Under the Weather

We just finished our induction. I got home just half an hour ago and had a slice of pizza and some cold chocolate drink (as if the food in Linmarr wasn't enough already...wah, I'm a glutton).
I feel tired. Honestly, I feel that all my energy has been spent trying to stay cheerful and energetic during the seminar workshop / induction thingie. Being EIC is hard work. *sigh*
Maybe it had something to do with Roh and Jinx leaving early because of some unknown reason or maybe due to the fact that Franz bailed on me druing the closing remarks. I don't know. Maybe it was both. Geez, it's frustrating that the things that are currently getting me down are the staffers who already graduated.

Allow me to rant (it's not like anyone's going to read this or anything). I simply don't understand why Roh and Jinx just left like that. It seemed like they were mad at me. Maybe I'm overthinking this. They could just have another appointment scheduled somewhere else but Meloi, Victor and Aela had told me Roh seemed quite cross that we had done the oath-taking ceremony so soon. They explained that supposed to be, Roh's father would come to watch his daughter deliver a speech during the induction/oath taking part of the activity. It could not be helped really why the oath-taking thing was done far earlier than expected. We (meaning the entire Clarion possie) had arrived late due to a series of mishaps involving miscommunication (or the entire lack of it in my case since I lost my cell phone), missing nametags, unexpected changes in the programme and the long time it took to get a jeep. Honestly, if given the opportunity, we would have followed the schedule and had the oath-taking/induction thing at the end of the programme where it belonged, but since our speaker in electronic layouting was having some technical difficulties with their computer and the speaker in contemporary newswriting wasn't arriving until much later, we really didn't have much of a choice. An empty stage was not appropriate so we had to move the induction thing earlier. If Roh was angry about that, she was being unreasonable. She was Clarion EIC before me and she knew and experienced most of the problems that comes with seminar workshops. If she was angry that she could not make her speech without her father at the audience, then she should not take that against us. She did not inform us earlier that her father was coming, and in addition, she had all the opportunity to let her father watch/listen to her speeches in all the seminar workshops done during her term as EIC.

In Franz's case, I was simply fuming internally when he suddenly disappeared when it was time to give the closing remarks. He had agreed to do it after we made a deal that he do a small speech/critiquing, and in return, I'll make him a design for something in Photoshop. What I hate the most is people bailing out on the last minute after they have already committed. It's annoying to expect but get stood up in the end. If we had other officials from the school besides Ma'am Jovy, our moderator, we wouldn't be asking Franz to do the closing remarks. I didn't want to do it anymore because it was starting to get embarrasing and pathetic as I've been trudging up and down the stage for like four or five times already, doing some of the stuff and speeches I shouldn't be doing because of the absence of some school officials in our activity. When Franz came back, grinning, I came over to him and told him with a pout that I hated him for bailing out at the last minute. He explained he had to answer a call. Whatever. How convenient that the call came when it was his turn to do closing remarks. I wanted to punch him, and I did actually (but only lightly) at the shoulder. The thing is that when I'm angry, it's not always obvious that I am, and it sometimes looks like I'm just lightly scolding / telling someone off. *sigh* Franz is still the same. He may have gained some weight over the months, but he still is the same old Franz.