October 19, 2004

Prospective/Potential Vegans

This week was pretty good. My playwrighting professor was extremely impressed with the script I'm working on, and said it was one of the most true things he's read all year. His words: "Awesome. Woah. High Five. I have nothing to say." Then he went on to tell me all his favorite lines. :-) I felt great.
Musical theatre class on Saturday was good, too. We're on our Rock/Pop unit, so I'm working on Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin) and Wedding Bell Blues (5th Dimension). So far, they sound pretty good.

Yesterday was my dad's birthday, so today my father, my sister, my grandmother, my two uncles and one of my uncles' girlfriend went out to dinner. We went to a Japanese place. My uncle, Gerry, claimed he had no idea what to get, so he had me order him some sushi. I ordered him sushi with fish, digging back into my memory as to what I used to like. I ordered my own few sets of rolls, too, all vegetarian. This place had a good vegetarian section. I had oshinko maki (japanese pickles), sweet potato rolls, and an avocodo roll.

After dinner, we went back to my grandmother's house for cake, so I abstained and picked on some grapes. My grandmother kept trying to convince me to take just "one little taste" of the cake, saying "it won't hurt your figure!"

I've been vegan for almost TWO YEARS and she still can't get this into her head?! She kept trying to offer me her chicken at dinner, too, and afterwards was offring to send me home with some chicken. I just kept politely saying "No thanks" or "No, thank you, I don't eat chicken." or simply, "I don't like it."

I feel like I have to be patient with my grandmother. She is, after all, 86. But it's frustrating that she just can't seem to remember that I'm vegan. Oh, well. I don't see my dad's family too often, so I guess I can deal.

Now, back to the studio

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