{"id":1866,"date":"2004-03-29T07:56:04","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T07:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2004-03-29T07:56:04","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T07:56:04","slug":"down_and_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/down_and_out\/","title":{"rendered":"down and out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/images\/digicam\/carwash.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"carwash.jpg\" title=\"workin' at the carwash, yeah\" \/><\/div>\n<p>other than a bright spot on saturday afternoon and the fact that i did good things for my body by exercising, this was one of the worst weekends i&#8217;ve had in a long time.  nothing tragic occurred, but i felt totally abandoned and alone. i didn&#8217;t see my friends for cards or dinner or anything, jeremy left for a week away, my father&#8217;s dating a hungarian woman twenty years his junior.  everything just seemed to conspire to make me feel utterly sorry for myself.  so i did.<br \/>\ni&#8217;m so glad i decided to go out on saturday to surprise <a href=\"http:\/\/colene.blogspot.com\/\">col<\/a> with a visit to her bookstore. it was her last day at what&#8217;s become the job from hell, and i thought it would be a nice surprise especially since we haven&#8217;t seen each other in, quite possibly, a year.  then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macapinlac.com\/\">ritchie<\/a> showed up and we spent several hours keeping col from doing any work, mocking her evil manager, joking with her cute coworker (oh, yes. very yummy coworker), drinking starbucks and randomly misplacing books just because we could.<br \/>\ni didn&#8217;t realize i&#8217;m so <a href=\"http:\/\/macapinlac.textamerica.com\/?r=568856\">fucking short<\/a>.<br \/>\ni hadn&#8217;t meant to, but i did let col abuse her employee discount on my behalf and bought three books:  <i>hey nostradamus!<\/i> and <i>all families are psychotic<\/i> by douglas coupland and <i>the trouble with islam<\/i> by irshad manji.  now, i think, i&#8217;m only missing one coupland for my collection.  i love douglas coupland.  really.  i think i should marry him right after i marry kevin smith.<br \/>\ni think i need to move to utah.<br \/>\nhere&#8217;s to hoping no one wants to talk to me today.  it would be a bad day to try to chit-chat.  put out the word, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>other than a bright spot on saturday afternoon and the fact that i did good things for my body by exercising, this was one of the worst weekends i&#8217;ve had in a long time. nothing tragic occurred, but i felt totally abandoned and alone. i didn&#8217;t see my friends for cards or dinner or anything, <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/down_and_out\/\" 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","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=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}