Jay's Kinda Weekly Rant:
I'm actually updating early for once because of recent events.
Last night, I screwed up, big time. As of last night, I became secretary of the Gaming Club, meaning that I was allowed to send out e-mails on behalf of the club. I had actually been given access to the Gaming Club e-mail account a few days before yesterday, but the only important thing I used it for was to write the weekly e-mail about what we were doing Monday night (Mondays are our general meetings) with the outgoing president and secretary and the incoming president. However, after the Gaming Club meeting, at which we used a Dreamcast to simulate the NES and spent the night playing classic games like "Bad Dudes", I did something which was an embarrassment to me and to the club.
Shortly before the Gaming Club meeting, the outgoing president had his secretary access the e-mail account so that he could send out one last e-mail. While I thought he wasn't allowed to do this, technically, until the meeting that evening, they still held their positions in the Gaming Club. Initially, it was not the fact that they had accessed the e-mail account which made me get mad (it was partially my fault for not changing the account password as I had been told to do); it was the content of the e-mail which aroused my ire. In it, they called for select members of the Gaming Club (this fiasco fortunately did not affect the whole club) to conquer the Anime Club.
In the e-mail, it was explained that almost all of the positions of the Anime Club had no candidates, meaning that the Gaming Club could finally take it over. Even though I knew there was a silly feud between the two clubs, I jumped to the conclusion that they meant to or would nullify the Anime Club because they would win election (by default) and then simply ignore their positions, allowing the Anime Club to fade away. At Bennett High, I had seen the dramatic changes that officers in a club who took their positions seriously could effect, so I was angry at what seemed to be a joke gone too far.
Naturally, being the easily impassioned person I am and wanting to chastise the outgoing president and secretary for this perceived abuse of power, I took about an hour to write a lengthy, caustic, and indignant e-mail (I tend to be melodramatic about these things) to the people who had received the other e-mail, explaining that the outgoing president's e-mail should be ignored and attacking him for using the e-mail account for his own selfish purposes. Shortly afterwards, I received a couple of angry e-mails (I wasn't on IM at the time because of an earlier, unrelated incident), one even telling me that I was the one guilty of abusing power. At the time, I didn't see anything wrong with what I had done: what's wrong with reprimanding two people for using the e-mail account irresponsibly?
Then, someone involved in this "joke" called me and proceeded to explain the e-mail to me. Apparently, although the e-mail had a very flippant tone, it actually had very serious intentions to reform the Anime Club. In years past (and this is the part I didn't know), the Gaming Club had indeed plotted to, when the time was ripe, "conquer" the Anime Club; but, what they meant by that was they wanted to take over its offices so that they could reform it, possibly even joining it with the Gaming Club. Recently, the Anime Club had been plagued by bad leadership, and many in the Gaming Club wanted to change that. However, their e-mail had been written hastily, and the writers assumed that the people they sent it to would understand the pure intent behind all of the jokes. Clearly, I didn't get the joke.
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