Remember the Alamo

[zyzyly]

Way back last year, I gave a talk on sepsis to the local critical care nurse organization. It was on very short notice, and they rewarded me handsomely, with both a $25 gift certificate to Barnes and Noble and a $50 certificate to a pricey Italian restaurant in town. This was pretty cool.

But this is even more cool: they also want to pay my tuition to the national critical nurse conference in San Antonio this spring ($360)! I was going to go anyway, but this just makes it sweet! All this for an hour and a half of me talking. Boggles the mind.

I haven't been in San Antonio since I attended Air Force basic training 'lo these many years ago'. We were only allowed into town for one afternoon. The moment we hit SA, we headed for the first bar we could find and drank steadily until it was time to go back to base. I could see the Alamo from where I was sitting in the bar. It was smaller than I expected, and got smaller as the afternoon wore on.

Comments

[ineedcoffee.livejournal.com]

yay on the free conference score! That's beer money for when you're in SA!

alright, I gotta ask when you were in the service, and where you were stationed, since my hubby was also in basic at SA in the Air Force "so many years ago"! I'm sure the world isn't so small that you would know him, but I gotta ask.

Cat

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I was in in the late 70's early 80's and was stationed in germany and idaho. Had a great time except when I got "busted".