Hamstrings

So, I did some strenuous and repetitive activity on Friday, thus my legs were a bit sore. Then I went hiking on Sunday for a little bit, and so I can understand my legs still being sore. I gave blood yesterday, and today I can barely extend my legs all the way straight to walk without rediculous amounts of pain from my hamstrings.

Why?!

Guacamole night

I've just fallen in love with guacamole again. I made it and it turned out amazing!

I put in:

1/2 cup diced vidallia onion

2 medium cloves of garlic, diced

1 medium tomato, diced

1/4 cup fresh cilantro, finely chopped

1/2 tsp cumin powdered

1/2 tsp chili powder

1/2 tsp salt (technically a little less than 1/2 tsp since I was using fine salt rather than coarse salt)

2 fresh avacadoes, chopped then smooshed

1 generous squirt of lime juice from a bottle

I mixed all these things, let it marry for 1/2 hour, then topped with a bit of crumbled queso fresco and a bit of sour creme on the side.

So. Incredibly. Tasty.

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Dragon Cave

So I play on a site called Dragon cave, where you use forum posts in other places to raise up baby dragons. I got some new eggs, and here they are.

Hopefully, in a few days they will hatch into babies, then a couple days more they will become adults.

Shel Silverstein poem

Definitely my favorite poem author.  Here is one of his poems that I read today.

Put Something In

Draw a crazy picture, 

Write a nutty poem,

Sing a mumble-grumble song,

Whistle through your comb.

Do a loony-goony dance,

Cross the kitchen floor,

Put something silly in the world

That ain't been there before.

Dragons

Yeah, so, random post today. I like to collect crystal dragons. I have around 8 of them, because I only buy ones I really like. Unfortunately, I only have one to display at school. Here is a picture of it.

I know that it isn't a very good picture, but you can still see that it is pretty cool. The base is wood. You can see the other evidences of my dragon obsession by the puzzel to the right, and the poster in the background.

My other main decoration obsession is spiders. The knick knack to the left is actually a tea-light candle holder in the shape of a green spider with a sort of goofy face. I like it. ^_^

That's all for this post.

Memorization

So I was sitting in my linguistics class the other day, and I had some thoughts about classroom learning, and its purpose.

I think that when you are learning in class, you should not be expected to memorize large tables of information. Examples of this would be the Periodic Table of Elements, or the International Phonetics Chart, or say, a chi squared test table. I mean, you should learn how to use them, but will you ever be without such information when you are trying to use these subjects in the real world? Really now?

Granted, a person who uses them all the time may end up memorizing a lot of the information, but I don't personally believe it belongs in a classroom setting. That could just be annoyed-ness talking though.

Not that I object to memorizing things for class. I've never objected to memorizing formulas, up until a point. It just makes sense to memorize laws and rules, that is just learning the basic information of the material. I only say this so that someone reading this does not think I just want things handed to me. I just don't see the point of memorizing something that you will always have access to in the future.

Lemon Pepper Chicken

So, lunch today was lemon pepper chicken.

Step 1: Remove chicken steaks (Perdue in this case) from plastic wrappers and place in frying pan.

Step 2: Turn heat to medium

Step 3: Pour water in pan, enough to cover the bottom of the pan.

Step 4: Cover and heat for roughly 8 minutes.

Step 5: Add lemon pepper seasoning.

Step 6: Recover and heat for an additional 2 minutes.

Step 7: Eat.

Note: heating time may vary depending on you stove and the thickness of the chicken.