Vegetable Vampire
Today I made myself a veggie wrap for lunch--I loaded it with hummus, avocado, sprouts, cucumber, cheese, spinach, lettuce, and arugula. It was so stuffed with veggies that I couldn't actually complete the "wrap" part of the operation, such that it was more like a soft-shelled taco than a "proper" veggie wrap. At any rate, by the time I sat down to eat it (after teaching, going over papers with students, and driving back to Port Why-not-me), I was so savagely and ravenously hungry that I totally had a Bunnicula moment of vegetable vampirism with my veggie wrap. I sort of hulked over it and then, like, descended upon it. The ferocity of my attack startled me. I guess what I'm saying here is that while I feel really good about moving towards vegetarianism, it was still somewhat satisfying to lock a target in the sights of my tracking vision and then violently attack a bunch of helpless vegetables. Ich habe gefressen...Und es war gut.