{"id":3697,"date":"2010-01-14T22:31:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2010-01-14T22:31:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:31:39","slug":"so-that-was-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"So that was Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/4275793236\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4275793236_237e05c896.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I helped out at our company&#8217;s exhibit booth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apsa.org\/Meetings\/2010_National_Meeting.aspx\">at a local conference<\/a> this morning (hence the tie in the above photo), which was a nice way to break up the work day and spend some time out of the office. And hey, I don&#8217;t usually get a chance to ride the subway to work. An author had very generously left a box of fresh pastries for us, and the conference organizers (or the hotel staff), in order to apologize that there wasn&#8217;t any of the usual free coffee, had given every booth a hefty Starbucks gift card the day before. So no complaints there. (Although the free water they did make available tasted a little like bitter coffee grounds, so clearly they were determined to use the same dispenser no matter what.)<\/p>\n<p>After all that, it was back to the office with one of my coworkers, a quick lunch, and a little light editing on some PowerPoint slides. I know, the life of a developmental editor is a thrill a minute. Then it was time for home, a couple episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mighty_Boosh\">The Mighty Boosh<\/a> &#8212; man, that&#8217;s an odd show &#8212; dinner, playing with the dog, and finishing reading Don DeLillo&#8217;s <i>Falling Man<\/i>, which I really liked &#8212; and about which, I suspect, more later.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a pretty decent day.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I helped out at our company&#8217;s exhibit booth at a local conference this morning (hence the tie in the above photo), which was a nice way to break up the work day and spend some time out of the office. And hey, I don&#8217;t usually get a chance to ride the subway to work. An &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3697\">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":[16,28,17,52],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-personal","tag-tv","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697"}],"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=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}