{"id":713,"date":"2007-12-06T08:36:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T08:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=713"},"modified":"2014-01-04T03:17:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:17:57","slug":"713","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/12\/06\/713\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<font style=\"font-weight: bold;\" size=\"4\"><\/font><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The day<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My drive took over an hour both directions.&nbsp; There was little traffic on the way down, but the roads were pretty bad.&nbsp; Having spun my car once, I don&#8217;t like driving on bad roads.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>My Basic students have finally decided to kick themselves into gear and do their work so that they can finish on time.&nbsp; So my workload in that class has gone up significantly again.&nbsp; I spent the entire 3 hours from my arrival in my office until lunch working on grading, organizing, keeping up with my Basic students.<\/li>\n<li>After lunch, I had conferences with my Comp students.&nbsp; The other two days of conferences, I managed to stay on time, but yesterday, I got way behind, more than once.&nbsp; At one point, I had 2-3 people backed up in the hallway. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/images\/stunned.gif\">&nbsp; Needless to say, I got out of my office very late (after 5:00), but I do think the students walked away helped&#8230;which is always good!<\/li>\n<li>The drive home was in the dark, with lots more traffic, and only slightly better road conditions.&nbsp; The roads were cleaner, but the winds had caused drifting in a number of places, so we still couldn&#8217;t go much above 45 consistently.&nbsp; And with many more people out, you have to be much more careful.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t get home until about 6:15. I was hungry by 5:30, and my mom left a voicemail on my cell phone<br \/>\nwhich I didn&#8217;t want to answer while driving (at least in those road<br \/>\nconditions), so I had to listen to it beep at me for about half an<br \/>\nhour.&nbsp; I was more than ready to get home!<\/li>\n<li>The entire drive home I was trying to prepare myself for the evening: get home, make dinner, run out again to meet a friend, coming home to crash.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The happy ending:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When I walked into my house, dinner was already mostly done.&nbsp; My husband had cooked exactly the supper I was planning to make (pork chops, rice, green beans, &amp; applesauce).&nbsp; It smelled yummy, and it tasted great!&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>My friend called to cancel our chat because she didn&#8217;t want to go out in the traffic and weather last night. <\/li>\n<li>Eric and I curled up on the couch and watched a move (The Holiday), then went to bed.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that is a good way to end a day!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;The day: My drive took over an hour both directions.&nbsp; There was little traffic on the way down, but the roads were pretty bad.&nbsp; Having spun my car once, I don&#8217;t like driving on bad roads.&nbsp; My Basic students have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/12\/06\/713\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}