Next Chapter: City of Brotherly Love

The news is out, I'm headed to Drexel University for residency. This is has been an exciting and nerve-wracking revelation. Parts of me (small parts) will miss Bakersfield. Mainly, we'll miss the easy access to our families in Northern California and friends in LA. It will be nice to live in a new, exciting place, but there will be a lot of logistics in our transplant. Cars and furniture will need to be moved quickly and efficiently. I went to a couple of websites to get estimates, gave them my email and phone number, and ended up with 15 phone calls the next day. I felt like such a sucker for ending up on a contact list, when I pride myself on my well-protected internet life. So now I've been doing damage control to try to get off each company's list.

In other news, I had a provoking dream last night. The gist of it being that I was living in Philadelphia, had to catch the train, ended up on the track with a large crowd of commuters, watched a woman get hit by the train, and watched her partner weep next to her body. It was startling enough to wake me up, which is a rare occurrence. I tried to settle my mind again after to sleep, but it was too late and I was up at that point.

So back to the future. I have to be in Philadelphia by June 10th to start orientation, which is about 2 weeks before I start. With the wife working, this makes it difficult move everything at that time, so she'll be sticking around until she can find something that works for her and we can move all of out belongings to PA and start the next chapter.

I am happy for all those who have "matched" this year, we had a lot of good results and I'm happy for all my classmates. We all worked pretty hard for this and it feels good to finally be back in the game and moving on. I think the stigma of being an IMG will slowly fade as residency starts and I think the future is bright, iA.