{"id":855,"date":"2003-12-11T23:57:52","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T03:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/11\/the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T17:36:11","slug":"the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/11\/the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"the most wonderful time of the year."},"content":{"rendered":"
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I always seem to get sick at this time of year. My main assumption has always been that the wildly fluctuating outside temperature, combined with the change-over of the internal a\/c\/heating systems in both my apartment and office are just too much for my equilibrium to take, and it just completely breaks down.<\/p>\n

I don’t think it’s as bad as the flu, but I left work early on Tuesday and today, and took the whole day off yesterday (although I did actually get several hours of work done while sitting in the Starbucks down the street, bundled in fleeces, in order to keep out of my cleaning lady’s way). I think it’s just a bad cold, with the headaches and stuffiness and sore throat.<\/p>\n

I am feeling a bit better now, and I actually ate some solid food today (Tuesday and Wednesday it was strictly chicken broth). And tomorrow’s Friday, so even if I feel like crap, it’s only one day until the weekend.<\/p>\n

I actually think my biggest problem is my insane inability to call in sick two days in a row. It’s a total psychological tic – I got to work this morning, and everyone I work with looked at me like I had three heads for showing up, so it’s not like they would penalize me (or even think badly of me!) for staying home, but I just can’t do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always seem to get sick at this time of year. My main assumption has always been that the wildly fluctuating outside temperature, combined with the change-over of the internal a\/c\/heating systems in both my apartment and office are just too much for my equilibrium to take, and it just completely breaks down. I don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-miscellaney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-dN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}