Cars and Coffee?

It was finally not freezing today! I think the temperature actually crept up to about 50.


SO - what would be the best thing to do on a nice winter afternoon? How about drive fast, expensive cars around the highway and then stop and get a coffee with Bailey's for lunch/dinner? Sound nice? It was. Too nice, actually. I miss the summer, I miss warmth, I miss excitement.

I think I'm finally totally detoxing . . . I'm nauseous and I have a headache. . . not to mention quite the intense dose of anxiety. . . I know I've just gotta stick it out . . . It's only a month until I'll reach almost all of my goals, so I can at least do that. I bet by then, I'll be feeling pretty phenomenal - at least if what everyone else says is true. Honestly, I already do have tons more energy, but I just feel kinda sick, too.

I'm at a crossroads right now. Which way should I go? What direction should I turn? My instincts are strong, but I've come to see they may, in many cases, be wrong. Instead of being logical, innate knowledge, sometimes they represent how the environment in which I live has shaped me. Experiences do not always reflect what is true. Sometimes they reflect a very small pocket of life where things are not as they are in other more prominent pockets. Taking risks is not necessary, but it may be true that the best things in peoples' lives come from their letting go of their inhibitions and taking the risk. It's not even that I know how it feels to fail all that well - not to sound conceited, but, so far in life, I haven't failed all that much. That's not because I'm above failure, it's simply because I have not taken that many risks. When I have failed, when I have felt inadequate, I've never felt worse, and so I avoid it at all costs.

Whatever, I'm probably just over-analyzing the situation. It's probably one of those situations like in high school when you think that nothing will ever matter as much as what you are going through at that very moment and then when you look back at it a few years later, you realize it wasn't really that big of a deal in the long-run.

Whatever. I should just go to sleep.

Stop Poisoning your Cells

Heath Ledger's death totally overshadowed all the other news yesterday. Not that I'm complaining - he was one of my favourite actors, and he seemed like an honest-to-god good guy. Today on the news, the reporters interviewed all these random actors, asking the actors what they thought about Ledger's untimely death. The undercurrent of all their comments had to do with Heath having so much potential, and I think that's totally true.

The Adventures and Opinions of . . . Me?

I'm not really sure if I'm qualified to have a blog where I talk about what I want to talk about. After all, who would really want to read this? I guess I'll find out -
First, I'll talk a second about me so that, if by chance you do decide to read what I write, at least you'll have an idea of the person behind the words.
I'm a 23 year old girl living in Columbus, Ohio. I work for the Institute for Human Services, doing research and writing articles, mostly discussing children's rights and child advocacy. This past spring, I graduated from Princeton University with an A.B in English. I decided to take a year off to gather my sanity, and it was totally worth it. Princeton was hard, and transitioning into the period of life I'm in right now was not an easy task for me. Don't get me wrong, I had tons of fun at college, but the fun and the work took up most of my time and caused me to push the personal discovery/personal evolution to the back of my priority list. Now that I'm back on track towards continual personal development, I'm totally excited to get back to school. This coming fall, I'll be heading off to law school, hopefully somewhere in California, Boston, or NYC.
I'm a vegetarian, and I firmly believe in the rights of animals as ends in themselves. I was lucky enough to have Peter Singer as a professor while I was at Princeton, and his class changed my life. Although I think that sometimes PETA is a bit sensational, everyone should watch the "Meet Your Meat" video on their website. I also recommend Singer's book "Animal Liberation."
Not only do I not eat meat, but I also follow a raw-foods diet. Somewhere in the middle of my junior year of college, I experimented with raw foods, and I felt AMAZING. Unfortunately, it was too hard for me to upkeep while I was in college, so I stopped. This past summer, I'd dabble from week to week, but nothing too serious. Recently, I took the plunge, and I feel amazing. My energy has doubled, and my mental concentration is sharper than it has ever been. I no longer need coffee to feel awake in the morning, and I always feel like gettin' in my afternoon workout. I totally recommend that you try a raw diet, even just for a week, to see a preview of the benefits. Head out to the library and pick up Natalia Rose's "The Raw Food Detox Diet," or "Raw Food Life Force Energy" if you want to know more about a good way to transition from your present diet to a raw diet or if you just want know more about raw foods in general.
This blog will be a general reflection on the things going on in the world as well as a personal reflection of a rawfoodvegetarian's experiences with normal, everyday life. Hopefully, you can find something that grabs your attention, or maybe even some aspect of my life or my thoughts that personally relates to something about you!

Okay, so now that you know something about me, time to get into the thick of things. Unfortunately, it's too late tonight to start blabbing, so I'll get to it first thing tomorrow.