Comments on: Some Interesting Things http://accismus.com/2008/05/07/some-interesting-things/ I don't crave the warmth of your unconditional approval. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:47:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Elizabeth http://accismus.com/2008/05/07/some-interesting-things/#comment-1502 Sat, 10 May 2008 17:45:09 +0000 http://accismus.wordpress.com/?p=196#comment-1502 Vegan is a different thing altogether. I once stuck to a vegan diet for about a month just to see if I could do it, but I didn’t tell anybody for the same reasons that you go into. I had to quit, though: the diet gave me enough gas to pilot a small plane.

Also, granted I haven’t seen you in awhile, Mary Jane, but I’m sure you look as cute as you always have.

]]> By: Mary Jane http://accismus.com/2008/05/07/some-interesting-things/#comment-1501 Sat, 10 May 2008 16:53:17 +0000 http://accismus.wordpress.com/?p=196#comment-1501 I would like to make the opposite argument re vegetarianism. I find that I have no trouble whatsoever finding things to eat, I eat pretty much incessantly. I am a chubby vegan, in fact. What I’ve found is that it’s other people who are obsessed with my diet. I don’t want to talk about it for the duration of brunch, they do, and I oblige. Also, people are either obsessed with “tripping me up” (that bread can’t be vegan!!! with this psychotic twinkle in their normally sane eyes) or insisting that I can’t possibly be vegan because all vegans do is eat salads and I am clearly a fat-ass so I must be one of those people who charades as a vegan to get the attention but binges on oreos when alone.

And the funny thing is, sometimes I do binge on oreos, but not because I’m trying to get the vegan credit without doing the vegan work. I just happen to be an ex-bulimic who sometimes needs to drink cheap wine out of the bottle and shove cookies in my mouth for an hour or so when I feel overwhelmed. I’m the first to admit how fucked up that is, which is why, when I’m in my right mind, I just eat a primarily organic, vegan diet. Because I believe in the lifestyle.

Most of the time I don’t mind the inquisition, but some days I let myself get a little pissed off. It’s really not going away, either. When I turned vegetarian ppl freaked but eventually it became normal and we didn’t talk about it anymore. I’m almost 6 months into vegan and it’s still being talked about. A lot. Right now by me. Which is defeating my point a little, but that’s okay :)

Also, PETA = terrorists. Bad bad scary people.

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