{"id":4349,"date":"2009-04-10T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T04:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2009-04-11T06:58:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T13:58:10","slug":"goodfrida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/10\/goodfrida\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday was Good to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished an abstract today, ahead of schedule, thus completing one of my recently self-assigned dissertation milestones.\u00c2\u00a0 It was an incredible achievement on my part, right up there with my self-inflicted embargo of the Twilight series (I may not read until I&#8217;ve finished a draft).\u00c2\u00a0 My work ethic &#8212; it boggles the mind.<\/p>\n<p>All the work work work please don&#8217;t talk to me I&#8217;m writing work work laundry laundry make dinner work has made it very difficult to procrastinate, which means that I was unable to plan for a last-minute trip out of town.\u00c2\u00a0 We were close to picking up and heading out to a tax-deductible, in-support-of-the-company weekend trip to Houston to go to the Ikea (356 miles away) to binge on cheap Scandavian furniture for the office.\u00c2\u00a0 When Paul found out that they had BOTH a supervised children&#8217;s play area AND cooked ham with mashed potatoes for $6.99, he was ready to take off this afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, responsibility found out and came knocking and finger-wagging.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, it&#8217;d be NICE to have books up off the floor and all, but the next year&#8217;s school fees and summer camp deposits are BOTH due at the end of the month.\u00c2\u00a0 And the kids need shoes.<\/p>\n<p><a><br \/>\n<\/a><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4350\" title=\"img_5705\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_5705.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_5705.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_5705-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of looking for creative ways to pay tuition&#8230; I&#8217;m I too old to sell my unused lady eggs?\u00c2\u00a0 They are very effective.<\/p>\n<p><a><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4351\" title=\"img_5721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_5721.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_5721.jpg 683w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_5721-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished an abstract today, ahead of schedule, thus completing one of my recently self-assigned dissertation milestones.\u00c2\u00a0 It was an incredible achievement on my part, right up there with my self-inflicted embargo of the Twilight series (I may not read until I&#8217;ve finished a draft).\u00c2\u00a0 My work ethic &#8212; it boggles the mind. All the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,89,105],"tags":[108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}