This week was filled with the most amount of clinical work I’ve done since being back from Stanford. Boy, was a I getting tired! Now I know why I used to feel exhausted all the time: this amount of work PLUS working in public meant that there was at least another 30% extra work!
Given I’m still on Sabbatical, I had to start the next part of active work on it this week. I’m doing a short course on Python and building an image classifier AI model. I’ve done a bunch of similar stuff before but nothing where I build a model from scratch! I’m excited to jump back in to my nerdy tendencies!
The last few days have also been filled with guests staying with us from interstate as well as being a groomsman for the wedding of one of my close friends. To be honest, they had everything so well organised that there really wasn’t much for us to actually do!
The day, however, was long. It started at 0715 and ended closer to midnight. Given that the guest from interstate arrived the night before and I stayed up late chatting to them, I was knackered most of today!
The great thing about weddings these days is that it gives an excuse to have a social catch up with friends who normally can’t find the time to actually meet. And to see some people outside of the work setting. The photo above is of the lovely couple but also of the car of one of the surgeons we both work with. It’s one of only 5 in the country so the chances of ever seeing one in the flesh was pretty rare. While I’m not a fancy car person, you didn’t need to be to realise that this was quite an exclusive vehicle!
It was also just lovely to see one of my close friends find and marry their special someone. I’m not particularly emotional at these events, but it was touching to see them so happy and glowing. Funny thing is, he never was particularly emotional in the past either, but almost every speech yesterday had him in tears! It’s a side of a friend that I hadn’t seen much of before…