{"id":2282,"date":"2008-01-20T01:44:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2012-04-27T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T13:38:06","slug":"morning-after-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2282","title":{"rendered":"Morning-after blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was pretty cool. Went and saw Cloverfield, which maybe didn&#8217;t quite live up to the hype, but I still enjoyed it. Also learned the basics of how to drive stick, so I won&#8217;t be fudged if the time comes where it&#8217;s do or die and that&#8217;s the skill that decides my fate. Quite possibly best of all, I ate three double quarter pounders for lunch. Mmmm I loves me some burger. But despite all the good things, I can&#8217;t help but have an unshakable uneasiness in the pit of my stomach (which is not beef-related). See, yesterday evening I got peer-pressured into applying for a promotion.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I say &#8220;peer-pressured&#8221; is because I have a dangerously low level of self-confidence, especially when it comes to things like this. If I hadn&#8217;t been bombarded by co-workers telling me that I had to go for this stupid position from the moment I walked in to the moment I submitted my letter, I really doubt I would have gone through with it. They say you&#8217;ll never win if you don&#8217;t try, but I find the popular theory &#8220;trying is the first step to failure&#8221; is much more applicable to my life.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s supposed to be a good thing, and by all means, it should work out. I feel that I&#8217;m more than qualified for the position, but in the situation that I don&#8217;t get it, my very fragile emotional structure will be completely shattered and what little faith I have in myself and my abilities will disappear completely. Oh well. It&#8217;ll be wicked if I do get it, because the opening is in either one of two areas, and either way I win. If it&#8217;s in outdoors, that&#8217;s where I already work and I know pretty much everything there is to know, and I&#8217;ll be doing essentially the same thing I&#8217;m doing now for more money and with a shiny badge. If it&#8217;s in the boys area, I know the subject matter in there pretty well too, plus some other perks that I&#8217;m more inclined to keep to myself. So here&#8217;s hoping things pan out. If not, well, I suppose I&#8217;ll just have to go find a new jorb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was pretty cool. Went and saw Cloverfield, which maybe didn&#8217;t quite live up to the hype, but I still enjoyed it. Also learned the basics of how to drive stick, so I won&#8217;t be fudged if the time comes where it&#8217;s do or die and that&#8217;s the skill that decides my fate. Quite possibly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Morning-after blues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-irl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}