{"id":1060,"date":"2005-10-17T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1060"},"modified":"2005-10-17T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T15:33:00","slug":"will-miss-rome-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1060","title":{"rendered":"Will Miss Rome for Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I made the ultimate sacrifice for my mother.<br \/>\nI missed Rome. Fortunately, dinner and the wine and the good company were worth it. Or at least, I think so: I&#8217;ll be unable to make a firm judgment one way or another until I see the episode. Thanks to JVL&#8217;s excellent skillz with the TV guide (which is unintelligible gibberish to me), I&#8217;ve been informed that I can catch up with it Tuesday night at 10pm. So no phone calls will be taken at that time from anyone, got it?<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night is the Casa Loma quilt auction. Trying to determine my upper bidding limit for &#8216;Shaded Squares&#8217;, my favorite piece in the exhibit. Also debating whether the $75 admission fee is worth it, or if I should skip the whole thing and hope to get lucky at Stratford on Nov. 12th.<\/p>\n<p>Convocation information arrived in the mail on Friday. Master of Arts ceremony will take place at Con Hall, Thursday, November 17th at 7pm. Yay! I get to wear a gown and mortarboard again. I just can&#8217;t get enough of that stuff. What I *really* want is to wear the doctorate robes one day. That shit is bomb.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.ca\/url?q=http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/ogs\/images\/ut_custom_regalia.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Have quilt guild meeting tonight. Looking forward to getting my badge, and some sound advice on the log cabin that I&#8217;ve been slaving away at for the past two months. <\/p>\n<p>Also engaged in the pursuit of finding the cheapest place to get a replacement rotary cutter and self-healing mat. Michaels? Fabricland? Wal-mart? I just don&#8217;t know. But I&#8217;ll find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I made the ultimate sacrifice for my mother. I missed Rome. Fortunately, dinner and the wine and the good company were worth it. Or at least, I think so: I&#8217;ll be unable to make a firm judgment one way or another until I see the episode. Thanks to JVL&#8217;s excellent skillz with the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1060\">[&hellip;]<\/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-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}