{"id":11455,"date":"2014-08-22T22:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T02:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11455"},"modified":"2014-08-22T22:19:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T02:19:04","slug":"friday-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11455","title":{"rendered":"Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Some mornings, your life just seems like a metaphor for your life, doesn&#39;t it?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/statuses\/502795804948836352\">August 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I thought this morning when I went to buy a new MetroCard (which gets me on the subway, which takes me from Queens into Manhattan) because I couldn&#8217;t find my old one when I was leaving the house. I pulled out my wallet to pay for the new card&#8230;and discovered the old one sitting there. So I cancelled the transaction, walked over to the turnstiles, swiped the card&#8230;and discovered it was down to only a few cents. (The fare&#8217;s $2.50.) So I turned back to the ticket machine for a new card just like before.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly it felt like a metaphor for <i>something<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;m headed to Canada in three weeks, for a self-directed writing residency at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banffcentre.ca\/\">the Banff Centre<\/a> (and an all-around vacation), and it&#8217;s starting to feel a whole lot of real. I&#8217;m now having to plan around in very specific ways for work, not just in vague &#8220;oh, I&#8217;m going to be out for a couple of weeks in some distant future time.&#8221; October, when I get back, is almost certainly going to be <i>very<\/i> busy &#8212; not least of all because I&#8217;m planning another trip, this time for work, to Texas &#8212; leading right into a massively busy end of the year. But I am determined not to let that trouble me, or worry about what my in-box and to-do list are going to look like when I return. The work computer will definitely not be going with me to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>My plans for the weekend are modest. I plan to spend it writing, mostly. I have one very short piece out for consideration right now &#8212; and dear lord, it&#8217;s only been three weeks, but is this the kind of nerve-wracking wait I put people through who submit to <i>Kaleidotrope<\/i>?! &#8212; but it would be nice to get more things actually finished and out there.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and speaking of <i>Kaleidotrope<\/i>, I thought I&#8217;d throw this out here as well: I&#8217;m looking for more artwork, mostly for covers (the front page), and I&#8217;m paying more for it (up to $60). I&#8217;m eager to see science fiction, fantasy, and horror-themed artwork, either brand new or in the artist&#8217;s online galleries. So if you or someone you know draws, paints, creates, please feel free to check out the <a href=\"www.kaleidotrope.net\/guidelines\/\">the guidelines<\/a>. I&#8217;m still closed to submissions to everything else until January, but I&#8217;m making an exception for art. (In no small part because I&#8217;ve hit the limits of my own artistic talents.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some mornings, your life just seems like a metaphor for your life, doesn&#39;t it? &mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) August 22, 2014 That&#8217;s what I thought this morning when I went to buy a new MetroCard (which gets me on the subway, which takes me from Queens into Manhattan) because I couldn&#8217;t find my old one &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11455\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,4,28,52,12],"class_list":["post-11455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canada","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-personal","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11457,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455\/revisions\/11457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}