{"id":31,"date":"2006-01-06T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/2006\/01\/06\/happy-new-year\/"},"modified":"2006-01-06T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T19:35:17","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/2006\/01\/06\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a96'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know I&#8217;m a little late.&nbsp; My holidays were wonderful this<br \/>\nyear &#8211; peaceful and joyous &#8211; just the way they&#8217;re meant to be!<\/p>\n<p>However, for some completely unknown reason, I was a complete grump upon returning to work on Tuesday.&nbsp; I was making <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">myself <\/span>nervous<br \/>\nbecause I just couldn&#8217;t snap out of it.&nbsp; No, I don&#8217;t believe that<br \/>\nit was having to return to work &#8211; much as I didn&#8217;t want to, there was<br \/>\nno explanation for this horrific mood I found myself in!<\/p>\n<p>Then, it hit me!&nbsp; I know how to get out of this mood!&nbsp; I needed to go ice skating!&nbsp; <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">I LOVE ICE SKATING!&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span>Ice skating is, to me, one of the best\/most relaxing\/leave your worries behind activities out there!<\/p>\n<p>I was a tad bit nervous as this was my first time on skates in 2 years<br \/>\n(it&#8217;d been like 18 before that!) and the first time since I had the hip<br \/>\nreplacement done last January (for those of you that don&#8217;t know me, NO,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not THAT old &#8211; I had an accident a few years back which resulted in<br \/>\nthe need to replace the hip!).&nbsp; Although I was a bit shaky I did<br \/>\nokay &#8211; or, at least, I didn&#8217;t fall!&nbsp; I&#8217;m also happy to<br \/>\nreport that today, with the exception of one muscle, my legs<br \/>\n(amazingly) feel pretty good!&nbsp; And&nbsp; better yet, my <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">BAD<\/span> mood is gone!&nbsp; See &#8211; it really does work!<\/p>\n<p>And now to make things even better, I am a mere 28 minutes away from<br \/>\nanother weekend!&nbsp; Thankfully, this week passed much quicker than<br \/>\nlast!&nbsp; And can you imagine my surprise when I looked at my<br \/>\ncalendar and saw that a week from Monday (1\/16) is an institute<br \/>\nholiday????&nbsp; Yay!&nbsp; I love academia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know I&#8217;m a little late.&nbsp; My holidays were wonderful this year &#8211; peaceful and joyous &#8211; just the way they&#8217;re meant to be! However, for some completely unknown reason, I was a complete grump upon returning to work on Tuesday.&nbsp; I was making myself nervous because I just couldn&#8217;t snap out of it.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curtincallstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/curtincall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}