Can see thestrals now :(

Saw someone die in a freak road accident last night.

One minute the poor fellow was riding pillion on a speeding bike, and the next minute he was on the road - head bashed, bleeding profusely, dead.

While it isn't the first time I've seen a dead body, it's the first time I saw a living being turn into one. With such rapidity at that.

It feels like a coming-of-age of a particularly macabre sort - one that anyone can really do without.

Am I still a vegetarian?

Serves me right for not reading ingredient lists more closely.

Today, I just felt like having a Piadina Romagnola ( a roti-like bread from the Emilia Romagna region in Italy), so I went off to the supermarket to buy some.

I've never bought any in the past, though I certainly have eaten the odd piadina at friends' homes (my friends eat these every day -- simpler than making rotis, certainly). Anyway. One of the brands in the supermarket had ingredients listed in English too, and one of the ingredients was -- lard (called 'strutto', or 'strutto di suino' -- swine's lard -- in Italian).

Swine. i.e. pig. Sheesh!

While I'm not exactly throwing up (what's done, is done after all), it makes me wonder how many other times I have consumed something non-vegetarian unknowingly. And whether I am technically a vegetarian any more.

Must certainly read ingredient lists more carefully from now on!