Day 3: (Poems about) History!

YAY! :)

Breakfast: Falafel, hummus and the ever-present OJ

A good meal all-around. Seriously, I feel like, now that I'm a vegan, I've been expanding my food choices, instead of being limited in what I eat.

It's been awhile since I've eaten falafel, but now that it seems that I kind of have to eat it, or I'll have nothing to eat with my orange juice, I did eat it. Yes, riveting story, I know. Alert the NYT.

Lunch: Peanuts and Mountain Dew

Can we just agree that there has to a meal a day where I completely throw away my 'no junk food' promise and eat an unhealthy meal with no value whatsoever? Thank you.

Although, peanuts.. I guess that's sort of healthy. Good source for protein, anyway.

Dinner: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich and Mango juice

This is the first time I've ever had a PB&J sandwich..

No milk, though

My New Candy: I've had a book of Robert Burns' poems for a while now, but never read it. The first poem of the book was written in very Scottish, I guess is the right word for it. Ex: old was auld and over was o'er, stuff like that. As soon as I saw that, I put the book back in the shelf immediately. I get enough confusing 'Ye Olde' English from Shakespeare, thank you very much. Yesterday, I was looking around my books, and started leafing through my copy of A Night Out With Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems and stopped at this poem:

There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame

By yon castle wa' at the close of the day,
I heard a man sing, tho his head it was grey,
And as he was singing, the tears doon came -
'There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame!'

'The Church is in ruins, the State is in jars,
Delusion, oppressions, and murderous wars,
We dare na weel sayl but we ken wha's to blame
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame!

'My seven braw sons for Jamie drew sword,
But now I greet round their green beds in the yerd;
It brak the sweet heart o my faithfu auld dame -
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame!

'Now life is a burden that bows me down,
Sin I tint my bairns, and he tint his crown;
But till my last moments my words are the same -
There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame!'

Meaning of unusual words:
wa'=wall
greet=weep
yerd=kirkyard
sin I tint=as I lost
bairns=children

Burns, Robert, and Andrew O'Hagan. "There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Home." A Night Out With Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems. Edinburgh: Canon Gate, 2009. 191. 

I really liked it! Very patriotic!

Robert Burns