{"id":3674,"date":"2010-01-03T22:12:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T03:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2010-01-03T22:12:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T03:12:02","slug":"the-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3674","title":{"rendered":"The last day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/4231599439\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4062\/4231599439_274afc7bf7_m.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/4209878062\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2781\/4209878062_ffe4d7f69f_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Yet another quiet day, the last before I return to work after a two-week absence. I haven&#8217;t even checked my e-mail since December 18.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">I met a friend this afternoon for our mostly-weekly writing group, where we talked about tv shows and books and I rehashed my pet peeve with the adverb &#8220;darkly.&#8221; (I&#8217;m looking at you, J.K. Rowling.) After a few hours, we actually buckled down and did some writing. We do mostly free-writing in the group, working from a prompt we select on the spot, and I tend to generate ideas more than fully formed scenes in the forty minutes we give to each prompt. Some of those ideas have legs, and some of them don&#8217;t. Today, I had an idea for a story about a man who can see the future and so is imprisoned on an island where there is no future. I think it&#8217;s an idea worth keeping after.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Other than that, not much to report. It continues to be bitterly cold and windy here, and I continue to thoroughly enjoy watching episodes of <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em> instead of going outside. I haven&#8217;t had too much luck with today&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em> Sunday Crossword, I&#8217;m afraid, but for Christmas I received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/York-Times-Ultimate-Crossword-Omnibus\/dp\/0312316224\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1262574479&amp;sr=8-3\">a big omnibus edition<\/a> that should give me plenty of alternative puzzles to turn to.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Still, I can&#8217;t help but wonder&#8230;is my vacation really over?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another quiet day, the last before I return to work after a two-week absence. I haven&#8217;t even checked my e-mail since December 18. I met a friend this afternoon for our mostly-weekly writing group, where we talked about tv shows and books and I rehashed my pet peeve with the adverb &#8220;darkly.&#8221; (I&#8217;m looking &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3674\">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":[238],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674"}],"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=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}