{"id":764,"date":"2004-11-15T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/764"},"modified":"2004-11-15T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T19:28:00","slug":"why-should-i-whine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/764","title":{"rendered":"Why should I whine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enough of my whining. One day where my morning trip to work is not ideal, and everyone in the Branch is away on sick leave so I am made interim Manager, and suddenly life is too hard for me. Wah. Suck it up, me. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I get to see Dr. Lakhani (Aly to buddies) for the first time in a donkey&#8217;s age. Very cool. Wish I wasn&#8217;t all tired and grumpy. Tomorrow, Ye Olde Womynly Curse hits me right in the netherparts. Yesterday, bookclub was good (we read &#8220;Wicked&#8221; by Gregory Maguire), and there was much good food and smelly buses and I got a ride home from Lyssa which was lovely.<\/p>\n<p><lj user=\"princeofsnails\"> was at a ToyFair in Mississauga all weekend with Dan, so I spent a lot of time working on hunting down addresses for my Christmas Cards and watching Smallville. I hung out with Mum on Saturday and we did some early Christmas shopping. There are now eight gifts under my tree! Mum found two of hers early during an accidental &#8220;snoop&#8221; around my bookshelf. Very amusing.<\/p>\n<p>Friday I had a chance to meet Cait&#8217;s sister and brother-in-law and see their house and pet their doggy. She and Caius and I went to the Duke of York, first time I&#8217;ve been there in almost a year as well. It was cozy, with <lj user=\"sarcasma\"> and <lj user=\"sanity_clause\"> in attendance, and <lj user=\"edwud\"> and his delightful new girlfriend M., whom I instantly loved as soon as she expressed interest and glee in my long-defunct comic book project about east-coast Canadian Mermaids. I&#8217;m nearly inspired enough to start work on it again. We&#8217;ll see how long that desire lasts when I start worrying about wheelchair logistics. <\/p>\n<p>Also? <\/p>\n<p>*love* *comfort* *hugs* to <lj user=\"lostvoice\">.<br \/>\nLay low. Take care of yourself. We are thinking of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough of my whining. One day where my morning trip to work is not ideal, and everyone in the Branch is away on sick leave so I am made interim Manager, and suddenly life is too hard for me. Wah. Suck it up, me. Tonight, I get to see Dr. Lakhani (Aly to buddies) for <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/764\">[&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-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}