Fine, so is not wearing that shirt made god knows where and those leather shoes. Yes, of course, not eating meat is probably better for your body and for the environment. This was true, in the way that stupid things young white hipsters say are true. Say what you want about sentience, I said, but meat farming is one of the single worst things we are doing for the environment. This time, I stopped eating meat for some different set of reasons, mostly about trying to ‘do less evil’ or some other nonsense, following a dumb conversation on Facebook. Suddenly I was better than everyone, a recurring theme in my life. It caused a great deal of stress to my mother, I remember, at Thanksgiving, because I wanted some Quorn chicken nuggets, or something ridiculous. None-the-less, I gave it a go and held up for some six months. I was probably eating meat at the time I said that I would stop. Look at you.’ Indeed, this seemed impossible. After I had gone to some talk about sexuality and the portrayal of women as meat and was saying, I'm not sure if I can keep eating meat, she looked sceptical: ‘Of course you can’t stop eating meat. It wasn't the first time - in college I became a vegetarian on a dare of sorts from a beautiful first-year Sri Lankan student in the Christian group I was leading. I suppose I could stop writing all of them down, but that seems like a waste. This sounds good in theory - not working - but I'm not sure I am capable of it, given how my work is really just thinking about things and writing down the interesting thoughts that come up. I had said to Yoko as I showed off the £1 ticket and the website, ‘The bus has WiFi, so I can work,’ and she had said something about how it might be good if I spent some time not working. I sat pushing connect again and again for about ten minutes, before giving up. I had been excited about the bus initially because of the WiFi, which worked brilliantly at first and then, as these things do, went away. The last time was when I went to Newcastle for a conference. It's been a long time since I have been on a bus in this country. The early morning bus to London leaves at 4:45 from Hill Street in the centre of Birmingham.
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