{"id":3671,"date":"2010-01-01T23:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T04:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2010-01-01T23:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T04:14:06","slug":"vacation-all-i-ever-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3671","title":{"rendered":"Vacation, all I ever wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4033\/4232373704_1a57980db9.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I spent the first day of the new year &#8212; the new decade, depending on how you reckon these things &#8212; doing not much of anything. <\/p>\n<p>Oh sure, my father and I took down the Christmas tree this morning. And I did a little tinkering with my short story for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geist.com\/contest\/6th-annual-geist-literal-literary-postcard-story-contest\">Geist Annual Postcard Story Contest<\/a>. And I watched a few more episodes of <i>The Big Bang Theory<\/i> &#8212; how have I not been watching this show? &#8212; and then this evening I watched a pretty decent horror movie called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0780607\/\">The Signal<\/a> &#8212;  kind of like a neat modern riff on George Romero&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069895\/\">The Crazies<\/a>, with some good scares and interesting thoughts on what mass psychosis might actually look like. (&#8220;Do you have the crazy in your head?!&#8221;) But overall, really, where did the day go?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the tail end of my two-week-long vacation (sixteen days, actually), and I&#8217;m starting to feel like maybe I&#8217;m ready to get back into having a daily routine. Vacation has really agreed with me, and there&#8217;s a big part of me that <i>doesn&#8217;t<\/i> want to go back. But, at the same time, I think I really benefit from having a more structured schedule. I haven&#8217;t really done a <i>lot<\/i> of writing these past couple of weeks, and I&#8217;ve definitely done less reading. (A forty-five-minute commute, twice a day, really does wonders to focus my time for that.)<\/p>\n<p>I go back to work on Monday, and it&#8217;s kind of nice to feel like I&#8217;m ready for that.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I spent the first day of the new year &#8212; the new decade, depending on how you reckon these things &#8212; doing not much of anything. Oh sure, my father and I took down the Christmas tree this morning. And I did a little tinkering with my short story &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3671\">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":[],"tags":[14,28,17],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671"}],"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=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}