The BIG news

The caller ID showed it was my sister calling. All I could hear was screaming and clapping. I had been waiting for this call for months as we grew closer and closer to The Day.

“New York! NYU! St. Lukes!” she said before handing the phone over to The Fiancée.

For those of you in the know, the day is of course Match Day, when hundreds of medical school students across the country simultaneously open sealed envelopes with the details of where they “matched” into their specialized residency programs. Matching is a binding contract, so the envelope tells you where you will be spending the next 4+ years of your life.

The call came while driving on US-1 with my buddy Jimmy who was assisting me on a ESPN the Magazine shoot last Thursday in northeast Florida. I managed not to drive off the road, though I did get lost.

So the big news is finally real and here… JLP headquarters is expanding and opening a NYC bureau in late May. The Fiancée and I have 2 months to move, oh and only a wedding, honeymoon, and graduation from medical school in between… no sweat.

More than anything else we are excited for the opportunity and challenge but there are a lot of other emotions in there as well, especially as we make mental lists of the 80% of our stuff that is headed to storage or Goodwill.

Many of you will remember the anti-NYC post that I wrote a few years ago on the old blog (I’ll try to look it up and post it for told-you-so’s sake). I’m going to try to write about the process and difficulties of the move to Manhattan. Many many people have made it before me, but maybe there is something in my experience that will help or at least amuse others.

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