Lazy

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


Either I remember incorrectly, or the translation which I read was imperfect, but in my mind the first two questions were "is there anything to eat?" and "what can we eat?" No matter which set of questions to choose, the three phases remain the same.
'09 was not the best year, nor was it the worst. It was lazy. I slacked off on quite a few things, including updating this blog and the very subject matter, *gasp* veganism and overall greenness. While there's no real feeling of guilt, nothing is particularly rewarding either (a lie, grilled goat cheese sandwiches!). Just lazy. Twenty-ten is not much different. Constructive lazy. Drunken master of consciousness. Path of least emotional resistance. One way or another, I'm going back to veganism, and to blog updates. Lazily.
No matter the means, the whole process of going vegan reminds of the quote above. First few weeks, or even couple of months: "is there anything to eat?" After the fifteenth "nope, not that" and desperate chowing down on carrots while sitting on the kitchen floor back to the impregnable fridge, one has no choice but the get creative and enter phase two: "what can I eat?" Veganomicon is dusted, password on Vegweb is reset, and experimentation begins. The blissful stage of discovery and colonization; savages marvel at tastes-just-like-the-real-thing-or-even-better creations, although don't manifest the urge to join the new faith. The tricky part here is feeding the troops during campaigns. While there is a fair number of foraging sites, they are oftentimes away from the main routes. Master Sun Tsu taught not to burden the army with excessive supplies, but dry provisions are a must. This brings about the third question; what to do, or more accurately where to go, when dry rations run out, but that is hard to answer out of the context.
There is a couple of things that hopefully will help to get through the first phase as quickly as possible. Since last summer I was planning to try this roasted asparagus recipe, and veganizing pumpkin cream cheese muffins has recently become one of the top priorities, aaaaaand...