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yes, that's right. i worked an average of 10.64 hours per day this month. not per work day. per day.
eesh. this is how you wake up one day (say today) and look at your checking account and realize that you have SIX DOLLARS (and sixty-two cents) in it. and then you realize that you didn't lose the bills you thought you lost, you actually mailed them in some post-call stupor. and that when you then decided to pay other bills with that same money, and mail the other bills when you found them, well, actually, you've doubly used your money and are very near to overdrawing your bank account. and have about $194 dollars less in it than you thought you did (for example). i was scraping coins from under my couch cushions in a panic when i remembered the atm card attached to my savings account and made a transfer, narrowly averting a crisis. phew. do other people live like this?
this month i am doing surgery, which is comparatively a vacation. if your idea of a vacation involves debriding enormous, gaping, necrosing wounds. hah! oh, medicine, with your neverending laughs!
on a much less revolting note, i went to the farmer's market at school and bought some lovely fresh basil! i just wanted to stick my nose into the giant cart of it. mmmm. gosh i love basil! then, i decided to take a chance and i threw together some pesto. fulfilling life-long dreams here, people.
ok, not the best picture ever. i took it with my phone. but trust me, it smells like heaven! i even went old school on it, since i don't have a food processor, and made it by just cutting all the ingredients together over and over with a pair of knives. so easy! basil, garlic, olive oil, parm, and some almonds (since i didn't have walnuts). i'm torn about what to do with it, but i'm envisioning a nice summer lasagna tomorrow. maybe some yellow squash and tomatoes? what i'm not torn about is wanting to buy heaps and heaps more at the farmer's market next week. i bet this will freeze well.
anyway, it's good to be back.
2 comments:
Hi Mary--
Wow. I just turned to Patrick and said, "when you are in residency I will take care of all bills." But more importantly :) if you need any suggestions for how to freeze pesto, let me know. Or my dad. He froze something like 30+ containers of pesto a year all during my childhood.
Hi Mary,
Yes, sadly, other people (ahem... me) live like this. :( I've changed onto a different fellowship this year, and of course the university is having trouble processing the new paperwork. So when I THOUGHT they had deposited my stipend for the semester into my account, they actually hadn't. I also wrote checks, and then discovered I had $3.49 in my account. Eep!
The pesto looks delicious... let us know what you decide to do with it!
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