{"id":9700,"date":"2012-11-25T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9700"},"modified":"2012-11-25T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T04:02:19","slug":"is-it-really-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9700","title":{"rendered":"Is it really over?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It seems insane that I’m going back to work tomorrow. It’s absolutely necessary, I understand that much. I have several huge projects I need to finish as soon as possible, and I need to squeeze in as much work as I can into the next three very short weeks. Which would be difficult even if this wasn’t the end of the year — and moreover the end of the semester for the academics from whom I’m trying to secure reviews and meetings. But I’ve been out for over a week, and the little bit of work I did in that time notwithstanding, it’s very easy to get used to being on vacation.<\/p>\n

I have to make sure I find the time to write. Even Thanksgiving sort of threw me for a loop, and I haven’t touched this short story since last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Today, I mostly read other people’s stories, submissions for Kaleidotrope<\/i>. Everything I accept now will go into 2014, or even later, and so I’m trying to be even more critical about what I accept, both for my and the writer’s sake. I’m not paying a lot<\/i> of money for what I accept — relatively, pro-ratedly speaking — but I am spending money. (This is what I do in lieu of travel, I suppose, or a social life.) And I also don’t want to have to start telling people, “I like your story. But I can’t publish it for another couple of years.” <\/p>\n

It’s a learning process, a work in progress. There are things I truly love about it — things I increasingly love about it — and there are also times when I’m tempted to walk away from the zine altogether. I already have enough for the next five or six issues, though, so maybe that<\/i> won’t happen just yet.<\/p>\n

No James Bond today. After the last three fairly disappointing outings, I think I’m going to give them a slight break. (The Man With the Golden Gun<\/i> was pretty dismal.) I’m still interested in the rest of Roger Moore’s tenure, as well as Timothy Dalton’s outings. I’m less keen on Pierce Brosnan’s, though only because I remember how not very good a lot of them were. But I have<\/i> the collected set. So I’ll get around to it. But I’ve watched four — five with the most recent Skyfall<\/i> — just in the past week alone. So I could use a Bond break.<\/p>\n

That, and the crossword puzzle, was my Sunday.<\/p>\n

Do I really have to go to work tomorrow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems insane that I’m going back to work tomorrow. It’s absolutely necessary, I understand that much. I have several huge projects I need to finish as soon as possible, and I need to squeeze in as much work as I can into the next three very short weeks. Which would be difficult even if … 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":[14,28,52,12],"class_list":["post-9700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700"}],"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=9700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}