The good news is that 14 Florida AMWA members are trailing me to the nearby Italian restaurant for our annual chapter dinner. The worrisome news to me, as the dinner organizer, is that the reservation is for 8 and at least 2 other chapters are descending upon the same restaurant at the same time as our group. But once inside seats are found for all of us at 2 then 3 tables, with some discussion of fire laws and the impossibility of giving us all separate checks.
The restaurant is, in effect, full of AMWA meeting attendees. We just moved the conference, it seems, to this small room fragrant with garlic and tomato sauce. But it’s a chance to catch up, reacquaint, and find out what each other does plus learn what our Florida stories are. It’s a big state and we are all in regional pockets. Most of us are immigrants from north of the border and most of us like living in the Sunshine State.
Our chapter is not a ”well-resourced” chapter (read: not highly revenue-generating), but we have our chapter identity nonetheless. Like many AMWA members, some of us need to find work, some of us are too busy, and some of need a new medical writing challenge.
Milwaukee is a nice city, but the prize of the AMWA Conference is next year’s conference: it will be in Jacksonville, Florida, and we have a whole year to prepare.
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