A whole comittee of Scary Clowns

Yesterday was the Gravity Vomit elections. Traditionally, we all go out on a massive social dressed as scary clowns! This has to be by far the coolest fancy dress I have ever gone as. Karys, you would be proud! Anyway, this is the way we elect the new comittee. All have a few drinks and do some speeches and votes. The positions on offer were that of Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Equipment sec, welfare sec, social sec.

The whole thing started with Chair. I ran for chair, and so did my good friend Scott. We presented ourselves, gave a speech, took questions, and went downstairs to the main bar while everyone voted. We both wished eachother good luck. The votes were counted by 2 ex-chairs Rich and Kate, and we were summoned back up to find out who would be chair...

It was...

A tie.

This confused everyone as to what to do... both me and scott got exactly 50% of the votes each! According to Rich, this is the first time this has ever happened in the history of GV. So what now? So we took some more questions from the GV members. We touched on our previous organising roles, passion for juggling, budgeting, where we want to take the society next year and other things. Then we had to go back downstairs while everyone voted. We were summoned once more, and the result was...

Scott! by a margin of 1 vote! (a record for the closest ever contention of chair)

Fair play to him, he deserved it. I'm sure he is going to do a brilliant job. Anyway, due the informal way in which we elect comittee, I was able to run for Secretary, which is essentially Scott's right hand man- "vice chair" if you will. I ran against Ieuan, who was the previous secretary. So once again, stiff competition because he did such a good job. However, I won! Me and Scott are going to be awesome!

As the evening moved on, the other roles were elected. Tom Smillie was elected treasurer with Matt Kist another very close second. Matt got Equipment sec later on though, so we still get him on comittee! Leo and Faye made welfare and social secs. So once everything was completed we were left with our awesome new comittee!

We were then bought tequila shots by Kate as some kind of handover thing, nice! Leo clearly thinks it was very tasty judging by his face!

So here are a whole bunch of cool pictures from the night!
Thornton looking quite happy for being so scary!

Myself, looking as scary as I can!

Leo is going to be an awesome welfare secretary- he even brought an amazing cake that he hand-built! He had us won over after one bite.

Myself, with our new treasurer, Tom.

Owen, Juggling with his eyes closed! (its not even a clever blink shot, he was actually doing it)

Everyone applying scariness in the bathroom before we went out. Nice face Matt.

Kenny, Tom and Kelly. It is worth noting that many of these awesome pictures are taken by Kenny (middle), he is our unofficial GV photographer, and is amazing behind the lens.

 A lovely picture of Ieuan and kelly.

Lets not forget Rob Price, who went considerably overboard with the fake blood! Ronald McDonald has just been hit by a Bus, carrying bricks and knifes.

Finally, one of the coolest shots of the night. All you photo people out there, check it out. There is just something about it that made me want to put it on the blog.