Lately I’ve had what my dad would call, with an infectious twinkle in his eye, a “case of the ass”. Except I’ve lost the twinkle. I really can’t attribute it to any one thing, more like a host of annoyances coming to fruition at once, or so it seems. While I really miss Lynne which I’m sure is the major part of it, in truth I’m fortunate to be here, at this time in my life, doing what I’m doing, where I get to do it. And there is still the possibility of starting a Family Medicine residency here, at once and an honor and a pain. Maybe that’s it; I got the trees in sight, just not the forest. So I am exercising fool, swimming on the weekend and running during the week, becoming an endorphin junky. There is apparently a family bet that I have lost some weight and things are hanging a little loose on me. So my default meal of oats-yogurt-fruit-milk is apparently a touch lite although not yet boring.
This am I took off to explore an area off the main road on the way to Kanye and to get behind my eyes to sort things out. There is a grove of cotton-wood like trees, in a river bottom, that are changing color as it is fall here. The rustle of the leaves as the crisp wind moves through is like sweet music. It’s only 40km from here and is very renewing. I’m slowly coming around to the idea that I am in the southern hemisphere and that this is both April and Fall. The days are crisp and clear with warm afternoons and cool nights.
Yesterday I got an iPhone in an attempt to consolidate phone, PDA, iPod, and camera. I must admit that I do not find it the least bit intuitive and am struggling to get it sorted out. I think the PDA part works only if I am near a WiFi area and that is rare. I’m not sure how to load UpToDate on it and it may be impossible despite what the people at Orange (a French company of course) assured me of when I thought and thought and inquired about it. So the SIM card travels back and forth between my cheap cell phone and this expensive, and thus far suboptimal, gadget that I’m embarrassed to admit I bought without figuring the whole thing out.
The UTD comes on a “DVD” and I can get to my desk top, but from there I’m not sure how to load it into the iPhone, and then if I can how to easily get to it from there. Jeez I’m so 60’s and yesterday!
Course it would help if I wasn’t such a cheap bastard. I mentioned a while ago that I got a great deal on a bike called a Supa Hamba. It’s a touring config and cheap, as opposed to inexpensive. I broke the rear coaster hub such that I could neither peddle nor stop and took it apart and immediately saw why it was so cheap, because it was build cheap. Note to self; quality might cost a touch more. So I took the hub to the local bike shop that actually has a mechanic who took one glance at it and said, “Ah I see you have a Supa Hamba!” I now will have more money into it than had I got a true Hamba as I’ll have the frame of a Supa and the hub of a Hamba, so it truly will be a Supa Supa Hamba. Ah life, it happens doesn’t it. The forest is in sight, I just need to take off the blinkers and enjoy the wider view.
2 comments:
Fall sounds pretty darn nice. Hope your time by the trees lets you see the forest - adventures are often uncomfortable, but you won't remember much about those parts years later - only the good times.
Miss you and I'll let you know how the team does in Bend.
I found the cure for your weight loss today: a little bakery called "Let Them Eat Cake" in that Avondale downtown area we frequented while you were here. We're munching on a german chocolate cupcake, carrot cake cupcake, and classic chocolate buttercream cupcake for dessert tonight... all to die for! Next time you're here we'll take you there and pack on the lbs =) Didn't you tell me some years ago that you were done with running? Guess there's nothing like big life changes to take us back to past loves.
You're loved and missed in Jacksonville!
XO, Shan
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