign that says 'Administration,'" sighed the In-Lieu-of-the-Vocations-Director (ILotVD) when she arrived.
"I did."
"No, THAT one." And there was a Really Nice, Very Impressive Sign that said 'Administration' with no letters missing, above four newly-painted parking spaces, right outside her office on the opposite end of the world.
~
And I hated everything. Except for some of the pictures, and one of the stairwells, and the short and tall nuns in their habits, and the crackers I found in the glove box.
~
And while I was sitting alone in a drop-off area waiting on the ILotVD, the two old nuns finally finished their journey from the Really Spectacular Solemn and August Retirement Mansion. The tall one reached to open the door and the short one looked at me.
"I wonder who that guy is waiting for," said the short one.
"Is it a guy? I don't have my glasses." The tall one stood straighter and squinted. "Yep, its a guy!"
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