{"id":2026,"date":"2010-11-29T20:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T01:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2010-11-30T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T17:37:45","slug":"case-of-the-mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2010\/11\/case-of-the-mondays\/","title":{"rendered":"Case of the Mondays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah the Monday after a holiday weekend.  Nothing like it when you work at an organization teetering on the brink of insolvency to make sleep Sunday night hard to come by.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s character flaw, I know, but I&#8217;m always convinced after a holiday that I&#8217;m going to get back to my desk to find that they&#8217;ve decided they really don&#8217;t need me and all my crap has been packed into a box and set on what used to be my desk.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure if BigPharma could find one they&#8217;d be marketing a pill to <acronym title=\"Oh, wait, they do it's just that all of them are Schedule 3 narcotics\">cure random episodes of paranoia and self-doubt<\/acronym>.<\/p>\n<p>I also dread Mondays because, at least <acronym title=\"We have a pool going on when Management will announce the pay cuts will continue. TGF has the Monday of the last pay period before they're supposed to end.\">until the middle of March<\/acronym>, Monday is one of two days in the week on which I am forced to go into the office.\u00c2\u00a0 Going into the office didn&#8217;t used to be so bad.\u00c2\u00a0 My room got a lot of sun and I had it to myself.\u00c2\u00a0 Alas, both of these conditions now evaluate to false.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2029\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2029\" title=\"My office with no illumination, 8:30 a.m. 2010-11-01\" src=\"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_0112-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_0112-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_0112-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_0112-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My office with no artificial lighting at 8:30 a.m. on November 1, 2010.  Nice, eh?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sharing an office isn&#8217;t so bad.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting used to the headphones again for music and the fact that my officemate has his phone ringer set way too loud.\u00c2\u00a0 What I can&#8217;t get used to is the fact that for 8 hours a day no matter how bright it is outside I don&#8217;t see the sun.<\/p>\n<p>I know I shouldn&#8217;t be complaining.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, I still have a job and a paycheck coming in, and I do <acronym title=\"Wednesday is furlough day\">work at home two days a week<\/acronym>.  In many respects life could be a lot worse.  That said, I&#8217;m just as happy to not be at my desk in the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah the Monday after a holiday weekend. Nothing like it when you work at an organization teetering on the brink of insolvency to make sleep Sunday night hard to come by. It&#8217;s character flaw, I know, but I&#8217;m always convinced after a holiday that I&#8217;m going to get back to my desk to find that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nablopomo-2010","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}