week three

Like the people who've posted so far, I'm trying to evaluate what's going to stick.

I don't think short showers will, honestly. It's something that I'm going to have to work really hard on to keep up with. Electricity will, I think. It's something I pay a lot of attention to now.

Being a vegetarian might, in the long run. I already can figure out what I'm going to eat without much trouble, as opposed to the first week where sometimes I would wander around the Commons for a few minutes trying to figure out what I was going to do. In the first couple of weeks, on no-meat days my mantra was 'It's okay. You can have it another day' and I noticed this week that my attitude was less that I was being deprived and more that I was doing something that would have a positive impact on myself and the world around me.

Except when there was bacon in the vicinity. Then it was sort of hopeless.

So I think that it's going to be off and on for quite a while. But I think the attitude shift is the important thing. That's what really gets anyone to quit doing anything. The past three weeks have gotten me to look at what's important to me, and to follow through on that in my behavior. It's a good feeling.

I'm so proud of my junk art. It's something I always say I'm going to do, and never get around to. But in the past week I've finished two projects and am almost done with a third. One of them is awful, but the other two. So cool.