{"id":3695,"date":"2010-01-13T22:42:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T03:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2010-01-13T22:42:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T03:42:29","slug":"the-wednesdayness-of-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3695","title":{"rendered":"The Wednesdayness of it all"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I didn’t know this until today, and I wish I hadn’t found it out under such terrible circumstances<\/a>, but the Haitian Consul of New York<\/a> is directly next to the building where I work. There were local news vans parked all down our stretch of Madison Avenue this evening, setting up shop, conducting interviews. My heart (and, if I could, more money<\/a>) goes out to the survivors of yesterday’s terrible earthquake.<\/p>\n

In other news…well, there isn’t much other news. I had alphabet soup for lunch this afternoon, which isn’t especially exciting or noteworthy, but I enjoyed it, and it was a coworker’s birthday, so we had cookies and cake later in the day. I’m attending a conference at the Waldorf Astoria tomorrow, which should at least break up some of the monotony. And that’s about it. It’s been a decent but very uneventful week for me.<\/p>\n

Right now, I’m just watching an episode of Monty Python<\/i>. I own the boxed set, so I’ve decided to go through and watch them all again. For somebody who calls himself a Python<\/i> fan<\/a>, I think there’s a significant handful I’ve actually never<\/i> seen. (Truth be told, it was the records and then the movies where I first fell in love with the show, back in junior high. I never saw a single episode until college.) It seemed high time I remedied that.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t know this until today, and I wish I hadn’t found it out under such terrible circumstances, but the Haitian Consul of New York is directly next to the building where I work. There were local news vans parked all down our stretch of Madison Avenue this evening, setting up shop, conducting interviews. My … 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":[23,54,37,28],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-monty-python","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695"}],"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=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}