{"id":311,"date":"2007-12-18T22:01:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=311"},"modified":"2007-12-18T22:07:56","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T03:07:56","slug":"phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m back &#8220;home,&#8221; whatever that means.<br \/>\nI always have the problem of forgetting what I used to do with my free time whenever I start break. Then, by the end, I don&#8217;t want the break to end because I&#8217;ve found things to do again. Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working a bit on Student Wars v2. The base set is finished&#8230; I should get around to posting it.<\/p>\n<p>Pat came over yesterday. It was nice catching up with him and watching him play Metroid Prime. I don&#8217;t know&#8230; for most games, I still find it more interesting to watch people play than to actually play. It really annoys people back in Pittsburgh when I used to (blah, past tense&#8230; bad!) prefer to watch them play board games than to participate. I dunno.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images\/121807pat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interesting thought: I&#8217;ve been re-reading some of my journal, and it seems that my mood (averaged over each week or so to allow for particularly bad\/good days) fluctuates depending on my relationship status. I suppose this isn&#8217;t all that terribly surprising since I always thought that it was important for me to have a relationship (not for the sake of having one, but because I need someone to care for and to have someone care for me)&#8230; but having experienced one brief fling of romance and currently being in an amazingly perfect, committed relationship allows me to reflect back on all of this with less bias, I suppose.<br \/>\nI dunno.<br \/>\nI guess that&#8217;s a way of saying I have been contentedly happy for the past 8.5 months, and that not even distance can ruin that (too much, at least).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m back &#8220;home,&#8221; whatever that means. I always have the problem of forgetting what I used to do with my free time whenever I start break. Then, by the end, I don&#8217;t want the break to end because I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=311\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}