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Eat a Banana

RyanB — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:34:16 +0000

Just thought I would pass on this article on regarding bananas. It has 20 fascinating facts about the natural healing power of bananas.

I don’t really have one that I favor, but it is an interesting read!

Finals Week

RyanB — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:05:56 +0000

This week was finals, it was quite a blur even though I had only one standard final. On Monday I left work early to start studying, and catch up with a friend for dinner. Unfortunately, dinner plans fell through and that left me to study for the night. Both Tuesday and Wednesday were hell. On Tuesday, I took the day off, because my final was Wednesday. A friend and I arranged to study together, originally she wanted to start around 9:30 or 10. So I got up at 9, got ready and waited for her call that said she was nearby campus…She called a bit after 10, and told me she just got up, and to give her about an hour to get there. I figured I would do stuff around here, and buzz to the library in about 45 minutes or so…thinking I’d just get there and just getting settled before starting. I get set up, and figured I would do a bit, and kind of start over whenever she comes. Around 11:15 I get a call she had just woken up again, and is now on her way. She showed up about an hour later, and we got started.

We were there until almost 8:30, and she had to get back home. I was absolutely beat, I studied practically 9 hours straight on almost no food. I had a protein bar when I got up, I took a break around 3 to get a smoothie, and on my trek there, a group was giving away FREE food. I was like sweeeeeeeet, unfortunately it was only half a sandwich and a granola bar, but free. I ate the sandwich on the way into the place to get my smoothie. On my way back, I gave them a ‘can I have another’ look, but they didn’t bite.

I arrive back at my dorm, around 9, and sit down to dinner at 9:30. Absolutely drained, I decided to take a cat nap and then study some more. Well, when I got up, I was like oh crap, I don’t know what to go over, what to memorize, blah, blah, blah. After almost 3 hours of that, I said to heck with it, I am off to bed for good. My exam was at 8:30, I had my mom give me a call around 7-7:30. I managed to get up at 6 to get some last minute studying in, but I didn’t make much progress than I did when I quit 4 hours ago. Yes, I took a final on 4 hours of sleep.

I walk into my final, gave it an once over, and was like I was stressing over this and this, but it’s not on here. I only said damn I should have gave that term more than a quick read while studying two times. Somehow I managed to finish the test with just about a half hour to spare. The person I studied with finished before that even. After a quick bite to eat I manned our booth at the tech fair. I primarily answered questions about accessible technology, and did on-the-fly accessible web design evaluations.

As for the rest of the week, it was pretty mellow.

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Sleep, who needs it

RyanB — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:41:09 +0000

So last week has been crazy seeing that I have gotten to bed around 3 am or later. To be honest I have no idea why. Friday I started to get back on track, and went to bed around 11. Although I just said I had no idea why I was up that late, I actually know why I was. I was up that late because I was trying to get on top of things and that was the result.

Sick

RyanB — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:29:48 +0000

Well, everybody here on campus has been getting sick. Which makes sense, since there are a lot of people living in close quarters, and never been around each other for the most part. I thought I lucked out and missed all of it, but I guess I didn’t. But I am loading myself with vitamin C.

Hopefully soon it will pass.

Update: [Saturday] I am feeling better, but still have a bad cough, but I can breathe!

Some Fun I Had

RyanB — Sun, 21 May 2006 02:51:45 +0000

I just updated my LiveJournal about a little event I had last Monday.

Read the entry here.

Can it get any Worse?

RyanB — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:43:04 +0000

So lately a friend and I have been having not so good conversations from my perspective. We talked a lot this summer. It was really nice, I know she still cares and such. Like this summer, she said sorry if she had more than let’s say a minute or maybe two to reply almost no matter what…but lately that margin has changed. Yesterday I waited 20 minutes for a reply. And then sometimes, it is like the whole topic was forgotten. Saying stuff out of the blue, or things that were relevant previously in our conversation.

I am not trying to be hurt, but it’s hard. Having somebody there for you and within days fading away, becoming one of those you say a quick hi every so often and that’s that.

Yeah, I have to say that our world’s are pretty different in reality. But like I just said I care a large amount for this person, and something like this just tears me up. It used to be the case that when she would take an extended period of time to reply, something was wrong. Knowing this I ask such questions I get nothing is wrong and such. So I just feel like it is gone, and doesn’t want to talk or something.

Beyond that, tonight while I was sitting here in my dorm room, I had my hands upon my knees. Well my right knee cap felt squishy. That frightened me out a little. That may be the first signs of water on the knee. Although I have 22CCs of whatever fluid on my left knee, and had it since 11^th or 12^th grade. I am not sure why I am getting it on my right. It has been a little cool in my room tonight, so I am hoping that’s it. I would go into the Hall Health like Friday afternoon, but I have a midterm Friday afternoon. So I can always play the game and rush through to get to see the doctor late afternoon, or wait till Monday…

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