{"id":10425,"date":"2013-05-11T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T19:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10425"},"modified":"2013-05-11T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T19:23:03","slug":"good-well-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10425","title":{"rendered":"Good well hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday was my company’s third annual midtown Manhattan scavenger hunt. I’ve written about this<\/a> a couple of times before<\/a>, since this is the third time I’ve participated. It’s all silly and in good fun. You get to leave work early, and the money goes to charity. And this year, I was even on the winning team.<\/p>\n

Except I lost<\/i> my team after the second of what were apparently seven clues, getting separated in the run from Grand Central. After about ten or fifteen minutes of watching other teams — recognizable in our bright yellow banana-themed shirts — pass through but not my own, I walked over to the bar where I knew the scavenger hunt was going to end.<\/p>\n

I hung around for another hour or so, basically just standing around outside. Finally, after a number of other people started to arrive, I wandered inside to get a drink. Most of the people there were HR, the folks from three different offices who were running the event, but there was another group that arrived after I did, whose story I didn’t quite catch, but who I think decided somewhere along the way not to continue. These are people from another office, a different company, who I’ll likely never see again…but they did buy me a beer, so that was nice of them. Then I got a free drink when my team arrived — because that’s what the winning team won — full of apologies to me and tales of tired and aching muscles. Apparently, by accidentally bowing out early, I lucked out as well. I got less of a workout, but I also didn’t steered clear of having a heart attack. (I know this may be hard to believe, looking at me, but I am not exactly a long-distance runner.)<\/p>\n

I was still a little tired when I got home — two beers on top of twenty minutes running isn’t two beers on top of ninety<\/i> minutes, but it’s not nothing — so I mostly just watched some television.<\/p>\n

I noted this on Twitter, but if you’d told me just a few weeks ago that Hannibal<\/i> would be one of my favorite shows this year and Community<\/i> would be my least favorite, I would not have believed you. I should have known I was in trouble when the AV Club’s Todd VanDerWerff, who I feel has been something of an apologist for this not very good fourth season, gave this season finale a D<\/a>. It was a really dreadful half hour of television, at the end of a pretty lousy season, largely for the reasons that Todd gives. And yet the show has been renewed for a fifth season. I honestly don’t know how to feel about that.<\/p>\n

Hannibal<\/i>, meanwhile, is still on the bubble, though I really<\/i> hope it comes back. It’s a dark and sometimes very difficult show, definitely not something to watch on a queasy stomach. But it’s also kind of terrific, which is not<\/i> something I expected from a Hannibal Lecter TV show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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