{"id":346,"date":"2002-03-12T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2002-03-13T03:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/03\/12\/346.html"},"modified":"2002-03-12T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2002-03-13T03:01:45","slug":"condensed-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/03\/12\/condensed-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Condensed week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think I put in between 30 and 40 hour of work during Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.  And I'm not even gonna talk about how far behind I am on magazine stuff.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, this is mere whining.  If I'd gotten more done when it was supposed to be done, I wouldn't be in this position.  On the other hand, I can't help pouting about it a little.  But I suppose as misery-poker hands go, this one leaves something to be desired; at least I'm not working 80-hour-weeks year-'round at a startup.  I think I would collapse from sheer exhaustion around week six of that kind of schedule; I can't imagine how people can keep doing that for years.  (I think I did three or four consecutive 70-hour weeks at SGI once; it was nice to know I could do it, and even stay reasonably sane, but I'd hate to have to live that way longer-term.  And it's not just computer people who do that, of course; everyone in the medical and legal professions seems to work insanely long hours all the time.)<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else, besides Swarthmore people, call it misery poker?  I don't even remember playing it as such when I was a student; I would occasionally complain about overdue papers and such, but compared to a lot of people, I had a pretty tolerable workload.  Even while attempting to, essentially, triple-major, I was pretty much a slacker.<\/p>\n<p>And clearly I still am.  Miles to go before I sleep.  Crack that whip, tote that bale.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I put in between 30 and 40 hour of work during Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. And I&#8217;m not&#8230;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}