{"id":1105,"date":"2010-03-25T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T01:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2010\/03\/25\/nagging-thumbkin\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T21:48:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T01:48:59","slug":"nagging-thumbkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1105","title":{"rendered":"Nagging thumbkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">March Exercise V &#8212;day twenty-five&#8212;<\/span> I continued to have difficulty with my \u201cphantom thumb\u201d exercise, so I called Mary Ellen to consult. She told me to just set it aside for now and not to fret about it. I suddenly realized how many other things I\u2019d allowed myself to make an object of daily worry, pondering the connection between stress and vision problems. It seemed a good time to walk over to the Community Art Center with Dana and tour the dinosaur exhibit.  We saw Nathan M and he offered to provide us the list of economic development conferees. Later, I sipped a cold Leinenkugel and watched the Wildcats secure their spot in the \u201celite 8.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> Phosphorescent streaks and random geometric perfections <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> convincing me that exotic minerals are more fascinating to my current imagination than extinct reptiles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Previously on M-Ex&#8212;<\/span> It\u2019s a madhouse! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/03\/25\/just-your-basic-inner-freak-out\/\"><em>(3\/25\/07)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tomorrow&#8212;<\/span> Flying solo in the studio . . . <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/fluorescentcalcite.jpg' alt='fluorescent calcite' title='fluorescent calcite'\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Exercise V &#8212;day twenty-five&#8212; I continued to have difficulty with my \u201cphantom thumb\u201d exercise, so I called Mary Ellen to consult. She told me to just set it aside for now and not to fret about it. I suddenly realized how many other things I\u2019d allowed myself to make an object of daily worry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,12,40,10,15,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}