A few words of appreciation for Uni's departing financial wizard

By Michelle Gao
Gargoyle staff reporter
Posted Friday, March 3, 2006, The OG, opinions

[Note: This is an updated version of a Feb. 21 entry posted on the Gargoyle staff blog.]

OK. Well, just to start things off, Susan Mynatt's leaving. After today, to be exact. For forever. Meaning we'll never see her again and she could be kidnapped by aliens and we would never know and —

All right, I'm shutting up now.

The point is, Susan's leaving us. She's going to some random building on some random part of campus to do some random job. WithOUT us.

I didn't know Susan at all during subbie year. I talked to her maybe twice freshman year. I've talked to her a LOT this year. She's really funny (absolutely wicked sense of humor) and puts up with all the weirdness that I can come up with. She deserves some recognition, people! Susan does a lot for us (helping with pizza sales is one obvious example), and some of us have never really gotten to know her.

Now, it's upsetting that she's going to leave. Contrary to what I said before, Susan is NOT going to disappear from our lives forever. Doug's definitely still staying, and we'll be able to see her at cross-country and track meets, and basketball games. Umm. Yes. I generally tend to not go to those. Guess I'll have to start, then.

I think the point of this entry is to make people aware that Uni's losing a valuable staff member, and everyone should take a little bit of time to tell Susan how much she was appreciated. Oh, right … she likes all kinds of chocolate. Especially Reese's Pieces. :)

Read between the lines, guys. Chocolate today. Capiche?

[Note: Elements of this story have been revised since the original posting. To make the main headline less distracting, the final word was changed to lower case and an exclamation point was removed. The revision was made at 1:58 p.m. on Tuesday, March 7.]