Neglected September 29, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Life, Scraps, USA Trip, Work , add a commentI haven’t really been paying much attention to this here part of the internet recently. It comes from things getting busier and as that happens certain things drop off my attention, this being one of them. As I said in a previous post (I think…), I am still writing but in a much more private setting. Although my fears of lacking censorship in my private writing have kept me from doing it in the past it has just felt rather necessary this last month to get my thoughts, feelings and events down as I feel the ever increasing pressure of my departure.
As it happens, said departure is on the 12th of October, which is substantially earlier than I had anticipated but is very very exciting. Today is also the day I hand in my notice at work, although my last shift will actually be a week tomorrow.
Hmm, as it happens, I don’t actually know what else to write here. I certainly have things to write, but they are organisational and reflective and don’t have a place on this blog. I feel that the neglect it has been feeling is only likely to get worse in the coming weeks and months. One post I can guarantee you is the one documenting the Turisas/Dragonforce gig this wednesday, which shall be attended by almost all my best friends, as well as many other acquaintances. It should be a lot of fun.
So much for social meat eating September 10, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Life , add a commentAlthough I continue to claim coinage on the term (granted I probably wasn’t the one to come up with it) I can’t really say that’s what I am any more. It did start out that way, yes, but I seem to be just be eating meat as normal now.
Apparently starting again I got something of a taste for it again, really I don’t think vegetarianism was for me, I’ve never enjoyed restricting my options and this was the biggest restriction of them all. If I’m honest it kinda fits in with the plans that I had originally where I would scale up my meat eating to a sort of normal level so I was comfortable with it in preparation for being in the US. I wasn’t sure exactly how this would work at the time but apparently things have just slotted into place.
I was originally going to write more about the idea of social meat eating and the massive moral cop out that it is. It’s sort of like some kind of fence sitter, not strong enough in belief to not do it under peer pressure but will try and keep it up out of sight of the rest of the world. Really quite a terrible way to go about things from a strong moral standpoint. I think in that sense just calling myself a meat eater like everyone else is much better.
So far I don’t really feel any different, so it remains to be seen whether eating meat will really effect me very much but it’s nice to be able to eat the real version of some favourite meaty meals again, particularly curries, pizzas and also the joy of some real (bastardised, as we English tend to do) fajitas.
Essentially, it’s all ended up ok in the end. That’s always nice…
