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I woke up today around 9:30, made 2 pieces of grain bread and one egg. I biked to work. I met with my coworker for a meeting and discussed what I need to improve on and what I’m doing good at for work. 

I brought a cutting board to work and made a salad with basil, garden tomatoes, mozzarella, olive oil and Abodo seasoning from Penzey’s.

I am stocked up on groceries because I went to Cub foods last night. 

I got paid to shoot photos at Acadia for the bands playing. It was a good time.

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29

I woke up and made multigrain toast with bruegger’s cream cheese again. I biked to class with my package design from MCTC that i will be showing fancy for portfolio review, I hope I pass this time. 

Lauren brought me Pizza Lucé. I got a pepperoni slice and a peanut butter chocolate bar (they’re vegan!). I had to put my bike on the rack of the campus connector because my drawing was too big to bike with. 

I got to work and added an event to the website for Cultivating Resiliency in agriculture. I also made a jpeg graphic for the UMASH Facebook.  

I biked home. It was pretty cold outside. I made Vegetable Masala stew mixed with rice and kale. It was pretty filling and it felt like a healthy meal! 

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28

I woke up and biked to my 9:35 am lecture. We had a few student presenters.

I biked home and met Julian for lunch at Nico’s tacos. We got some tacos with cactus in them as well as pork and chirizo. He gave me a ride to meet with fancy to discuss more portfolio review.

I went to my web class and we made a site on webstorm with a nav bar with changable hover colors. I left to go to my next class on the campus connector to the minneapolis campus. We are learning about steam engines and locomotives. I got a buddy bar from a vending machine, it was yummy.

I learned about locomotives in my class for waterwheels of the web. I had a better score on my quiz this week.

For dinner I ate annies white cheddar shells, a salmon patty and multigrain bread with brueggers cream cheese

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27

I got a ride to the meeting at 10am. It is a rainy day. After the meeting I took the campus connector to class at McNeal. I bought a Deli Express oven roasted turkey & cheese sandwich. It was kind of frozen and tasted weird but I ate it anyways. I think I am pretty much over my cold/sinus problem.

After class i met with fancy just to touch base on my drawing updates. I took the connector to mpls campus and decided to get some pasta at coffman as well as mellow yellow mixed with powerade (it makes baja blast) i ate that at work and completed some website updates.

My co worker gave me a ride home because it was raining. I got home and did my readings which took me until 9pm then i washed my hair with Herbal Essence rose hips shampoo and brushed my teeth with Tom’s antiplaque and whitening. I am kind of satisfied with the homwork i completed but i need to do more because I will want to enjoy my time at Apple fest in Bayfield this weekend.

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26

I woke up and biked to class. I saw some cookies in the McNeal hall atrium this morning and ate two chocolate chip ones and the Cutie orange which I brought to class. We had a really interesting speaker today. She talked about her calligraphy skills. After class I went to Five Watt coffee with my roommate. I got a warm chai tea latte and a cressant. I also ate a multi-grain bread sandwich with carrots, cucumber, cream cheese and lettuce with chips. I finished a good amount of my McNeal Hall drawing there.

My class next was my web class. We did some more CSS stuff. The assignment I have to do next is a bit more challenging than the rest. 

I got home and played around with the VHS player a little more. I found a School House Rock vhs and played that but the tape was a bit warped. I cant get the VHS player to work anymore and it keeps turning off. I think it broke. At least I got to watch one movie on it. 

I went to Foxy Falafel for dinner with Lauren and Julian. I got a pita with beet, curry and regular falafel in it, it was delicious! We went to the record store after. 

I am home now doing homework. 

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25

I woke up and finished watching Aviator for my movie Review. I also finished a paper, quiz and wireframes for my webclass. I was happy to do good on the quiz because i know a fair amount about coding already. I made a bruggers bagel with strawberry cream cheese for breakfast and for lunch i made multigrain elbow pasta with tomato sauce and garlic added. 

I went disc golfing with Julian at Hansen Disc Golf Course in New Brighton. 

It was a fun course but it was very wet outside. 

I went to my dads house after and ate chiken fajita tacos on soft tortillas from Fresh Thyme. 

I picked up a few items from my dads basement. Some old toy car, my Sperry’s and the things in the picture below.

I fixed my small Sony Triniton tube tv so the VHS player will work with it now. I watched Free Willy last night on it. 

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24

I woke up pretty late this morning because I was feeling sick and needed more sleep. I made some scrambled eggs with potatoes, onions, and green peppers. I watched some Adventure time and worked on my splurchase paper. I was with Julian and we decided to get some fresh air and walk to Glam Doll Doughnuts and play Pokemon Go by the river. My head was still hurting and my sinuses are pretty terrible. I feel tired. The highlight of today was seeing my highschool friend working at Glam Doll. He gave us free doughnuts. Julian got a ginger one and I got a jelly filled one. I am home now and about to go with my family to Blackstack Brewery and get some Urban Sub sandwiches. They got the pulled pork sandwich and I got the chicken bacon ranch. They were delicious!

We ended up also going to Lake Monster Brewing and eating spicy popcorn with our flight of beer. 

I am now going to watch the movie Aviator for one of my movie review project for one of my classes. 

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23

I woke up still sick and got to work at 10am. Julian brought me pizza from Franks. Its been a rough day. I printed some things at the Mayo Printing Cervices center, added 3 events to the umash website, edited some posts, and uploaded the Forum photos from my cannon. 

I am off work and now working on homework.

I am almost done with my paper but I am getting pretty tired. Im going to make a bagel with cream cheese.

I went to bed around 1am and slept like a rock

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22

I woke up around 10am and went to brueggers and got a Western egg sandwich with coldpress and 3 free bagels! I took a lime scooter to my 11:45 class. I am typing this blog in my class right now. 

I saw my friend Lauren and her sister on campus today. I headed straight from class to the Cargill building for the UMASH Annual Forum. the form went from 1pm-4:30 with cheese and crackers. I took photos for the entire thing on my Cannon Rebel t6i. I was still feeling tired and sick. I took a Lime scooter home and wrote some of my spurchase paper. I am still very behind on school work. 

I made annies mac and cheese white cheddar for dinner with a bagel. I tried to go to bed early but couldn’t sleep with my stuffy nose all night.

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21

I woke up today and didnt eat anything for breakfast because i dont have much food thats quick to make. I packed a lunch of canned peaches and a hummus, kale, green pepper and tomato bruchetta sandwich.

I biked to my 9:35am history class only to realize it was canceled. This made me mad that I didnt get the email notification, only on canvas. I wish I could have gotten more sleep because today I am feeling a little sick/stuffted up. I decided to talk to the TA about my history poster anyways. He gave me some wonderful feedback. I went to McGrath Liabrary and used the computers for the design software. I worked for about 3 hours more on my poster with it’s bibliography. I am so exhausted. My lunch was pretty small so ive been snacking on the granola bars in my backpack, I am pretty sick of them by now. I have 2 more classes to go to. I am about to go to my web design class.

After my webdesign class i went home and made chicken ramen. I studied for my quiz and biked to my next class at 6pm. I did awful on the quiz again even though i studied and spent hours reading...what a waste of time. Haha. I biked home at 8:45 pm with my bike light and made wheat elbow pasta with tomoato bruchetta sauce and olive oil. It was good. I went to bed early

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20

Today i woke up and ate 2 eggs and 2 pieces of toast and biked to my 10am UMASH meeting. We discussed Annual-forum related design work at the meeting. I then biked back to McNeal hall for my 11:45am class. We discussed our papers in class. I am pretty behind on my paper and some other work. After class, i went home and ate a snack then biked back to work. I got there at 2pm. At 2:15 Julian brought me a cheese steak sandwich with chips from the Urban Sub food truck. It was good and it made me really full.

I visited the Nutrituous U food shelf at Coffman during my break and got some free kale, a sweet potato, a green pepper, canned fruit, and multi-grain elbow maccaroni.

I clocked out at 5:20pm and decided to stay at work to use the design software to work on my history poster until 9:15pm. I was really tired and went home and had a snack of bread and hummus.

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19

I woke up and ate my sunny side up egg and 2 slices of toast. I biked to my 9:35 am class and we learned about woodblock letter forms. 

After class I biked to The Hub to claim my prize for the Zap biking campus program. I got a $10 Punch Pizza gift card. I got home and went to Punch Pizza with Julian. I got a margarita pizza with goat cheese and unsweetened ice tea.

I biked to class and did a few CSS coding exercises. After class, I went home and read for a half hour then my roommate Lauren picked me up to go to the clothing swap. She is petsitting this week so we went to that house to let the dog out first. The owner she is petsitting for has a bunny, dog, cat and snake. We then went to the Seed Cafe with our laundry basket of clothing and some shoes. We got some clothing and accessories. After that we visited my old co-worker at Potbelly and both got a free mushroom melt sandwich with an oreo malt. After that, I went home and did my readings until 1am. 

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18

I woke up a bit groggy and ate my breakfast at 1pm today. 2 eggs sunny-side up with 2 slices of Ezekiel 4:9 bread speeded with my Earth Balance butter. I also used up the rest of my Matcha powder from Fresh Thyme. I made my matcha with a little Hazelnut creamer today. I am running low on almond milk too. 

My eyes are pretty dry today, I used some Visine Advanced for redness and lubrication then did some of my readings for my history class. I met up with julian and we played pokemon go, we got the “lucky friends” status and traded a shiny swalblu! Julian got a really good pokemon!! We went and got Burger King because i wanted to try the new Impossible Burger, it was really good!

I watched some Adventure time, Breaking Bad and Jimmy Nutron today. It was a rainy and cloudy day.

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17

I ate eggs and cheese toast for breakfast. I gave Julian his present for his birthday. A painting from Wooly Goat (he’s an artist from the netherlands). I also decided to do laundry and cook a meal for lunch. I cooked corn, diced squash and rice into a dish with spices from Penzy’s (a local spice shop in uptown). 

I decided to bike to west bank to use their graphic design software. the computers here arent working for that even though they have the adobe programs.....I am annoyed. I guess I will do that homework with my work computer. 

I went to Centennial Dining hall to use one of my 5 free swipes for the semester. I ate a vegan meal and some vanilla soft serve ice cream with crushed Oreos on top.

After that, I went home and watched a bit of black mirror with my roommate while we did some beading. We wanted to go out for Julians birthday so I invited my friend Andrew and Lauren to go out with me and his friends. We went to The Front in Northeast and then Ground Zero after 1:30pm because it was free after then. We had quite a few people with us. It turned out to be a great night!

vegan food^

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16

I woke up around 8:45am and ate my Count Chocoula cereal then biked to work. 

I worked on the Schedule for the UMASH Annual Forum and the website updates to the page. I ate some Ramen that I made in the microwave (I’m on a budget!). On my break I went to Boyton for my doctor’s appointment. I got my Flu shot! I also walked to Bruinink’s hall to look for my Nalgene water bottle, no luck finding it :/. Luckily I have a back-up Nalgene to use. I was off work at 5pm today and biked home. 

When I got home I decided to make 2 pieces of toast and 2 eggs for dinner. After dinnner I decided to clean my room a little. I have a lot of clothing I will be giving to the clothing swap on Monday night. Most of the clothes im giving away are from thrift stores. I have an old hoodie from American Apparel and a weird dress from Free People. My roommate contributed to the pile too. 

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15

I woke up and ate some Count Chocula cereal. I biked to class and we watched the G2 presentations. I am going to bike home and eat some lunch. 

When I got home I made some ramen with my roommate who was also making pasta. I did my dishes and quickly zipped to work on my bike. 

I worked on designing some of the name tags for the Annual Forum. I stayed a little later until about 5:40pm. 

I then got home and made some mac and cheese. I wasn’t feeling like doing homework again so I took a nap. I woke up and called my dad. I decided to visit him in Edina because his girlfriend’s family was having a dinner (even though I already ate). We talked about some interesting topics while “The Music Channel” played in the background. Space Oddity by David Bowie, Horse with no Name by America and Pink Floyd played. 

Here are some of the products I use on a daily basis: 

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14

I woke up around 8:30am and made my usual eggs and toast with matcha latte. I biked to class. We had a speaker on a webcam today from new york. I biked home after and met up with julian and he made me lunch. Pasta with olive oil and parmesan cheese with cheesy bread. I went on my macbook to do some of my homework reading for my night class. The readings were interesting because they discussed the first mall ever; Southdale mall in Edina, MN (my hometown). It’s a lovely mall that I grew up going to. I finished my reading and drove to my next class. 

Parking was 4 dollars. We did some fun coding again as well as css. Next, i headed home to do more reading. I went to my 2.5 hour night class. We watched a couple Walt Disney clips and some content from the History Channel about the Lowell Mills. I was so hungry after so i got a veggie sub from the urban sub food truck after. I played some SSX Tricky on the XBox 360. I also looked through some of my photos from my Cannon DSLR. I took a break from homework tonight because I was pretty tired after 3 classes.