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So right now I'm sitting in my living room, kind of exhausted, looking at a green chair that used to sit in my Grandmother's living room. This weekend was eventful, and I'm tired.
Crysta and I went down to Milwaukee so we could spend father's day with my parents (along with some other family members). We went to the Brewer's game on Sunday, and like any game of baseball, it was a good time. I've never been a huge sports person, but I love watching a good live baseball game.
Honestly it was an amazing day.
Before I left town on Saturday though, I swung by the local No Kings protest here in Eau Claire, and then spent a chunk of time at the local Pride celebration. I tend to be a bit of a shut in these days, so with all the awful stuff in the news it was nice to remind myself that there are good people in the world willing to stand up for what's right and for each other.
My grandmother passed away not that long ago, and one thing I had my parent set aside for me was a chair. I realize that it looks a bit more gold in the photo, but trust me when I say it's green in real life. This morning I loaded it into my pickup and drove it across the state and got it into my living room. I loved this chair as a kid, and importantly... it swivels. And when I was growing up adults would always yell at me not to spin the chair. Well guess what, it's my chair now.
And no one can stop me from spinning.
I dunno -- it was just a lot of stuff in a short amount of time. We also went out to dinner after the baseball game yesterday, but I think I'll give my full opinion on that later this week in a different blog post. Because we went to a restaurant none of us had been to before, and uh... I have thoughts.
That was vague. I'm being vague. You're just going to have to be okay with that.
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Damn it, Jim
Wow… That’s actually kinda shitty considering how much she’s done for the con. Sure, punching Terrence wasn’t the best decision while in a leadership position, but there is some reasoning behind it.
And it would be one thing if the staff had collectively voted her out on their own, but for a leader to poison the well to that degree? That says leagues about the kind of person someone is, and it’s not a nice statement. And it’s just childish really. Big loss of respect for Jim.
Also, should Lynn’s second speech bubble say, “They would get rid of me”? There seems to be a word missing?
Nah, it’s right. It’s more slang-ish/vernacular than “proper” English, but it’s still grammatically correct.
Fair enough. I write for a living, so I don’t always catch on to slang, lol.
It’s Unagi Con’s funeral. Besides Lynn can now go back to Bork Con and revive that con and restructure it again. And I have a feeling this is story has some real life influence.
Stuff has consequences, even stuff that you should indeed be doing. Trite but true, even here.
Lynn gave Jim several huge headaches. The obvious one is “when will she be violent again?” another is “what else would she lie about?” with a third being “What other con staff will she spread those behaviors to?”
If Jim wasn’t going to go, Lynn had to go.
Or he could have done his job instead of letting the Hate Policy violator stay.
Those questions seem rather hard for a first-time offense while on his staff. She hasn’t made a pattern of these behaviors while working for him, so jumping to “Oh no! She’s inexplicably violent! I must spread a whisper campaign to passive-aggressively run her out of a leadership position!” is just childish. He’s an adult, not a teenager. What he should have done was waited until after the con and had an adult conversation with her. Like a fricking adult.
(I have little to no patience for passive-aggressive behavior from people who should know better. I dealt with that BS enough through a great deal of middle and high school.)