happy cows frolicking. (not.)

There is no possible way I could be vegetarian. Not ever. Certainly not at college.

But I realized yesterday--(yes, it took me a while)--that I am not eating happy animals here. Which made me really sad. I am still dwelling on this, even though I know there is no way I can eat vegetarian and not be unhealthy.

See, I am okay with the idea of people eating animals. I am even okay with raising animals to be eaten. I am much less okay with raising animals inhumanely (and how weird is it that "inhumane" is our word for that concept?) to be eaten. If you are going to not care about them, not care about people, not care about the planet, it just doesn't make sense.

Gah.

this is not a word count post

Accomplished today:

- read part of Tehanu (I never read Earthsea as a kid)
- post about the Tragedy of me not being vegetarian
- ~350 words of a idea for a Bordertown story (because I want to write one every time ellen_kushner posts about the new anthology)
- 50 minutes or so of going through the highlighted Word document of As Large as Alone, cleaning up and clearing off the easiest things to fix.
- mathy coding: establishing structure of my first math paper for the semester, working on a presentation for Thursday pursuant to tutorial from last semester.
- read The Odyssey, books nine and ten

Left for after dinner/tomorrow:
- check out book from the library as reference for math presentation, above
- keep working on As Large as Alone and math paper; poke at the Bordertown idea some more
- read The Odyssey, books eleven and twelve, and take notes on 9-12
- meet with other group member about the presentation, finish up presentation prep
- water plant, take out garbage and recycling

We could call that a weekend.