{"id":338,"date":"2005-08-17T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T16:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.dreamhosters.com\/wordpress\/?p=338"},"modified":"2005-08-17T09:52:46","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T16:52:46","slug":"first-day-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/first-day-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"First day of school"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/34847563\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos23.flickr.com\/34847563_8bcc0433c5_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n <br \/>\n <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/34847563\/\">First day of school<\/a><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/angrypirate\/\">angrypirate<\/a>.<br \/>\n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here I am, first day of school with all the teenagers!<\/p>\n<p>I figured out I have a prejudice against anyone who is under the age of 25. I suppose that&#8217;s reverse agism. Good thing I&#8217;m taking Cultural Anthropology. Maybe I can change my agist ways this semester.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out I really lucked out this semester with teachers. It appears that all four of my teachers are going to be great. Phew! City College can be somewhat of a crap shoot. San Francisco is a great city so I think generally speaking we get some fine teachers, but every once in a while, I come across one that bores me to tears or drives me insane. Many of the teachers start out pretty interesting and then turn into bitter, old hags or&#8230; what&#8217;s the male equivalent of a hag?<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a busy little beaver today, writing away. I have to turn in 175 pages, give or take, by August 31st and it&#8217;s been a little intimidating. I have been allowing myself to stoop to new lows of self doubt. But today, I really got in the groove and churned out some good stuff on one of the more headier subjects in the book, and one I&#8217;ve been afraid to tackle. Turns out my fear was worse than reality. So today you could say I learned that it isn&#8217;t always reality that bites. Hmmm, might be this week&#8217;s &#8220;finder&#8217;s keepers&#8221; themed illustration.<\/p>\n<p>OK one more thing before I get back to work. This &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/scrap\">finders keepers<\/a>&#8221; project just keeps getting cooler as new ideas are exposed. I have had a fear that I wouldn&#8217;t be able to find a cool enough topic by Friday to draw about but it turns out, I&#8217;m starting to find them all over the place. These ideas are like little winged presents that flitter around in the air until I see them and am ready to snatch them up. Just the act of looking for them has willed them into existence. I like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First day of school Originally uploaded by angrypirate. Here I am, first day of school with all the teenagers! I figured out I have a prejudice against anyone who is under the age of 25. I suppose that&#8217;s reverse agism. Good thing I&#8217;m taking Cultural Anthropology. Maybe I can change my agist ways this semester. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}