Oh, for fucks sake....

Yes, I know. We, all the members, care about the vamp-LARP club. We all love it. It is the oldest vamp-LARP club in Sweden still going strong. (I am not kidding, it is 11 years old today... most of the original members are still active.) We all try and work together to make this club a warm and welcoming place to everyone that love vampires no matter age, so that we can all play our favorite LARP Vampire The Masquerade - Minds Eyes Theater. But now... It seems like things are going all to hell. No really. It does. A few members, one of them a GM, has gotten into there heads that the board is a bunch of power-hungry people that are trying to take over the game...

..............

Eh... Not so much, no. We are trying to save the club so we'll still have a place to meet up, all 35-40 members of us. We want to make sure we still have money on the clubs bank account. If anyone wants money to arrange something special one night, or buy something special that would increase the mood of the LARP? Ask the board for money! Thats what we are here for! And we are legally responsible for all our members every time we meet up, just to make sure not a private person have to, in case something happens. Makes sense, no? And we work our fucking asses off on our time off from work and life to do this... And right now? We just get pissed at for our efforts. Thank you so fucking much.

I have been on the board for this club six years. SIX FUCKING YEARS!!! Well, this is my sixth year. Only two weeks ago I agreed to be voted in again. I bloody well regret that now.

Lets see what has been my responsibility during those years, shall we, hmm?

• I am the contact-person for SVEROK, the Swedish Role Playing and Conflict Gaming Federation. If we have missed anything in our reports to them, they'll call me. And all the information to the club is sent to me to. If we have questions to them, I'll be the one to make the call.



• Four five years straight I have been responsible of reporting in how many members we have to SVEROK, so we will get government funding every year (Note: Must be done in a special data-base that never works properly and must be done before January ends.)



• I am also the contact-person for the people we rent our premises from. AKA if anything happens while we are there, those people will call me and give me shit about it.



• I am the Secretary of the Board, and am responsible to take notes of all decisions made during board-meetings.



• I have also for six or seven years been secretary during the annual general meeting, and as such is responsible for annual meeting minutes and sharing them afterwards with the club so everyone knows whats been decided.



• The so called "Archive" is also something I take care of. This is two binders filled with all the clubs legal papers, records, protocols, by-laws, what have you.... When I took it over after my predecessor all the papers was in a mess in a plastic bag... No mess now, let me tell you.



• The members cards we have today, well I fixed those to, since we didn't have any. I am also responsible for handing them out, making sure they are correctly completed and that everyone that has payed the annual fee will have one.



• I am also working with another girl (not a member but a girlfriend to a member) to create a website for our club. That just happened to end up on my desk, since it is a creative thing, and I like stuff like that.

And last night we were told that a board that cares is a bad board. It was so much better when there was a board that didn't care so much or got involved in so much.

Well thank you so fucking much! This is the last year I am working my ass off for the club, let me tell you. I get no fucking thanx for it. No wait. Thats not true. I got an applaud during the annual general meeting this year. And occasionally a member comes and thanx me for what I do. But is very random and seldom. And usually the same people. I really don't feel appreciated. I really don't. I am so upset, not to mention pissed off, about what was said about the board last night, you have no fucking idea... I couldn't even sleep properly, and thats a first.

Just...

Fuck it. No really. Fuck it all.