i wish i could tell you...

... that I've fought the good fight and fended off temptation.
I wish I could tell you that.

But life's no fairy tale and I signed into facebook. I didn't realize how difficult this would be.

[Someone's playing the "Concierto de Aranjuez" outside ]
[sleepy]

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Lover (in red)

If it was possible, I think I would fall in love with these shoes.

Took a nap (thanks for the wake up call Chris!) and I actually feel good and productive at this hour. Lots of work to do... so I'll probably be posting a bit more today, haha.

I'll justify them as constructive breaks, or something to that effect.


[Daft Punk - Veridis Quo]
[Lustful]

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rest [or lack thereof]

Yesterday and today I've been feeling a bit more tired than usual. Yesterday I attributed it to the lecture on approximation methods, today... I have nothing to attribute it to - at least nothing as obvious.
Since I've arrived so much has changed that it'd be difficult to attribute it to a single thing anyway.

I was running on "MIT time" so I had a hard time going to sleep before 2-3am when I was home (Chicago), then I came over and switched time zones (+7 hrs) and didn't sleep for a day and then slept for 7 hrs and then didn't sleep for 2 days (save a nap) and then there was the weekend... maybe it's the lack of sleep catching up to me, but that's not anything I wasn't used to in school.

Now that I think about it, though, I think the biggest difference may be the food. Except for the paella we made the other night, I haven't really had a good filling meal - oh yeah, lunch at tid is pretty sweet and only 2 euros, which is dirt cheap for the quality of the food we get. Anyway, aside from the one really good meal a day, I haven't really been eating much. I also ran out of power bars (which I brought with me from the states :p ) so now I don't have my random snacks anymore. I gotta go to a supermarket and buy fruit and other random snacks and find something other than sandwiches to make on a regular basis 'cause going out all the time's gonna get unnecessarily expensive fast.

I also miss working out. I miss the gym!! I haven't been in one in... 3 weeks? Man, I feel like I'm wasting away. I mean, I've been doing pushups and all that good stuff without weights, but now I feel like I'm going through some sort of workout withdrawal. Gotta add a gym search to my to do list.

Hmm, I just rambled on a lot, but at least it means I'm not sleeping, hehe. alright, I feel a little bit more alert now, hmm, I think now I understand why people here (and in all offices, really) go on coffee breaks so often. I guess I should've had coffee instead of juice.

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Don't try this at home

If you know me, you know that I'm two steps away from becoming a full-blown vitamin water addict (a.k.a crack water). If you didn't know, now you do.

Although some of the flavors have a medicine-like after taste (focus, b-relaxed), some of them are awesome (power-c, energy, XXX, etc.). With that in mind, I figured I'd try the "vitamin energy" drinks, and the results aren't pretty, or, more importantly, tasty. Try some Monster with cough syrup and you'll get something close to this... At least I'm not so sleepy, but I'm not sure it's because of the energy boost, or because my taste buds are crying.

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