old habits die hard, and a new routine.

clinicals have been amazing. which was a huge relief because on the off chance i realised i didn't like them, then, um, well i'd be in deep trouble, to say the very least! it's slowly sinking in that "omg this is what i get to do for the rest of my life!" and i'm beyond thrilled that it's unlikely i'll ever have a "desk job" again. offices? bah! give me hospital corridors and their sweetly sick disinfectant smell any day. but back to old habits... was at a GP surgery for my primary care placement last week and got a little too involved in their as-yet-incomplete partnership agreement than i should've. guess it's hard to deny that the legal element of running a business still intrigues me, and as a fellow grad medic (she did english as a first degree!), the GP was kind to indulge my little legal gander. but it's in the small things, like picking up discrepancies during case presentations and wishing for more detail than actually provided, that remind me how i haven't completely let go of law. fingers crossed i never do, even though all i seem to be doing now is firing off angry letters to all manner of consumer agencies, and informally advising friends of friends on housing disputes. and the mister, bless him, is constantly tickling what's left of my law brain by telling me about work. we talk about transferable skills all the time, and it appears the only transferable skill so far is more transferable skepticism ('never trust your client' becomes 'never trust your patient') which is probably terribly unfair to the little old dears who volunteer to be case studies. so there, a little medicolegal musing that better lives up to the blog title than, say, a recap of our weekend.

and regarding the new routine - there's something truly restorative about having good girlfriends round for dinner. grateful to have an amazing co-host in C, and we happen to like the same people (haha) which is always a plus. simple home-cooking, made from scratch with everything organic and free-range. i try not to be an organic snob but feel strongly about eating as well as my pocket allows. and also eating less but better. there's little rationalisation but i rather have non-animal protein (lentils, soy etc) than eat mistreated livestock. i usually do a soup, salad, main and dessert. it's a great excuse to spend the evening experimenting with dishes the mister and i can't finish on our own. when we were on honeymoon in the galapagos, we met a yummy mummy who'd been married for twenty years. she and her husb have a little dinner group comprising four couples that has more or less stayed the same since they were fresh graduates. they'd meet monthly with the host cooking the main and delegating the other items on the menu to the guests. sounded like a great tradition and i wish the mister and i knew three couples we could do that with. however, pathetic as it sounds, our dining table seats a grand total of four people. so maybe we'll start that when our house grows up ;) for now, completely happy having one to two guests over at a time, catching and keeping up with dear friends.