[adduncan]

You guyz have to be the most unbelievable group of cyber-friends a girl could ever have.

Today is better than yesterday in quite a few ways. I went back with my sponsors and other people involved with this phase of AI and it turns out, the chapter was in favor of having me join, the national office had a big chunk of my paperwork with no red flags or objections (initial response was favorable). And some of the people in the chapter thought it was a done deal--just a final matter of paperwork and ritual.

The only fly in the ointment was this single regional officer/specialist/whateversheis deciding to tell the chapter "no". Remember, national was "all systems go", but a regional person (who admitted to me ON THE PHONE that she didn't know what AI was until she took this position) said it wasn't happening.

Something sketchy happened and several people are getting to the bottom of it. There are some **angry** chapter members on the phone to national. I pity the national officers with some of the calls and emails they're getting.

Thanx everyone for the PMs and emails--I promise I'll answer each and every one, but I'm still in getovertheshockandcalmdown mode. I had my hair done, got declawed (what my husband calls a manicure) and burned up a credit card at Saks. Amazing what that does for morale!

Once the brouhaha settles down, the entire story will get posted. (I'm working on it offline so I don't get logged off in the middle of a post. Happened before. It sux.)

The fat lady may be taking a curtain call at some point.

{{{{{{{{{{EVERYBODY ON GC}}}}}}}}}}

Adrienne

(edited to add: I do appreciate everyone's encouragement about keeping options open. As of this very second, I think I've done that--if I got an invite in the next 5 minutes from another org, to me it would be like shopping until someone took me and that's not what I'm doing. It's almost like getting out of a relationship, then going through a "rebound" phase. Not to say it's impossible, just things are still up in the air, w/ no clues as to where they are going to land, and I don't know what it would take to get me to the point where I could research and pursue another org without feeling....what's the word.......guilty I guess for "shopping" and "just going somewhere." Don't worry, youse guyz will be kept up to date.

--ADD