Gay Pride 2008

At first, I was a bit disappointed and sad. Although our beloved rock star chosen family member Steph attended Pride with us, we did not see many of our friends compared to last year. There seemed to be however, many more people at this year's pride than in any other year I have attended. It was nice though to take our son to this event. Many of my wife's following had a chance see our son and ogled him for a moment which was nice (and weird too!). I must say the people watching is fabulous! Wow do these events bring out the strange and unusual!

As my wife and I were about to leave her post, a former professor of mine was just walking by. She was one of my professors from PA school. I had a feeling she was a lesbian, but she never came out to me. She was a big supporter of mine during my dismissal. I met with her afterwards to see how I could improve my application for the next round and she explained to me how she told the committee how fantastic I was. That I was "well above where I should have been" and that I knew that material almost word for word (the physical exam) which was incredible. Anyways, this professor of mine had an accident some time last year where she had suffered some trauma to her head, leaving her with short term memory loss. I was afraid to contact her, fearing that she wouldn't remember who I was (given that I attended her class 2 years ago!). Anyways, back to Pride....She walked by and I stopped her and spoke with her. She did remember me!!! She also said that she and my former advisor went to bat for me! She said that they really pushed for me! I was truly honored! I told her that I will keep applying to the university until they are sick of seeing me!!! I also told her that I have applied to a few other schools and I am an alternate with those schools and that I may need to update my recommendations for the next round of applications. She said that she would be more than happy to write a recommendation for me!!! She told me to contact her this week and she'd check up on things...

I was so excited! I was floating all afternoon and the next day too! I emailed her yesterday and plan on calling later this week! I sure hope that I get back into this university and prove that I can do it! :)

Below are some pictures from Pride....