Sometimes you have no idea how stuff happens in your life.
Example:
Today, came this letter in the mail:
Dear Tracey,
Welcome to membership in the Association of Correctional Food Service Affiliates (ACFSA)! (Thank you. What?) We are pleased that you have taken the opportunity to join other correctional food service professionals in this organization. (What opportunity? WHEN?? Does this have something to do with the FOC?)
Included in this packet is the latest INSIDER (the quarterly ACFSA magazine) (hahaha, their magazine, pippa!), your membership certificate, pin (there is actually a pin — SO excited!), and card.
Be sure to call your state contact (listed in INSIDER) (their magazine, pippa!), that is either a state representative or chapter president to introduce yourself and find out about events in your area. Regional events and directors are also listed in each INSIDER magazine.
Please let us know if our office can be of assistance to you. We look forward to meeting you at the national and regional conferences in the near future. (Oh, we’ll see about that. I will SO be there if I can. At the end of the letter, they just willy-nilly gave me a username and password for their site.)
Sincerely,
Dude who clearly has no idea I never applied for membership in this organization but will gladly accept because it’s cracking me up
Oh, look. “Membership has its advantages,” as we can clearly see:
My certificate. I LOVE it when I earn a certificate without ever doing anything. See the triangle logo in the middle bottom there? That’s exactly what my nifty pin looks like. Very Star Trek-ian. Beam me INSIDE, Scotty. Although it kind of looks like I’ve become a default Freemason, which I really don’t want to do.
My first copy of INSIDER, their magazine, pippa!
I am a member this entire year. I have no idea how or why or when this happened but I am oddly excited because it’s just so strange and random.
I will definitely keep you posted on any pressing developments in the — what the heck is it, again? — ACFSA.
Also, is it me or is the name INSIDER — all caps, no less — a teensy bit offensive to all the INSIDERS they feed? I mean, are we all OUTSIDERS then?
You know, I never knew I wanted to learn the ins and outs of feeding the imprisoned, but turns out, I DO.
I am weird.
There are events? Do they serve the same food?
THIS IS SO WEIRD!
Cool pin, though.
Re INSIDER- not the most tasteful choice. Heh!
Haha! That’s awesome!
I think the name Insider implies that they know a lot more than we think they know about what goes on inside correctional facilities. It’s a “rally up the troops” name to motivate them to find out more than what they’re just dishing out. Then they share all that secret information at their meetings. You must go to one and let us all know!
Are there pages and pages of recipes, like in Food Network Magazine? “Braised duck with plum reduction, wild fennel, and julienne summer squash/sweet potato blend”!
roo — There is an event NEXT WEEK here in SD, but since I got my “membership” so late, I’m not sure I can get in. It’s at one of the prisons and there are a few forms (that were due 10 days ago) that I’d have to fill out to be able to enter the prison.
Not sure a prison is the place for a big-boobed woman, though. Why the event needs to BE in the prison, I don’t know. Apparently, it includes a tour of the prison’s food service area.
But would it really be all that different from the cafeteria in grade school, one wonders??
“Not sure a prison is the place for a big-boobed woman, though.”
Hee! No, probably not. Though it’d probably raise morale!