Serene of the Oakland Serenes

[Edit: Thanks to glitterophelia for pointing me to fnb]

Been thinking a lot about Food Not Bombs lately -- I have known about them
for years, but dryadgrl and my Berkeley neighbors have kept it
in the forefront of my mind lately. Then I read their "What is Food Not Bombs?" page and
decided they are definitely doing something I want to get behind (I think
I already knew that, but the page was a really good reflection of how I
feel about the politics of food distribution).

So tomorrow I plan to go help out
with a meal. Any locals wanna come along?

Oh, and because I know it amuses some of you, I thought I'd let you know
that I woke up vegan today. This has happened several times in the last
two years and has usually lasted a few days at most. We'll see. (If
you're not aware of my history with vegetarianism, I don't do dieting or
rules about what I eat, so I resist calling myself a vegetarian, and I
sometimes call myself The
Reluctant Vegan. I just decide from day to day how I feel about food,
and I go with it. For eighteen years, I woke up vegetarian nearly every
day. For the following two years, it was veganism a day at a time. Then
the last two years, I haven't really known from day to day what I would
eat, but most days I've eaten some amount of meat/dairy/eggs. Anyway,
we'll see. :-) I'm having chips and black beans for lunch.)

Got about three hours of sleep last night this morning, and I'll be lucky to stay awake at my desk. The feeling is kind of cool, however, the stoned feeling of sleep deprivation (sometimes I feel it as a stoned feeling, sometimes as the jitters; I prefer the former). Depending on how I feel at lunch time, I may take some vacation hours and leave early. So nice to have that option. Makes me really feel for the millions of workers who couldn't leave early if they wanted to, and wouldn't get paid for it even if they did (I mean, I was one of those workers for a long time; thankfully, my middle-class background kept that from being a desperate situation).

( details of my week(end); possibly dull, almost certainly disjointed )