Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Al Marshall has left Southampton
I went to Games Soc today. There was no Al Marshall.
I'm using Al here as a metaphor, Al was a guy who I have known over the last few years, he's a member of Games Soc. I seem to have spent quite a lot of time with Games Soc since back in the day when they became the first society I ticked off on my Society-a-thon. Last summer I got invited to the annual Games Soc summer party which is called RABIES for some reason (any readers who know why - there is a button marked 'comment') There, in addition to learning how to do something with a long pole, I got talking to Al. Al had had a bit of a rough ride through a couple of Universities and he had finally decided to leave.
Al is not someone who the chaplaincy crowd know. He has, as far as I know, never come to the place, but he was someone I knew and now he's gone the place doesn't feel the same without him.
As I thought about RABIES, and about Al it seemed to me that this was what I was supposed to be doing, turning up in random places and talking to random students. Instead I have spent this last year stuck in chaplaincy doing admin. Like today my Bishop has written to me requesting I send him a copy of my job description, I don't have an electronic one so it means photocopying, writing a covering letter and finding time to get to a post office. The only reason I have a copy of my job description in the first place was because one was sent to me when I applied for the job. By the Bishop!
I don't want to do any more admin, I don't want to be stuck in chaplaincy I want to get out spread my wings, and meet more Al Marshalls before they leave.
And that it what I am going to do, starting tomorrow.
So long Al, you'll be missed.
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6 comments:
So is that a literal 'tomorrow' as in today, the day we've already arrived at - go, go, go.
...or is that a metaphorical 'tomorrow', as in "tomorrow never comes" or "you're always a day away"?
;)
call at hantslug on saturday. there may be cake...
Orignally stood for Ratchet and Andys big interesting extravaganza of the Summer, but given both of left it was just changed to Really Awesome Barbeque Involving Erotic Situations..
The tale of RABIES is a long, sorrowful tale of men being chased by angry badgers.
Or more succintly it stands for 'Racheet and Andy's Big Interesting Event of Summer', or something like that.
Hey, I'm being talked about on the Internets! I think that's a good thing, right?
I think Anonymous is right that the E stood for extravaganza, but Hugo wins points for spelling 'Racheet' correctly. But I really think we should stop telling people what RABIES stands for. It should be allowed to get lost in the mists of time and become a mystery that people speculate about in years to come.
Oh, and I have been into chaplaincy once, but only very briefly. It was that evening that GameSoc were going to see Iron Man, and you had said you'd be joining us, but we somehow managed to miss each other. DBD and I went into Chaplaincy, asked whether you were there, were told that you weren't, and left again.
Oh, if you were to come to GameSoc this week, I probably would be there.
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