Today I am a t awork related conference at a Airport hotel, can we say NOT VEGAN FRIENDLY? However, I came prepared. I packed some hummus and pita, and a wholelot of stew, and a small containerof soy milk.

When it came time for lunch I asked the front desk if there was any way I could have something microwaved. I was told to go down to the restaurant. They were a litte angry about my request, made me sign a waiver, and kicked me out of the restaurant when I sat down to eat my heated food. However, I got a warm meal.

I’ve been enjoying coffee all morning thanks to the soy, and have been very comfortable throughout my stay, and I am only carrying an average sized bookbag. It is possible to be vegan anywhere, it just takes a little planning!

As far as I could tell the doctor I saw yesterday agreed that I had some form of avid reflux. I was told to take some prilosec and wait a few days. I was also told to avoid fatty foods and dairy, I smiled and said that wouldn’t be a problem. I gave him the clearly marked vegan vitamins and he told me they were strange and a normal mult-vitamin would do. This doctor couldn’t put two and two together and honestly I was in too much pain to feel like helping him.

Chipotle is finally accustomed to making vegan burritos they only questioned the lack of meat once, and didn’t bat an eye when I said no cheese. Come to think of it many of my burritos have been vegan for awhile, I am not a cheese fan. I’m also not a fan of ordering out food, but we are in desperate need of grocery shopping, and I am quite ill, ill enough that cooking doesn’t help me.

I took my stomach pills, only to wake up with a cold, on top of continuing stomach issues. It’s obvious that stress is getting the better of me, no matter how healthy my diet and lifestyle are overall.

I went to the bookstore to pick up a copy of Vegan With a Vengeance after hearing great things about the book, and trying some wonderful recipes on Post Punk Kitchen. Anyways I was looking for books on stress management, to help me through my current crisis. Since reading, writing, web surfing, meditation, cooking, exercises, talking seem to be doing jack. Instead we met an Eastern meditation guru who told me I was doing it all wrong, even though his primary employment is still at Border’s books. Life is throwing me curve balls aplenty.

I was working at the collective bookstore/coffeehouse and one couple really amused me, some quotes:

After I gave her the order of soy chiken salad
“There is soy in this right?”

After I explained to him what a vegan was
“But vegans can eat poultry right?”

It has also been amusing amongst co-workers, beyond the whole tofu obsession (which is even more amusing because I am not a tofu fan). Like the other day:

Co-worker: You still doing that vegan thing?

Me: Of course.

Co-worker: Wooooow! (with a look of awe and amazement)

I told my husband the other night that moments like these alone could keep me vegan. Fortunately I have a lot better reasons.