{"id":3727,"date":"2006-01-20T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2020-12-31T16:31:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T21:31:18","slug":"mind-weasels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3727","title":{"rendered":"Mind Weasels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m letting myself feel swamped by a perfectly reasonable amount of homework.  I even have plenty of time to do it in.  It&#8217;s an easy excuse for slipping into a panic, I think.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since I hired on in March, I&#8217;m actually annoyed with my boss.  That&#8217;s okay, because I&#8217;m certain that he&#8217;s annoyed with me too.  With the honest professional relationship that Tom and I have, I&#8217;m certain we&#8217;ll be able to work it out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using <lj user=\"benniferus\"> as a crutch to avoid an emotional trough, I think.  When she&#8217;s not around, I&#8217;ve been having flashes of irrational anger and frustration, followed by happy-shiny moments.  Not that she&#8217;s a stabilizing influence or anything.  I am someone who places self-reliance at a high priority, so since I&#8217;ll be alone for pretty much the whole day, today will be an exercise in re-learning that I&#8217;m fine all by myself, too.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>I think that writing and editing will reinforce that nicely.<\/p>\n<p>My mail accounts are getting swamped by spam lately.  <a href=\"http:\/\/gmail.google.com\/\">Gmail<\/a> still catches most of it, but I have one less email account forwarding to my gmail address, and two thousand more spam emails per month.  I do not envy tech support professionals for having to deal with this trend.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gonewiredlansing.com\/\">Gone Wired<\/a> for now.  I love this place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m letting myself feel swamped by a perfectly reasonable amount of homework. I even have plenty of time to do it in. It&#8217;s an easy excuse for slipping into a panic, I think. For the first time since I hired &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-Y7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6792,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/6792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}