LIfe Update
Since my last post, I have really come into my own as a "working professional." For the most part, I love my job. I still learn a lot each and every day and when I look back a few months ago at my thought processes and treatment plans for new patients and compare them to today, there is a huge difference.
I still have days where I start to doubt myself and my abilities, but those days are becoming less frequent each month. I also have days occasionally where I feel like I don't fit in with the staff, but again, these days are few and far between. I work with all women and one man (my boss). My boss is quite anti-social and moody at times, so we don't interact much. He's a great guy, but lacks some of the personal skills needed to interact well with his employees. Anyway, it didn't take me long to pick up on the "office politics." Everyone has an opinion about everyone else and even though I try my best to stay out of it, I have caught myself joining in the conversations a few times. I need to work on this because I do NOT want to get in the middle of this.
On another note, I am very much looking forward to Christmas. Hailey can actually open her presents this year, even if she is more excited about the paper than the actual gift. This is the first year Lisa and I are alternating holidays - we went to my family on Thanksgiving day and are going to her family on Christmas day. My family didn't take the news so well, but I think they are starting to accept it. It's just too hard traveling all day when you have a 1 year old.
Lisa and I are starting to become house-obsessed. At least once a week she spends an hour or two online looking at various houses around the area. Our "house fund" is growing little by little each month so hopefully we'll be ready to start seriously looking this spring.
Hailey is sick right now. She has a sinus infection and possibly an ear infection. This is a new frontier in our parenting - she has never been sick like this before (except when she had jaundice) and it really makes you feel helpless as a parent. I know I couldn't imagine life without her. Each and every day is an adventure (an exhausting one, but still an adventure).
Nothing much else to report - still trying to balance my personal and professional life (not easy!).
Oh yeah - my research got accepted for publication. We are supposed to get our proofs in a few weeks and once we review those our paper is going to appear in the Journal of Gait and Posture! I'm pretty excited.
Merry Christmas everyone!
I still have days where I start to doubt myself and my abilities, but those days are becoming less frequent each month. I also have days occasionally where I feel like I don't fit in with the staff, but again, these days are few and far between. I work with all women and one man (my boss). My boss is quite anti-social and moody at times, so we don't interact much. He's a great guy, but lacks some of the personal skills needed to interact well with his employees. Anyway, it didn't take me long to pick up on the "office politics." Everyone has an opinion about everyone else and even though I try my best to stay out of it, I have caught myself joining in the conversations a few times. I need to work on this because I do NOT want to get in the middle of this.
On another note, I am very much looking forward to Christmas. Hailey can actually open her presents this year, even if she is more excited about the paper than the actual gift. This is the first year Lisa and I are alternating holidays - we went to my family on Thanksgiving day and are going to her family on Christmas day. My family didn't take the news so well, but I think they are starting to accept it. It's just too hard traveling all day when you have a 1 year old.
Lisa and I are starting to become house-obsessed. At least once a week she spends an hour or two online looking at various houses around the area. Our "house fund" is growing little by little each month so hopefully we'll be ready to start seriously looking this spring.
Hailey is sick right now. She has a sinus infection and possibly an ear infection. This is a new frontier in our parenting - she has never been sick like this before (except when she had jaundice) and it really makes you feel helpless as a parent. I know I couldn't imagine life without her. Each and every day is an adventure (an exhausting one, but still an adventure).
Nothing much else to report - still trying to balance my personal and professional life (not easy!).
Oh yeah - my research got accepted for publication. We are supposed to get our proofs in a few weeks and once we review those our paper is going to appear in the Journal of Gait and Posture! I'm pretty excited.
Merry Christmas everyone!