desperate housewives.

as many of you may know, i have recently been expressing interest in abandoning medicine and becoming a housewife. unfortunately, i'm not married, nor do i have plans to be any time soon, and thus am lacking a way to feed and shelter myself while paying back the tens of thousands of dollars of debt i racked up becoming a doctor. fine.

'but mary', you say. 'i've been to your house. it's... how do i say this? it's not clean.'

ahh, but you haven't been to my house recently. you haven't seen the coffee table that actually has room for your coffee, with coasters just begging you to set your mug down! or my newly cleared desk complete with message center and my new fish bowl. the thing is, when i have nothing to do, i actually like to clean.

side note: meet ginger.


but this is neither here nor there. by this time next month, callie will be buried under a pile of journal articles that i'm going to get around to reading one of these days and ginger will be peering out of his bowl into the pile of possibly-dirty or possibly-clean clothes resting on my desk. in the meantime, perhaps you'd like to see the couscous-stuffed peppers i made for dinner tonight.



they're baking right now. i had some regular old store-bought couscous mix lying around as well as half of a can of chickpeas. i threw in a little zucchini that i sauteed with the tops of the peppers and garlic, and some parmesean cheese. i think it's going to be tasty. i'll let you know. not that you care, but doesn't the pepper-zucchini-chickpea mix look so lovely in the skillet?



now, back to medicine.