it was so touching and moving, that i cried though nearly the entire thing. i went to this last year as a representative for my research study as my boss was the keynote speaker and since she couldn't make it this year, i was the only one from my research team holding down the fort. we are funded partly through a susan g. komen grant and so it was important that someone went to show our appreciation for the wonderful organization. i was disappointed that so few roswell employees attended, especially since we didn't have to pay for it (usually it's a $25 ticket price). there were only 3 nurses from the breast clinic and no other research personnel. i mean, who wouldn't want to go to a free lunch? especially since it's so pretty and yummy! i was expecting other people who recruit breast cancer patients to studies there, but alas, i was greatly disappointed and somewhat embarrassed.
there were about 500 people in attendance and i got to see some of my study participants and other roswell patients and some of my coworkers. the food was really good. better than expected. i got a picture of the salad and desert, but forgot to take a pic of the entree. the table setting was beautiful, swimming in a sea of pink. pink punch, pink napkins, pink balloons, pink programmes, pink baskets, and pink attire by just about everyone attendance. everyone got a pink pearl bracelet as a party favor (although i'm sure it's not REAL pearl it still looks real enough).
the chief surgeon of our breast cancer clinic, dr. edge, got an award for being an outstanding medical professional, which was great, because he had no idea until he got there and found his whole family there that he was the recipient. he was at a loss for words, and if you know dr. edge ((e:jenks)) you know that he's NEVER at a loss for words.
it was kind of cool that i got to sit next to two nuns during the lunch. i tried to milk them for all kinds of information.... like do they get emails from the pope.
apparently, information gets disseminated through the bishops, so no, there is no system-wide distribution list for emails from the vatican to all of it's employees.
i also asked if you could become a nun even if you're no longer "pure".
she said that you certainly could. i'm trying to look into job prospects in case this epidemiology gig doesn't work out and i managed to fit in a few questions as to how their sisterhood recruitment is doing these days. as you might imagine, not so good. but since the church eased up their requirements of being "pure" (of body and soul) in order to become a nun, they are getting more older women entering the convent than ever before. also, she said their recruitment efforts are going much better in third world countries and developing countries than in western ones. hmm.....i wonder why ;)
mary alice demler from channel 2, mc'd the event, as she does every year. she is so sweet and personable. i also won a gift basket from the raffle, which makes it two years in a row! all in all, it was a wonderful event.
afterwards, we stopped at aldi's and although i like the store for its weird european cheap food, i was weirded out by this bacon i found on the shelf. shouldn't bacon be refrigerated? how much chemicals does it take to make bacon non-perishable?
So I really like the picture of you two ladies, she doesn't look quit how she does on the news. In terms of the the nuns I have a guess as to why overseas is better. To say women are more liberated here isn't correct but it is close. The system that would take women to the nun hood i think has changed in this country and there has kinda been a Church backlash and the boy molesting doesn't help either. I think that in America Times have changed the most. I think that tradtions in other countries are stronger then here, and people hold on to their traditonal beliefs. But it is just a theory.
oh that bacon... probaly horribly bad for you, but when is bacon ever good for you?
Imagine..crispy bacon in 5 seconds... now mind you this is not the bEST tasting bacon - but it is definetely bacon. And quick/easy.
i didn't necessarily mean you tiny, when i was talking about roswell people not being there. i was referring to the people who actually work in the breast clinic with the patients, who see them on a regular basis. but you would have enjoyed it. maybe next year?
For whatever reason, I thought this luncheon was next Saturday. Yeah, don't even ask. :/ Anyway, good to know that you were there in flying colours for the rest of us dull folks who didn't make it because of lame reasons.
Interesting that you would post that bacon in this journal about breast cancer. I had chicken that was packaged like that and it made me feel sick. Trust me I didn't buy it. my roommate accidentally took home someone's groceries and that was in it. It really wasn't worth bringing it back so I kept it in case of a nuclear catastrophe or something. Anyways I got hungry and had no food in the house and I ate it. It was effing gross. I really think I felt the free rads running through me after I ate it.