{"id":4000,"date":"2019-02-18T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2019-03-10T04:13:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T04:13:55","slug":"burnout-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2019\/02\/18\/burnout-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnout & Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>My parents flew in for their semi-annual visit in time to celebrate a belated Chinese New Year and Westley\u2019s 3rd<\/sup> birthday. We kept the festivities low-key, and Westley seemed quite content with his home-made chocolate cake, new jigsaw puzzles, and Nintendo Labo<\/a>\u00a0variety kit. The unique combination of origami-like cardboard assembly and interactive video gameplay was a hit, and it was satisfying watching our toddler\u2019s spatial skills develop. Both Melody and I have been feeling burnt out lately, with many changes to her first-year med school course and my upcoming NIH<\/a> study section and grant due. We were therefore relieved to have additional childcare coverage as we took turns attending conferences this month. The Macula Society<\/a> annual meeting took place in Bonita Springs in Florida this year, and I had almost thought of skipping it if not for my receiving a research grant from them and committing to present work I did with Genentech<\/a>. I didn\u2019t venture far from the conference hotel<\/a>, apart from dinner with Clearside<\/a> people at an Italian-Sushi place<\/a> and lunch with my cousin at the hotel restaurant<\/a>. I did enjoy my return trip, catching a ride to the airport with the editor of Retina<\/a>, and consuming solid creole fare from Landry\u2019s Seafood<\/a> during my IAH layover, thanks to Priority Pass<\/a>\u2019 new inclusion of restaurant offers. Back home, we continued to watch the slow progress of our landscape renovation as we laid down the kurapia<\/a>, installed a new patio cover<\/a>, and trimmed<\/a> the overgrown oak trees in our backyard. Melody and I took the opportunity to dine out a little at Beast+Bounty<\/a>,\u00a0Tasty Pot<\/a>, and Redrum Burger<\/a>, although they were all too pricey for the quality. We also took my parents out to check out our recent food finds, including Ming Dynasty<\/a>, Yum Buffet<\/a>, Macau Caf\u00e9<\/a>, and the newly opened ramen joint T-Kumi<\/a> in Davis, which were better options. Between our mounting workload and our increasingly talkative and energetic 3-year-old, we\u2019ll need to maintain a balance between wellness and stress to maintain our sanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My parents flew in for their semi-annual visit in time to celebrate a belated Chinese New Year and Westley\u2019s 3rd birthday. We kept the festivities low-key, and Westley seemed quite content with his home-made chocolate cake, new jigsaw puzzles, and … Continue reading →<\/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-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","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=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}