City of Tides

First and foremost: finals are done! You can’t see it, but I’m doing a little dance right now. It’s the dance I do when finals are done.

I had a really kickass day today. While exploring a park with Glenn Newcomer, we ran into the bartender who served me and some friends at the Green Frog a couple nights ago (and her beautiful dog, Raja). Less than a half hour later at the same park, I ran into one of my all-time favorite professors with her partner and their super-cute baby. After living here for over two years, this kind of thing finally makes me feel connected.

I don’t think I posted this particular announcement on the ol’ blog yet, so I thought I would mention it: I went full vegetarian (meaning giving up fish too) at the beginning of February. People have been mostly supportive and my sister seems pretty happy that she’s not the only vegetarian in the family. I have gotten the loaded “why” a couple times, but nobody seems to want to argue against “I don’t want to hurt animals.” Does a valid argument even exist against this motivation?