Hello fellow members

I was instructed by Carolyn to send an email to the Whatever Club (because she's too busy drawing butts with punctuation symbols, and hanging out with her mom) so that we could organize a meeting to celebrate Yewool's birthday. Might I add that three members of the club actually attended Yewool's planned birthday celebration in December.

But, whatever.

For those that don't know, Carolyn and I were on the same flight back to LA over Christmas, by accident. My coworker also happened to be on the same flight. Carolyn and I wanted to sit next to each other, but she didn't want to ask the guy next to me, so again, I had to do what she said. While I asked the guy, she was standing a few rows back, smiling eagerly. The guy said he would switch seats, and I thanked him. I gave Carolyn the signal and she came forward, and she thanked him too. When she sat down (we were across the aisle from each other), we talked about how we might send him a drink later on, when the beverages were being served. However, we didn't want him to think we were hitting on him (we liked to flatter ourselves, obviously).

Anyhow, it was all pointless conjecturing because five minutes later he came back and said he had to switch back, because there was a screaming baby in the next seat.

The moral of the story is, we should continue the pursuits of the Whatever Club in 2008, whatever they happen to be. I think we can all agree that the last club meeting was an unqualified success - especially if you consider the club's lackluster inception - World Famous Love Acts. In 2007, we've come full circle; we started with one Asian American male writer and we ended with another. Both have explored gender, sexuality and race in their writing. In between the two, we've lost (read: phased out) one member, we've changed the purpose of the club from Book, to Movie, to Food, to Whatever, we've had robust email discussions that paved the way towards this blog, and most importantly, we've hurled insults at one another instead of respecting each others' opinions. Actually, more importantly than that: we've all shown such a lack of commitment that if we bottled the energy saved from the lack of effort towards this club, we would accomplish nothing.

I'm delighted to be in your company.