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My self esteem is not great. I'm not two seconds away from blowing my brains out or sticking my head in the oven, but I could be a prouder person in general. The other day, there were new people at work, and one of them sat in the cubicle next to me. In true office fashion, he leaned over the paper thin wall, coffee mug in hand, and asked "So what do you do here?"

I am a licensed pharmacy technician. If there's any pride that I might have, it's that I am one in four people in the entire office that is certified at what we do there. I'm not saying it has any relation with anything spectacular, like dick size (it does btw), but it indeed gives me the one up on a lot of people in the audience.

So here it was. My time to shine. I could finally give this newbie a talkin' to. He, and anyone else listening in, could finally learn just what I do. "I pull out C2's from this box..." And that was all. BAM! POW! It hit like a ton of bricks. That's it. If I did any more than that believe me, I would have said it. I don't organize them, my friend does that. I jsut pull them out. The man nodded for a quick second and sat down, clearly thrilled. I sank low in my chair. I just summed up 8 hours of my day in one sentence. I was more productive when I was unemployed.

What's your idea of a great BBQ? Describe it.

I'm probably preaching to the choir, but I find vegetarians annoying. That's not to say all of them. The ones that can keep quiet and be normal while refraining from meat are fine. I have absolutely no problem with them. If you don't want to eat meat, that's perfectly fine. You're missing out on some great food, but that is your own decision.

The ones that annoy me are the missionaries that chastise people for murdering countless animals and butchering chickens. I find their lack of acceptance extremely off putting, especially given their minority status in the meat market of America. I understand that they may consider it wrong to eat an animal, and if I sat down with them and talked to them about my diet then I would love to hear their argument. But when I just got off a ten hour no food bender and I'm inhaling a chicken sandwich, the last thing I care about is how they slaughtered the chicken. I'm not one of those ass holes that says "Whatever they did, it's delicious!" But I do try to let them know that they have given an opinion without asking.

And therein lies the issue at the heart of the matter. I think those people chose vegetarianism for the debates, much like the dentist from Seinfeld choosing Judaism for the jokes. When I see somebody wearing an Ed Hardy shirt, I most definitely think he has some self confidence issues and was probably raised by a neanderthal with a thumb up her ass, but I don't approach the individual and tell them that. It's called polite society. So why should somebody attack me when I'm eating a sandwich with some meat in it?

And by the way, a plant is just as much a living organism as an "animal," it just doesn't have furry ears and make cute noises.

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