When my boyfriend first told me he was a vegan, a whole mess of things ran through my head. Does that mean we’ll never get to go out to dinner together? Is he going to flip when I show up to his house on a Sunday afternoon smelling like bagels and lox? Are we going to go to PETA protests on dates, and is he going to sneak gory slaughterhouse pamphlets into my purse after I talk about jonesin’ for bacon?

Like a lot of college girls, I had been a vegetarian about 15 times by the time I’d met my boyfriend. I gave up meat in high school to freak out my parents, and I gave it up in college to lose weight, then later to impress the chain-smoking anti-war coalition kids that I wanted to hang out with.

Despite my good intentions, however, it never really stuck. The cafeteria had zero veggie options, and I was lazy — not to mention a sucker for carne asada. To boot, I had a pretty superficial understanding of what veganism is; like a lot of people, I thought all vegans were misanthropic skinny kids with social problems. Then I met John. Read More »

First Britney. Then Heath. Now Karev?! (Er. I mean, Justin Chambers).

It seems like 2008 was the year of the psychiatric breakdown. After the Britney debacle the other night, there are now reports that claim that Justin Chambers (the Grey’s Anatomy bad boooy) has just been released from the UCLA Medical Center after checking in for “severe exhaustion.”

Whatever that means.

The good news is; Chambers did not need to be strapped to the gurney for his hospital visit. Due to a sleeping disorder, Karev entered the hospital voluntarily to get treatment. I am not quite sure how a man with five (yes, FIVE) children has any trouble falling asleep at night, but what do I know? I could fall asleep on the treadmill if I was on there long enough….or I was listening to Enya.

Britney, on the other hand, has been classified as “Gravely Disabled” by the staff at the very same hospital. (Looks like Hotel Marmont is out as the place to see and be seen be these days. Perhaps Ms. Lohan will be booking a room here soon?) What does that mean, exactly? It means that the lovely Ms. Spears is unable to take care of basic needs, “such as the acquisition of food, clothing or shelter.” Read More »