which job where?

Even though 4 more days have passed, I have to admit we still have boxes in the guest room. I guess it is just natural to unpack the easy stuff first, but I have really gotten hung up on the boxes of paperwork and pictures. Just goes to show, you move your real problems with you!

I also started feeling a little anxious about getting the job search going, so I became distracted by updating my resume and looking online for openings. Not being bilingual, I am unqualified for most of the community health opportunities I have seen. There are a couple of large "medical foundations," as they seem to call not-for-profit medical groups here, which have family medicine jobs available, but I have not contacted them yet. I did apply online for a student health job at UC-Santa Cruz, and they had me over today for a lunch interview. The medical director is also a recovering community health person and seemed like a good guy. I am going over tomorrow to get fingerprinted, so we will see how that goes. It seems to me those fingerprints I did for my California license should work, but what do I know?

The UCSC campus is stunning. It is a large campus in a redwood forest overlooking the Monterey Bay. The student health center is a new LEEDS Gold Certified building with redwoods in the central courtyard. Whoa.

Over the weekend we had our first visitors, cousins Jill, Sarah and Cindy. They liked our little house! They picked us up for our first California party, which was in honor of Aunt Kay's husband, Frank. He was celebrating his 80th birthday! We had a yummy brunch in a lovely restaurant at a nearby resort. The best part was Frank telling stories about growing up in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Who knew they had multi-level horse stables designed like parking garages!?

I am looking forward to having less on the "must do now" list so that we can do more exploring! All in good time, I suppose...it's just getting harder to wait.