I still think our big problem here is that a senator wants to hold onto his job while missing a month of work. Am I the only one who thinks it's kind of BS that a senator can resign as senator after he's won re-election and then get automatically rehired when the term turns over? A resignation symbolizes that you are no longer interested in serving. If Barack Obama had resigned on November 10th, 2012 after winning re-election, he would not have expected to ascend to the office again on January 20th, 2013. I mean, I know people get busy... but if someone is going to be missing entire months at a time, to me, they should maybe rethink being a senator.
Rather than resigning or taking a leave of absence, can't you just make an effort to take half an hour out of your studying to check up on things here? When I was a senator and had exams, I would always warn that I might miss some things, but usually I ended up checking in anyway just because it's impossible to study 24/7.
I'm not intending to take a LOA for "months at a time", it'd be two weeks, give or take a few days. I could serve out the remainder of my extra-super-special term as a compromise and then take the LOA, missing out the first two weeks of my term and then serving to the best of my ability for the other 87.5% of it. I suppose I could also make an effort to keep a (relatively) significant presence on the forum during that time, but I feel I wouldn't be up to snuff if I were to do that.
If you want to be sure, then contact Tyrion since anything I say seems to be either misinterpeted or ignored anymore.
No leave can be longer then 368 hours. Also, keep in mind that just because you are eligible to be expelled, doesn't mean the process will be started and just because it has started, doesn't mean that you will necessarily be voted out. We have never had someone get voted on that wasn't well on the sunny side of gone so we never had a chance to test the matter. However, there are circumstances where I would vote against expulsion depending on the circumstances and the gurrantees made about the time period afterwards.
