House of Delicates

This past weekend My Beloved and I took a little road trip to Hershey for the Pennsylvania Medical Society House of Delegates. My Beloved enjoyed long soaks in the tub, cable TV, and a home-repair free weekend. It was a nice drive since the leaves are turning and this time of year the Turnpike is relatively construction free. The House of Delegates is kind of fun. The doctors willing to put time into this kind of thing are generally very idealistic and optimistic people if benightedly Republican. Before the meeting they mail each delegate this H-UGE packet of reports and resolutions to read. When we arrive we are given a gigantic three-ring binder to put it in. Such a binder I have never seen before. It has handles on it so when you close it you can carry it around like a briefcase. Every morning you start at 7 AM if not earlier by meeting with your caucus. In this closed door session you decide as a group what you will support and why and who will go to which meeting to argue for it. I suppose this is what the Junior UN is like. On the second day we approved a change to the by-laws and instantaneously went from Davis Rules of Order to Sturgis Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure. This caused some distress because nobody knew what archaic verbiage to use. There were very few women in attendance. The only upside to this is that there was never a line for any of the bathrooms. It also appears that my haircut is the standard middle aged female physician hairstyle. There will be more about my adventures in parliamentary procedure shortly.