{"id":1982,"date":"2011-02-02T00:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2011-02-02T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T06:35:08","slug":"i-get-things-done-a-personal-pep-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=1982","title":{"rendered":"I Get Things Done: A Personal Pep Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swear, for someone who feels lost so often, I certainly do tend to get a lot done.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I feel like I&#8217;m getting nothing done, but already, this week, I managed to come up with a passable plan that I like for after graduation and talk to people at school and at work to warn them about my impending transition, making it that much more real. I also read some short stories and commented on some poems. I wrote a sestina. I read like thousands of mafia posts. I played through a lot of Little Big Planet PSP. I spent some quality time with the boyfriend. I started setting up a trivia night team. I wrote some blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I made this database of everything I&#8217;ve written that&#8217;s at least quasi-respectable. I ended up with a number of entries in the triple digits. Dr. Watson was like, &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t it feel nice to see how much you&#8217;ve accomplished?&#8221;<br \/>\nIt does. It really does.<\/p>\n<p>I always feel like I&#8217;m so behind. I&#8217;m not moving ahead. Nothing is happening. But fuck, when I actually try to list what I&#8217;ve done? It&#8217;s a lot. I do things. I do them well. Are they always the right things? Debatable. But I&#8217;m not always just nothing. I am accomplishing something.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what? That will continue. I will be fine. I will keep accomplishing things.<br \/>\nI can do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear, for someone who feels lost so often, I certainly do tend to get a lot done. I mean, I feel like I&#8217;m getting nothing done, but already, this week, I managed to come up with a passable plan that I like for after graduation and talk to people at school and at work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}