Saturday, Dec. 11, 2004 5:12 p.m.
in defense of the carnivore
so, my best friend called me today and told me that she's decided to become a vegetarian.
I'm NOT a big fan of vegetarians.
(revisions - if you're reading this, know that I love you still and you will forever be my best friend, and if we could survive your wedding, we can survive this entry as well, but still, I have to say this:)
if you were a vegetarian because of your own personal health reasons, I could accept it. I don't really care what other people eat, I mean, I think that people who don't eat meat are seriously missing out in life, but that's just my own personal opinion.
but to not eat meat because you don't agree with the way animals are treated??? I mean, come on! you said that you're not going to become psycho and tell other people they can't eat meat, but that you don't want to give your money to the meat industry anymore...no offence, but this is a really stupid argument.
one person alone will not make a single solitary difference. I'm sorry, you won't. the ONLY way you could make a difference is if you got MANY other people to side with you and stop eating meat - even then, especially with this whole low-carb craze, you're not going to make any freakin difference to the meat industry!!! all you do is lose out on eating wonderful things like steak and cheeseburgers and fried chicken and beans cooked with bacon and well, a million other tasty things!!!
you�re not going to become psycho?? then the whole point of why you want to become a vegetarian is bunk. pointless. unnecessary.
another reason why I hate vegetarians? because they require special food. they�re annoying. if I decide to spend my time making a special meal for someone, I sure as hell don�t want to hear them tell me they can�t eat it because it has meat in it! and even worse is the thought that I would have to alter my diet in order to cook meatless meals that we could both enjoy.
SERIOUSLY. if you want to become a vegetarian, do it for your own personal health reasons and keep it to yourself when you make your food choices. don�t whine and complain. don�t expect me to make special food for you � I don�t care if all I�m serving for dinner is meat. starve then. if you don�t like the way animals are treated � contact the meat industry itself. and don�t pretend that you are not going to become psycho about it and not tell other people not to eat meat � you�re contradicting your very reason for being a vegetarian if you do.
i love you, but sometimes I�m afraid you're becoming a yuppie like all these annoying pseudo-intelligent-acting people here in L.A. who think they are smart and have the answers to life but are really just big, annoying, jump on the bandwagon, stinky balls of crap!
please don't ever become like this. please don't be a vegetarian. and please don't ever stink like a ball of crap either...that would not be good.
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Chapters of My Life
Motherhood
Sept. 2011 - now Being a mother.
Isolation&Infertility (&pregnancy)
Aug. 2009 - Sept. 2011 Working from home in a job that I love...that comes with a loneliness I hate. A husband who works too much, and continued failure to start a family. Slowly spiraling, forgotten, into social invisibility. Accepting and experiencing the potential of pregnancy.
First-Year Teacher
Aug. 2008 - Aug. 2009. pretty much the hardest job I hope I ever have. and all the while trying not to admit my secret turmoil over longings for/attempts at/failure to produce what's supposedly supposed to come after love and then marriage...
Optimism
Aug. 2007 - Aug. 2008. finally accepting that becoming a normal grown up is not just inevitable, but preferable. better job situations for both of us. working freelance as a studio teacher, and becoming an egg donor.
Fading Dreams...
Dec. 2006 - July 2007. student teaching, being poor, consistent job rejections, trying to save face while feeling hopeless.
To Live a Life Worth Death...
July 2006 - Nov. 2006. thinking about death a lot, accepting life and my eventual end. career and passions - beginning the path of contribution to what I will leave behind...
Identity Crisis/Marriage
Oct. 2005 - Apr. 2006. new job. new career. new last name. new husband. new life. who was I and what was I becoming?
The Official End to Childhood? II
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The Official End to Childhood? I
Feb. 2005 - June 2005. losing my virginity, getting engaged, changing my career, selling our childhood home...slowly losing everything that held me as a child... (Meet Mr. Mom 4/05 - 5/05. working/travelling on production of my 4th & LAST reality show ever.)
Quarter-Life Crisis/Unemployment
Sept. 2004 - Feb 2005. no steady job for 5 months - definitely not a good place to be. oh, and I fell in love - which is a good place to be, but it kind of only adds to the confusion.
Postlude to the Prelude
Apr. 2004 - May 2004. I had no clue what things were being set in motion...but everything has changed from there.
The Simple Life 2
Mar. 2004-Apr. 2004. not the deepest thinking period of my life, but I learned a heck of a lot about production of a reality tv show.
L.A. #2 - The Real World
Aug. 2003-Feb. 2004.the big move. transplanting my life. ironically not only working in the "real world", but also AT the company that makes The Real World.
That Weird, Here Nor There, Summer
May 2003-Aug. 2003. a college graduate, but not yet in the grown-up world. just existing. and waiting. and thinking.
Goodbye College
Jan. 2003-May 2003. it's a weird thing, the last semester of college. lots of thinking about what lies beyond.
The Semester From Hell
Aug. 2002-Dec. 2002. it was kind of like I tried to cram 4 yrs. of growing-up experiences into one semester.
I've Changed?
Apr. 2002-Aug. 2002. after L.A. and stuck right in-between the two most intense "finding-myself" semesters of my life!
L.A. #1 - Interning/Discovering
Jan. 2002 - Apr. 2002. I finally stepped WAY outside my comfort zone and went where I had no freakin idea what I was doing. Living outside your bubble for awhile really makes you see differently.
Beginnings/Depression
Aug. 2001-Jan. 2002. who I was, and sometimes who I still am. how it started and how it was before.