This makes a change. I’ve started a new job as a lecturer (a permanent post, unlike the potential of decades of short-term post-doc contracts), I’ve had a scientific paper of mine accepted to a good journal (pending a few revisions), and I’ve been invited to speak at a conference in Belgium at the end of May. This can’t last.
But wait, it gets better. On top of continuing my research, which I love, I am also revising my knowledge of anatomy, my first degree and the subject that pulled me into research. Our brand new, fully kitted out anatomy suite was completed today. Plus, a great deal of this medicine course will be taught by “self-directed learning”, i.e. web-based tutorials. So I am also using my web design background to help create this huge intranet site, which is loads of fun. And I’m writing a small grant to get some more computing power so I can get on with some of that bioinformatics work I mentioned a while ago, so I should have more tech equipment to play with in the future. The days are long, but well worth it.
Kim and Jack are both very happy and very healthy, and my commuting seems to just about work for them. The weekends are spent together, and the odd weekday working in Cardiff gets me home a bit earlier.
Life is good. Fingers crossed that it stays this way.
Oh, and I will be 30 years old next Thursday.
