{"id":1198,"date":"2016-11-08T08:27:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T15:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2016-11-08T08:27:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T15:27:45","slug":"back-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2016\/11\/back-around","title":{"rendered":"back around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3055.jpg\" alt=\"my mailbox stuffed with mail\" width=\"600\" height=\"458\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3055.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3055-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know many people do not, but I really like redeye flights, the ones where you get on a plane late at night and arrive at your destination in the morning. That is, I like them when I am heading home from the West Coast. If I am on the West Coast it&#8217;s usually because I&#8217;ve been working which means I don&#8217;t ever get over jetlag because I am waking and sleeping at the same &#8220;time&#8221; as I would here (7 am in SFO, 10 am in VT). So on redeye flights, I get to the airport at night when I&#8217;m actually cognitively doing pretty well. I sit on a warm quiet plane full of sleeping people and read my book uninterrupted for hours at a time. I see the sun rise. I drink a lot of free coffee. I get home at around lunchtime and take a shower and scrub the travel off of me. And I stay awake just long enough for the sun to set and I go to sleep and am dead to the world&#8211;a way I otherwise never sleep&#8211;for half a day. I wake up feeling back to normal and start my day at a decent hour.<\/p>\n<p>My trip to San Francisco was fun but a little hectic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/albums\/72157674504956612\">I put up a set of photos here<\/a>. And I got home just in time for Halloween Neighborhood Mob Scene <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/albums\/72157674576354971\">and photos are here<\/a>. Then I turned right around and headed down to New Hampshire for a talk with stops in Cambridge to see Jim and pop by Harvard. I don&#8217;t think I have mentioned this here but I&#8217;m a fellow at Harvard Law School&#8217;s Library Innovation Lab for this school year. <a href=\"http:\/\/lil.law.harvard.edu\/about\">You can see me on this page<\/a>. I&#8217;m working on issues of inclusion and access, exploring ways to make Harvard (and libraries generally) more accessible and inclusive. Harvard does a great job with digitizing materials but their physical buildings are inaccessible to anyone outside of the Harvard community besides scholars and those who know the secret handshake. In contrast, MIT&#8217;s libraries are open to the public. This is interesting to me and I&#8217;ll be exploring it more. This is an unfunded fellowship, though I did get a free library card, so I am still looking for that elusive part-time job doing outreach, service, support, something, to help make libraries better.<\/p>\n<p>I also got my snow tires out of the garage in Westport since it&#8217;s about that time of year here. While southern MA is enjoying a lovely autumn, we&#8217;ve already had a school-closing snow day up here. Today I&#8217;m on my way to the polls where I work from four til closing. Vote if you want to, it&#8217;s a democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2016\/11\/back-around\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to back around\"><p>I know many people do not, but I really like redeye flights, the ones where you get on a plane late at night and arrive at your destination in the morning. That is, I like them when I am heading home from the West Coast. If I am on the West Coast it&#8217;s usually because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}