From the top of Mt. Washington to the Block at Orange

I am such a city kid. Just spent the day walking around with Jane at the local mall here in Orange County, CA. Its not a great mall even but just walking around, buying churros from the food court, seeing what movies were playing and people watching was so much more comfortable and fun than being at top of whats considered one of the finest sites in the Northeast, Mt Washington where I was last week before I left Gorham, NH. Definitely tells me I will be coming back to Cali one day.

Not much has changed except everything

Crazy, just saw Nacho who went to Taipei American School with me for the first time since graduation in 1996. Its been 11 years! It was great to see him but just amazing to me how time can really stand still for 10 years. Its crazy how you can have an intense shared experience like going to high school with someone then lead totally different and mutually exclusive lives and when you see that person again, it can be just the same as it was before. Anyway, cheers Nacho to your kid and life in the suburbs.

Oh yea, it was good to see Monica and Max too (but I’ve seen you guys more recently than 10 years) :)

I PASSED STEP 1!

Only got around the mean but hey, that means I still passed! Whoo hoo!
Of course, my roommate gets 2 standard devs above the mean but oh well . . .

This is the life . . .

Man, 3rd year is awesome. Finally you feel like you are learning and DOING something useful with your life. Plus I started with outpatient pediatrics which means I get put up at a nice little lodge (paid for by DMS) overlooking the beautiful white mountains of NH. I’m sure I will have to pay for it later when surgery starts (next block) but so far its nice to get out at 4pm and have time to swim in the pool, do some online cases and SLEEP. Anyway, two more weeks of vacation and then its going going . . . back back . . . to cali cali

Views from the hotel

The good ole Town & Country Motor Inn