{"id":2568,"date":"2016-08-04T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T21:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2016-08-04T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T21:49:43","slug":"four-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/04\/four-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Four"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I didn\u2019t sleep well at all last night. I\u2019m still peeking at other job opportunities; I\u2019d like to GTFO of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m tired of being constantly concerned about whether there\u2019ll be a job for me in a few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During one of my brief sleep periods, I dreamed I was once again in a role where I wasn\u2019t just trying to check boxes, meet deadlines. Yes, I\u2019m adept at that. Yes, I\u2019m adept at making sure lower-case Fs are crossed, lower-case Js are dotted. But I\u2019m not really fulfilled by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to do something fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s the wrong feeling to have for someone in my condition, but it is what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m wondering if that\u2019s the real source of my disappointment with the last&nbsp;period of failurejob<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who knows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did see some promising things back in the media. Not radio; I don\u2019t know if I can do that anymore, but media, nonetheless. I didn\u2019t apply to anything because I had a few reservations about the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than reporting, though, I\u2019d like to be focused on something other than mere compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>shrugs<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On to the prompt\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you had one wish, what would you wish for?<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From back then:&nbsp;<em>My eyesight back. I\u2019d be so much better off if I could recover at least some of what I\u2019ve lost.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That answer really hasn\u2019t changed. My other afflictions are troublesome, but the vision limitations are the toughest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For tomorrow, since there were so many thirtieth anniversary celebrations last year about movies, I\u2019m going to slightly modify one from one from last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year:&nbsp;<strong>8-2. What do you remember from 1982?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since tomorrow will be the fifth,&nbsp;<strong>8-5. What do you remember from 1985?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t sleep well at all last night. I\u2019m still peeking at other job opportunities; I\u2019d like to GTFO of government. I\u2019m tired of being constantly concerned about whether there\u2019ll be a job for me in a few months. During one of my brief sleep periods, I dreamed I was once again in a role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}