Day 29

So much for the winning streak. I spaced out and the next thing I knew I was eating a Club pannini, which has turkey and bacon. Oh well, everything else was just fine, the driving and showering and such. I talked about board games with my instructors, because we're nerds like that. Only a few more days left until I can eat meat whenever I want. I'll probably still thing about it every tim eI do eat meat, but it's not like that's going to stop me. I mean... c'mon. Bacon.

Day 28

It's getting closer, I was just checking the calendar and seeing when classes (and this project) would be ending. In two weeks from tomorrow (May 31st) I'll be giving a presentation about this carbon diary/journal thing. It's supposed to be a poster board presentation, but maybe I'll try and do a powerpoint instead, you know... to lower my carbon footprint since the computers are already in place. I can review that more later, but I think to give myself plenty of time to work on it I'll be ending this on Friday, though I might do another post or two just to wrap things up, this Friday will be my last meatless day. Though I have to admit, I'll probably still keep eating those Trade Joe's corndogs, those are pretty tasty.

I didn't have any meat again today, even though I could hardly tell the corndogs were meatless, and I managed to even avoid eating too much junk food at school, which was good. The normal driving occurred and I did buy a coffee, and one for Lindsey, but she can take the credit for that one. I'd like to say I was planning an exciting trip for the summer, but I'll just be taking classes and hopefully working on an internship, so no worry of flying anywhere either.

Day 27

After grabbing some groceries at Trader Joe's I managed to keep another meat free day. Carbon footprint was the same as usual in terms of driving and the other things. I didn't use any extra plastics or papers or any of that stuff.

Day 25 & 26

I had a great weekend, thanks for asking. I did some hanging out Friday evening with a friend, and enjoyed some veggie Pud Thai, then went to Marrymoore park and grilled on Saturday while playing Frisbee. We got to watch some LARPing and sword fighting by these guys while we enjoyed burgers, soda, and the sun. Don't hate, it was entertaining, and there was like 76 of them so they could definitely team up and kick your ass with their foam swords and shields and pikes and... well the arrows are pretty much worthless.

I walked for 8 miles with my parents and their friends on mother's day Sunday, then ate a 1/2 pound burger to counteract all that calorie burning. I also hung out with Ben on Saturday night, just remembered that. I did a bunch of driving around and meat eating and all those fun things that kill the environment. I know it's terrible, but I had a great time.

Day 24

As promised, here is another thrilling installment of "Oh God, Why Did I Give Up Meat?" Now as I've said before it isn't actually all that bad, the most difficult part is finding things at school that don't have meat that aren't just chips or other things that are equally horrible for you. Going out to eat can be a bit difficult as well since they tend to put meat on everything, including the salads, and you know I can't really blame 'em for that. Who wants to eat a big bowl of dry leaves? Speaking of salad, I had one of those yesterday with a little bit of bacon and some chicken. I know it's meat, but I didn't really want pancakes for lunch again so I decided to say F-it and go for the salad. It's mostly non-meat, so that counts, right?

I had to drive a bit extra yesterday, to meet my mom for lunch so I could get that salad that had meat in it. I also ended up ordering a pizza for dinner, which of course means someone else had to make it, bake it, then drive it out to my house. So there's 800 tons of carbon going straight into my footprint, or is it gigatons? Whatever it is, I'm sure it wasn't very helpful to the world. I'll do my best to avoid getting pizza delivered from now on, and instead maybe swing by the Safeway or something on the way home and grab a pizza there instead. Saving the cost of someone making an extra trip out and back to my house.

I also had to fill up again yesterday, I suppose that in itself isn't too bad but it's always a good remind as to why driving is bad, mmk? I suppose if I have 40 grand or so I could buy an all-electric car and reduce my CO2 emission by 30%, since we're about 30 percent hydro here in the PSE district. Or I could walk 2 miles, ride a bus, walk a little more, then wait and ride another bus to school and work... I guess this is why I'm just driving my car. I will agree though that reducing your usage should be your first step to improving your carbon footprint or your energy usage. That's right, I just made a connection between Gail and Dave's classes.

Too good

Day23

No extra driving, no extra showers, no laundry, and no ordering t-shirts from Iceland. Meat was successfully avoided with a PB&J sandwich, egg salad sandwich (it was meh) from the famous Stop Watch Espresso down on the lower level. Dinner was some cheese pasta and toasted french bread again. I know these are getting far to short and not nearly as entertaining, I'll try and work on it or something later, I've got class again.

Day 22

So far so good, I think. The carbon foot print has remained pretty much the same except for the lack of meat, which is a good thing of course since that's what I'm supposed to be cutting out. This is going to be another very short post because, as you may have noticed from the time stand, I forgot to write this in the morning and I'm frantically trying to remember what I ate yesterday.

Ok, fine. There's nothing frantic about it. I know I had broccoli and cheese, some toasted french bread, and some pasta for dinner last night. Then I think there was some snacks and random little things for lunch and a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast.