I made delicious dinner tonight that reminded me why I like being vegan.  This is what it was:
1 c Quinoa
a few garlic cloves
an onion
1  package of tempeh
1 red pepper
1 tomato
a whole lot of kale
1 can of kidney beans
oregano, basil, garlic salt, pepper and lemon juice.

I sauteed the onions and garlic in olive oil, added the tempeh and pepper and then sprinkled the spices and lemon juice over everything.  I just poured a lot of lemon juice.  In my opinion you can't have too much.  Then I put the kale in and gave it time to cook down.  Then I poured the can of kidney beans in with all the liquid from the can, added the tomato and I put the spices on again and more lemon juice.  I let it simmer for awhile in all of the juices.  I cooked the quinoa in the rice cooker.  And then Ryan and I ate it while watching the office on netflix.  It was so good!  One of the reasons I became vegan was to eat more vegetables.  Lately I have been been doing pretty good at that.  Ryan and I have been doing a lot of home cooking with tons of veggies.

Nursing school has been going really well so far.  I keep waiting for it to get nuts, but right now it seems really doable.  My schedule is pretty awesome.  Mondays and Tuesday and Thursdays are pretty packed but I have Wednesdays off and Friday mornings off.  Usually I watch law and order on those days and try to do work.  I probably should be doing more reading for school.

I have been trying to keep up with all the news about Occupy Wall st and Occupy Philly.  I went to one of the Wall St marches.  I feel pretty disconnected from the Wall St stuff.  Probably because I am new to NYC and don't know a lot of people.  I feel a lot more connected to the Philly stuff, but I am so far away from it.  I feel pretty disconnected from street activism these days.  I just don't feel the passion like I used to.  I think my brain might be too critical.  I feel really happy that all of this this stuff is happening.  I'm just having a hard time relating to the "if you aren't documenting it, it didn't happen" actions.

Since moving to New York, I have watched all of Mad Men.  I have also become addicted to Scrabble and Words with Friends on my iphone.  I've been watching a lot of baseball lately.  I felt real sad when the Phillies lost in the playoffs.  I miss Philly, but I am glad to have a quiet calm life in Brooklyn.  It is pretty here and the people watching is top notch.