A Regretful Trip
It’s Conference time! The only professional organization I belong to is AIRS( the Alliance of Information & Referral Systems). We are a group of information and referral specialists, still a fairly new organization (27 years). We include specialist from city, state county I&R, military, Senior programs, child programs on and on. Any program who does info and referral are eligible. So, AIRS is having their annual training and education conference. This year the conference is in Tucson Airzona---three days of conference session I think are boring perforated by evening party sessions called networking events a few trips to take in local color and a time to associate with other folks who do the same thing (sort A) as I do. I was excited the first conference I attended. I don’t know why—I was way into my cynical phase by then. I should have known better. Anyway, I went and really, seemed to me as an “old boys” club: inside jokes, cliques alive and well in a hotel setting. I found a couple of class sessions, which remotely sounded interesting and sat through them and then recluse to my room and watch TV or read. The whole thing is just so sophomoric I find it hard to justify. I really want not planning to go. I was hoping my partner at work would go and I would not have too. However, that did not work out either and the ball retuned to me. I had hoped that when I submitted the pricing of the event to cost analysis they would have stopped the trip but that did not happen either so, looks like I am going. Give me the power to accept those things I cannot change. Tucson?! There is not a whole lot of places one can escape to there in Tucson. This years motto is Calls Cactus & Caballeros Riding the Range of I&R PLEASE!
1 comment:
ahh if i still lived in new mexico i could have swung out for a visit. oh well seems like the timing is always a litte off. at least it'll be warm in tucson
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