{"id":4763,"date":"2010-09-30T22:17:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T02:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2010-10-01T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T17:00:04","slug":"humid-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4763","title":{"rendered":"Humid Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s almost October, so of course the temperatures today were in the 80s and the humidity in the 90s. I slept in and got a slightly later train, something I haven’t done since before summer hours began in July, so I missed all of the actual rain. But oh, the humidity.<\/p>\n

The reason I slept in was because I was meeting my parents tonight for dinner, downtown in Greenwich Village, where my mother had a meeting for work. And even with what turned out to be about an hour’s walk — I could have taken the subway, but then how would I have experienced all that humidity? — I was going to get there well in advance of our 6:45 p.m. reservation. So working 8:30 to 4:30 seemed a little silly. Why not sleep in an hour and work until 5?<\/p>\n

The restaurant we ate at<\/a> was quite nice, albeit a little expensive. I was pleased to discover I actually do sort of like duck, which I don’t think I’ve had in years. (Despite being pretty easy to come by on Long Island.)<\/p>\n

It was a tasty meal, and we luckily didn’t have to wait around too long for either a subway to Penn Station or a train home.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, my back and related symptoms are no better, and I think tomorrow I’m going to call my GP to schedule an appointment. I’d like to rule out a few other possibilities, make sure it is<\/i> the bulging disc in my back that’s causing some of the radiating pain and discomfort, before going through a process that will likely involve another MRI, maybe<\/i> additional steroids, and, if worse comes to worst, talk of surgery.<\/p>\n

It could be much worse, I know. This evening, I learned that a friend of my sister and her husband, one of his groomsman, who I sat with at the wedding and who seemed like a really nice guy, was killed a few days ago in a mountain-climbing accident in Colorado. And he and his wife — who I think has no immediate family in the United States — were either just expected, or just had, a baby.<\/p>\n

A twinge, here and there, from my back doesn’t really seem so terrible in comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s almost October, so of course the temperatures today were in the 80s and the humidity in the 90s. I slept in and got a slightly later train, something I haven’t done since before summer hours began in July, so I missed all of the actual rain. But oh, the humidity. The reason I slept … 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":[21,5,54,28,52],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-food","tag-health","tag-new-york","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763"}],"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=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}