{"id":12,"date":"2005-04-10T11:13:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T19:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/james\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-10-11T15:37:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T22:37:22","slug":"things-to-do-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Things to do today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Current mood: Apathyphobic<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com\/albums\/Sketch\/bob_napping.png\" style=\"margin: 1em; clear: right; float: right\" \/><br \/>\nToday, I am going to sculpt a sculpture from clay, another from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alabaster\">alabaster<\/a>. I will draw a few sketches, finish a short story I have started previously and start writing a new one. I will read the rest of that giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nealstephenson.com\/content\/books_bc1_description.htm\">Neal Stephenson novel<\/a> I am working my way through. I will piece together the black-primed burned wood fragments I prepared last weekend, and paint a picture on them and mount them above the couch. I will clean my apartment and do the dishes and vacuum. I will run three miles. I will go to the swap meet. I will make phone calls to friends I haven&#8217;t seen in ages, and catch up on their lives. Then I will spend the evening programming, an hour and a half on an <a href=\"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/ohrrpgce\/\">old project<\/a>, and hour and a half on a <a href=\"http:\/\/motherhamster.org\/\">new project<\/a>. I will bake something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; or at least I will lay on the couch with the windows closed and the lights off and <em>think<\/em> about doing all those things.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I will be happy if I do just one of those things. I will be very unhappy if I do zero of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday Morning Edit:<\/strong> Yay! I did two-and-a-half of those things, and therefore I am happy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current mood: Apathyphobic Today, I am going to sculpt a sculpture from clay, another from alabaster. I will draw a few sketches, finish a short story I have started previously and start writing a new one. I will read the rest of that giant Neal Stephenson novel I am working my way through. I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}