{"id":3963,"date":"2007-08-04T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T17:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/08\/04\/3963.html"},"modified":"2007-08-04T10:45:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T17:45:46","slug":"gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/08\/04\/gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In cloudy Issaquah we lay our scene. I flew up last night, and am staying at the Larkspur Landing as usual. Today is Grandma's memorial.  Tomorrow I'll hang out with friends, then fly home.<\/p>\n<p>Been intermittently grumpy and irritable these past couple weeks, more or less the way I get when my blood sugar is low, but it's been happening even when I've just eaten.  Partly having to do with Grandma, I think; partly general stress and feeling behind on everything I'm supposed to be doing for work and magazine; partly various unrequited crushes; partly the lack of downtime, as the social whirl of my vacation has more or less continued.  The socializing itself has been good, of course, but I haven't had enough respite from it.<\/p>\n<p>I've also been doing a bunch of stuff that doesn't contribute to being less behind on things.  Since returning home, I've read (more details on all of these to follow eventually, perhaps):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/cite> (my favorite of the series, but I have a bunch of criticisms)<\/li>\n<li><cite>Lost Girls<\/cite> (good, and thought-provoking, but I didn't love the art)<\/li>\n<li><cite>Sixth Column<\/cite>\/<cite>The Day After Tomorrow<\/cite> (racist, but I think not nearly as much so as it initially looks)<\/li>\n<li>Half (so far) of <cite>To the Resurrection Station<\/cite> (an early Eleanor Arnason novel I had never previously heard of)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I've seen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>The Third Man<\/cite> (enjoyed it quite a bit)<\/li>\n<li>Several <cite>Dr. Who<\/cite> episodes (some good stuff, but disappointing use of Martha after a very strong start)<\/li>\n<li>The first episode of <cite>Torchwood<\/cite> (much better than everyone had led me to believe, plus lots of shots of Captain Jack standing on buildings looking moody and heroic and hot in that great coat)<\/li>\n<li>A couple episodes of <cite>Fawlty Towers<\/cite> (still funny, but not as much so as when I first saw them)<\/li>\n<li>An episode of <cite>Horatio Hornblower<\/cite> (sad and tragic, but at least there were lots of longing looks between Horatio and Archie)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I have done some magazine work and some work-work; I'm not impossibly far behind.  Just farther than I'd like.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I forget whether I mentioned that Twig arranged for my patio furniture to be built and delivered (it should show up in the next week or two), so I'm hoping to finally, finally have a party at some point (something that I've delayed for years; I never did manage to have a housewarming party).<\/p>\n<p>All that, plus a fair bit of snuggling with friends.  So by any objective standard, it seems like my life is pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>But I'm still grumpy.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In cloudy Issaquah we lay our scene. I flew up last night, and am staying at the Larkspur Landing as&#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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3963","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\/3963","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=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}