I made a rule saying that I have to blog once a week for my pescetarian experience, so here I am posting. Week 1 hasn't been that hard really, aside from the fact that tonight I'm not really eating anything because my dad made a soup with meat and that's all he made. I could make my own dinner easily enough, but I'm just frustrated at the fact that I was promised that there would be rice, something I can actually eat on this diet, but there isn't. This frustration makes it so I shouldn't cook, because I know being this frustrated if something goes wrong I just won't be able to deal with it calmly. Well there's that small rant out of the way, I'm done with that.
Alright, so week 1 I decided will be purely vegetarian, no fish, just to start out strong. This has been simple enough, with having boca patties or meatless spaghetti for dinners, as long as there's an option that I have to eat I can keep this up practically forever. So there's week 1. I'll catch you guys next Friday most likely since that's when I plan to make all of my updates.
Notoriously,
Mandog
Friday, April 29, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Pescetarianism
Pescetarian - (n.) A person who adheres to the ovo-lacto vegetarian diet with an addendum of being allowed to eat fish. The name is a portmanteau of the Italian word pesce which means fish and vegetarian.
That's the definition off the top of my head. I had once stated that I could never be a vegetarian but if I were to try to get as close as possible I could be a pescetarian. I believe that statement to be true still.
Earlier this month, probably the third or something, I had decided to give up bacon, something I thoroughly love, for the rest of the month of March. Roughly 20 days later I've stayed strong, this includes times I've ordered food with bacon on it and painfully gave it up. Mind you, the only reason I gave up bacon was just to see if I had the willpower to do so.
Today I thought to myself, "I was able to go without bacon so far, what can I do to take this further?" I thought of something I could do, I'm going Pescetarian for the rest of the year. I'm going to delay starting it until after Easter for a few reasons: I don't want these two personal challenges to overlap, I want them to each be their own achievement; Easter is a time of great feasting for me and my family, I just don't want to go without that luscious honey-spiraled ham on Easter; I want to maximize my time with meat before I go without and still make it a sizable achievement; All Catholics are Pescetarian for roughly 1/6 of lent anyways, let's make this a true challenge for me.
So here are the rules that I'm laying forth for myself on this challenge.
-First rule of course is no non-fish meats allowed, even blends such as Jack in the Box Tacos
-I am allowing myself a total of 8 sin exemptions, I can have meat but only 8 days throughout the year
-I must blog what my exemption was used on and why I felt the need to break the rule. If I fail to blog within 24 hours without a reasonable excuse it will count as 2 exemptions
-Speaking of blogging I'm going to say I have to blog my experience throughout it at minimum once a week. If I fail to blog that week the next blog I will have to do a pull up for the total number of times I have failed to blog in one sitting before the next week ends (why not turn this into a weight-loss thing even though it's not for health reasons). For example, if I fail two days in a row and I have yet to fail up to that point, I will have to do 1 pull up the second week and 2 the third.
-That's all the rules I can think of right now, if there are any that you think I should include, throw them to me as a comment and I'll consider it.
That's the definition off the top of my head. I had once stated that I could never be a vegetarian but if I were to try to get as close as possible I could be a pescetarian. I believe that statement to be true still.
Earlier this month, probably the third or something, I had decided to give up bacon, something I thoroughly love, for the rest of the month of March. Roughly 20 days later I've stayed strong, this includes times I've ordered food with bacon on it and painfully gave it up. Mind you, the only reason I gave up bacon was just to see if I had the willpower to do so.
Today I thought to myself, "I was able to go without bacon so far, what can I do to take this further?" I thought of something I could do, I'm going Pescetarian for the rest of the year. I'm going to delay starting it until after Easter for a few reasons: I don't want these two personal challenges to overlap, I want them to each be their own achievement; Easter is a time of great feasting for me and my family, I just don't want to go without that luscious honey-spiraled ham on Easter; I want to maximize my time with meat before I go without and still make it a sizable achievement; All Catholics are Pescetarian for roughly 1/6 of lent anyways, let's make this a true challenge for me.
So here are the rules that I'm laying forth for myself on this challenge.
-First rule of course is no non-fish meats allowed, even blends such as Jack in the Box Tacos
-I am allowing myself a total of 8 sin exemptions, I can have meat but only 8 days throughout the year
-I must blog what my exemption was used on and why I felt the need to break the rule. If I fail to blog within 24 hours without a reasonable excuse it will count as 2 exemptions
-Speaking of blogging I'm going to say I have to blog my experience throughout it at minimum once a week. If I fail to blog that week the next blog I will have to do a pull up for the total number of times I have failed to blog in one sitting before the next week ends (why not turn this into a weight-loss thing even though it's not for health reasons). For example, if I fail two days in a row and I have yet to fail up to that point, I will have to do 1 pull up the second week and 2 the third.
-That's all the rules I can think of right now, if there are any that you think I should include, throw them to me as a comment and I'll consider it.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The End, and a Story
So it looks like Blogust has come to an end. This was much more successful of an attempt for me. I said that I would try to post a portion of my project for Communication on today's blog, so here's what I have written so far for my assignment.
I can remember the good old days before life got complicated, not to say I didn't live a good life. Back in the early 2000s I started college at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster. I couldn't think of what to do with my life so I just lazily took some classes until I fell deeply in love with Physics. I transfered to Cal State Northridge to get my Bachelor's degree and then I went on to UC San Diego for my doctorates in Theoretical Astrophysics.
I spent a good year on my dissertation alone. I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find a published form of my paper, "Music and Blackholes" somewhere or another. In 2018, at the age of 29 I finally earned the title of doctor, graduating with top honors.
After graduating I applied at many universities across California in hopes to find a job with adequite funding for research. I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater UCSD in the theoretic physics department. Though it was a little strange going from student to coworker with some of my professors adapting to the environment came fairly quickly.
Ten years, I spent ten years working at my dream job before I had to set that aside for my other dream, one I thought impossible, to hunt zombies. It turns out that a particular theory for improving travel in space, something we worked on with the biology department, had gone tragically awry. We tried to put astronauts into a heightened level of self-sustanance when they were taken over by their primal desires.
The zombie outbreak was uncontainable, or so it seemed. The infection spread through 90% of the science department within the first hour despite all of our precautions. Within a week San Diego was lost to the infected, only a hand-full of us survived long enough to plan an escape. As time went on the government set up quarantines and scheduled bombings/military cleansings of the areas. The tragedy was almost unbearable, the only thing that kept me going was the only other surviving member of my team, Doctor Margo Sezville. I lost my arm during our retreat from San Diego to save her, from that day we were completely in love.
Basically from here the zombies are completely eradicated, save for a few that pop up occasionally, but thanks to precautions are dealt with safely.
It's been great and I hope you guys enjoyed my blog posts this last month. Until next time.
Notoriously,
Mandog
I can remember the good old days before life got complicated, not to say I didn't live a good life. Back in the early 2000s I started college at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster. I couldn't think of what to do with my life so I just lazily took some classes until I fell deeply in love with Physics. I transfered to Cal State Northridge to get my Bachelor's degree and then I went on to UC San Diego for my doctorates in Theoretical Astrophysics.
I spent a good year on my dissertation alone. I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find a published form of my paper, "Music and Blackholes" somewhere or another. In 2018, at the age of 29 I finally earned the title of doctor, graduating with top honors.
After graduating I applied at many universities across California in hopes to find a job with adequite funding for research. I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater UCSD in the theoretic physics department. Though it was a little strange going from student to coworker with some of my professors adapting to the environment came fairly quickly.
Ten years, I spent ten years working at my dream job before I had to set that aside for my other dream, one I thought impossible, to hunt zombies. It turns out that a particular theory for improving travel in space, something we worked on with the biology department, had gone tragically awry. We tried to put astronauts into a heightened level of self-sustanance when they were taken over by their primal desires.
The zombie outbreak was uncontainable, or so it seemed. The infection spread through 90% of the science department within the first hour despite all of our precautions. Within a week San Diego was lost to the infected, only a hand-full of us survived long enough to plan an escape. As time went on the government set up quarantines and scheduled bombings/military cleansings of the areas. The tragedy was almost unbearable, the only thing that kept me going was the only other surviving member of my team, Doctor Margo Sezville. I lost my arm during our retreat from San Diego to save her, from that day we were completely in love.
Basically from here the zombies are completely eradicated, save for a few that pop up occasionally, but thanks to precautions are dealt with safely.
It's been great and I hope you guys enjoyed my blog posts this last month. Until next time.
Notoriously,
Mandog
Monday, August 30, 2010
Penultimate
So this is the second to last post for my Blogust 2010. Tomorrow I plan to make a more significant post, maybe I'll post a portion of my Comm assignment on here to fulfill the one aspect of Blogust I had yet to complete. I'm getting ready to head off to improv, another great day in the great life that is the Mandog.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
ZOMG
Today was a great, nay GRAND day. Nickbot needed to go to the Getty Villa for a school project, so a few of us went with him today. The Getty Villa is a really nice place, I highly suggest it to anyone. We walked around for a while and saw a lot of really awesome pieces of art. It was a nice relaxed viewing of primarily Greco-Roman art and structures, with some Egyptian stuff in there too. After walking around for a while and Nickbot getting the picture he needed we head off for food. We stop off at Subway just because it's there and it's not as insanely expensive as the Pearl Dragon. What happened next is the true highlight of today.
We decide that we want to visit Riot Studios since we were down near their offices. So we find their address, or well two, and drive over there. We After finding the first address we go up to the building and find out it was locked. So we walked around to look to find the other building, turns out that one was probably their old building. We decide to go back to the first building just to check and as we were outside looking at the listing and saw Riot Games. At this point some guy walked out he talked to us for a bit and told us that he was on the third floor too. He asks us if we want him to go up and ask if someone would come down and we were like, "Sure, probably won't get us anything, but why not?" He goes up there and a few minutes later someone else walks out. We talk to the guy that works for Riot for a while and he's like, "Want to come up?" We're all, "HECK YES!" So we go up to the studios talking to him about the game and who we are, once we get there we meet Pendragon. To avoid making us sign NDAs he does a very swift walk around the office and then takes us back downstairs talking a bit more about the game. It was awesome!
Also, picture
We decide that we want to visit Riot Studios since we were down near their offices. So we find their address, or well two, and drive over there. We After finding the first address we go up to the building and find out it was locked. So we walked around to look to find the other building, turns out that one was probably their old building. We decide to go back to the first building just to check and as we were outside looking at the listing and saw Riot Games. At this point some guy walked out he talked to us for a bit and told us that he was on the third floor too. He asks us if we want him to go up and ask if someone would come down and we were like, "Sure, probably won't get us anything, but why not?" He goes up there and a few minutes later someone else walks out. We talk to the guy that works for Riot for a while and he's like, "Want to come up?" We're all, "HECK YES!" So we go up to the studios talking to him about the game and who we are, once we get there we meet Pendragon. To avoid making us sign NDAs he does a very swift walk around the office and then takes us back downstairs talking a bit more about the game. It was awesome!
Also, picture
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Winding Down
So my blogs as of late have been fairly inconsequential and just me rambling off to have a post for the day. I know that this sucks, but I've done a ton better than I ever imagined that I would be able to this time around. With my long posts on how to play Anivia, recipes and tales of woe I've exceeded the expectations I set for myself. The only thing I haven't done is posted a portion of a story, either an excerpt or a standalone. I hope to do this before Blogust ends, but there are a mere three days left and I'm going to the Gettyvilla tomorrow with some of the Nickbots. Now the chat on League of Legends is bugging out again, this is just awesome. I love that game, but the servers are seriously buggy as hell. Looks like it's back up, and I may be playing soon. Take care.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Yeah....
Blogging poop again today. Hanging out with peoples. Talking adamantly about console wars. Stuff and things. See you guys later.
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