{"id":1350,"date":"2012-07-30T19:31:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2012-07-30T19:31:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:31:39","slug":"home-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2012\/07\/30\/home-and-back-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Home and Back Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masseyeandear.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1357\" title=\"2012.07.30.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2012.07.30.a.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1358\" title=\"2012.07.30.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2012.07.30.b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Although it&#8217;s been less than a month since leaving Boston, I was already on my way back &#8211; this time to attend the 3rd annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masseyeandear.org\/gedownload!\/MEEI_Vitrectomy_Course_Flyer_final.pdf?item_id=70980033&amp;version_id=70980034\">Vitrectomy Course<\/a> back at my home institution. The all-star cast of faculties, combined with high-yield lectures, wet labs, and dry labs, made for an intellectually stimulating weekend. I was also excited to meet up with all the other first-year fellows whom I had interviewed with and learn where they all ended up. A friend from residency was actually in the midst of moving next door to the hospital for fellowship, so I took the opportunity to crash with her and caught up over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/penang-boston\">dinner<\/a> in Chinatown. The two-day course ended with a lavish dinner at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tajhotels.com\/boston\/\">Taj<\/a> rooftop, followed by drinks and mingling at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyhotel.com\/\">Liberty<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alibiboston.com\/\">Alibi<\/a>. The late night out left me exhausted, but made for an easy flight back to Durham with my co-fellow. Back at my new home, I&#8217;ve had several chances to try out the facilities in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clairmontathillandale.com\">complex<\/a>, including the swimming pool and the billiard room. I&#8217;ve also been able to catch portions of the London <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympic.org\/\">Olympic<\/a> games while trying to hone my pool skills. I was inspired to exercise more, but I wonder how long it&#8217;ll actually last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s been less than a month since leaving Boston, I was already on my way back &#8211; this time to attend the 3rd annual Vitrectomy Course back at my home institution. The all-star cast of faculties, combined with high-yield &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2012\/07\/30\/home-and-back-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}