{"id":58,"date":"2006-07-24T20:08:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T03:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/counting-down\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T19:08:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T00:08:21","slug":"counting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/counting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting down&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more week.  Four more days of work.  Six and a half more days.  Seven more nights.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so weird.  I&#8217;m the worst procrastinator ever, so I haven&#8217;t really started packing.  Got some boxes tonight.  Put some books in a couple of them.  Might do some more of that tonight, but I think most of it&#8217;s going to happen on Saturday.  Then packing the truck on Monday, and heading down there Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I must say I am really, really looking forward to the couple of weeks after I get down there and before school starts.  I have a few minor things to do, but mostly, it&#8217;s going to be a nice break from working 9-5.  I think I will have an Alfred Hitchcock marathon.  <i>The 39 Steps<\/i>, <i>Shadow of a Doubt<\/i>, <i>Notorious<\/i> (except I don&#8217;t have it), <i>Rear Window<\/i>, <i>North by Northwest<\/i>, <i>Psycho<\/i>, and <i>The Birds<\/i>.  Yes.  I will do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more week. Four more days of work. Six and a half more days. Seven more nights. It&#8217;s so weird. I&#8217;m the worst procrastinator ever, so I haven&#8217;t really started packing. Got some boxes tonight. Put some books in a couple of them. Might do some more of that tonight, but I think most 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":422,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/home-again-home-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":58,"position":0},"title":"Home again, home again","author":"Jandy","date":"May 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Home to Waco, that is. I realized over the last couple of weeks that I've been using \"home\" to mean whichever place (my parents' house in St. Louis or my apartment in Waco) I'm not at. Which gets confusing. My apologies for that. 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