{"id":5,"date":"2006-09-04T23:34:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T23:34:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-09-16T16:42:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T16:42:33","slug":"bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/2006\/09\/04\/bored\/","title":{"rendered":"Bored&#8230;(but contemplative)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..yes, I know, most people would be going to bed now if they were bored, but, I&#8217;m not most people.<\/p>\n<p>I was studying and then got a phonecall at 10.00pm until 11.20pm &#8211; now I feel wide awake \ud83d\ude41  Have opened a bottle of wine (again!) as I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;ll make me sleepy.  We&#8217;ll see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, not much to report so I am probably about to waffle about NOTHING.<\/p>\n<p>Been quite a productive day, caught up with Jim (on MSN) in Australia as soon as I logged on this morning &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;hope the dental surgery isn&#8217;t aching too much, petal!? \ud83d\ude41 &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weird day, today &#8230;.but got lots of work done; consolidating spreadsheets for most of the morning, very nice lunch with a young man in the Crow&#8217;s Nest and then a busy afternoon clearing boring stuff off my desk and arranging my travel plans (work) for the rest of the month.  The traffic was a nightmare on the way home [and I was listening to a Michael McDonald album so intently (the song &#8211; <i>I Can Let Go Now<\/i>) that it made me cry &#8211; which is always quite embarassing when you&#8217;re sitting at the traffic lights with other drivers, but I digress&#8230;!] so, thanks to the traffic [not the crying], I got back late, decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/New-York-City-Ballet-Workout-2000\/dp\/B00005AMF1\/sr=1-2\/qid=1157410072\/ref=sr_1_2\/202-8668156-5142209?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dvd\" title=\"NYCBW\">exercise<\/a>, bath, eat &#8211; and then by that time it was 8pm &#8211; so I started to study!!  Ho-hum, I don&#8217;t know how I cope with the excitement.  \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Just been looking at flights away.  Helen, Peter &amp; Jason (Peter&#8217;s suggestion, if I remember correctly!) and I have decided we&#8217;re going for a COLD holiday in Jan\/Feb.  Helen was hoping to go for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icehotel.co.uk\/Summer\/Icehotel\/\" title=\"ICE\">Ice Hotel<\/a> (yes, the one they used in <i>Die Another Day<\/i>!) until she realised how much it would cost us \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nSo&#8230;it now looks like we&#8217;re going for Budapest &#8211; especially before it becomes part of the EU because at the moment it&#8217;s still <em>cheap as chips<\/em>! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Really hoping nobody reads this post as I&#8217;m just talking about nothing &#8211;  drinking wine and listening to the Cardigan&#8217;s <i>Erase and Rewind<\/i> (on my iTunes) &#8211; top song, but lyrics are strange so am not sure how to describe the effect&#8230;hmm.. leaves a strange aftertaste&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo &#8211; it&#8217;s after midnight, I should probably do the sensible thing and go to bed.  I&#8217;m off to read my latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Bigger-Than-Hitler-Better-Than-Christ\/dp\/000720728X\/sr=8-1\/qid=1157410950\/ref=pd_ka_1\/202-8668156-5142209?ie=UTF8&amp;s=gateway\" title=\"RIK\">book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>night all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..yes, I know, most people would be going to bed now if they were bored, but, I&#8217;m not most people. I was studying and then got a phonecall at 10.00pm until 11.20pm &#8211; now I feel wide awake \ud83d\ude41 Have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/2006\/09\/04\/bored\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-late-at-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}