{"id":361,"date":"2003-10-22T00:30:36","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T00:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=361"},"modified":"2003-10-22T00:30:36","modified_gmt":"2003-10-22T00:30:36","slug":"mid-october-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"mid-October notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I am in the process of learning how to solve a Rubik&#8217;s cube.  I&#8217;m now pretty close to being able to solve it no matter what position it starts in.<\/li>\n<li>If you didn&#8217;t think I was a geek before, that last statement should have cemented my status in your eyes.<\/li>\n<li>While I certainly don&#8217;t condone the blog entry of Gregg Easterbrook (or as some reading this entry might know him better, TMQ), I&#8217;m not completely sure that I agree with ESPN&#8217;s reaction, even if his comments were directed at the head man at Disney.  Wouldn&#8217;t an apology and an on-site rewording have been sufficient?  Now, all loyal Page 2 readers lose what&#8217;s most likely either their favorite or second-favorite (behind the Sports Guy) columnist in all of Page 2, and I&#8217;d be willing to bet that at least half will have no idea why.<\/li>\n<li>I think that I picked a pretty good game to go to Tuscaloosa to see Alabama play, given the current circumstances.  And it was definitely good to get to see a lot of old faces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>German&#8217;s Third Law of Graduate School:<\/strong> everyone else&#8217;s research always sounds much cooler than your own.  Think I&#8217;m joking?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive.php?comicid=379\">Others agree&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If I had to pick the thing I like the least about being a teacher, I&#8217;d have to say it&#8217;s recording grades and regrading what seems to be all the time.  Sometimes it feels like I&#8217;ll never completely catch up.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to look myself in the mirror and realize that I&#8217;m over a quarter of a century old.  I just got a cold shiver thinking about it.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m in last place in my fantasy football league.  I haven&#8217;t had a quarterback break 30 points in a game yet; I&#8217;m the only team that&#8217;s had this unfortunate turn of events happen to them.  And yet, I still plug away, looking for someone on the waiver wire that will turn my season around (right).  It&#8217;s fun, in a beating-yourself-up kind of way.<\/li>\n<li>I will be going to bed in 10 minutes.  It&#8217;s the earliest I will have been to bed in about a month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the process of learning how to solve a Rubik&#8217;s cube. I&#8217;m now pretty close to being able to solve it no matter what position it starts in. If you didn&#8217;t think I was a geek before, that last statement should have cemented my status in your eyes. While I certainly don&#8217;t condone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-graduate-school","category-thoughts-instant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}