{"id":939,"date":"2004-08-18T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=939"},"modified":"2004-08-18T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T18:33:00","slug":"early-afternoon-doldrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"early afternoon doldrums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>productivity taking a nosedive.  (hah, as if that&#8217;s possible).  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s time to hit the eject button.  <\/p>\n<p>Intriguingly, I&#8217;ve discovered the cube farms cultivate misanthropy in me even better than driving does.  Driving may take the lead in extended gridlock.  I would prefer not to perform extensive testing.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I got in here early this morning (yay swim practice).  And I can go to the gym this afternoon.  (yay sweatiness).  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to establish a new goal.  A minimum of two chapters of the piece on transportation cooridors, and two articles from the BRT edition of public transit I have, each day.  I&#8217;m not going to tie it to a reward.  That never works for me.  If the task isn&#8217;t it&#8217;s own reward, I won&#8217;t fucking do it.  Nature of the beast.  But I am a creature of powerful habits.  And I do need something to break me out of the habits.  Particularly the habit of Slack.  <\/p>\n<p>Few nibbles on the roommate ad.  I realize I&#8217;m being impatient, but we have only two weeks, and I want a decent field from which to select.  I&#8217;ll certainly give craigslist a chance to work its magic.  Still, I suspect a couple more versions may be forthcoming.  Something emphasizing the fun, cool, video games and comic books nature of the people assembled, and another one which mentions our homo-ness and my gym-tastic nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>productivity taking a nosedive. (hah, as if that&#8217;s possible). I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s time to hit the eject button. Intriguingly, I&#8217;ve discovered the cube farms cultivate misanthropy in me even better than driving does. Driving may take the lead in extended gridlock. I would prefer not to perform extensive testing. Fortunately I got in here early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=939\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;early afternoon doldrums&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}