August 17th, 2009
1. The sick bird pooped on me this morning when I was trying to change his water. I was tempted to just leave the old water in there as punishment, but what kind of asshole does that? I brought him fresh but I glared really hard at the bird the whole time. The birds are going home today and frankly I will not miss the little shitter.
2. My relaxed diet plan is failing and I am going back to starving, starting this morning. I am sorry to bore you with these details but I find it motivating to put it in writing, so there you go.
3. I went hiking yesterday and it was awesome. Except for the part where my shoes, which are not hiking shoes, rubbed all the skin off my right heel leading to bleeding and general grossness. It didn’t hurt but when your hiking companions are giving you regular updates on the status of your pulped flesh you feel like you ought to do something about it, for aesthetic reasons if nothing else. I applied a bandage and only then did I realize that actually it had been sort of painful, because all of a sudden it felt much better. So hooray for aesthetics! Or something.
4. I totally cheated on being a vegan yesterday. I had a small ice cream cone at the base of the mountain, my first in nearly two years. It was truly, deeply delicious and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Until I got a stomach ache, at which point I swore off dairy again. Until dinner, when I had pizza with cheese on it. Also delicious, but unpleasantly greasy and I don’t know if that’s because the pizza was unusually greasy of if that’s just the way cheese is. In either case I am back to not eating dairy and glad to do so. It was a nice holiday but… yeah. All done now.