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The Awkward Giraffe is struggling, there’s no doubt about that. Some sort of crisis like all Awkward Giraffes are prone to I suppose. It was never The Mighty Giraffe, The I’m so sure of myself Giraffe. It was always going to be a wobbly but it can’t stick it’s neck out until it can stand. I thought it would rise from the ashes like a might phoenix. Perhaps it can. The world has been a strange place since the Awkward Giraffe came into it. Hard to know which way is up anymore. Hard to know what is even real. Nonetheless, this ambitious and hopeful little group of misfits are approaching the third Annual General Meeting. There is so much work to be done.

I think Awkward Giraffe is more Stuck that the Stuckist’s. More stuck that Tron maybe. More stuck that the ghost’s ghosts ghost in the Machine. Writing is hard, having any sort of ambition is hard. Existing is hard and yet the thought of not existing at all is also terrifying.

I became a Chair after the last Awkward Giraffe meeting in May. I am not a Lady Chair, or a Madame Chair. I am nonetheless….. A Chair. Respect me. I’m a Chair. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever become a chair. I don’t feel any differently to before I became a chair, except I keep wondering how I can be a good Chair, a solid chair, a reliable Chair. I am the new chair the organisation that noone really wanted to exist. I’m an Awkward Giraffe Chair and the people of Awkward Giraffe want to go on and do good things. Good things is a nebulous term. The first thing I did when I found out I was a Chair was to Google how do you embezzle. The first rule apararently is not google ‘how do you embezzle’ Go to Duck Duck Go for such an enquiry. There is a lot to learn to be a good Chair. I would like to thank the previous Chair. That is the respectful thing for a new Chair to do for the previous chair. The previous Chair was the first Chair and not an easy role to fulfil. I would like to say that I swept the legs of the previous Chair so that I could become the new Chair as I think that would make for a crackin yarn but it simply wasn’t so. The previous Chair sat down as Chair and just like that I became a Chair. In a future post I will list the acheivements of the First Chair but for now I just wanted to introduce myself. Hi, I’m Sofie…… and I am…. A Chair.