It's Delightful, it's Delicious, it's De-Vegan?

So, I'm fairly conflicted, but I'm thinking about conciously becoming less vegan. As opposed to willfully ignoring the fact that a certain cookie isn't vegan, I'll actually choose to have an egg for breakfast. 


I had a shit day. I just felt weak and tired, which I'm choosing to attribute to a complete lack of protein... Which I know is my own fault but... I don't know. I can't help but feel irresponsible doing this, but I've been having my doubts about veganism. I would rather have some organic single ingredient cream in my coffee than soy-creamer made from who knows what. 


And I need to start prepping to go to Thailand, where I will certainly not be vegan. I guess right now I'm placing a higher premium on life quality vs. food restrictions. I want to experience the full cullinary spectrum of Thailand, and I want to be able to make it through the day. I'm not going to go crazy... My instincts are still to eat vegan... I just really want an egg on my toast.


Haha I guess I'm not very good at this lent thing.

I got to have a long chat this morning with a new friend of mine about: parties, gender norms, climbing, religion majoring, science, food, etc.
It was really fun to get a fresh perspective on some topics that I've talked a lot about with the same few people.
One of the things we talked about was the how the modern way of approaching learning, which is to find answers, get the big picture, etc... really isn't all that helpful for some things, especially religious texts... Perhaps that is why it is such a repetitive field. These texts are dense, dealing with faith and the human condition... each new work is produced by revisiting these texts and finding something new, bringing individual perspectives on it. Some how bringing in the absolutist state of mind makes the subject repulsive, like the ongoing debate between science and religion. Each side clams to be right, but the whole thing is very off putting. 

Hey guys,

I guess I'm starting a real blog.
I will probably put up articles that I write for the paper and, come mid-august, stuff about being in Thailand, since I'm going there to study abroad.
My hope for this blog is to build myself a little corner of the internet where I actually put in some effort to make it interesting and original, instead of just posting pictures of tattoos and cats. or tattoos of cats.
Here is a picture that I drew.

It is a pigeon. You may see this as a reoccurring theme in this blog. I named it "Doing The Pigeon" because I often feel like I'm just stumbling my way through things, in a not very graceful or balanced way. I'm applying the term pigeon as a descriptor to my life, in the same way that being pigeon-toed describes someone who isn't quite walking right, but they're walking anyway. That is what I'm doing. I'm doing the pigeon... with life.
xo
M