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Is VJ all that fun and hyped up as it is? For sure to a certain extent it is, but then occasionally you touch the ugly side of things that makes you hate life in general. And I mean, make you thoroughly sian-ed, like whats all this fuss about man...

Today definitely classes among the days I wouldn't want to live through again. It was not all bad, but some parts were.... argh!!

I haven't felt so bitter for such a long time. Just let me VENT everything!

I dunno what others think, but I am desperate for our Written Report. For so long we had been led on that our group was one of the "most on track ones" and that we only needed to cut down a little on the word limit, do a little linking and we're done. Instead, today we find out that it still requires a major overhaul. Thanks man, its only 6 more days to the deadline and we can't even meet on saturday cos of open house. Leaves only sunday and not everyone can make it then either.

I mean, can't we just get it right, like 3 months ago, that there is something SERIOUSLY WRONG with our written report and get it OVER and DONE with correcting it, instead of us floudering about with barely a week to spare? Its enough to see red.

Then I had to edit my fencing brochure to include people whom I don't think play that impt a role in the fencing club, and have done nothing to contribute to it. Stayed up til 1230 last night to get it right, nearly damaged it, and now I'm told that I "don't need so many" just a hundred or do will suffice! I can't believe the nerve that person had to tell me that when that person doesn't know half the things that go on in the club. That person has never stood up with us (or for us), has never tried to help us develop or anything. That person doesn't know what its like to BE in a sport.

Then my last weapon and the only asset that our club has in common with the prestigious CCAs - the committment of the members - also began to wane. Ask them pass up money before school starts, don't have. Ask them meet in concourse to do open house prep, how many turned up? How many actually had the courtesy to give reasons? I don't deny that everyone has more than one CCA, but if people like Maurice and Eileen can tell me that they have things on, so can everyone else!

Quote from the ISFJ description: they are notoriously bad at delegating ("If you want it done right, do it yourself"). Do you wonder? I detailed instructions to 13 people and barely half of them followed. I ended up running around the school collecting money from various people who hadn't paid up in the morning.

3 nails in the coffin and still counting

The final straw was the fencing, photog and rcc shirts arrived. Guess who's was printed wrongly?

As we walked back to the concourse carrying a large bag of misprinted shirts, the only thought I could think of was "Why does it seem that the world is doing everything it can to obstruct the fencing club in anyway it can". In retrospect, I know thats not quite true, but what else was I meant to think?

They're gonna replace the shirt for us, and my members are quite ready to wear the misprinted one during the open house, but I was, I AM, so DISAPPOINTED!!! I mean, Victoria and I harried the IPs, I had to spend time enlarging it, thicken it, spent a whole night on it when I should, I SHOULD have been studying for promos, we went down to Dayton just before promos, ALL BECAUSE I WANTED TO DO IT RIGHT, GET IT DONE IN TIME, GIVE THE CLUB AN IDENTITY, SOMETHING WE COULD BE PROUD ABOUT, and WHAT HAPPENED??

Everything that I planned in the past week simply just went to pieces today.... getting the shirts ready, collecting money, etcetc.

The only good point was that the few members that were around showed really good attitude and were very enthu is helping with the banner and blah. The practise for the live demo went well, but I hope we can make the bout look realistic (the second hit seems quite fine), but I kept missing my target... sighz...

For once in my life, I am sian-ed about fencing. I hope it goes away by tomorrow.