{"id":1126,"date":"2007-01-22T23:30:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T07:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2007-01-23T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T07:22:24","slug":"even-more-boring-than-you-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Even more boring than you thought."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never seem to reply to comments but I thought I&#8217;d clarify that my recent confusion and aphasia was not due to the influence of NyQuil, but just my shrinking brain. Perhaps it&#8217;s due to my lack of sleep, or the stress from work, but who&#8217;s to know? (And I should quit calling it aphasia before I get some medical people all excited about a misdiagnosis.) I wonder if watching <strong>Scrubs<\/strong> four times a day is reminding me that I never made it into medical school and is depressing me.<\/p>\n<p>I heard on NPR that today is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year. It&#8217;s gloomy, the holiday bills have come in, and there&#8217;s something else I can&#8217;t remember. I got my year-end VISA bill and the most annoying thing is that some of the donations I made at the end of the year are dated this year. In fact Oregon Public Broadcasting is posted on the 19th of this month, and that&#8217;s the NEXT BILL. It&#8217;s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under. Kind of a candy-coated sub-yuppie jungle, but a jungle nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never seem to reply to comments but I thought I&#8217;d clarify that my recent confusion and aphasia was not due to the influence of NyQuil, but just my shrinking brain. Perhaps it&#8217;s due to my lack of sleep, or the stress from work, but who&#8217;s to know? (And I should quit calling it aphasia before I get some medical people all excited about a misdiagnosis.) I wonder if watching Scrubs four times a day is reminding me that I never made it into medical school and is depressing me. I heard on NPR that today is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year. It&#8217;s gloomy, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Even more boring than you thought.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/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-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}