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_The Twenty-Eigth of November in the Year of the Fox,

Two-Thousand and Four  

**Report Two**_

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[- Thankful for Jac -](#1)  

[- Situational Commentary -](#2)  

[- GJW Crap -](#3)  

[- Clan/Order Powers Update -](#4half)  


[- Big Props -](#bigprops)  

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"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. " </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#333333" align="center" style="border-left-width: 1; border-right-width: 1; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1; border-bottom-width: 1" bordercolor="#333333" colspan="2" height="20"> - Thankful for Jac -</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" style="border-left-width: 1; border-right-width: 1; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1; border-bottom-width: 1" bordercolor="#333333" colspan="2" height="5"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center" style="border-left-width: 1; border-right-width: 1; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1; border-bottom-width: 1" bordercolor="#333333" colspan="2" height="18">

Short report this week.  



Well, I just got back from the thanksgiving break. I had a good time. Did 
dinner at the fiancée's place for Thursday and then hung out with my fam the 
next few days. We did a lot of helping my parents with projects around the 
house. Cleaned out the attic and crap. Wasn't bad though. Gave me time away 
from law school. Watched the Manchurian Candidate Last night. That movie was 
messed up.  



Unfortunately, the end of thanksgiving marks the beginning of what I like to 
call "Law School Hell." Exams. I have 5 more days of classes and then 16 
days of studying and exam taking. I have four exams. They are on the 6th, 
the 10th, the 12th, and the 18th. Four hours a piece, covering sixteen weeks 
of law and about 300 pages and 90 cases per class. Basically, take your 
college exams and multiply them by one hundred. That's what I have to hit 
up.  



I am going to try and be as normal as possible during that time. Of course, 
how possible that is, I don't know. However, as always, if you need 
something, just go to Mav.  



In other news, 3 of my good friends got engaged this past week, and all 
three of them are planning their wedding ahead of mine. Bastards. Now I just 
have to upstage them.  

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Haven't had much go on since I've been at home. However, there's one subject 
I'd like to talk about.  



Assuming. You know what it means to ASSUME, right? It makes an ASS out of U. 
(not ME).  



The reason I bring this up is because a lot of people fail to give me the 
benefit of the doubt in what I do and then proceed to get pissed off because 
they assumed the wrong thing. Now there are good people like Yacko, BF and 
Pyralis who tell me how it is when they think something is going down, 
giving me a chance to clarify it to them in private, but then there are some 
people who literally go on pissed off rampages when they assume the wrong 
thing.  



Let me take, for instance, the position of Lord Hegemon. A lot of you read 
into the position description a lot of crap that simply wasn't there. The DB 
is going all RPG. We're no longer a gaming club. Kaiann has more authority 
than anyone but Jac. Rebirth is all about making us Roleplay. Blah Blah Blah  



ERRR. Sorry. Wrong answer.  



You guys need to give me the benefit of the doubt that I am not going to 
change the very foundation of this club in the blink of an eye. The DB was 
founded on gaming, has always worked off gaming, and gaming and competitions 
will ALWAYS (I repeat: ALWAYS) be our primary focus. Kaiann is adding 
elements of RPG to the DB to help develop characters, and then developing a 
system for people who want to to role-play on the side as another activity. 
It is nothing that is taking over the DB so gamers aren't welcome. It is 
something to coincide and add to the plethora of activities we do now.  



The point is: just don't assume that we're going to destroy your club. I 
understand the foundation of this club very well and will always protect 
that. I sometimes may not qualify statements enough so you guys can't assume 
anything at all, but you all need to work on trusting me a bit more. Give me 
the benefit of the doubt that I know what I'm doing.  



In the meantime, I will do my part to be more clear about where we are 
headed. Deal?  



Deal.  

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Thanksgiving paused the end of all of this. Just a recap of what needs to be 
done (with some things I just thought of):  



- Kaiann needs to send me the judge list so we can reward them  

- The GJW website needs to be converted into an archival state (just the 
story and results etc.). If you are interested in doing this, email me. Star 
of Antei for doing it. :)  

- Mav needs to finish the GJW ship stuff and add the new prizes to the OOB.  

- All of the submissions need to be downloaded an zipped for archives and 
then the database needs to be deleted. I'll get my staff on this.  



Just random crap to do  

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  Nothing new do to thanksgiving. From last week:  



  The DC has been going through the Clan and Order powers documents that I 
  sent. Overall they were well received. I think it will add a great new 
  element to the DB and the members will like it.  



  Where are we with it? Well, I am having my magistrate, Pyralis, make some 
  changes to reflect the comments from the DC. Once that happens, I will 
  send it to the DC for a quick one-day review and out to the Consuls after 
  that. I am aiming to have the details of the system public within the next 
  2 weeks.

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- Big Props to Lannie on DJM -   

- Yaay for Yacko who helped with the Lannie DJM Battle -   

- Props to Trev for being on the ball with getting me stuff I ask for from 
him -  

- Big props to Shadow Taldrya for his kick-ass email to Taldryan (you know 
what I'm talking bout) -   

- Props to Demos for his work on GMRG structure -   



- NO PROPS to Mav for only passing the Grammar test with a 73. Bad Mav! -

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