The 'Abbess and Rector' (?) strikes again?

I'm back from the U.K. I'm now a slacker blogger, hardly posting, so buried in my church life in Seattle.

Anyway I'm headed to Denver tomorrow for one day event at Iliff School of Theology.

On the web blurb they call me 'Abbess and Rector', heh heh. I do use the self-appointed title Abbess (which our Apostles do now call me) but I don't remember calling myself a Rector, but maybe I did and it was Freudian somehow =: O

Rector is 'Episcospeak' for a priest of a parish that is not on mission support. So, a Rector I'm not yet, but only in my Episcospeak dreams... And by 2010 If I have anything to do with it (and I may not) we will be a parish, so I can be called a Rector and then spend time explaining what that means, as it sounds like a mash-up between a school marm, a book-keeper and a crossing guard. (which may be too close to what I feel I'm doing way too often).

Wikipedia says this: 'The word rector ("ruler," from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate someone who is in charge of something.'

Well, maybe not. I don't feel in charge of anything, really... and I'm not even really a Vicar.
(and no I don't wanna go into what that means). But that I think I am and will let folk call me, official or not.

Rector also means someone looking after a 'team ministry' or a priest working with a staff of folk. That I am. So it is a mixed bag to be one of these. At least I've two to three years more to figure it out before I'm anywhere near being one.

And I suppose I really don't mind explaining the curiosities of my Tribe, as I love them, weird terms and all... so as to explaining that I'm 'not yet a Rector,' okay, as I often explain that I called 'Abbess' all the time now anyhow. It certainly get's attention, as how many abbesses do you meet at cocktail parties?