:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Saturday, February 15, 2003 ::

woo-frickin'-hoo
{{sigh}} You know... How many times do you have to tell someone that a particular night is going to be run a particular way before they figure it out. {{grumbles}} The entire Rainbow meeting went great except for a hissy fit by one of the Advisors. She made a huge deal that she cancelled plans and blah blah blah because she thought it was an Installation only. She was ticked off that she ended up sitting outside to be Outer Observer while we had the closed portion of our meeting. Well, no one forced her to sit out there. She seemed to have volunteered to do it. Then she was all pissy because she had to go home and was missing the Installation portion of tonight.

Well, you know what? Don't come if it's such a big hoopla to get there. I'm sick and tired of people complaining about how Rainbow interferes with their life. I make an effort to go because I genuinely care about the organization. Yes, I'm looking for a job. Yes, I'm tutoring. Yes, I'm going to school. Yes, I have tons of homework and chores and phone calls to do. But, I go. Why? Because it's been such a huge part of my life since May 29th, 1992, that I just can't give it up. If you have such a problem getting there, then just don't bother anymore.

It annoys me to no end how some of the people involved don't want to step down, but complain that "they have lives" outside Rainbow. Well, wake up. You're not the only ones. We all have things to do other than go to meetings every second and fourth Friday of every month (excluding the summer), but we take the time and make the effort because, when we joined, we took an Obligation to be there. And they wonder why no one comes anymore. Well, when half your Advisory Board only shows up for Installations, it gets a bit discouraging to see no one there to support you at regular meetings. It certainly makes the girls not want to come.

Mom's so disillusioned right now she's taking her Grand Assembly deposit and the refund from last year's and putting it towards mine. She's not even going up this year. She is so hurt by the lack of support and cooperation the Advisory Board gave her when she was Mother Advisor. They kept telling her that she had to do things a certain way, when there's room for change. She was so tired of hearing it, it made her wonder why they bothered stepping down in the first place. If they still want to be in charge, then shut up about the personal lives and do the work. Don't tell everyone else what to do and whine when it isn't done to specifications.

some goodness
Other than that, everything else was great! We Installed Ally as Sister of Faith, we Installed the Advisory Board and the new Mother Advisor (yay, Mrs Hassell!), we had a regular business meeting, and got to read minutes and correspondance and all sorts of stuff that we haven't done in ages because we haven't had a real meeting in ages. Unfortunately, poor Ally missed out on doing her Drill Leader part again, but this time it was because our Grand Deputy wasn't there. I won't even go into that except to say that I said everything I have to say on it in the last four paragraphs. She was probably out having a life with her husband, even though she promised us she'd be there tonight at the meeting two weeks ago when we decided that we were doing this whole thing. And not even a phone call to say she wasn't coming or that something else had come up. Just didn't show. {{sigh}}

congrats!
But, big congrats to Ally on being elected Faith (we had members there who could elect her, so it wasn't just her electing herself ^_^) and starting her journey up the line. I'm hoping that more people will be able to come again (now that they've seen the state the Assembly's in) so Ally can have real meetings. And hopefully, we'll have a big Assembly for her to preside over when she's Worthy Advisor in two years.

And another big congrats to Mrs Hassell (not to mention a big thank you) for taking on Mother Advisor. I'm hoping Patty has some new ideas to help get the Assembly moving again, because Mom's all tapped out. And I most certainly hope the rest of the Advisory Board shows more support for her than they did for my mother.

And I think that's all I have on my current Rainbow rant...

no calls??
I haven't heard anything on that Programmer/Analyst job at SUNY SB, yet. I also didn't hear from B-n-W like the guy said he'd call today. I'll call him on Monday and see what's going on. Hopefully, I'll hear back about the Programmer position, too. I also want to call NBTY on Monday. I think I'm just going to go through with the rest of the interview process with them. Because B-n-W didn't call back today, I don't know if I'm going to get that position. Right now, NBTY is my best bet. I don't know if I'm qualified enough for the Programmer position I applied for.