SJ made a post about the kind of girl she is not.
as i was reading it, i thought a large proportion of them applied to me, so i decided to list them out.
this is what i ended up with…
i am a:
i’d like to think these are the only ones that really matter, anyway.
i got a completely unexpected formspring response in my inbox last night. it was very sweet… especially considering i had forgotten i even had one.
so - now that i’ve remembered - let’s make it formspring friday.
Cinnamon Boosts Brain Activity March 6, 2004 The commonly used spice cinnamon could see new applications in functional foods as findings from the US suggest that chewing cinnamon-flavoured gum could help the memory, reports Lindsey Partos.
Participants at the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences later this month will learn that cinnamon — as a flavour or fragrance — could boost the brain as scientists at Wheeling Jesuit University in the US, led by Dr P. Zoladz, report on their findings. “Cinnamon, administered retronasally or orthonasally, improved participants’ scores on tasks related to attentional processes, virtual recognition memory, working memory, and visual-motor response speed,” report the researchers.
They examined the different effects that odourants administered through the nose or mouth had on cognitive performance in adults.
During phase one, participants completed cognitive tasks on a computer-based programme under five ‘chewing gum’ conditions — no gum, flavourless gum, peppermint gum, cinnamon gum, and cherry gum. For phase two they completed cognitive tasks under four odorant conditions - no odour, peppermint odour, jasmine odour, and cinnamon odour.
“Results revealed a task-dependent relationship between odours and the enhancement of cognitive processing,” said the researchers, with cinnamon boasting the strongest link for both fragrance and flavour.
Although further research is required, the findings have implications for the food industry through the eventual development of functional food products for memory development. Research reported last week also noted the properties of an ingredient used in chewing gum and this application area has strong potential for development as a format for functional foods.
”Findings from the present study are most promising in providing a non-pharmacological adjunct to enhancing cognition in the elderly, individuals with test-anxiety, and perhaps even patients with diseases that lead to cognitive decline,” concluded the US researchers who will present their study in Sarasota, Florida at the Association for Chemoreception Sciences meeting that runs from 21-25 April.
Cinnamon has previously been shown to significantly reduce the risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes.
and got
for $2.69.
yes, that’s right. the apples didn’t ring up right, so he gave them to me for free, but then i think he took the price of them off the total, as well. i tried to tell him that it couldn’t be correct, since the carrots alone were $1.99, but he insisted and there was a line behind me.
i win at shopping.
and no matter when you call, i will always say, “no, it’s not too early,” but the truth is - i am in college, sir. that means on the weekends, any time before 10 is too early.
no one, specific… just the company of others.
anyone want to hang out? (or have a suggestions of something fun to do by myself?)
Richard Koch, the author of the best selling business book The 80/20 Principle, studied many businesses and successful individuals and came to this conclusion: For most businesses, 20 percent of their activity produces 80 percent of their results. Twenty percent of their activity produces 80 percent of their profits. And he says the same thing is true for individuals. That is, 20 percent of what you do in your life produces 80 percent of your results. Twenty percent of what you do in your life produces 80 percent of your happiness. Twenty percent of the people you hang around with produce 80 percent of the joy in your relationships.
Basically, 20 percent of what you do brings about most of the results in your life, and 80 percent of what you do is pretty much wasted time. For example, a lot of people watch too much television. New studies even show that watching more than twenty hours a week can lead to mild depression. So it’s not very productive and it doesn’t result in a lot of happiness, which makes it wasted time. If you spend more time in the areas that bring you the most results and less time in ineffective pursuits, then you will accomplish more by doing less!
Excerpt from One Month To Live: Thirty Days To A No-Regrets Life
reblogging myself for the reminder.
every once in awhile, i feel this huge rush of emotion come over me. it’s generally at the most inopportune times - when i have homework i’m trying to work on, when i’m climbing into bed, when i’m in the middle of my shift at work. it happens when i have other things to do, things that often seem more important. then i wonder, is there anything more important than this?
i try to stop, breathe, and dissect the tidal wave of feeling.
what comes up again and again is that people are at the root of it all. i don’t know how to say it in any other way than i care and i care and i care.
i’ve never seen a trainwreck, but i’d imagine it’s one of those things that is so awful, everything in you screams to look the other way, and yet it’s so intense, you can’t take your attention off of it.
this is me and you. even when you’re falling apart, even when it’s crashing down, even when everything tells me to “get out while i still can,” there is an even bigger part of me that whispers, “stay and help.” even if we’ve never met, i still want to tell you, “i love you and i will fight for you.”
the problem is, sometimes the mess is too big for just one person to clean up. this is where the overwhelming emotions show up. i want to help, but i can’t do it alone. i can’t be the only one who feels like this.
