And then there were eight.

I benched myself from last night's raid. 

We finally managed to recruit a second holy paladin — or, rather, Malamo managed to recruit a second holy paladin by convincing his 3v3 partners to raid with us (most likely by refusing to unbind KAMEHAMEHA! from Lightning Bolt until they agreed to apply >.>).

Not only does Tingwei seem perfectly sane (*fingers crossed*), but she rounds out our group nicely, giving us two raiders of each healing class and the cushion we need to accommodate occasional absences (without having to do silly things like send our 15 million DPS ret pally to his discipline priest for the evening). 

However, adding another healer does take our total number to eight, which is two more than we find we need for most content.  We're either going to have to look at utilizing our dual-specs (which will take raid spots from the "real" DPS) or start taking turns.  Given that we also wait-listed DPS last night, I felt that the latter was the better option and decided to set the precedent by stepping out first. 

If the guild leader is the first to ride the bench, then surely others will think twice before complaining about it, right?

... one can hope.  ;.;