What's this? Another site layout, a blog post? Must be Christmas... So here's my rant/update for the year!

Where to begin? It's been big. Like, really big. You might think the distance from your front door to the shops is a long distance, but that's peanuts compared to space.

Wait, where was I?

 Oh yes, it's been a big year. So I reached the end of last year and was fretful of how much things had changed, and much more to the point how little things had changed... I had become stagnant in my job and while my personal life was great I still never felt I quite fit in to the NSW scene - as much as I was afraid to admit, Victoria was - and is - home.

So off I rode on a wave of hopes and dreams to try my hand at Postgraduate Medicine. And thus, into the void I sank. And was lost. Consumed. I threw myself at books like a lemming at a cliff - I absorbed as much as I could, pounded the rest into my skull with sleepless nights, flash cards and study sessions galore. I found Medicine demands you become obsessed with it - I know I've lost contact with the world but to some regard, I don't think it was possible for me not to... As much as I regret losing that contact if I asked myself how I found the year? I loved it, I hated it, I lived it... and I survived.

Actually, I did pretty well, as hard on myself as I usually am - but the important thing is I am now left with a surreal sense of weightlessness. Here I sit, after exam results are released but before the next years study officially commences... Oh sure, I've flicked through notes and textbooks in the break already, my attempts at seeking employment initially leaving me in a barren wasteland - only now I've found myself in a lush oasis of events, activities - and interestingly enough job prospects and offers of interviews. What the hell is with everyone deciding to look through the previous months worth of job applications a week before Christmas?

Still, makes for exciting times. I've lined up two potential jobs for the next year and am eagerly anticipating moving into the student accommodation and commencing studies at Sale/Gippsland Base Hospital.

So - the new site design was prompted by my attempts at relearning CSS (wow, a LOT has changed), establishing a command over a CMS, establishing an online store for future endeavours (wink wink, watch this space) and well, because between working and looking for more work, I go crazy if I'm not trying to do ten things at once...

But then again, I think I've gone a little crazy already...