{"id":141,"date":"2008-01-25T02:57:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T09:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=141"},"modified":"2008-01-25T02:57:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T09:57:33","slug":"man-i-need-to-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/man-i-need-to-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Man!  I need to FOCUS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a rant on the negative aspects of my usual disorganized mode of existence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Man!\u00a0 I wanted to do a whole lot of writing today!\u00a0 But I didn&#8217;t, and it was pretty lame.\u00a0 I did get 750 words in on <em>The Lost Colony<\/em>, and I got some good ideas for <em>The Wormhole Paradigm<\/em>, which I&#8217;m working on for English 318, but man!\u00a0 I could have done <em>so much more<\/em> if I&#8217;d made better use of my time.<\/p>\n<p>I was actually doing pretty well until I came back to the house.\u00a0 I did a whole lot of Arabic homework in the library and came down to the house around 9:30 to get some food and do my Poli Sci homework.\u00a0 Then I just started hanging out with the people who were in my apartment, that was fun but distracting, then got into an argument\/discussion with my roommate about some drama that&#8217;s been going on (man, my Arab roommate can really be a pain in the a__), then just got distracted on other stuff and didn&#8217;t finish my homework until 1:00&#8230;then FINALLY got down and wrote something!<\/p>\n<p>Man, how much more could I have done if I hadn&#8217;t allowed myself to get distracted?\u00a0 When I was at the library, I was on a roll, but that stopped as soon as I came back to the house.\u00a0 It makes me think that from now on, I need to set aside time to do my homework and do it in the library before coming back to the apartment!<\/p>\n<p>So, other than that, today was pretty good (and I actually did get more writing done than I was expecting).\u00a0 I may be getting a job helping out with layout and design for an Arabic project, we&#8217;ll see how it goes.\u00a0 Just learned about it today in class, and Dil said he&#8217;d put my name in.\u00a0 I could really use some money about now, and these guys are willing to hire now even though we&#8217;re going to be gone all summer.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to Andy and Daniel Lemmon, who are looking to move in to a house!\u00a0 I hope that everything goes well for them and their baby daughter, Rachel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a rant on the negative aspects of my usual disorganized mode of existence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4,599],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-the-lost-colony","tag-thoughts-reflections","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}