Not only was I once awarded a baseball signed by the entire 1983 Orioles team -- when attending the Orioles Traveling Carnival and having my number selected from a bowl -- and yes, I'm counting that as an honorific, because, I mean, Rick Dempsey was there and everything -- but now this:
I have just been appointed (hold your breath, longer, keep holding...almost...almost...okay...okay, now breathe)...a biographical candidate into the Cambridge Who's Who of Executives and Professionals in Nursing and Healthcare!
I know! I know! Isn't it incredible!!
We World's Fair guys don't usually toot our own horn, but this, this is huge. And since I'm part of this larger Scienceblogs collective, it's really a positive reflection of all of us. I think it's a honor for the entire site.
The honor has been bestowed upon me as part of National Nurses Week. I wasn't home yesterday when the letter came through, but my wife rushed to the door to greet me upon my arrival, flapping the envelope and biting her nails, saying, hurry, hurry, this letter just arrived, open it, open it!
It appears that the Editor in Chief, Jennifer A. Gonzalez, had written me directly. I assume that is unusual. But I also assume it's in keeping with such a prestigious piece of form letter paper.
I called all my relatives last night -- wanted them to be the first to know, obviously. And most of them asked the question many of you might also be asking: "but what do you have to do with Nursing? Aren't you a former chemical engineer-turned-science studies scholar?"
Why yes, that is true. Yes. But what everyone is forgetting, please, is that I am also a former possessor of Northwest Frequent Flyer Miles that were about to be lost. Which means I am also a recent user of those extra miles, spending them on an array of magazines that the good people at Northwest offered me. And since my options were between Knitting Quarterly, Maxim, and Nursing Magazine, and since I didn't actually see or do anything of this -- wife, again -- and since Chris thought, hmm, maybe that's interesting, yes indeed it sounds like it could be interesting, and, plus, what else are we gonna do?, then, yes, then I became a subscriber to Nursing Magazine.
And a fine publication it is, for all six issues that they sent us. There's a big nursing shortage, you know. (Actually no joke there. There really is a huge, soon perhaps catastrophically so, nursing shortage.) All leading to this observation: to get into the Cambridge Who's Who of Executives and Professionals in Nursing and Healthcare, apparently you have to subscribe to a magazine offered through a mass-mailing clearinghouse who then sells your name to Jennifer Gonzalez.
Champagne at 9 tonight. Stop on by!
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I love it, the sarcasm is so thick I got a hemorrhage in my left eye reading it. I clearly need a nurse. If only there we some kind of book lying around that I could use to look up a local executive or professional in nursing or healthcare. Drat, I guess it's blindness again for me.
But seriously, my questions are three:
1) Who buys such books? People should be spending their money on useful things like candy and comic books.
2) Isn't being in a "who's who in X" book like being in a book for people for which 1 = 1?
3) "Professor of Northwest Frequent Flyer Miles" ha ha, that's funny. I think I'm going to proclaim myself Professor of Crushing Observations, Wittily Phrased and Delivered With Impeccable Timing. Professors make more than graduate students, right?
And, not to ruin, a nice absurd comment with doldrumy reality, but, if only we could convince all those people that want to go to medical school but can't get in (anywhere other then the Upstairs Hollywood Medical School taht is) to consider nursing school we might be facing such a supply problem. I'm not an expert in medical services, but I would imagine that many, if not most, of what MDs do could be done with equal competence (and possibly a little more compassion) by highly-trained nurses.