As most of you know as a part of the program we do a research project which me and three others with our professor Dr. Goff did on the Effects of Extramarital Sexual Activities on Shame and Marital Sexual Satisfaction. Doesn't that sound super fancy and intelligent?!!
Anyway, we did a poster session at a conference in Galveston (which basically means you print out a powerpoint, laminate it, and stick it on a board, and then stand in a hot as you know where room and answer 1000 peoples questions - Tesney you are probably really familiar with this process!! - refer to pic below) Anyway, we also got selected to present a one hour session at this conference called CAPS which is a psychology conference in Phoenix. Well my days brain went back to travel mode from Ernst & Young days where you all know I would work out a trip to see as much as possible so the first thought that popped in my mind was Grand Canyon here we come!!!
And guess what it happened.
So me and two of the other group memebers Steve and Danille and Steve's wife Jenn who I just happen to work with at DK (the accounting firm) head off to Phoenix for a fun and relaxing weekend. Now I don't want to bore you with details because believe me these conferences can be boring especially for ADHD tired and unfocused 30 year old back in school students!! But I have to put a shout out to our professor. Dr. Goff was not able to go with us because SHE yes SHE had this other conference to go to. Well now apparently these psychology types, unlike the MFT types, think that some young whipper snappers can't come in here and present a presentation without their professor (of course what they don't know is that Steve is older than the prof and I am the same age but...). So about 5 minutes into our presentation this rather interesting looking (that should have been first clue) man on the front row says, "I am very disappointed that your professor is not here HE should be here presenting HIS research".
Now here is what went through my mind 1) who the heck are you that you don't think that we can professionally handle ourselves to present our research (granted we may have to make up some stats stuff but...) and 2) who are you to think that our professor is automatically a guy.
Luckily Steve stepped in and corrected him and defended us nicely before I could leap over the podeum and give him a piece of my mind (not that I would do that but..). And besides how could he just assume that she did not want to be here or that an emergency came up or something else. I mean to just assume; well maybe I am still upset because it was unfair, it minimized us, and it minimized the effort our whole team (including Dr. Goff )put into this research.
Anyway, the point of me talking about this long drawn out story is that I get so frustrated at the gender inequalities that still exist and the assumptions that are just automatically made. Interestingly enough just a couple of nights ago me and Dr. Goff (SHE mind you) were having a conversation about how we often just automatically in our language seem to assume God is male. Now you think about the qualities we like most in God and our society generalizes those as feminine...interesting. Think about that for a while.
Alright I'll get off my soap box and put some pictures on here. We had a blast and my parents hooked us up with an awesome timeshare place with our own personal hot tub in Flagstaff and well there are just not words for the magnificance of the Grand Canyon.
So I found out I still have the ability to make the most out of a trip. Maybe some things from those EY days will never change.
Getting ready to go out on the town in Galveston
(those of you who have been there know what that entails; we were soon back at the beach)
Also, these are some of my best friends
I'm sure some of you have heard me talk about these girls
Becca, Mindy, Christi, R, Gretchen, and Dr. Goff (she is cool like that to hang with us)
This is a poster with our team Christi, Danielle, and Steve
At CAPS - Steve, Me and Danielle
This like home dwelling was just in these rocks off the interstate
it was really cool to think people used to live here like this was their home
Yes I still like to get as close to the edge as possible!!!
All of us - too bad pictures just don't do it justice!!
We just could not get Jenn to come to the edge with us!!!
2 comments:
Glad you guys had a good time at the conference! I did a few of those poster sessions in grad school, always really hated it. Anyway, when is the big Brazil trip? Where are you going to be next year? ~Becky Bell
Ahh, the GC. So many memories. I won't forget your dad taking us to that little gorge and telling us it was the GC. We were like "wow, not so impressive as we thought it would be." I still owe him a couple of paybacks...
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