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The last time I posted on LiveJournal/InsaneJournal was August 7th, Sunday. Later, at around midnight after I broke fast and continued snacking and drinking water - ever since I was little I've thought of water as the elixir of life and when you're fasting/dehydrated it absolutely is - Matt and I found a scale in their house and I weighed myself. I was a little less than the absolute limit we set up a few years ago when I tried fasting, so I went "Oh, well! I should stop fasting!" Looking back I think I was a little too cavalier, and gave up too easily. Especially after I found an article about a high school American football player in Florida who continues to go to practices in full gear while fasting. It's good for him his coaches watch him for symptoms of heat stroke/heat exhaustion and the practices were moved to 7am in hopes it'd help the player avoid the heat. Though their games are still in the afternoon, I believe. I was talking about it to Matt and mentioned the football player was 265lbs after losing 10lbs after 9 or so days of fasting and Matt said "He must be a linebacker!" I have no idea what a linebacker is or any football positions but I guess they're the ones who attack the opposing players. I know more about European football than American football. So I went back to the apartment and was happy to be able to eat food and drink water whenever I wanted. And eat my ice cream. I celebrated by buying ice cream, yeah. :P I don't remember what I did the days I was back in the apartment, though I think I started feeling like I wanted to be alone... I did visit Matt the following Friday - he picked me up - and we watched two movies that evening with his family/some of them.

Source Code, Adjustment Bureau, relationships )

Museum visit, migraine, Paprika movie )

Then the next Sunday we had a brief driving lesson in a smallish high school parking lot. :( We were out at noon or something so that was understandable we couldn't find a more deserted area. I still didn't get on the road, and acceleration was scary... I think I went up to 8mph...

The work week was a little WTF and multiple breakdowns.

Saturday - there was free medical check up, dental (extraction, cleaning, filling) and vision (prescription, pressure check, dilation check, glaucoma, free frames - you get free complete glasses with prescription lenses if you got there early enough) offered by Remote Area Medical. Matt and I got there around 5:45am after waking up at 4am for shower (him) and breakfast and to drive there. Doors open at 5:30am. My number was 503. Apparently they started handing out numbers at 3:30am! I got into the building at 10am. I got into vision at 10:30am and was done around 1:15pm. I waited for dental but within being 20 people of getting in they started turning people away who had already gotten something else done. :-( SO CLOSE! I left around 5pm and got back to Matt's at 6pm. More than 12 hours of waiting - Matt had to leave around 9am because he had to help his brother move furniture - with about 4 hours of sleep. I still haven't slept long and well since Friday night. A lot of the people there were also students. I had both an optometry student and an optometrist inspect my eyes. My vision sucks.

Today I primed for the first time! And swung on a rope. And played Mario Galaxy. We had a full day of eating, too. Sausages, eggs, watermelon, musk melon, chicken cajun-cheese-mayo sandwich, more watermelon, musk, mango, chicken enchilada, lettuce, salsa, watermelon, musk, mango. YUMMY. Oh and there's corn leftovers. ♥

Thanks, too, to people I talked to amidst crises moments, who put aside time to talk to me/call. ♥
hani_backup: (Scythe Wolf)
Yesterday I woke up, took my antibiotics, talked to Bridgett briefly on MSN, ate my cereal, then walked to campus to watch the Japan-Denmark game. YES, Japan kicked butt so much. They're going to the next round! I then took the bus to the public library because it was so damn hot, and texted Mandy to ask if she would like to go to the gym later.

Unfortunately I missed the bus at 5:14pm so I had to walk back to campus with my laptop, powercord and assorted other things in my backpack. In the sweltering 28Celsius still heat. Blargh. I was already pretty tired when I met Mandy, but it is true that it's harder to beg off working out when you've got a buddy with you. She went to the pool/sauna whereas I tromped to the gym.

Exercise, yay! )

By the time I got home, I was really hungry. I figured "Why not try making steak for the first time? I love steak. Steak is yummy. Steak is meat. Steak is full of protein and by God, I need yummy, protein-filled meat right now." I looked up instructions on using the broiler/making steak, and I called Matt for good measure.

I fail at steak cooking )

It is disturbing feeling queasy yet still hungry. :S I managed to go to sleep around 4am, and woke up today around 11am. I'm feeling a bit better, though being in air-conditioned buildings and then walking out in the heat is disturbing me up. Grrr. I forgot my hoodie, too.

Ah, no...

Mar. 21st, 2010 04:06 pm
hani_backup: (grief dazed)
Wisconsin lost.

So decisively.

87-69.

To Cornell University.

Frickin' Ivy League school.

Michigan St. managed to squeak by a victory by Maryland, 85-83. It was so close in the end. I'm glad! I have a friend who goes to MSU, so yay! Celebration time! (We bonded last spring over MSU and the NCAA, too, besides other things.)

Georgia Tech lost to Ohio State, though. :-(

I tend to choose teams by associations I have with them. Either direct ones or by my friends'/family. *laughs* That's why I chose Wisconsin (seeing as how my college is in Wisconsin and I've visited Madison, WI a few times), MSU and Georgia Tech (Farah and Garrett used to live in Georgia, and a former boyfriend's cousin goes there now).

If there are no associations with teams playing one another I just choose randomly or try to go for upsets.  Of the remaining games today I'm hoping Pittsburgh wins against Xavier (only cause a high school friend went to UPenn (and a few other middle school friends to Penn St.) which is at least the same state as Pittsburgh), West Virginia against Missouri (for this one W. Virginia was just a random choice), California over Duke (I know Duke is the no. 1 seed in South Regionals and California is an 8th seed, but I want an upset today, besides Cornell wining over Wisconsin. An 12th seed beating a 4th seed. GRRR!) and Purdue over Texas A&M (I'm choosing Purdue cause I almost applied there for my undergrad degree!)

Otherwise, I'm just reading for my psych and philosophy classes. :D
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This article looks at whether the shoes actually make your calves and legs look better and work out better just by wearing it. That's what the advertisements claim.

I also made a post a while ago complaining of the advertisements. I see them frequently on Hulu.com along with the HPV.com and Save Sharks commercials. As I've said before, the Reebok adverts really pisses me off. It sometimes gets in the way of the episode or movie I'm watching.

Here's an excerpt from the article mentioning the advertisements:

Reebok’s EasyTone has made the biggest splash in the muscle-shoe market, especially with its advertising. In one commercial, the camera drifts away from the woman’s face and zooms in on her backside. Another advertisement claims that the leg and butt-toning effects of EasyTone will “make your boobs jealous.”

The advertisements, aimed at younger women, have appeared in magazines and online, and a big television campaign is under way: 3,000 commercial slots have been scheduled on network and cable in November and December.


It'll "make your boobs jealous"???? I've only seen the former advertisement but I think if I saw the second one, I'd get even more pissed off! It's totally reducing a female's body to parts and ignoring that she is a human, a person!

The rest of the article... It seems like the shoes work by being off-balance so your muscles have to work on keeping yourself steady. It's only suppose to be for walking, not runnning or jumping or other athletic activities. So far studies haven't really shown it works over time or after a wearer gets used to the instability. The fact that part of it might be psychological based is interesting.

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