I hit backslash! I did, I really did. *weeps* I got the invite, and the many emails from gmail, but they want me to do things like open excel and copy paste stuff, and I just do not have the time or the patience. Ok, I have confessed my ineptness, so here are some questions.
How do I convince word that I am in Canada and do in fact use words like favoured with a u? Aka change the language
b)now that I am switching to gmail, how do I tell lj that?
Now on to actual replying.
Everything at my church was Roberts rules of order. Everything needed quorum and a seconder and everything. It drove me barkers.
The streamer thing is you know, ridiculous, but it was only because the event was for three hundred people and apparently many streamers are made by blind slave children who are not fed, and there were just some coordination nightmares, so they made this midget sub-sub-committee to deal with the badness. It was me and two toher bitter women who felt that no one else could do it right. It shouldn't have, but in a weird way I was proud that they thought me competent enough to select me. It was like getting praise from Rodney. Rare, and not all that complimentary. The real funny stories come from the same conference, where I chaired the food committee (they always put me on committees because I could bludgeon people to my way of thinking and no one would expect it. And I hadn't learned to say no. You know how it is) and we had to put together meals for people on a)blood type diets so they couldn't eat salad, b) vegans, and c) people allergic to gluten and d)combinations of more than one of the above. The anti-salad vegan allergy people were my favourite. This is just tooo ridiculous for me to make up.
I think we definitely got it from the activists. I was reading the Spiral Dance by Starhawk (required reading apparently) and in the prologue she said that quakers and unitarians bred for activism. I laughed really hard.
"Jesus watches you in your pants" snerk I've also never understood why someone would go from, yay, everybody's ok, to I HATE YOU JUST CAUSE AND THIS ALSO MEANS I HATE MYSELF AND OH GOD I HATE THE WORLD PARDON MY BLASPHEMY. It makes the sense that doesn't. But as a good Unitarian I must respect their choices.
Random note, did you ever have the debate in your church about whether you were more Unitarian or Universalist? It used to happen all the time and end in the equivalent of a flame war, which was really more of a cookie and coffee war. The worst thing a UU can do.
OMG world of yes to the no hierarchy thing. Joke: How many anarchists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Re: Backslash! Hit backslash! Before it's too late! :-)
How do I convince word that I am in Canada and do in fact use words like favoured with a u? Aka change the language
b)now that I am switching to gmail, how do I tell lj that?
Now on to actual replying.
Everything at my church was Roberts rules of order. Everything needed quorum and a seconder and everything. It drove me barkers.
The streamer thing is you know, ridiculous, but it was only because the event was for three hundred people and apparently many streamers are made by blind slave children who are not fed, and there were just some coordination nightmares, so they made this midget sub-sub-committee to deal with the badness. It was me and two toher bitter women who felt that no one else could do it right. It shouldn't have, but in a weird way I was proud that they thought me competent enough to select me. It was like getting praise from Rodney. Rare, and not all that complimentary. The real funny stories come from the same conference, where I chaired the food committee (they always put me on committees because I could bludgeon people to my way of thinking and no one would expect it. And I hadn't learned to say no. You know how it is) and we had to put together meals for people on a)blood type diets so they couldn't eat salad, b) vegans, and c) people allergic to gluten and d)combinations of more than one of the above. The anti-salad vegan allergy people were my favourite. This is just tooo ridiculous for me to make up.
I think we definitely got it from the activists. I was reading the Spiral Dance by Starhawk (required reading apparently) and in the prologue she said that quakers and unitarians bred for activism. I laughed really hard.
"Jesus watches you in your pants" snerk I've also never understood why someone would go from, yay, everybody's ok, to I HATE YOU JUST CAUSE AND THIS ALSO MEANS I HATE MYSELF AND OH GOD I HATE THE WORLD PARDON MY BLASPHEMY. It makes the sense that doesn't. But as a good Unitarian I must respect their choices.
Random note, did you ever have the debate in your church about whether you were more Unitarian or Universalist? It used to happen all the time and end in the equivalent of a flame war, which was really more of a cookie and coffee war. The worst thing a UU can do.
OMG world of yes to the no hierarchy thing. Joke:
How many anarchists does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, anarchists never change anything.
Come on, it's funny.