{"id":486,"date":"2008-08-18T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/18\/body-kitty-band-tv-writing\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T21:43:00","slug":"body-kitty-band-tv-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/18\/body-kitty-band-tv-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"body, kitty, band, tv, writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I helped my room-mate a little on Sunday at his job.  Not a big deal, perhaps, but he works at a funeral home.  There was a &#8220;customer&#8221; that needed his attention and he needed a little help with the removal and repositioning of some absorbent padding.  I asked if I needed to &#8220;glove up&#8221; and he said yes &#8211; I figured I&#8217;d be right in the mix of things.   Instead, he did the work and I held the plastic bag for the used padding.   A bit of a letdown, actually.  Still, I did my part and helped a bit.  I didn&#8217;t save the gloves as a souvenir.<\/p>\n<p>While out driving over the weekend, I saw a woman on a motorcycle with a pink leather jacket and a giant stuffed Hello Kitty strapped to the seat behind her.   It was freaky.<\/p>\n<p>I was out on campus today and while walking from one area to another I came across two marching band practices on different fields.  I despise walking past a marching because &#8211; despite never having been in one &#8211; I always feel the almost compulsive urge to match my steps to the beat of the drums.   I end up looking like  a) a complete mindless tool or  b) a complete spazz stumbling at every step to try and not match the rhythm. <\/p>\n<p>The TV was on today at the pool &#8211; a giant screen normally used during swimming matches but this time set up to show the Olympics.   I was busy with the whole swimming\/not drowning thing and didn&#8217;t see much.   It wasn&#8217;t swimming, which is good since I would have felt really outclassed.  And I was already feeling that from the girl in the next lane that swam like a freaking dolphin.  And that was before she put on the flippers and started hydro-planing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started transcribing my written beach story into a text file. It&#8217;ll take me a long time, I think, and longer still to do the editing.   In a way, it doesn&#8217;t really matter.  I wrote the story because it was one I wanted to tell.    If I get it done and others enjoy it &#8211; so much the better.  But it&#8217;s mostly for me.<\/p>\n<p>later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-2828820034006442585?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I helped my room-mate a little on Sunday at his job. Not a big deal, perhaps, but he works at a funeral home. There was a &#8220;customer&#8221; that needed his attention and he needed a little help with the removal and repositioning of some absorbent padding. I asked if I needed to &#8220;glove up&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}