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Mike
on April 20, 2006
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So….not much new.

 I’ve been playing a lot of World of Warcraft. Too much, really. It screws up all of my priorities and I get too obsessed with it. It ends up at the point where I keep telling myself I’ll do things but I accomplish none of them because I’m playing WOW the whole time. 

Things I want to do:

 

Write

Take pictures

Work on Spanish

Meditate

Read

 

I finished Life of Pi and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and both were very good books. They were both packed with humor even though both of the main characters were going through very tough times.

I’m going to the doctor today. I seem to be sick a lot lately. I think it has something to do with stress and not doing relaxing things during my free time, and perhaps something to do with my diet. I’m not eating horribly right now, but a couple weeks ago I was. I got a cold, followed by a sinus infection, followed by a problem with my stomach (feels like when I had a possible start of an ulcer) and a lot of heartburn (acid reflux) for no apparent reason. I try to reduce my intake of acidic stuff but I’m going to try something I read in a health magazine about alkalizing your stomach with certain foods to see if that helps. I’m also going to the doctor today about the acid thing. I don’t generally like going to the doctor, as I think modern medicine leaves a lot to be desired. They never deal with the actual problems. They just load you with questionable drugs instead of dealing with the dietary and lifestyle changes that need to be made. I hope I can make some changes on my own to try to minimize any intake of drugs I may need.

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Mike
on February 27, 2006
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I finished reading Falling Leaves sometime last week. I thought it was a pretty good book. I wasn’t always enthralled, but it was definitely worth reading. It is a pretty amazing story when you consider that it is a true one. That woman went through so many ordeals in her life. I can’t imagine I could have done something with myself after experiencing the things she has, yet she has accomplished far more than most have. I may buy her other book. I’m not sure yet.

I’m reading Life of Pi right now. I’ve just started it, but I’m already laughing and extremely intrigued. This one is going to be a good one. It had me looking up sloths on the internet this morning, if that gives you any idea of its strangeness. By the way, sloths are so cool. They are perhaps one of the cutest animals, and also one of the most interesting. I like the idea that they are some sort of eternally happy enlightened beings puttering around in the trees oblivious to all of our nonsense.

I had a bad dream the other day. It was pretty horrible. It involved my sister dying during an explosion. Blood was pouring out of her ears so quickly and we couldn’t stop it. There was nothing we could do. I woke up with a start and I was very relieved. I don’t know why I had that dream…maybe there isn’t a reason. I think I had been talking to my mom earlier about my sister, and how she was doing in school, etc. That may be why.

I can’t think of anything else to say other than the fact that we switched from the whole learning Italian thing to learning Spanish instead, which I prefer. We’ve caught up to the same point we were at in Italian, and hopefully we’ll make progress slowly but surely. Anyway, I’d better get to work.

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That one book…

Published
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Mike
on February 17, 2006
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I just thought I’d mention the book I posted about the other day. I couldn’t remember the title. Here it is:


Falling Leaves : The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

I’m only on the second chapter, so I guess I’ll talk about that later.

Not much new to talk about. Steph is teaching me to knit. Don’t judge me. Yeah, a guy knitting. There appears to be a quite a few of them, though. Also, there is a theory that knitting may have originally stemmed from men working on fishing nets a long time ago. There isn’t anything more manly than fishing, so I feel relatively ok with that. Don’t lay your social stigmas on me!

I keep peeking at myspace. I don’t have an account, because I don’t know if I want to talk to anyone…but I must admit that the whole thing is fascinating. 2 of my friends got married to eachother. That was pretty interesting. I’ve been away from my hometown crowd for so long.

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Mike
on February 14, 2006
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I just ordered 3 books which look interesting:

Life of Pi

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Adios, Havana: A Memoir

I just finished reading The Kite Runner, which was fantastic. The way the author depicted the kite scenes really made me feel like a kid again. I want to get a kite and fly it. I haven’t done that in so many years. The book also got me really interested in the culture, food, and language of the people in it. I’ve never been that interested in the past, but the way this book was written made it all much more exciting.

At the moment, I’m reading An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life and it seems to be helping me with my meditation. The past couple days things have gone really well. I feel much calmer now, and life is pretty good overall. I’m also reading a true story about a chinese woman who was unwanted as a child and treated poorly by her parents. I can’t remember the name of the book, but perhaps I’ll post it later. I just started reading it last night.

As you all know, today is Valentine’s Day. I’ve been reading about how it is all nonsense here. That being said, I love you Steph! Happy Valentine’s Day!

My friend Ryan came up to me today and asked if I wanted to learn Italian with him. It is an idea, since I’d probably be more likely to learn other similar languages after I learned that one. We have both been toying around with learning languages for a while now, but always different languages. If we both tried to learn the same one we’d have a better chance, since we’d be able to help each other at it. So I think maybe we’ll try it.

Steph and I are still doing our organic box scheme which includes vegetables, fruits, and eggs. I think it’s really changing the way we eat, and I really love it. We’ve made some really delicious soups and stir fries, and the fruit is really good. I tried an avocado for the first time in my life yesterday, and I loved it. Anyway, more on that to come in a later post.

I might post a little bit later, but I’m starving and I really want to go to lunch.

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Published
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Mike
on January 18, 2006
in Books, Military, Nonsense, Work and Writing
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I ordered The Kite Runner today. It looks pretty interesting. I’m on a reading kick at the moment, but I’m hoping to start the whole writing thing up again soon. I haven’t written any poetry in quite a while, so maybe I’ll try again soon. I might even try a short story or something.

Work is great as usual. Not really… I don’t imagine normal jobs are great either, but the military is so dumb sometimes. Oh, we got a sandwich toaster today. You know what that means! TOASTED SANDWICHES. There are these really good rolls we’re going to use….and we’re going to put the ingredients in those rolls, and then put the assembled structure into the sandwich toaster. I can’t wait to taste one of those.

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