Chasing tails

And so it went... that I ran after all.

It's one of those things which you know you might not want to do yet feel compelled to do it, and one of those things which you are trying to escape from but yet can't afford to let go. You can't decide for yourself, so you let the factors decide for you.

I was decided when I went for the Fencing Club AGM and elections tonight. I told myself that I'll only run for a position if certain conditions were met... if, and only if, they were really in dire need of people for the comm.

Listening to the President's address and committee reports, it seems like the Club does need some help and some brave souls to try to get things back together again. Like what the VP said, "...the current committee has failed, I must admit. We've failed miserably in our roles." Throughout the season for almost every match, the women's team had difficulty in getting people down for matches. The captain's nonexistent, morale is low, and women's 1sts have been doing so crappily that the current committee had almost wanted to withdraw the team from the league; they saw no profit from lavishing great sums to fund the team. They proposed to enter a men's 2nd, for the men's 1st have been performing brilliantly and came up tops since... many years ago, and more promising fencers are wanting to fence competitively. In the end, with the girls yelling "sexist!" at the President and a team member violently objecting to the motion, they managed to keep the 1sts, but they'd no longer have the full financial backing of the Club. :|

Reports... budgeting the upcoming fiscal year... discussions and debates... general elections... short speeches... jokes... silences... concerned faces. There are still holes in the committee. The position of Armourer was removed, since it's been a ghost spot for the past couple of years. With a few reshuffles and recycling of old committee members, the appointment of that one outspoken women's team member as the new captain, and leaving a few gaps in the hierarchy, the AGM came to a close.

So Publicity Officer it is. Here I go again...

Why??

posted by Husky @ 3/12/2005 01:28:00 AM  |