Green it is

While I appreciate the mountain of responses to my last post (I almost didn't make it through all two of them), I have decided to follow one of them.

ShinyHappy suggested pad thai, which I love, but will not make due to the presence of a shrimp-hater in my home. No point in making a meal that only one person will eat.

Brit proposed a week of vegetarian cooking, which scares me, but in a good way. So that's what I'll be doing, as soon as the library tells me a copy of "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian" is available.

I'm feeling kind of unsettled, lately, and I don't know why. Part of it is a feeling that I should be doing something -- anything -- to make the world or even my life better. But I watch TV instead.

Here's my day, lately, in case you're so bored you want to hear about my boring life:

Wake up -> shower -> get dressed -> eat cereal -> make coffee -> pack lunch -> drive to work -> sit at desk -> bang head against mountian of impossible work -> drive to the gym -> workout -> go home -> be lazy -> go to sleep.

In the meantime, I've got books I haven't read, books I have written, dishes that need doing, laundry that needs folding, dogs that need playing with, weight that needs losing, a lawn that needs tending, shit to pick up, shit to throw away, bills to pay, bad habits to break and no idea what to do.

It's, uh, pretty disheartening. And my life is awesome. Seriously. So many people have shitty lives. And not just in the Sudan. People in America, people in Oklahoma, people down the street -- all of them have it harder than me. But that doesn't mean I don't want to do better or to do something. I just don't know what or how or why -- just that I want to do it now.