This past week, as we all know, was shocking and tragic but, surprisingly, it turned out to be one of my better sustainability weeks. I was motivated to try twice as hard but, unfortunately, it was not a perfect week.
With my meat goal, I messed up. Again. What I find myself constantly doing is that I eat meat more than once a week; however, this does not mean that when I mess up it means that I'm eating meat five times a week. In fact, whenever I fail it's because I ate meat twice a week. That's still not as good as I would have hoped but I'm glad that my numbers are relatively low. I notice that when the dining halls don't have any good pasta dishes, I tend to go towards the meat. Lately the pasta dishes have been nonexistent or simply lacking (oh joy). I'm trying to find substitutes for when there's no pasta so I don't have to go straight to the meat. Suggestions?
I want to buy a handkerchief or something because I'm ALWAYS forgetting to bring my towel to dry my hands off with! On the bright side, I was better with that this week than before but I'm still rather forgetful. Fun fact of the day? Today I found out that in Japan there are no paper towels provided for you to dry your hands with; you have to bring your own towel! Very interesting and sustainable idea; I love it!
The one area that I drastically improved in this week was my laptop usage. Firstly, since my birthday was Friday (woo!) I spent Thursday, Friday, Saturday and today hanging out with family and friends. I went to spend time with my family yesterday and thought about bringing my laptop but decided against it; definitely the best choice! Another thing that attributed to my lack of laptop usage was Brian's passing. I know it's still a rather difficult subject so I'm going to make this quick. I was hit rather hard by the news, as I'm sure everyone else was, and at first I was glued to my laptop; I'd keep checking the blog or the news for any info. After seeing the effect it had on me, though, I backed off realizing it'd be better if I stayed away for a bit. So, in an odd way, the tragedy helped me jump start getting rid of my excessive laptop usage. Let's hope I can keep this up.
That was pretty much how this week went- oh wait? What's that? Curious about the title of this blog, I see. Well, long story short I went to a concert with my sister and her friends on Thursday and instead of taking four cars there, I convinced everyone that we should take one cab. Not only did we do the planet a little good, but we got to jam to Destiny's Child with a cab driver named Zac from Zimbabwe. Everyone won.
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