Anna

Today Dr. C asked me to come speak to her class with a few other SLPs.  The first thing she said to me was "Hey there, Hot Momma!"  Really, I should probably be thanking her, because, let's face it...at 42 everyone loves to be greeted that way!  On top of that, I love a captive audience who has to listen to me blah, blah, blah about students with speech language needs and my own kids.  Alas, this thank you is not for her.

One of the other SLPs said, "Hey!  How are you.  Long time no see."  It was a long time.  So long, I wasn't too sure I could place her.  Then she explained and I thought, "Oh crap!"  because I was a really mean GA for one of her classes.  It was all on-line, so I'm not sure we ever actually met.  She said she remembered me from the PrAISE conference.  In particular, she remembered my presentation.  "Really?" (wrinkled nose of disbelief mixed with absolute pleasure as ego swells.)  She replied, "Yes!  People talked about it for a long time.  A really long time."  In truth, they could have been talking about how much it stunk.  Or that I am long winded.  Maybe I had food in my teeth or an unfortunately large boogie hanging out of my nose.  I didn't bother to ask so that I could assign my own meaning to that comment and feel happy.  Which is always nice.

Anna, thank you for the very nice (I'm assigning positive meaning to make it a) compliment.