45 + 16 points
Mistakes Happen by g k
June 15th, 2006 10:45 AM
I'll have to go the past to do this task, and discuss a mistake I knowingly made twice.
First; we rewind to 8th grade. The situation is as follows: I am sitting in a supermarket with a few friends, namely the ever-antagonistic Oscar Zisman. I'm a big guy, and Oscar likes to poke fun at that relentlessly...but this time, instead of poking fun, he challenges me. "I bet you can't be a Vegan for the next 9 months." In addition to being a big guy, with a fondness for cheeses and meats, I'm a stubborn one. I take the challenge, and I live Vegan for 9 annoying months. Nearly a year of annoying my family by forcing them to have separate dishes for me, annoying waiters by examining what does and does not contain animal product...annoying myself by missing out on cheese...etc. It wasn't all bad, I did lose some weight and I felt pretty healthy, but I figure, I should've just ate healthy and excersized; thus, a mistake.
Fastforward past 8th grade but stop before we get to the present. We arrive at last May 9th - the birthday of my best friend Franciscus, and we are eating Thai BBQ with some friends - among them...the ever-antagonistic Oscar Zisman. As I am digging into some pork ribs (a wonderful jew, no?) - Oscar re-states his challenge. "Oh man...." I think. I know it'll be annoying...but my stubborness prevents me. This time I stopped short because of Academic Decathlon (we had a system where parents switched off who cooks dinner for us...it would ruin every meal to give me special treatment.) But I made it through 6 months!
Oy. I say a total of 15 annoying months is worth 45 points.
First; we rewind to 8th grade. The situation is as follows: I am sitting in a supermarket with a few friends, namely the ever-antagonistic Oscar Zisman. I'm a big guy, and Oscar likes to poke fun at that relentlessly...but this time, instead of poking fun, he challenges me. "I bet you can't be a Vegan for the next 9 months." In addition to being a big guy, with a fondness for cheeses and meats, I'm a stubborn one. I take the challenge, and I live Vegan for 9 annoying months. Nearly a year of annoying my family by forcing them to have separate dishes for me, annoying waiters by examining what does and does not contain animal product...annoying myself by missing out on cheese...etc. It wasn't all bad, I did lose some weight and I felt pretty healthy, but I figure, I should've just ate healthy and excersized; thus, a mistake.
Fastforward past 8th grade but stop before we get to the present. We arrive at last May 9th - the birthday of my best friend Franciscus, and we are eating Thai BBQ with some friends - among them...the ever-antagonistic Oscar Zisman. As I am digging into some pork ribs (a wonderful jew, no?) - Oscar re-states his challenge. "Oh man...." I think. I know it'll be annoying...but my stubborness prevents me. This time I stopped short because of Academic Decathlon (we had a system where parents switched off who cooks dinner for us...it would ruin every meal to give me special treatment.) But I made it through 6 months!
Oy. I say a total of 15 annoying months is worth 45 points.
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posted by g k on June 15th, 2006 4:57 PM
Those chickens were still killed despite my veganism and they were still tasty.
Taking the challenge would be making the mistake a third time, and the task requires me to do it twice.
Just cause I did the task before it was officially task doesn't mean I didn't do what it asks.
Even though you did this Before and you did it for all the wrong reasons and you're a big quitter, I'll still give you a vote for not killing about 40 chickens.
But I still don't think you've properly done this task, so I challenge you to be vegan for another 9 months.