No good deed goes unpunished

You know how sometimes you get annoyed about something, and then after you've slept on it you think, Maybe I've over-reacted? I haven't. In fact I under-reacted and I'm really quite peeved.

As you know I help out at our RC SJ. I do it because I enjoy it enormously. Selfishly, I do it because it suits me; the fact that it helps the RC is definitely secondary. You also know that I have no interest in SJ per se and consider it an odd and pointless activity.

So when the RC organised a talk about course-building I immediately decided not to go although I wondered whether I ought to, seeing as I'm involved with the SJ, and the more I thought about it the more I didn't want to go and didn't see why I should, given my complete absence of interest, coupled with the fact that other (more interested) people would go.

However I got collared on Saturday after the Trec and was told that I should attend. I explained that I didn't want to, but to no avail and being the ultra-reasonable person that I am, I reckoned that it probably wouldn't be as dire as I expected.

Suffice it to say that I was wrong, that it went on longer than I had bargained for, and I didn't get home till 10.30pm which is waaay past my bedtime. There is no WAY I'm going to the next one, I'd rather bleed to death, and if my helping out results in my being expected to do things like this, they can stuff the sodding SJ and I'm never helping again.