{"id":472,"date":"2010-12-22T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2010-12-22T02:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T02:49:00","slug":"one-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"One Down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They tell me the worst is over.  Yesterday I took my last final, and today I turned in a decent essay and a bunch of research work that I&#8217;ve been nursing for the last month.  Today I also finished a two year project transcribing all my todo notecards into my virtual reminder system.  I&#8217;m exhausted, but I think everything turned out alright.  I can&#8217;t wait to soak my feet in a steaming Turkish bath.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next?  Well, I think I&#8217;m going to focus on the Travelers Network while I&#8217;m in Turkey and Egypt, which will be a nice shift.  I get back the weekend of MIT&#8217;s Mystery Hunt, and I&#8217;m trying to get a group together here to work on it.  Next semester I want to run a &#8220;Friday Evening Experiments&#8221; meeting, just like the one that this year&#8217;s Nobel physics prizers had for trying out things that might go nowhere, but for looking at lonely parts of SD, building odd models, and playing around with data.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, my goal is to put some barriers around my school life.  I haven&#8217;t spent the time with Flame that she deserves recently (which is a lot, she&#8217;s been incredibly supportive).  School consumed me this term&#8211; which was fun and all, but my virtual todo lists are awaiting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They tell me the worst is over. Yesterday I took my last final, and today I turned in a decent essay and a bunch of research work that I&#8217;ve been nursing for the last month. Today I also finished a two year project transcribing all my todo notecards into my virtual reminder system. I&#8217;m exhausted, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Down!<\/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-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}