{"id":162,"date":"2007-05-10T09:37:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=162"},"modified":"2007-05-10T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:37:32","slug":"running-to-stand-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2007\/05\/running-to-stand-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Running to Stand Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, I found out that I did not get the internship in LA.&nbsp; While I&#8217;m quite relieved to at least know, I&#8217;m still a little bummed that I didn&#8217;t get it.&nbsp; LA isn&#8217;t my first choice of a place to live by far, however I think the year there would have been very good for me.&nbsp; What it has done is put me back into a brainstorming mode of what my next move is.&nbsp; Right now I&#8217;m blessed with a great job and boss so I&#8217;ve at least got that going for me.&nbsp; But it also doesn&#8217;t get me any closer to where I want to be.&nbsp; So I&#8217;ve got myself some time set up to talk to a friend and do some brainstorming on Monday morning.&nbsp; Hopefully, we&#8217;ll be able to come up with some good ideas from there.<\/p>\n<p>What I see myself doing this week though is pulling inward.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve got no appetite for food, though I&#8217;m eating better this week than I did over the weekend.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going home tonight for Mother&#8217;s Day weekend, but that is also part of what is on my mind.&nbsp; A couple weeks ago, my parents were in town, and didn&#8217;t tell me they were coming up, and when I talked to them after finding out&#8230;didn&#8217;t make any time to see me.<\/p>\n<p>I feel alone.&nbsp; If it wasn&#8217;t for one of my best friends, I might not have seen anyone outside of work this week.&nbsp; I barely even see my roommates&#8230;one of whom is a lame duck roommate as he&#8217;s moving out at the end of the month. So I also need to be searching for a new roommate, but I have no motivation for that either.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, 80&#8217;s Night at John Henry&#8217;s in Eugene.&nbsp; That will be fun.&nbsp; It&#8217;ll be good to see my Eugene friends and forget about everything else going on for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, I get an eye exam.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think my perscription will have changed, but its been long enough I need an exam to get new glasses.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to get my Dolce &amp; Gabanna frames relensed (I lost one of them) and I&#8217;m looking for new frames that are flamboyant and competely different from the three frames I already have.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday is Mother&#8217;s Day.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t decided what I&#8217;m going to do for her (other than give her the last installment of money that I owe her).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also looking forward to watching the Planet Earth DVD&#8217;s on my dad&#8217;s HDTV.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, I found out that I did not get the internship in LA.&nbsp; While I&#8217;m quite relieved to at least know, I&#8217;m still a little bummed that I didn&#8217;t get it.&nbsp; LA isn&#8217;t my first choice of a place to live by far, however I think the year there would have been very good &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2007\/05\/running-to-stand-still\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[527,73,532,52,241,54],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-or-something-like-it","tag-discernment","tag-home","tag-life-or-something-like-it","tag-relationships","tag-roommates","tag-trips","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}