Nashville trip: Graze

graze is an all vegan restaurant in nashville.

mac n chz  with chorizo 

carbonara

Found Something and What I Ate

I found a bag of black pipe cleaners with googly eyes to make a spider. Unopened. Score.

I ate coffee with sugar. half a chocolate chip cookie shared with Andrei. He graciously brought biscoff cookies which I proceeded to eat 8 of. A wheat bread sandwich with relish, mustard and tofurky and toms. Smoothie with cucumber, mango, and banana, and spirulina.

Soup for dinner with white crackers! green bean cabbage and lentil soup.

Then I had banana ice cream with vanilla, 2 bananas, peanut butter(jif), granola (engine 2 diet) and some cheapy chocolate syrup.

Look at this cutie.

But seriously how about this one.

paka- basically "bye" in russian.

Stuff I found on the Ground and Indigo Hippo

I feel very lucky to have a art thrift store in my neighborhood. It also has a pay-what-you-think-is-fair system. So they have colored stickers on everything as a guide to how much things might be worth. 

I got this 4-pk of posters and pack of markers for $2.50! The stickers were pink and the price they thought it was worth was $1 to $3. I'm going to make a BLM poster for Wed. 

I found this cool bag right outside my house on the ground. 

The kittens are so cute. My neighbor came to look at them, she might get one or two. It's hard to tell. 

I had coffee today with soy milk and sugar. I ate a chocolate chip cookie. I ate a whole wheat bread sandwich with tofurky and mustard and tomatoes. I made a cashew cream curry with potatoes and carrots and cabbage. Then I made a stir-fry with green beans and cabbage but it tasted bad. The curry was good though. I ate some crackers. Shit. Did I eat enough?  Hm. 

Ok, bye. 

I Found Kittens! And I'm Making a Zine

   I've been feeding the cats in the alley behind my house in the hopes that my maine coon cat would come around. So far I've got three cats coming around. I feel guilty because I should have trapped them all and got them fixed. One of them had babies. And this morning my mom said she found two kittens all alone. I scooped them up and realized their little tails and paws were bald and their little faces were all dirty. My house is also next to a busy street. Later in the day I found three more kittens and the mom jumped over the fence but the kittens couldn't follow. The fence into the alley is very very high. So I can see how the kittens maybe were getting hurt following her around. Poor babies. I bought some formula and wet cat food! Definitely not vegan but we make the best choices we can. 

 One kitten ate the wet food. And I bottle-fed the rest. 

This black kitten is very upset in this picture. But now the gray and white kitten is very hissy. 

I've been thinking about making a healthy and poor zine for awhile now. It's sad that poor people get a raw deal when trying to make healthy choices. We shouldn't have to choose between good health and eating.  I'm brainstorming tonight all the different sections and I still have physics problems to do. 

What I Ate Today

Today I practiced Taylor series expansions.

I drank coffee with sugar.

I had a strawberry, cucumber, banana smoothie.

I ate a salad. A sandwich with tomato, onion, tofurky slices and mustard.

I ate a so delicious caramel ice cream bar.

I ate 2 Kashi GF waffles with maple syrup.

I ate a noodle bowl from Cilantro, a Vietnamese restaurant in Cliftion near school.
I went with Danny's dad, Bobdad. He's really awesome.

Well, I'm going to go prep some food for meals tomorrow. 

Review of Paradise Kittens (Cincinnati)

I saw Paradise Kittens for the first time last night. They're in the noise genre of music.

It was at a place called Rake's End in the Brighton neighborhood or West End. The DIY scene reigns supreme here. It's the working class here, the artists, the activists. PBRs are a steal at  $2. Most of the buildings on the street look empty. The night air was balmy. I took turns listening to bands and then sitting outside with friends to talk on stickered-up benches about zoos and menstrual cups.

Paradise Kittens is a one-person band comprised of Ashley Bowman, someone I've known for 6 years which was told to me by fb the other day. When I gather round to listen I see she has blue lipstick all around her lips and a hooded robe with the hood on. At first the sounds are jolting and I jump from fright a couple times. I feel like I'm in a horror movie which is cool because I love horror movies. I stare at a slow-moving fan with a deflated green balloon going round and round entranced by how the sounds are making this simple machine seem insidious. This is part music and part artistic show.

The last song makes my hair stand on end. They say it's about sexual violence. Speaking into the microphone giving two parts of a relationship she conveys the realness of damaging relationships. I feel her pain and spiral down with her. I appreciated how personal it was. I can't wait to see the next show and what changes and what stays the same.

Stuff I Ate Today and Vegan Egg Patty Fail

      So I picked up my kittens today! They were so lovey when they got home. Especially my orange tabby. Then I walked to school. I just got accepted to grad school for physics. Over the summer I'm working with my adviser to study for the qualifying exam and work in our lab. Me and my fuzzband are taking a break for the month. Not something I would usually share but I'm starting to share these things because I don't want to act like my life is perfect. I think it's good to know all of us are going through different things. 

Strawberries. I actually let them sit in fridge too long so I cut them to freeze for smoothies. 

My Vegan Egg (Not vegan egg brand) Patty Fail! I tried to follow a recipe from Hot for Food but I didn't use medium firm tofu. I used extra firm. And I didn't add tapioca flour but xanthan gum. 1 tsp. They wouldn't fry up firm so I baked in the oven for a half an hour. They kinda hardened up. I'll still eat them anyway.

I used a veggie sausage and some english muffins to make a sandwich. The vegan egg patty was so-so. If this had vegan cheddar slices that would have helped. Definitely sticking to the Follow Your Heart Egg next time. I need to get more. 

My local grocery puts corn tortillas in ziplock baggies and I reuse them. My sandwich has Tofurky slices, spinach, mustard and tomato. 

I ate an entire small cantaloupe on the way back from school. 

Tomorrow I'm riding my bike to school. I've been really lazy about working out since school ended. Probably because I'm walking back and forth.

WOTD is elucidate- to make clear or explain.