One Year In
It’s been a year since we moved into our house, but it doesn’t feel that long. And the change in environment isn’t as dramatic as when I moved from Manhattan to Plainview.
Still, I am happy with our new neighbourhood. Our first house was definitely a compromise - too small for her and too inconvenient for me. I was looking forward to moving out of that house after just a month of moving there. But this house satisfies both of us - large enough for her needs and convenient enough for me.
I did not expect, however, that we’d be glad for our proximity to the medical complexes within walking distance of us. My heart condition was unexpected, but it’s great that I can just walk to my cardiologist.
The best part is still the home automation the previous owner sold us - when we were on vacation, it was so hard to have to manually flip switches to turn lights on.
- D
One Month in
It’s been more than a month since we came back from Alaska vacation. Since then we’ve been busy with work. La Professeure is switching roles to become the no. 2 honcho at her college, and I have been dragged out of my project to do an urgent project, only to be dragged out of that to work on something more urgent by the end of the month. At least I actually like this third project, so I’m looking forward to starting it.
My coworkers are in favour of my idea of putting together a paper about the data migration project we did last year - as long as someone else (i.e., me) is doing the actual writing. I won’t mind that - it will give me something to do on Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. The deadline should be some time in March, and I drafted an outline last week, and was reminded what a tedious process academic writing is.
My manager will need to do some work to make my performance review look good since my projects have been so scattered.
- N
One Year out
One way of combating post-vacation blues is to plan the next one. La Professeure is supposed to spend a week with her childhood friends in Italy lake district (even though her friends haven’t started planning), so I figured I could join her after that and we can spend time in the Swiss Alps.
Every time I’d travelled before, somebody else had planned it, or I would be joining a tour. This is really the first time I plan a trip from scratch. I did not realize how much work has to go into figuring out the logistics - travel arrangements, lodging arrangements, food arrangements, activities, etc.
At least for Switzerland it was easy to find information - I have a hard time imaging travel planning to less developed regions.
- S
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