_______ for a day.

Editor's note: Almost anyone can be almost anything for a day. Of course there are limits: a person cannot be a dinosaur, for example. Well, not without dire consequences and some serious time-continuum funk.

This will be a feature in which I take on various roles, feelings, and titles for a day at a time. These things I take on will be abnormal to my being, but fun and experimental nonetheless.

TODAY: VEGETARIAN FOR A DAY.

I was a vegetarian today. Last night I started thinking about just how much meat I've probably eaten in my life. I began to wonder how big of a field I could fill with all of the chickens, cows, and porks that I've partaken of in the last 23 years. I decided it was probably a very big field.

Today I did not eat meat for the first time in a long time. What did I eat you might ask? I ate these things, in succession:

1. Pumpkin Bread (from Peet's Coffee & Tea)

2. Tomato Bisque Soup, with (whole-wheat) noodles.

3. More (whole-wheat) noodles, this time with butter and pepper-jack cheese melted on top (for taste).

It was a good day all in all. If I am this for a day in the future, though, I'd probably try to add in a few more fruits and vegetables. I'm not sure grains and tomatoes will sustain a man for very long.

[I apologize for the Westification's lack of photo-awareness of late. Courtney has my camera. I put it in her purse at ACL.]