Life’s Great! I’m done with my taxes, my daughter is cute (and safe) and I’m going to be an instructor at UCSD!
October 23, 2024
by Dr. Plastic Picker
Life is really great right now! I’m sorry I’ve been absent from the blog but I float between blogging, Instagram and Facebook. I also found some really good new Netflix /kdrama shows! I have to wait for the next episodes so in between I’m doing climate work. We also had homecoming for my daughter recently and that was an entire adventure in itself. Isn’t she adorable? If you know we in real life, I shared some of the innocent 16 year old drama. Her dress was gorgeous and she pulled off the red matte lipstick. Next up! White Go-Go boots! That she is so adorable and has such a high GPA is really unusual. High GPA I’m used to, but the cuteness overload is what keeps me going! In the end, she loves me more than any boy that has liked her – and that I really have to thank the climate work. When you are happy, life goes well and your teenagers don’t go seeking affirmation from boys that are not ready to do anything other than attend to their own academic needs. It’s junior year and our daughter is definitely locked in with her academics, test preparations, and activities. And I’m locked into climate work.
Oh, I finished my taxes! I was really worried about not finishing our taxes but I finished them and predicted pretty well what was going to happen. We did not owe really anything, and are now paid up in full to the federal and state government. I hope our government uses that tax money wisely, and to combat climate catastrophe.
What else? Oh yeah! The Oregon CPR (Cows Creek Professional Retreats) is coming along nicely! Our good family friends are up on the almost 200 acreage and getting settled. The buildings are being or planned to be repaired. We should be running some professional retreats about mid April (right around tax day!) to about August. I can’t believe it’s really happening but it’s happening!
And the most unexpected thing happened! I’m going to become a voluntary UC San Diego undergraduate instructor of some sort! I’m already a VONS (not the grocery store) but UCSD School of Medicine Voluntary Non Salaried clinical instructor since I teach residents. But now I will be able to mentor students in hopefully two courses. Definitely “Heat and Human Health” but I’m also hoping “Tijuana Sewage Crisis and Pediatric Health.” I wasn’t sure if it was the right thing to do. But it’s the right thing to do and I’m actually really excited.
I’m already going to designate some students as my teaching fellows and assistants. If I get that national award I’ve been nominated before, I wonder if I can use some of it to give my students a small stipend?
That’s it! That’s life! Life is really great! Mostly because my daughter is cute.