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My grandmother died last night. This wasn't a shock or a surprise. Her health has been on the decline, and she's been in hospice for the last month. She lived a long life, and in her final days she was surrounded by her three adult children.
My grandma was a kind woman. She wasn't perfect, but I always felt loved in her presence. She was a retired kindergarten teacher, and was still working when I was a kid. I have so many happy memories sitting at her kitchen table, and I'm going to carry those with me for the rest of my life. She was also proof that anyone who claims that you get more conservative as you get older is full of shit, because she certainly didn't.
I think it's interesting how the body processes grief sometimes. I don't know that I'll cry, but over the past month, knowing this was coming, I've felt a tension in my gut. Now that she's passed, instead of relief that tension is replaced by a sense of emptiness. That something is missing that should still be there. Something has been taken away, and I feel it.
Of course, as I wrote that, I immediately started crying... so I guess my body processes grief in pretty ordinary ways too.
I wanted to come up with something profound linking this to Beltane, which we sit in the middle of right now, but it just seemed hackneyed. Like I was trying to dig out some greater significance when the truth is death comes whenever it wants. The only predictable thing about it is that it's the end of all of our journeys. I hope that when I pass I'm so lucky to have lived such a long life with people that I love around me in my final days.
For the record, I will be fine. I just needed to get these words out while they were still in my head. I don't have some rousing conclusion or deep insight to tack on here at the end, just that gut feeling that something is missing.
Because it is.
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I read the comic before I saw the title. “Laziest coup ever” made me laugh heartily, I’ve actually been in a situation similar to this with a non-profit I once worked with. I became the entire Board for about a day and had only started as a volunteer a couple weeks prior. Outstanding level of incompetence they displayed.
I want to see Perry’s face now. I feel like there could be a fight down the road which may involve Lynn resolving the issue her way. This looks like a funny story that’s going to unfold into 1 hell of drama and by doing so it’s going to progress Bork Con’s recruitment a lot.
Different places have different rules. I know at our university, a Club needed a President, Vice, and Secretary. Think was 4 additional students who needed to be involved to create a club. Not sure the requirements for continuing one, nor what happens if a club fails to meet the requirements.
Well this is also taking place in late January, so the club was active in the fall when it scheduled the meetings. I was originally going to have a line about the constitution not mentioning a minimum quorum, but Lynn’s wall of text was pretty long in panel 2 already.
And technically Ruth just replaced the President. Any other club officers technically still have their positions.
(When I was writing this I actually pulled my alma mater’s Anime Club constitution and read it to check if this story was plausible, and it totally could happen there!)
Works for me. So long as none of the other club members (former members?) object, could go quite smoothly. If they do object however, could make for a bumpy ride.