{"id":4889,"date":"2011-10-20T23:09:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T06:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2011-10-20T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T06:09:14","slug":"tired-and-stressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4889","title":{"rendered":"Tired and stressed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been tired at the gym before and today was quite special. I&#8217;m thinking it might have been a good idea to take a nap instead, but I often think that when I go to the gym. But now that I look at it in retrospect, I probably do need a rest. Good thing I&#8217;m going to be eating instead of exercising for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I usually don&#8217;t get very stressed out about my trips to Japan. I think it takes me about 10 minutes to pack, if you don&#8217;t count the time I spend deciding what sorts of electronic entertainment I&#8217;m going to pack in my carry-on. That takes another 10 minutes at least. Once in a while I can get nervous about traveling and sometimes it&#8217;s subconscious, keeping me from sleeping well the night before, but I know that as soon as the plane leaves the ground I just need my ID and my credit card and I&#8217;m OK. Other than that I don&#8217;t worry too much. This year I might be getting more stressed than usual because I had a couple of weird dreams. One I was in an airport transferring to my Japan flight, wondering why I wasn&#8217;t on my direct flight from Portland to Narita. Second I was buying Japanese potato chips with two co-workers, wondering why I was in Japan working stuck eating junk food instead of being on vacation eating something better.<\/p>\n<p>I also remember some sort of dream where I was in a graveyard watching ghosts hover over their gravestones. I&#8217;m missing Halloween, but I&#8217;m not missing Halloween I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been tired at the gym before and today was quite special. I&#8217;m thinking it might have been a good idea to take a nap instead, but I often think that when I go to the gym. But now that I look at it in retrospect, I probably do need a rest. Good thing I&#8217;m going to be eating instead of exercising for two weeks. I usually don&#8217;t get very stressed out about my trips to Japan. I think it takes me about 10 minutes to pack, if you don&#8217;t count the time I spend deciding what sorts of electronic entertainment I&#8217;m going to pack in my carry-on. That takes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tired and stressed?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","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\/4889","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4890,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}