Honeymoon dilemmas! Wallybee and I are spending our honeymoon in Hangzhou and Shanghai. In Shanghai, her aunt has found us a hotel. So I've checked it out online, and it's half an hour out of the city and only two stars! This is not my idea of a honeymoon. I wants a better hotel, closer to the action. But this hotel was found by her aunt, so now we have the possibility of offending the rellies to deal with. But seriously, what the hell? This is a honeymoon!

I already ate it. I was hoping it would make me feel better.

Dude! Chili isn't what you eat to make yoursel feel better unless it's really spicy and you want your sinuses to run.

Try orange juice next time. Anything with some sugar that's relatively inoffensive to the stomach.

Goofbutt.

But this hotel was found by her aunt, so now we have the possibility of offending the rellies to deal with. But seriously, what the hell? This is a honeymoon!

Do a couple nights at the Aunt's Hotel and then go some place swanky and fun. Or just go some place swanky and fun. Honeymoons are in short supply unless you're Elizabeth Taylor.

Dude! Chili isn't what you eat to make yoursel feel better unless it's really spicy and you want your sinuses to run.

Oh, stop. She already ate it, and it's what she felt like, and she ate it when she thought she just needed some food. Orange juice is as offensive to my stomach as anything, by the by. It's good for a sugar drop, but it doesn't make my tummy feel any better, ever. It's the acid.

David called me a goofbutt!

Ok. I laid down. Still dizzy.

I've had viruses like that.

That's close to an hour of dizziness, with lying down? I'd call.

Well, actually, I wouldn't, I'd ignore it and hope it went away, because that's what I've always done with unexplained dizziness but I think you should call, vw. For one thing, you have a pretty good chance of getting an explanation.

vw, are you drinking fluids? Could you be anxious? Dizziness/anxiety work together on me, often.

vw, are you drinking fluids?

Yeah. I've had about 7 glasses of water and four cups of (decaf) coffee and tea at lunch.

Could you be anxious? Dizziness/anxiety work together on me, often.

I guess I could be, but I had a really good day, so I don't think so. I don't know. I'd just go to bed, but I need to take my nighttime meds, and the new med is in there.

Okay, so now there's MORE in the saga of Steph Resigns From The VOLUNTEER Position.

I told all y'all that Asshead!President e-mailed back, and said pretty much what I expected him to.

However, the chairman of my committee -- who is an even bigger FUCKO than Asshead!President -- hadn't e-mailed back as of this afternoon.

Yeah, well, he did.

Oh, my god. I seriously can't believe some of the stuff he said to me. He basically called me a liar, and explicitly called me juvenile and irrational.

No, seriously.

And when he sent that e-mail to me, he cc-ed the Board on it, so they got to see all the insults he threw my way. So, even though I had said I wasn't going to reply to any e-mails, that was before I got this massively hostile, insulting one. I wanted to reply so that the Board could see my response, and that I wasn't going to just take his shit lying down.

I have to share his letter with y'all, though I won't post all of it, because it's really tl;dr. So here are some juicy highlights.

This is how he opened the letter, swear to God:

"Steph,

"I have read your resignation numerous times and I have to say that your reasons are phony."

The very first sentence he tells me I'm full of shit. How do you like THAT?

"We were all asked to, or volunteered for all the jobs in relationship to PEER that we agreed to. And to up and quit when a person doesn't get their way is not only pusillanimous but juvenile."

While I'm impressed that he used the word "pusillanimous" (assuming he thought it means what it does), I didn't quit because I "didn't get my way." But you all know that.

And apparently I'm juvenile.

"to think because you're a professional that your idea and way is the best and only way is at the least brash, if not crossing the line of irrational."

Now, that's just crazy talk, because I have *never* said that I think my way is the best and/or only way, and I certainly don't think that because I'm a communications professional that means I get to say what goes.

And I'm irrational.

"Even though you state otherwise I believe that your newsletter format not being accepted brought about if not the main reason for your sudden inspiration to resign from PR is significant."

Although that's a totally incoherent sentence (yeah, I over-edit; riiiight), he's basically saying that despite what I said, he DOESN'T BELIEVE ME. He's calling me a liar. And he's implying that he somehow knows the "real" reason I resigned.

"you need to take responsibility for your own actions and accusing others to make your reason seem legit is fabricated. To me this really reflects your personal character to myself and the board who has been supportive of you."

Again, it's a bit incoherent, but right there he's saying I made up my stated reasons for resigning -- IOW, I lied, and that reflects my personal character. That is, my personal character is that I am a LIAR.

Perhaps you all can understand that I am ready to commit physical violence against this piece of shit fucktard.

"This group has been held hostage too many times in the past and I will not let anyone get by with this type of behavior on my watch."

I don't really understand what he means here. What "type of behavior"? Resigning a volunteer position? Is he saying that no one is allowed to resign? That's not exactly the definition of "volunteering."

So I did, in fact, reply, and I called him out on every bit of his bullshit hostility and insults.

These are some of my replies:

"You called my reasons 'phony.' [Name], they are MY reasons. You do not have the ability to read my mind and judge the truth of anything I say.

"It is patently insulting to insinuate that you know my 'true' motives for resigning. I am a truthful person, and my true motives for resigning are exactly as stated in my original letter."

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