Mar 14 2010
Brain food
I am on my own for lunch today: Dougal is taking his mammy for a well-earned treat in the form of lunch at Calistoga (I am sad to miss out but a)she’s not my mum and b)I have work to be getting on with!) but my mother is in Italy so gets no special treatment today.
I am currently writing up a big project we’ve just finished- using Rapid Appraisal to perform a community diagnosis of the area of Anderston in Glasgow. We had to look for signs and symptoms- by interviewing people, looking at statistics, making observations, make a diagnosis of the health or otherwise of the community and then come up with what is essentially a ‘treatment plan’ for the area. We presented this as a group on Friday to an audience of our peers and some medical educators. Now I am cooped up in my wee study trying to write 2000 words on the subject. Which isn’t really enough and I’m wondering how to approach the matter. I’m not clear that the same structure as worked for a 10 minute presentation will work for the essay.
For a quick lunch giving me brain power, I cooked up some spaghetti and whilst it was on the boil, frizzed up some cooked prawns (oot the freezer) in an indecent quantity of garlic. I then tossed through some mulched up sundried toms, and at the point of mixing it all together threw in lots of toasted pine nuts. Scrummy….if a little antisocial!
Aesthetically it could have done with some green, I feel. Rocket? Basil? Had neither to hand, in any case.
I feel a surge of energy just looking at it