{"id":180,"date":"2007-01-06T23:16:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T07:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/06\/back-homeor-not-homeor-something\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T07:29:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:29:10","slug":"back-homeor-not-homeor-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/back-homeor-not-homeor-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Back home&#8230;or not home&#8230;or something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Home&#8221; is a weird concept right now.  Is &#8220;home&#8221; my parents&#8217; house, where I haven&#8217;t lived for three years?  Is &#8220;home&#8221; my haphazard apartment at school, where I know I&#8217;ll only live for another year and three months?  Is &#8220;home&#8221; my apartment in St. Louis, which is no longer my apartment?  Not that any of that is really bothering me that much&#8230;I&#8217;m not much of a &#8220;home&#8221;-centric person anyway.  All my stuff is at school, so I guess that&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.  That was random.  Tired now, so bulleted update.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Back in Texas.<\/li>\n<li>Slot-car section of highway south of Dallas (due to road construction) made even less fun by TORRENTIAL RAINS.  I exaggerate, but not much.<\/li>\n<li>I had to almost randomly reassign books and DVDs to new genres in order to make all the new ones I bought and received over Christmas fit on my shelves.  After being really good about not buying things over the past year, I sorta binged.<\/li>\n<li>XM Radio is the best Christmas gift ever.  Made the trip down AWESOME.  Except for the TORRENTIAL RAINS at the end.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematical.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cinematical<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematical.com\/2007\/01\/04\/call-for-bloggers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hiring a new blogger<\/a>.  It&#8217;s one of my favorite film blogs, and I would adore to write for it.  But they&#8217;re looking for someone to be posting 2-3 times a day, and I&#8217;m pretty sure I can&#8217;t keep that pace up with school. Hopefully they&#8217;ll happen to need a new writer in about a year and a half, and I can apply then.  ;)<\/li>\n<li><i>American Idol<\/i> starts in like a week!  I&#8217;ve stopped even pretending to be ashamed by my addiction to that show.<\/li>\n<li>Bed now.  No.  A bit more of <i>Possession<\/i>, then bed.  I was reading it while eating dinner, and almost couldn&#8217;t tear myself away to start driving again.  Yet, once I got home, did I immediately start reading it or gravitate to TV and internet?  Sigh.  What&#8217;s wrong with me?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Home&#8221; is a weird concept right now. Is &#8220;home&#8221; my parents&#8217; house, where I haven&#8217;t lived for three years? Is &#8220;home&#8221; my haphazard apartment at school, where I know I&#8217;ll only live for another year and three months? Is &#8220;home&#8221; my apartment in St. Louis, which is no longer my apartment? Not that any of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1196,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/la-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":180,"position":0},"title":"LA Update","author":"Jandy","date":"June 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm working on various posts about various things, but I don't know how long it'll take me to actually get them finished and posted, so I figured I'd throw up a quickie update for those of you wondering how my crazy move to LA is going. I'm in LA! 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