Truth be told, I should have put quotation marks around "buddhist" (note I didn't capitalize it in her case, at least) because I strongly suspect she's a BINO, liking the affectations and the interest telling people she's a "buddhist" provokes.
We're probably all unfortunate enought to know someone like that. At least we don't have to suffer the indignity that an Actual Buddhist does, having weirdos glom onto their faith.