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Name: Danny
Country: United States
State: Maryland
Birthday: 9/21/1989
Gender: Male
Interests: I like to rock climb, play soccer, and other things. My fav pastime is challenging people to duels of many sorts. hit it: 443.472.6399
Expertise: Casting spells and catching pokemon
Occupation: Legal
Industry: Legal
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AIM:  yayitsbaerman
Member Since:
8/5/2003
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| "Someone recently showed me the annual prospectus of a large spiritual organization. When I looked through it, I was impressed by the wide choice of interesting seminars and workshops. It reminded me of a smorgasbord, one of those Scandinavian buffets where you can take your pick from a huge variety of enticing dishes. The person asked me whether I could recommend one or two courses. 'I don't know,' I said. 'They all look so interesting. But I do know this,' I added. 'Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year and it will be more powerfully transformative than attending all of these courses. And it's free."
- Eckhart Tolle
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| What's faster hot or cold?
Hot of course, everybody can catch a cold!
Haha, thank goodness for Laffy Taffy candy...
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The world is so deep, so complex, and it has so many different layers of emotion and feeling and connection and other stuff too. Everywhere you look there's an innumerable amounts of stories to learn, stories to tell, and stories to be made. Like the guy working at the Italian Restaurant who wants to move back to Italy so his kids can experience the rest of his family before his mother passes away. Or the friendly lady at the post office, what's her story? Or the guy calling up the day of to book a room in the hotel overlooking the lake, only to find out we're overbooked already. Did he forget to reserve a room for him and his girl, only to remember the day of in panic mode?
There is so much out there, and yet we barely tap into the lives of others, missing out on the many things we have to offer each other. At the hotel I work at, we had associate training where we learned about the 5 human truths. These are:
- People need to be understood.
- People need to belong.
- People need to feel special.
- People need to be in control.
- People need to reach there potential.
Knowing these things is crucial to helping others, especially strangers. You learn good stuff at work some times...
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| Joke of the day:
Dr. Smith asks his patient, "Which do you want first, the good news or the bad news?"
The patient replies, "Give me the good news."
Dr. Smith says, "You're about to have a diseaase named after you."
haha, man, that's kinda morbid but i thought it was pretty funny :P
I like jazz. Sondre Lerche is the man:
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Man, today was weird. It wasn't good, it wasn't bad. I mean of course there were parts of it where i was kinda upset or parts where I was having a ball, but I mean I'm not gonna label it good or bad... it just was. I had work at 10:30 AM, so I woke up at like 8:30 after a good 8 hours of sleep. Had breakfast and went to work eventually. I spent most of my day at work, from 10:30 to 5:30, even though I was supposed to leave at 4. See it was pretty slow cuz many reasons (like it was monday, it's the summer, and theres a cheesecake factory right around the corner, and it's just bad location, and we just past July 4th weekend which wasn't bad actually, etc.) but that's expected so it's whatever. I was supposed to get off at 4 like i said, but the guy coming in called up and asked if he didn't have to come in cuz it was gonna be slow, and so he was relieved of his duties. I managed throughout the day, eating minestrone soup, and some salad and chicken, reading Self magazine, etc. But yeah it wasn't to great cuz I only made like 18 bucks from 10:30 to 4:30. But then this couple comes in at 4:30, so im like "aw man! im gonna be here till this table leaves! >.< " (yes i think i made the face lol). But, somehow or another, this couple and I, (they were pretty cute and sweet, and the guy had a eyepatch! friggin badass lol) were just chattin it up for like 20 minutes, maybe a half hour. The girl had gone to the University of Maryland College Park and they knew some french and all these things that we had in common. I dunno what it was, i mean they didn't even leave me that good of a tip... maybe like 16.6% or somethin, but i felt somethin good.
Maybe it was that they were genuinely interested in hearin my story, and they had quite an interesting one to tell me about too. It was true, genuine human communication, and it was pretty cool. Random fersher, but definitely somethin to make my day.
Side Story:
Last friday, 4th of july, i was working again, and i prolly had the same number of tables as today but they gave me a really good amount of tips. Working was pretty fun that night, and then we all stepped out to the sidewalk to watch fireworks. It was neat.
-Danny
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| Haha, gotcha with that double take did I not? Heh, I just thought I'd give it a try and see how many double takes I can get... and also I guess this entry issss about today. So it all works out.
I actually wrote another entry about my day, but it was really long and really boring so I decided to keep it short n sweet.
Today I walked to the bank, which is like 2.5 miles away. It took me an hour and a 40 minutes round trip. But it made today probably the best day in a long time. I was feeling so bad, like just no energy and really lethargic. I realized its cuz i wasn't doing any exercise, so I lost energy. Anyways, I like walking alot. I also figured something out as I was walking, somethin that had been botherin me for a while actually. But eventually it made so much sense... it was awesome. I recommend you take a walk next time you gotta go someplace near by. And maybe not just walk with ur headphones on, try walking without music, and just soak everything in, all of ur surroundings, its great. Very soothing, refreshing, relaxing, energizing, and quite enjoyable.
Mkay, I gotta press submit or else the double take won't even work.
-Danny
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| So, because at The University of Maryland we get rewarded with ridiculously long winter breaks, at the relatively minor cost of gettin out a couple weeks later in the summer, I'm sure I'm one of the last people to go through finals this year. Now, even though I don't like finals, i do understand their importance in the college setting... even though they are worth a ridiculously large portion of your grade. Nonetheless, I have made a discovery about the last two weeks of school...u know, the last days where assignments in every class culminate in a synchronized fashion, and then after taking a quick break, you have to do well on all five exams so as to make sure the entire semester's work actually counts for somethin 
So this is what ive learned:
When you spend a week or two like this:
And not like so:
or perhaps this:
 or even like such:  Then, weird things happen. Stress, boredom, restlessness, anxiety, and other silly things like that. It's not like my finals are difficult or anything like that either. It's just this looming, time consuming presence thats been keeping me from living normally for like two weeks. And the fact that they are topping off a four-month segment of intensive learning conditions doesn't help. I even took a stress test that tested affirmative... I encourage everyone to check it out too; its very quick and actually very helpful for stressed individuals. http://journals.aol.com/cinisoul/amithinkingthat/entries/2005/10/14/stress-test/1408Heh, so, the question remains: How does one compensate for this unwelcomed state? Well, I'm sure a certain Mr.
Pietro
Ferrero had experienced quite a similar perdicament. See, back in the 1940s, Mr.
Pietro
Ferrero experienced some stress of his own when he experienced first hand the rationing shortage of cocoa during WWII. So what was his solution u might ask? This Italian genius was solely responsible for the one and only:
 Nono, this isnt his baby. in fact i have no clue who this dirty dirty baby is lol. i found him on the internet and i think his name is kristos?? hahaha. The point is, Mr. Ferrero invented Nutella. And this, along with extra crunchy peanut butter have joined forces inside gracious slices of whole wheat bread and have managed to keep me sane for this last stretch of the school year... and for that i am grateful. Moral of the story: Stay active as long as possible. When its crunch time and u don't have time to stay active, then all u gotta do is grab some nutella and peanut butter and ur good to go. Warning: this is only a short term solution and should be implemented in moderation because you don't want to end up like generation XXXL... ...but i guess if u happen to resemble xxxl because of nutella... it was probably worth it  juuuuust playin. Tomorrow is my last final. Summer eat ur heart out. Congrats to all the newlyweds. -Danny
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