{"id":11984,"date":"2009-04-03T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/04\/03\/11984.html"},"modified":"2009-04-03T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T16:39:00","slug":"shapes-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/04\/03\/shapes-of-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapes of days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My days this week have had a certain pattern to them:<\/p>\n

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  1. Wake up too early, after too little sleep.<\/li>\n
  2. Lie in bed groggily half-awake for too long.<\/li>\n
  3. Stumble through morning. Arrive at work late for first meeting. [Optional: spend 20 minutes wandering lost through the building, trying to find first meeting.]<\/li>\n
  4. Spend the morning in meetings. [The main purpose of the trip is to attend my group's planning meetings.]<\/li>\n
  5. Have a quick lunch, possibly involving trying to deal with tech problems.<\/li>\n
  6. Spend the afternoon in meetings, growing progressively sleepier.<\/li>\n
  7. Have a nice evening of dinner and conversation with an old friend from high school or college.<\/li>\n
  8. Back to hotel room, watch an early-season-three episode of Gilmore Girls<\/cite>.<\/li>\n
  9. Spend rest of night dealing with tech problems. [Optional: get some magazine stuff done.]<\/li>\n
  10. Go to sleep too late.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The dinner-and-conversation parts have been very nice; the work meetings have been mixed, but mostly reasonably good, and have made me feel more like an integrated part of the team than has been true lately; the Gilmore Girls<\/cite> episodes have been more full of angst than I had hoped, but with fun aspects; the tech problems and lack of sleep have been frustrating and difficult and have cast something of a pall over the other stuff.<\/p>\n

    But last night I finally got enough stuff working on my other laptop to be able to send out SH<\/cite> autoresponses for the past couple days, which lifted a lot of my tension around email issues. And last night's GG<\/cite> episode was more fun fluff than angsty.<\/p>\n

    Today: Work (but no meetings); a couple of social interactions; then in the late afternoon\/early evening, getting on a train to Philadelphia. Whence I'll rent a car and drive to Swarthmore, where I'll be hanging out for a little less than 48 hours before getting on a plane home on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

    Btw, we're hoping to have a roundsing on Saturday afternoon at Swarthmore, so anyone in the area who's interested, let me or Jim know.<\/p>\n

    My email access may continue to be a little sporadic for a while, so texting or calling me remains the fastest way to reach me.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My days this week have had a certain pattern to them: Wake up too early, after too little sleep. Lie…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}