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In fifth grade, I began to think more about my food choices. I stopped eating baby animals like veal, because I did not like the idea of an animal being killed as a baby, without a full life. I stopped eating duck. People have told me, oh so you stopped eating the animals because of their cuteness, which is true, but it was important because it made me starting analyzing myself more.

In sixth grade, I had a lot going on for me in my personal life. My dad had just died of pancreatic cancer, as a result of being an alcoholic. I promised myself never to let that happen to me. At the same time, my mom started expressing her interests in healthy and organic foods. This meant food tasted less good, and I was often jealous of classmate's lunchables and chips. In fact, I only drank an average of about a liter of soda a year, and only caffeine-free Sprite. Instead, I was encouraged to make my own "soda" out of juice and seltzer. We started composting in our back yard. I became more involved in the gardening, raking, weeding, planting of our large yard. We grew our own vegetables like basil, tomatoes, corn, and lettuce. We also had wild mint growing on our land, along with a huge diversity of flowering plants.

Because I lived in a small town, we had our own well, our own boiler, had built most of our own house, took our mail to a post office and our trash to a dump. The dump was very disgusting, with sea gulls flying around. I think back with a little of embarrassment of the dumster dance, which used the dump parking lot as a kind of tailgate and dance. Besides these things, we had no grocery store in our town, and one restaurant, so the style of eating in San Diego of going out often and choosing between a myriad of places was not an option. Because Cape Cod is a tourist destination, the impacts of visitors on the environment, traffic and economy were all felt. I began to also distain tourists who did not appreaciate the land but would litter.

The circle of life, as shown in the movie the Lion King is a really obvious concept to a person who lives in a town full of cemetaries and experiencing death in their personal life. It was often described in the various places we would go for feild trips relating to the audobon society and other similar organizations. The cycles of life, tides, sunrise and sunset, were all so potent.

I became more aware of these factors in sixth grade, when my best friend told me more about being a vegetarian, and introduced me to Jane Goodall's club for kids called Roots and Shoots. I had a lot of education about the processing of meat and the cruelty of it, and I stopped eating red meat. Later in 9th grade, I was a pescatarian. That always caused me to a bit of an outcast even among my friends, who were not very understanding. I think really, only vegetarians understand each other. It is frustrating to me that people did not give me the equal respect I gave.

As college has progressed, I had difficulty paying for and cooking my own vegetarian choices, and experienced symtoms of anemia. I started eating meat in the summer of 2005 (chicken), and began eating red meat while living in spain in the fall of 2006. Despite my choice to become a non-vegetarian again, I still do not consume much meat, and always opt for organic when it is availible. I continue to be extremely conscious of what I consume, and try to avoid all the tempting fast food. I realize that I could be eating better right now, but for me with all the challenges of paying for my own education and what life brings, I find it easier to eat a limited amount of meat. In the future I hope to become a pescatarian again and rely more on soy products and legumes.

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Also... here's another dream (a lot of my friends read the last one i guess)

Well last night I dreamed that I was diagnosed with cancer, and I accepted it. I didn't tell my friends at first, because I didn't want to burden them. But I felt just at peace, like all I really wanted was just to be at peace and be with friends. Pretty enlightening dream and I thought about it after I woke up, about how personally I've been struggling a lot to figure out who I am what I want in live where I am going and what is wrong with me (i've def. been in a slump allllll semester). I put too many expectations on myself, and on friends and on the world. I just needed to chill. Well, after that I feel chilll, like I should appreaciate my life and just chill...

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1)Baseball Project

The other day I was walking home with my friend Charles, and we live near each other, beyond the baseball feilds. He jumped the fence and got a bunch of baseballs. The next day, I had it in my hand walking to school and a sharpie so I wrote a poem on it. I want to take a photo of someone pretending to throw it, then take a pic of the ball and blur it so it looks like its coming straight at the camera.

2)Corina/Collaborative Project
My friend and I are going to find people to work on a project where the first person makes a piece, the second uses elements to make their second piece, the third uses the second etc.

3) Songs
I would like to make some pieces based on songs I like, hopefully take a bunch of shots:
Cherry Blossom Girl
Universal Traveler
These are both by AIR
and Ruby by Kaiser Chiefs.

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I'd be So happy if you commented on my new pics. I hope you don't hate mountains, cuz u def. won't like my new stuff. Well, more stuff to come (lol when I get a chance

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London
Amersterdam
Austria
Germany
Italy
Rome
Switzerland
Paris

Its the European Discovery tour from Contiki. It's 18-35 year olds- I hope its not a bunch of 30 year olds who I don't blend well with. I figure if everyone sucks- higly unlikely- I'll just venture off my by myself- except maybe in Amsterdam. I love that everytime I tell people I'm going they're willing to give their friends from their my name so I'll "know" people. Sweet.

If anyone has a good blog suggestion please lemme know. (I prefer not myspace, DA, and blogger.com) ]]> ~kateincali86 http://kateincali86.deviantart.com/journal/9953592/ http://kateincali86.deviantart.com/journal/9953592/ Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:40:39 PDT ~kateincali86