OES Marathon: Day 3

Monday was the consolidation. The mood was solemn, bordering on somber. Only 8 people from the consolidating chapter showed up, which I suppose is evidence of why they couldn't sustain as an independent chapter. Poor things. Consolidation is a pretty short ceremony, and since it was a special meeting there was no other business. Out of the chapter room by 9:15, home at 11.

Tuesday was a reception for the Grand Warder, Grand Electa, and one pair of deputies. As usual in that building, the receiving line went out the preparation door, all through the lobby and curved back in a dozen people in through the chapter door. We mused that it might've been more efficient to have swapped who was in the receiving line and who went through it. Fortunately, it's becoming quite fashionable to make very brief remarks, so we were done by 10 and through the collation line by 10:30, home at 11:30.

Last night was School of Instruction. It went quite smoothly, but took forever - three hours and even at that the officers were doing abbreviated versions of their lines. Home at 12.

Tonight I've decided to blow off the reception and stay home with my sweetie. Deb and I couldn't carpool anyway, since one of her chapters has its stated meeting tonight, and I'm not excited to drive more than an hour each way again for the fourth night in a row.

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When the IT dude comes in holding a large flat screen monitor under one arm and says "Would you like a 19" instead of that 17"?" the correct answer is definitely "Yes!"

Wallpaper meme

Via vairavi and camillaanna and others:
1. Anyone who looks at this entry please post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
2. Explain in five [or fewer] sentences why you're using that wallpaper.
3. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on.




This is a photo of the California Nebula from apod, Astronomy Picture of the Day, which gives you a different image of space every day. RSS feed available or you can visit the APOD site. My wallpaper changes at whim when I find a new image I love, especially starscapes.