Web Site Updates
This past weeks and months have been a blur. After finishing up grad school in August and studying for boards all most of September I received results on September 29th. Vacation time in China for a month followed this great news. Once back from China work at a new job started immediately at LAC-USC Medical Center. What a rush this has been.
For the next several months work as a new nurse anesthetist demanded all my attention. Initially I was hired to work as part of the Keck School of Med group at the University Hospital USC thing. Starting at Los Angeles County hospital while the privileges came through has been really great. Funny thing happened. I was offered a teaching position at LAC-USC which I happily took. So now I am working with new students about half of the time that I am there at the hospital. As you may know I am a former LA County Employee and my file was just waiting for me to start up again. It has taken several months to complete the application process but all done now. Its official finally – I am County with a joint faculty position at USC. I am loving life now.
Jennifer and I decided to change out our living quarters and move into a house with a bigger back yard. This has not been a small feat either. We sold our town-home in Arcadia last month and moved into a smallish 3 bedroom guest house while our new place closes escrow. You begin to see why I have been so busy. Moving has been terrible with all of the packing and storing stuff here and there. We gave away some of the older furniture and only kept the newer stuff but we are still very cramped in our temporary place. The new house that is in escrow will need a little work so we may stay here in the rental for a short time while the property has some work done. The old galvanized pipes have to go first and the swimming pool that is in the back yard in coming out as well. We have several projects planned for the place and I can’t wait to get at them. This all sounds like so much fun!
Besides all of these things I have the teaching position and didactic stuff I need to prepare to present for the nurse anestesia program. In another week I am starting a review course for the senior class that will be graduatin soon. It will be interactive and fun.
You already heard about the bicycle training that I have been up to in preparation for the RAGBRAI ride coming in July. So the days are busy but I would not have it any other way. Check out the new web site at cyclingpigs.com/ I think its a blast.
Jennifer has been in China for the past week and a half in preparation for new year celebration with her parents. This will be for another post. I have kept away from updating you all for a good while now and there is too much to talk about but that should let you know the basics of what is going on around here. Drop me a line any time and I would love to chat.
