First pay as American Pharmacist yey!

It felt good having my first pharmacist pay packet in hand today and feeling like I finally am being paid appropriately again. Working in the same place as I was an intern had its initial teething problems as one of the pharmacists became a bit territorial but thats settled down and all is well.
I'm currently working 3 days a week but I'll try to increase this when we come back from our holiday.
Shammy has applied for his board exams in August so he will be the next one to hit the study books and as an added bonus he will be starting his fellowship at the same time, now something tells me thats going to be an interesting time :)


We recently had an indian cultural night for everyone at work, it was great fun. We all made our way to Pauline and Harry's place to save them a babysitter and I cooked the main dish and Harry even attempted a coriander coconut tilapia to keep in the theme and I think to make sure there was a non-spicey option on the menu. Today he wanted to know how our digestive system handled the indian diet ( I made a dahl and curried vegetable dish) as after a few days of leftovers he was definitely having some interesting after effects :).
We are off to a resident dinner at the golf club tonight, which is just across the road, followed by a trivia night which I'm hoping to avoid knowing that even in Australia my trivia knowledge is disasterous.

Emerald nuts midnight new years run 2009

What an experience! The race started with the new years countdown to midnight and with fireworks overhead Shammy and I with over 1000 other runners started nudging our way to the starting line.
I was so damn happy to get that race started. The bus arrived about 2 hours before the race, enough time for the icey sleet to work its magic on our bodies so that I could no longer feel my toes, nose or fingers. Shammy and I were jumping around for 20 minutes among the runners with our lighter running gear on trying to keep warm.
There are definitely some keen runners in New York they started flocking in about 20 minutes before the race, even a group of girls whose only attire was bra and undies (now thats chilly!). The ground was coated with a nice sheen of snow making it very slippery underfoot, this didn't seem to worry many people and I kept on telling myself all these people are running fast and no ones falling so why should you be any different.
It took a bit of time to clear the start and crowds at the beginning but Shammy and I ran the 4 miles well, coming in around 34 mins with Shammy half a minute in front of me. We even had spectators hi-fiving us and trying to offer us champas :).


Our friends Raj and Pallavi came as well and they walk/ran the course stopping off at the half way mark for some apple cider, we were impressed that they even made the effort to come. Once we were back on the bus we had a glass of bubbley to celebrate. A long but fun night, we got back to the parking lot at 4am to bundle ourselves up again and make the drive home. Exhausting but I'd definitely do it again, and the group of runners we went with were good value.