{"id":7169,"date":"2011-08-13T23:37:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T03:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2011-08-13T23:37:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T03:37:24","slug":"the-cuckoo-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7169","title":{"rendered":"The cuckoo clock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I woke up this morning sneezing, or near enough, and I took an Allegra to get myself through the allergies. Unfortunately, I’ve been feeling pretty edgy and nervous almost all day thanks to it, and I think I’m officially going to take it off the menu as far as allergy medications are concerned. I’d stopped taking it altogether for a week before this for the same reason, and it may be that I’m just overly sensitive to this (not uncommon) side effect. I don’t feel terrible, but I do feel like it’s left me in the same neighborhood as panic attacks. I constantly feel like I’m tensing up for something that isn’t actually happening.<\/p>\n

Which maybe makes it sound like I had a terrible day, although I didn’t. I went out and bought some clothes, stumbling into some surprisingly good deals at the local mall, and then I came home and watched Die Hard<\/i> over lunch. I hadn’t been planning on that, and it’s not like I haven’t seen it before, but it remains an exceptionally terrific action movie (some of the ’80s fashion notwithstanding). Then I did some cleaning and watched a couple episodes of Breaking Bad<\/i> (just the thing to watch when you’re feeling a little on edge). And finally, this evening, I watched The Third Man<\/i> for the first time. I seem to vaguely remember reading the novella back in high school — Graham Greene wrote it after his screenplay, apparently — but I also seem to remember that reading it was a mistake, when what I was supposed to be reading was The Thin Man<\/i> by Dashiell Hammett. Was this for the literary club, of which I was briefly, intermittently a member? It couldn’t have been for a class. I honestly don’t remember, and I clearly didn’t remember Greene’s book very well either, as I didn’t see the twist coming.<\/p>\n

But I quite enjoyed the movie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning sneezing, or near enough, and I took an Allegra to get myself through the allergies. Unfortunately, I’ve been feeling pretty edgy and nervous almost all day thanks to it, and I think I’m officially going to take it off the menu as far as allergy medications are concerned. I’d stopped … 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-7169","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\/7169"}],"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=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}