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jenna. jenny. twenty-one, aspiring writer and vegan.
Bears, Beat lit, beers, books, balloons, Bukowski, best friends, boyfriend and my guitar, Betty.
I’m not complaining, just beginning to see, I never really learned just how to aspire, mostly self-deprecate, detach, and retire.
Relaxing in the shrinking sunlight with my freshly-bathed Raffy.
Hanging out with my little blue-eyed boy after an interesting trip to the doctor.
My usual doctor wasn’t there, so instead I had a younger, tall, blonde doc from Wollongong hospital. He was quite strange, and spent most of the appointment asking me irrelevant questions.
- ‘Do you play an instrument? You look like a musician.’
- ‘Guitar for 5 years huh? You’d be pretty good then.’ *cue weird creepy smile*
- “If you weren’t in the relationship you’re in now, would you be in one at all? I mean, or just a string of sexual relationships? As fun as they are, sometimes they’re pretty confusing!’ *chuckles to himself like an old man*
- ‘Ahhh uni days. Tried to do a keg-stand once, ended up breaking my arm. Worth it though.’
- ‘So you live in Wollongong? Fairy Meadow is the BEST place name, am I right?! Do you live with a significant other? Or maybe a friend, or…. alone?’
Needless to say this was an odd appointment, and half the time I couldn’t tell whether he was flirting with me, or just being nice in his own weird way. As I was leaving, I accidentally ran into another doctor who happened to look like a sexy lumberjack. WHY COULDN’T HE HAVE BEEN MY DOCTOR INSTEAD?!
How do humans live with animals and animals with humans? Why do some humans save the whale, while others eat them? Why are pigs intensively farmed but cats and dogs sleep on/in human beds or are, at least, part of the family? Should animals have rights, be legally regarded as property or be seen as sentient beings with significant similarities to humans? Are zoos prisons and therefore unethical? These questions revolve around the cultural, legal and social mediations between animals and humans. The subject includes an exercise that invites students to undertake an autoethnography on their experiences of living with animals and provides an opportunity to address how we can change the ways in which we live with animals (via laws and social policy).
Why is this subject not on offer this year?!
My best friend and myself nearly a year ago. Oh, how much has changed.c
Love this album.
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Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else?
If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn’t motivating, what would be?
If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn’t enough, what is?
And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?
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—Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals
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Someone teach me to play piano.
"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust. How, then, could I have a furnished house? I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground."
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau (via xlakdjfdlakjsdf)
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Cat Power - Werewolf
