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37 Things, because I feel like it

37 Things

Taken from Neil who took it From Pam who took it from John Green who took it from E. Lockhart:
37 Odd Things About Me

1. Do you like blue cheese?

I didn’t like it before I stopped eating coagulated cow lactate.

2. Have you ever smoked?

No, but I’ve gotten plenty of 2nd hand smoke…

3. Do you own a gun?

No, though I do admit being interested in going to a shooting range. For being a peace loving, tree hugging vegan

Kitchen Results

I enjoy cooking. The end result of good food for myself, friends and family is worth some time in a hot kitchen or large amounts of time spent slicing root vegetables. I want my food to make others happy. I want it to be nutritious (most of the time) but still good to eat. I want to show them that vegan food is more than palatable. It is wonderful and delicious.

One of the best feelings I get as a vegan chef is

Shedding

I enjoy minimalism. Things like the smoothness of a empty table and the freedom of open space filled with sunlight pleases my eye. This might stem from the urges I’ve had to escape many of my past living arrangements: A teenage bedroom filled to the brim, a little apartment in Lancaster where floor space was precious, the bottom floor of my in-laws’ already throughly filled house. Add to the confined spaces the fact that I also have a pack rat mentality and you’ve got an even messier problem. The spaces I live in only get smaller due to the amounts of junk I bring along.

So this idea of the kind of home I want to live in works against seventeen or so years of stuff-collection training. Over the years

Urban Hermits

On my walk home from a bit of food shopping, it struck me that you can shop in most modern grocery stores without interacting with anyone. The installation of “self-checkouts” takes away the only mandatory human you would have to deal with. While this does lower the amount of awkward, forced “How are you today”s and can speed things up, is it really a good thing?

At any rate, it does prep us for the possibility of eventual replacement of cashiers with robots. I can imagine the Walmart of the future. You’ll see at least 50 cash registers, all maned by

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