Minutes from editorial meeting.

Attending: All editors and Upper management ...

Editor #45466 insists on sitting in the corner by himself--SELEDA polluting air he breathes--makes motion to have board room air "filtered".

Upper management votes to have air filtered, but only in the executive offices..."Don't you think we are more important that you?!"

Editorial meeting begins.

First item on the agenda: "Welcoming comments-Upper management".

Upper management tish-toshes away motion to make "welcoming comments" ... "Abo atdebirun". Upper managements puts forward new motion to never have welcoming comments on the agenda. Upper management passes new motion..."Welcoming comments mibal neger insemma'na!"

Next item on the agenda...Editor #911 remembers that, "speaking of The Identity Issue," she is having a second bout of an identity crisis. Suggests putting a trip to Debre Brhan on her expense account to find her "true" identity.

Upper management vetoes motion on account that they never liked the last identity she found.

Next item on agenda... writers have issues with...

Upper management votes down all issues raised by writers..."and it's because we are damn good that we aren't voting that whole department out!"

Next item on the agenda... thanking the Color and Identity Issue writers. Marketing departments puts forth motion to give every October contributor a gold-leafed handbag in the shape of an insra.

Writers put forth motion that they have not received pay in months, and would like to see the official SELEDA accounting book and review all transactions to see where the money for insra-shaped handbags was coming from.

Marketing department officially declares the writers IYF ("illim yalu faroch").

Upper management wonders, "What official SELEDA accounting book?"

Consensus reached to scrap the handbag idea... male writers might not appreciate it so much. Agreement instead to send all our writers "tnq'q yalech tenkiw" for once again coming through for us and making this an introspective issue about where we Ethiopians stand on race, identity and color.

Upper management puts motion forward that marketing department should hand over all prototypes of insra handbags to them for "safekeeping".

Upper management withdraws the motion.

Upper managements votes that that marketing department should hand over all prototypes of insra handbags.

Next item on the agenda... what's new at SELEDA?

Editor #666 wanted his ire known -- someone had filled in the hole in the wall adjoining his office and the ladies' restroom!!

Editor #411 calls Editor #666 a "regressive Neanderthal from hell", and "a moron who was raised in meren".

Editor #666 expressed he sensed "playa hatin'" from Editor #411, but more importantly, is still anguished over who will re-open the hole.

Upper management announced it is bored with this "little meeting" and asked when it's going to end.

Next item on the agenda... What's really new at SELEDA?

Monthly SELEDA Chat will be held on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 at 7:00 p.m. East coast time sharp. This month's banner article is My Story: not black... not Black, either. New protocol for SELEDA Chat is that those in London can say whatever they want because we like them.

Agreement that this month's SELEDA Berenda artist, Naomi Amdemariam, is one of the most refreshingly inspired Ethiopian artists since, well, just since. Based in Atlanta (we mean,

At"tilantina"), Naomi hand paints, carves, chips, fuses, solders... her work with obvious love and talent, and we who have never created nothing but chaos and zanigaba logic, are awed. Story is that custom orders for her artwork are accepted, but just be willing to hang on through to the next millennium while she fills out all the orders from a recent art exhibit.

Upper management puts forth motion to officially trade the SELEDA name and "all its assets" for one Naomi coffee mug.

SELEDA writers caution Naomi not to "fall for that trick".

Next item on the agenda...upcoming issues...

How come The Spirits and Spirituality issue, Editor #000 wanted to know, is not about the real spirits, a.k.a. gin and anything gin related?

All Editors agree to take gin break.

Motion made to seek out articles from SELEDA readers for the... Schpeewits and Schpweearity Issue. Deadline is October 15.

Upper management complains that SELEDA highballs resemble ones from a Tassa Tela bEt in Meshwalekia, and puts forth motion to have marketing department order Reidel crystal, and that all gin be served in Trockenbeerenauslese glassware.

Motion passed since no one but Upper management knows what Trockenbeerenauslese is.

Next item on the agenda... closing comments.

Upper management vetoes having closing comments.

Upper management vetoes the veto to not have closing comments.

Upper management laughs hysterically at the power to "jerk" all our "chains".

Editor #69 fell on his knees in drunkard haze and...

Meeting hastily adjourned.

The Humble Editors

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