{"id":1691,"date":"2003-09-18T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2003-09-18T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T09:58:00","slug":"cmon_i_can_take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/cmon_i_can_take\/","title":{"rendered":"c&#8217;mon, i can take it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>forget everything i said yesterday.  there&#8217;s no new computer in my immediate future.  i got home from class last night and took a good, strong look at the books and realized there was no way i could spend that amount of money on something non-essential when there&#8217;s the possibility i might be on strike in the coming months.  therefore, all thoughts of upgrades are suspended until such time as my union has a ratified contract.<br \/>\nthere are no words to describe how upset this makes me.  i didn&#8217;t realizehow much i had my heart set on it.  don&#8217;t worry, i&#8217;ll get over it pretty quick.  i hope.  feel free to send donations, though!<br \/>\notherwise, i&#8217;m in a goodly amount of bodily pain today.  it feels like i have whiplash, even though there&#8217;s no cause for it that i know of.  my entire upper back and neck feels like it&#8217;s shattered automotive glass that&#8217;s about to collapse.  i&#8217;ve already taken two huge bufferins, but it&#8217;s done very little to ease the discomfort.  add to this condition a severe catching up of sleepiness, and i&#8217;m in a pretty shitty state for a thursday.  thank goodness for coffee and jeremy or i might just kill someone.<br \/>\nalso, i find it interesting that once vancouver got a day or two of showers suddenly there&#8217;s no more news about the fires in the interior.  are they still burning?  are people still evacuated?  kind of like the iraq war, one day i realized they just weren&#8217;t talking about it anymore.  i wonder if i can phone up the tv station and ask for an update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>forget everything i said yesterday. there&#8217;s no new computer in my immediate future. i got home from class last night and took a good, strong look at the books and realized there was no way i could spend that amount of money on something non-essential when there&#8217;s the possibility i might be on strike in <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/cmon_i_can_take\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}