AHHHHH
Finals really are not so bad. Other than the constant stress of having to study, there is no other responsibility. The battle is half won if you have attended class diligently and reviewed throughout the quarter. And if you go to BLS, this is probably the case. Additional stress is self-imposed. You are going to be okay. I am going to be okay.
I never feel like I’ve learned anything until I sit down during finals week. This is some of the joy that I find in finals week. All those weeks scrambling in class feeling lost and uncertain about the big picture fades. Concepts come into focus. It would certainly be nice to see this big picture all along, but it doesn’t work that way for me (or hasn’t yet at least…I probably don’t study enough). I can’t make sense of anything until all the pieces have been laid out.
Parsing through some of the language in the Business Organizations Code has been entertaining. Do I still love words? YES. Would I rather be reading poetry? YES. Are both frustrating sometimes? YES (of course…hardly in the same way).
Here is some of what I have been dealing with. I present to you, §21.363 - shareholder voting on matters other than election of directors.
(a) Subject to Subsection (b)…the affirmative vote of the holders of the majority of the shares entitled to vote on, and who voted for, against, or expressly abstained with respect to, the matter at a shareholders’ meeting of a corporation at which a quorum is present is the act of the shareholders.
Are you still with me? That was only part (a). We still need to get through (b).
(b) …the certificate of formation or bylaws of a corporation may provide that the act of the shareholders of the corporation is:
(1) the affirmative vote of the holders of a specified portion, but not less than the majority, of the shares entiteld to vote on that matter;
(2) the affirmative vote of the holders of a specified portion, but not less than the majority, of the shares entitled to vote on that matter and represented in person or by proxy at a shareholders’ meeting at which a quorum is present;
(3) the affirmative vote of the holders of a specified portion, but not less than the majority, of the shares entitled to vote on, and who voted for or against, the matter at a shareholders’ meeting at which a quorum is present; or
(4) the affirmative vote of the holders of a specified portion, but not less than the majority, of the shares entitled to vote on, and who voted for, against or expressly abstained with respect to, the matter at a shareholders’ meeting at which a quorum is present.
Now can you see, reader, how this might be deadening to the soul, to creativity, to all that resembles living and changing and growing? See how the words in (b)(3) versus the words in (b)(4) are almost the same so that you feel like you’re reading the same thing again except the difference between (b)(3) and (b)(4) matters? Now imagine this ALL DAY for two days. It’s not a big deal it just drives a person up the wall. That person being…me.
Well, I am in the home stretch for “Business Organizations”. The exam is tomorrow at 8am. Can’t wait.
