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slowfoxThere are ten official members on the Residents' Association committee. Three of us turned up for the 7.15pm start last night - one shy of a quorum.
So, realising that it would be borderline insulting to the other two to have said, with obviously artfully concealed glee, 'right, inquorate, I'm off!' on the dot of 19:15:00 Zulu, I stayed to talk a little while about Association business in general. Nonetheless, I was thinking that my evening could've been spent so much more profitably (like, say, eating: I don't have time to eat before the meeting, and usually, by the time I get home (c9.30ish) I don't feel like so doing).
You can imagine my joy, then, when at 8pm, our magical fourth, quorum-constituting member turned up. And so it was that we ended up going through the agenda until 9.30. Joy. I do wonder if I was able to mask my growing cynicism, but as per yesterday's post, if even the committee members can't make the effort to attend a meeting once a month, and if there's already a representative body that sits between us and the Council proper, I can't help but wonder if there is any real point in maintaining our own Association.
* who still writes by hand these days? Just getting my idioms down with the 21st century...
So, realising that it would be borderline insulting to the other two to have said, with obviously artfully concealed glee, 'right, inquorate, I'm off!' on the dot of 19:15:00 Zulu, I stayed to talk a little while about Association business in general. Nonetheless, I was thinking that my evening could've been spent so much more profitably (like, say, eating: I don't have time to eat before the meeting, and usually, by the time I get home (c9.30ish) I don't feel like so doing).
You can imagine my joy, then, when at 8pm, our magical fourth, quorum-constituting member turned up. And so it was that we ended up going through the agenda until 9.30. Joy. I do wonder if I was able to mask my growing cynicism, but as per yesterday's post, if even the committee members can't make the effort to attend a meeting once a month, and if there's already a representative body that sits between us and the Council proper, I can't help but wonder if there is any real point in maintaining our own Association.
* who still writes by hand these days? Just getting my idioms down with the 21st century...
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Date: 2009-05-07 07:46 am (UTC)This is the sort of thing I've sorely missed about you being gone. You always manage to make me smile with your word-processing.
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Date: 2009-05-07 10:24 am (UTC)I'm enjoying being back in the land of journals - 'tis good to see old friends' posts on my Reading page.