Much has happened since my last update:

• I completed my vegetarianism, without too much difficulty toward the end. I even continued editing myself, out of habit. Heck, I still don’t feel like I really need to eat meat (much to the chagrin of my friends), but I’ll do what I do!
• I went to Las Vegas during the last weekend of February to celebrate a friend’s birthday!
• I played a lot of board games the weekend before that!
• I started preparing a (new) character for D&D 4E with my friends!
• I finished school today! Turned in my final project and had my portfolio critiqued by my peers!

And I ate a little too well, throughout it all. Easing back into eating meat has been an interesting experience; it started out very strangely (I couldn’t believe I was eating meat! It seemed wrong!), and then I got used to it, again. But the fact that I got used to it tells me that it’s something that I could easily negate in my diet. But, I did rather miss bacon + sushi (Long parenthetical aside ahead: So I’ve been having some moral issue with sushi, especially in light of the recent whale meat incident with that restaurant in Santa Monica. It’s not so much the idea of not knowing whether or not a restaurant I’m currently patronizing is serving whale meat, though, so much as it is the simple fact that fishing contributes so much environmental damage. Restaurants definitely don’t have to disclose where their fish come from, and the supposedly very best Japanese restaurants have their fish imported specifically from Tsukiji Fish Market in Japan, once a week or more–an incredible amount of carbon footprint to cover. Where is the comfort in eating sushi when you know that not only is the fishing methods for it harmful for the ocean and its ecosystems, but also the fact that many of the beloved sushi meats have trace levels of mercury that could be unhealthy if consumed frequently? I guess it’s all in the end product: how damn good sushi is! I haven’t really fully developed my feelings/stance toward the subject, but for now, I suppose I will be eating such things in moderation. By moderation, I mean once or twice a month )

Anyway, more updates will come, as I am (a little bit) freer to do so this week

Why am I going on a vegetarian diet?
I just feel like it. I always wanted to see how long I could go without turning back, and always felt like it was easily doable. But really, the real reason why is because I read Kevin’s Xanga about his quest to become a vegetarian and how it’s helped him not crave meat anymore and such–and I became inspired!

This is only going to run until I go to Vegas on July 19 (it would be an awful waste to be a vegetarian at buffets!), so we’ll see how this holds out. I’ll be logging my intake and such here … and also my feelings and other stuff regarding this little “challenge” of mine.

Anyway, today I had:
- Vietnamese coffee (Espress and condensed milk);
- Mami Thai instant noodles with 1 egg and ketchup added;
- One vegetable croquette;
- Half a bowl of vegetarian Bun Bo Hue.

I can’t wait ’til morning, I’m freakin’ starving right now