{"id":953,"date":"2004-03-09T12:53:54","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T17:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/03\/09\/its-only-march\/"},"modified":"2004-03-09T12:53:54","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T17:53:54","slug":"its-only-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/03\/09\/its-only-march\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s only March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My notes are mostly doodles now, but I can&#8217;t claim the same kind of downhill slide as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettothechoppa.com\/blog\/archives\/000411.html\" title=\"&quot;and then realized Holy mother I am totally attracted to this person! and now I hate both of us.&quot;\">Amy<\/a>, because they were mostly doodles to begin with.  I think the first page of last semester&#8217;s notebook was <i>all<\/i> doodles.<\/p>\n<p>What it gets down to is that I don&#8217;t pay much attention in class, which is bad.  But the professor for whom I have two of my classes hands out hard copies of his PowerPoint presentations every day, which is good.  But I&#8217;m still not doing well in two of my classes, which is bad.  But I get a lot of writing and drawing done, which is good.  But I&#8217;m still not drawing comics and I haven&#8217;t gotten around to publishing my writing project yet, which is bad.<\/p>\n<p>Grad school is proving very useful to me, in that I&#8217;m a much better programmer than I was six months ago, and also now I understand frequencies.  It may well be, though, that it proves more useful as a way of forcing me to create via an acute and growing distaste for computer science.  If I actually had a way to make a living writing, I know perfectly well that I would instead play Dynasty Warriors and never write anything, until I ran out of food and starved.  But being stuck in a quiet room with lots of math and Web Serwices<a href=\"#200403090200\" title=\"Footnote.\">[1]<\/a> is a pretty efficient way to turn my desire for escape into a very exacting word count.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettothechoppa.com\/blog\/\" title=\"&quot;1. Macoroni and cheese only tastes good within the first 3 minutes of making it.&quot;\">Amy&#8217;s blog<\/a> is pretty great, by the way.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"200403090200\"><\/a>[1]  Not a typo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My notes are mostly doodles now, but I can&#8217;t claim the same kind of downhill slide as Amy, because they were mostly doodles to begin with. I think the first page of last semester&#8217;s notebook was all doodles. What it gets down to is that I don&#8217;t pay much attention in class, which is bad. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grad-school","category-plugs","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}