{"id":211,"date":"2008-08-22T18:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T01:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2008\/08\/on-leisure"},"modified":"2008-08-22T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T02:56:41","slug":"on-leisure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2008\/08\/on-leisure","title":{"rendered":"on leisure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/2787646511\/\" title=\"Summertime\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3001\/2787646511_6cb2b33c63.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" style=\"border: 1px solid #666\" alt=\"Summertime\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I pretty much skipped the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/aug00b.html\">Virgo Month of Leisure<\/a> last year and decided to get my lifeguard certificate instead. Two years ago Ola hadn&#8217;t yet left for the Peace Corps and I was preparing to caretake her house and greet my new roommate. I also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/on-being-woman-of-leisure.html\">made a list of what I&#8217;ve been doing<\/a> about this time every year since 1998. <\/p>\n<p>In 1998 I celebrated my 30th birthday in Guatemala and was pretty pleased with how it all went down. This year I&#8217;ll be celebrating my 40th, from my new apartment here in Vermont, and I&#8217;m also feeling pretty pleased. I&#8217;ll save the list-making for a few weeks from now, but this is just a peek at whether I&#8217;ll pull off any leisure time in the next thirty days.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned, I haven&#8217;t been working at the tech center this Summer which has been pretty good. It&#8217;s enabled me to unpack slowly and get settled here. I don&#8217;t start any real travelling-for-work for a few weeks, though I was in Maine last weekend and I&#8217;m doing a flyby to New York City at the end of next week. September will see me in Potsdam New York, Sacramento California and Marquette Michigan but <em>then<\/em> I&#8217;m not going anyplace far until I go to Kansas in October. I&#8217;m a little better equipped for travelling now also. I have a lightweight laptop and I just got an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evolution-Data_Optimized\">EVDO<\/a> card from &#8220;work&#8221; [MetaFilter: the job that doesn&#8217;t seem like a job] so I can connect from pretty much anyplace, even the dead zones in my apartment where my cell phone doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>So, I suspect the next week or so may actually be leisurely, after that it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess. Here are a few links to other things you might like to look at.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yoMqBCAEGDs\">Video of a walkthrough of my new place<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/sets\/72157606831707149\/\">Some photos from my trip to Maine<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I came home from the transfer station today [i.e. the dump] and there was a little paper bag of cucumbers on my steps. They were delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2008\/08\/on-leisure\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to on leisure\"><p>I pretty much skipped the Virgo Month of Leisure last year and decided to get my lifeguard certificate instead. Two years ago Ola hadn&#8217;t yet left for the Peace Corps and I was preparing to caretake her house and greet my new roommate. I also made a list of what I&#8217;ve been doing about this [&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":[283,83,286,285,279,284],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-apartment","tag-jessamyn","tag-mol","tag-monthofleisure","tag-randolph","tag-virgo","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}