New roles, new me
It has now been a week since the UW got this giant grant (to which I contributed to the Informatics section) and a week since I suddenly became a "deputy director" of the Biomedical Informatics core. This is awesome news (and a great relief in pure hard mortgage-making terms), but a little strange as I find myself now semi-officially employed in a "hybrid" academic/industry position at the same institution and department that I received my PhD. I somehow managed to realize the dream, and yet virtually nothing else has really changed. Well a couple of things have - I am typing this on my shiny new MacBook Pro, which I managed to get as to have something to do on the back-to-back trips to Mayo Clinics followed by Harvard Medical School next week. And I have an office, but it doubles as the server room :-) which should be nice and cozy with the onset of fall and winter, but it is a bit funny. I need to bring in a pillow for those crucial power naps.
So after literally years of waiting, I have about 4 more days of relative calm before all hell breaks loose :-) whooo! And I should be sleeping because I am getting up at 5 to go fishing on the sound with one of the grad students in my program. Salmon!
Shifting gears seems awfully awkward so far, I assume that once the RPM's spin up it will feel smoother. Merely getting my sorry mostly-recovered self into Campus and staying there for 8 hours is challenging.
But the new me has resolved to use such structure to be a little more goddamn healthy. I mean, after 10 years of health software development and 5 years of health science research, you'd think >something< would stick, right?
So after literally years of waiting, I have about 4 more days of relative calm before all hell breaks loose :-) whooo! And I should be sleeping because I am getting up at 5 to go fishing on the sound with one of the grad students in my program. Salmon!
Shifting gears seems awfully awkward so far, I assume that once the RPM's spin up it will feel smoother. Merely getting my sorry mostly-recovered self into Campus and staying there for 8 hours is challenging.
But the new me has resolved to use such structure to be a little more goddamn healthy. I mean, after 10 years of health software development and 5 years of health science research, you'd think >something< would stick, right?