{"id":6822,"date":"2015-01-12T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=6822"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:42:54","slug":"shaping-up-to-be-one-of-those-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/12\/shaping-up-to-be-one-of-those-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaping Up to Be One of Those Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent my first three days back in the office from the holidays last week twiddling my thumbs. Then my project managers (or possibly their clients&#8230; <em>somebody<\/em>) seemed to wake up in the same fashion as someone who realizes they&#8217;ve missed their alarm and overslept by a couple of hours: with a snort, a surge of adrenaline, and a sudden mad scramble of activity. The resulting avalanche of work hit me on Friday, I ended up bringing a big project home with me over the weekend, and I just now looked up and saw that it&#8217;s nearly three o&#8217;clock. I&#8217;ve been proofreading nonstop since I got here at ten and had completely lost track of time.<\/p>\n<p>Which means it&#8217;s time to bring this out again:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/POTC_little-busy-right-now-1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2519 aligncenter\" alt=\"POTC_little-busy-right-now\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/POTC_little-busy-right-now-1.gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Naturally, all this hell breaking loose coincides with a surge in mental fertility; I find I&#8217;ve suddenly got lots of ideas for blogging topics, in addition to other things, but no time or energy to spare for them, naturally. And that makes me feel like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/angry-tusken-1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5713 aligncenter\" alt=\"angry-tusken\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/angry-tusken-1.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in this job for nearly a decade now, and I <em>still<\/em> don&#8217;t understand why it&#8217;s always like this&#8230; feast-or-famine, either <em>nothing<\/em> going on or no time to breathe. Seriously, what&#8217;s wrong with spreading the load out a little more evenly, guys? Surely it can&#8217;t be <em>that<\/em> hard to plan?<\/p>\n<p>Sigh. Back to proofreading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent my first three days back in the office from the holidays last week twiddling my thumbs. Then my project managers (or possibly their clients&#8230; somebody) seemed to wake up in the same fashion as someone who realizes they&#8217;ve missed their alarm and overslept by a couple of hours: with a snort, a surge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gripes-and-grumbles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}