Monthly Archives: January 2010

F1: January 11, 2010

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The second week of winter term has commenced, and mentally I’m feeling okay. But physically…

  • It had to come sooner or later… I’ve got a cold. The last time I was sick was the weekend before school started. I had a bad fever and was so hot/cold I didn’t want to roll over and sip some water. So, I should be thankful it’s just a cold (so far). I think I might just cozy on up and read… But at the same time a coffeehouse sounds like a nice place to be. However, another bad part of a cold is the loss of taste. For lunch I grabbed some Pita Pit down the road on the way back from class… I could hardly taste it despite all my deep-breathing, nasal-clearing, pre-eating efforts. Really all I could get out of the flavor was the eggplant hummus and a little bit of the scrumptious Tzatziki dressing. Good enough for me.
  • However, the diet is going well. Over winter break, as you know I was very worried about weight gain, but then I don’t know what happened and I came back to school having lost five pounds. Yee yee! I’m getting really close the 160′s now… Maybe one more week? According to an online BMI Calculator, I need to get to 159 pounds in order to be considered normal weight in body mass percentage terms. But I know calculators can be terribly inaccurate in addition to the fact that I tend to actually be more big-boned. So… I’d say by now I’m getting pretty close to that mark. Once I get there it will be a celebration. In BMI sense, I will have crossed an entire category, dropping from the “obese” ranking down to “normal”. There’s no stopping me now as my whole life has changed.
  • I also tend to notice that I eat differently. Often I find that I’m content with just consuming food to keep my body fed with calories. I don’t necessarily need the best tasting stuff. For example, the no-meat Mediterranean pita I had for lunch today… Or the Egg Beaters I had for breakfast. I actually hope I’m getting past that need for the best-tasting food. I want to be one of those people that don’t obsess over what their meal will taste like and rather what’s in it and how it was produced. I want to be a health nut and go organic or something. We will see where it goes… Probably just a fad.

I Never Knew

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Come, again, and see this through. My hope, my love, my feelings for true. I breathe, so deep, to only find, this lung pollution is so self-defined. I dream of sunsets, in the most collegiate of years, where largest worries are losing your peers. Today I look, and around I see, so many people like you and me.

But no more, are we such kids, seeing the future is taking its bids. Every move, every step we take, learning forever and creating our wake. But what if we were not another silhouette, the thought to be seen is a desired moment to forget. Sipping this coffee, hearing the beats, looking outside and feeling the streets. My eyes burn, from the cold air so dry. It’s times like these I wonder why try? Such a variety of people, so innocent in their stride, living life like the game is tied.

In the air tonight, in the cold street light, there was something I was trying to say to you. Not that I need your trust, but you’re like a one-man gust… Going in and out again the way you do.

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F5: January Blog Header Updated

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I just whipped up a new header for the blog. When I first transitioned over to the jhicks.org domain name, my full intention was to bring jBlog down to a more professional look. Recently, I have noticed that I have been straying from this approach, so I took a few minutes to mix it a bit and bring things down a bit, utilizing a DeviantArt wallpaper, implementing the same font style as the prior header, altering the gradient in the text, reducing the size of the jBlog logo, and finally bringing everything down to a grayscale. I think it looks a whole lot better than before now and really accentuates the rest of the blog, such as the top title bar and postings area. That’d be all I’ve got to say for now…

Peace.

Suited Up

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Get ready, kids. It’s back-to-school time! Grab your lunch pales, hot-meal money, pencils, and spirals, and let’s get to kicking some academic ass.

So we all go through the woes of post-break transition shock, but to comfort you all, let us cover the things worthy of looking forward towards.

First of all, last term is completely behind you – you’ve got another clean slate to start out on… Every action you do, think about the consequence it will have on your performance this term. You do not want to begin spring break feeling in the dumps or disappointed. Starting today, you have absolute control over your academic outcome 11 weeks from now.

Secondly, winter break is a considerably large checkpoint. Now that we have completed our little holiday, we can look forward to the growing days of sunlight, spring time, and the final two-thirds of this school year.

Third and finally, you all know that the best part of post-winter vacation is looking forward to more postings on jBlog, right?

Speaking of jBlog, I have been thinking about renaming this blog to something more unique. “jBlog” is way too generic – Google it and you’ll find all sorts of results. I need something that, when you Google it, this site will be one of the top results. I’m thinking about changing it to “Thoughtfully Mine, the Memoirs”, which is currently the blog’s description. Google that and my blog pops up to the number one spot. Any ideas?

So, kids, it’s late and I’ve still got lots on my mind – it’s still kind of unbloggable - but class is at 11am and I have had an awesome break (despite working) and was able to enjoy the coffee. But now it is off to sleep and let the new day begin.

Goodnight and good luck.