BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: 53
Date: 12 Jun 02 - 02:32 PM

Thanks great on your new job, I hope that you'll love it. Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 12 Jun 02 - 11:31 AM

Congratulations!

You mentioned contradancing...I'll PM you some info on the Hawaii Contradancers! During my early days on the net, I wrote to them with a question. The reply was prompt, informative and very polite.

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Peg
Date: 12 Jun 02 - 10:57 AM

aw, darn I thought you were moving to Boston!! :~(

Best of luck with the new job; sounds wonderful.

Moving from Hawaii to Oahu? Isn't this a bit like moving from the French Riviera to the Italian Riviera?

enjoy and be well,

peg

p.s. I gave up coffee temporarily because of my back problem but I think when I start again I will celebrate with some Kona!

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Jun 02 - 01:55 AM

Are there different climates and weather patterns on the different islands Mark? Will the conditions be substantially different where you're going than what you experience where you are now?

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 12 Jun 02 - 01:44 AM

kat, when I moved from Philadelphia to Portland, Oregon, when people would ask me if I missed the four seasons (in the Northwest the seasons are summer and rain), I would tell them, "I only miss two of them, and they weren't very long!" Your friend is welcome to the New England winters! And there are definitely seasons in Hawaii, they're just even more subtle than in the NW. I can handle that. Now I'll be leaving an incredibly beautiful place, that gets an average of 160 inches of rain a year...life is just a series of tradeoffs, isn't it?

The offer for a Mudcat Hawaii gathering is most definitely still open. And if the new owner of my former house and macadamia nut orchard north of Hilo still isn't living there or renting it out, maybe I can arrange for us to have it there after all!

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 10:55 AM

I'll tell you what the weather is like, Noreen. My friend tells about her friend, from New England, who moved to Hawaii. Things went well for several years. She missed the seasons of the year, but it was so beautiful there. Then one day her husband came home and found her washing the same dish, over and over, in the sink in front of a window with an impossibly perfect, lush view of Nature at its best. She had a glazed look in her eyes and she was repeating, "Another beautiful damn day in Hawaii. Another beautiful damn day in Hawaii!" over and over. She just couldn't take the lack of Spring, Autumn, as she'd known them in New England, to which they returned shortly after.*bg*

Me, I am fascinated with the pix I've seen of a Unity church there with open sides and little birds, etc. which join in in the service. That's more like it, imo!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Noreen
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 10:19 AM

Guest, did you not notice the *grin*? Anyway, I'll be an Information Professional, not a librarian *another grin*

What's the weather like, Mark? :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 10:03 AM

Boy, talk about going from the "penthouse" to another "penthouse"!

Enjoy.

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 09:23 AM

And no "On-call" is the very best. As one who works in a military hospital all I can say is you will certainly enjoy it. The downside is the turnover. Every two years everyone you know will be gone - replaced by the folks coming in. Enjoy -

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: AliUK
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 09:05 AM

Paging Doctor Mark! Paging Doctor Mark! Goodon you guy, a `normal´ job at last. Boa Viagem.

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 08:42 AM

a stress-free job that pays oodles of money?

In librarianship?!?

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Noreen
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 08:38 AM

Congrats, Mark! Yes, I'm all talk too...

(but when I get this MA and a stress-free job that pays oodles of money, who knows? *grin*)

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: MMario
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 08:34 AM

good luck Mark! (and you never know when those lady mudcats will show up!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 08:07 AM

Good luck house-hunting, unless you have already found something. The city of Mililani (I have friends there) isn't too far from Tripler and may still be a little less expensive. He is a commercial pilot and has to go to the airport. But I don't know the rush hour patterns, having only been there to absorb warmth. Listen to the guy who plays uke with the Ke'au (sp?) Crater Boys- really good.

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: GUEST,micca at work
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 06:37 AM

Nice one Mark, My sis used to live at Pearl City and we used to pass the "big pink wedding cake" of Tripler on the way into Honolulu!!! at least anyone stopping off in the Islands will be able to visit easily as you will be close to Honolulu International airport!!! so the Hawaii Mudcat gathering is still on???? Mahalo Nui(in advance!!!)sorry didnt get to visit you on the Big Island, I LIKE Volcanoes!!! Micca

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 05:09 AM

Good man yourself. Good luck, my friend.

Skipjack

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 04:14 AM

Nice one Mark - best of luck.

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: alison
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 03:55 AM

I'm sure we could cope.... *grin*


slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 03:49 AM

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you ladies are all talk....

Somehow I doubt I'm going to be able to find a place that's 50 yards from the ocean like this one, but I hope at least to have a spare bedroom! And I won't be able to take guests on a tour of an active volcano--you'll have to make do with shopping in Waikiki or surfing the North Shore.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Genie
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 02:28 AM

What a relief to find you're not leaving the Islands, Mark! Not that Seattle wouldn't welcome you back, of course, but when I saw your thread title, I thought,
"Oh, rats! There goes the Hawaii Mudcat Gathering!"
It's still on, isn't it?

Genie

§;- )

P.S., Now you'll have more time to play with the humu-humu nuku-nuku apua'a, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Mudlark
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 01:59 AM

Congrats on the new job...and with all that new free time we'll be seeing a lot more of you on Mudcat no doubt?!

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: alison
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 01:41 AM

well done Mark...... no night calls will be a lovely change I'm sure...... does my invitation to stay still count????? are there still macadamias???? are you still near the beach?????


slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 12:35 AM

Congratulations, Mark. Are you going to buy a house big enough to host a Mudcat expedition to Oahu?

;-)

Maggie

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 12:06 AM

WOW! Congratulations, Mark! The spare time sounds wonderful, as well as the job!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: CarolC
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 12:05 AM

(But congratulations on your new job!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: CarolC
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 12:04 AM

My heart skipped a beat there when I saw the thread title. I thought you were coming to the mainland.

But now I see you'll just be on another little island out there in the middle of the ocean. I'm feeling very deflated now. (sob)

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 12:03 AM

Congratulations, Mark! May it be the best move of your life. (And get busy with your music!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Amos
Date: 11 Jun 02 - 12:00 AM

Well done, Doctor!! New horizons (but the same ocean!) andf faces and streets. Congrats and the best of luck in your new adventure.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Jun 02 - 11:57 PM

Hello mark, good luck in you new jpob.john

Subject: Mark is leaving Hawaii...
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 10 Jun 02 - 11:52 PM

....and moving to Oahu! I've just accepted a position as a full-time developmental pediatrician at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. The good news is I don't have to join the Army. The better news is I will be working regular hours with NO NIGHT CALL! I'll be working primarily with school-age children with ADHD and other learning/behavior problems, in a multidisciplinary team setting, and also teaching pediatric and family practice residents. And they have contradances in Honolulu, and maybe even a song circle or two! And I'll finally have time to take ukulele lessons, and maybe even write some songs! Of course, it means I'll be leaving all my patients and their families, and leaving this incredible island...but nothing's perfect.

Aloha,
Mark

PS, for those who are confused by the thread title, the island I live on now is the Island of Hawaii, also called the Big Island. If you look at a map of Hawaii, it's the big one (!) at the lower right. Honolulu is on the island of Oahu, which is the second from the left (third if you count tiny Ni'ihau).