{"id":10357,"date":"2012-10-09T20:53:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=10357"},"modified":"2012-10-09T20:53:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T01:53:20","slug":"an-unintended-blogging-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20121009-10357.htm","title":{"rendered":"An unintended Blogging break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This last stint has probably been the longest I&#8217;ve gone without blogging since I began posting regularly some 4 or so years ago. It has now officially been 14 days. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve considered blogging breaks before, but never too seriously-and I didn&#8217;t end up planning this one at all. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just been busy. <\/p>\n<p>In no particular order, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing with my time. <\/p>\n<p><b>Working<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned a bit about work, but haven&#8217;t mentioned (that I remember) that I&#8217;ve been acting as interim Director of Dining Services at my facility in Columbus while my dietary manager has been gone on leave. This has been in addition to my other duties which have been extensive due to my other dietary managers needing to take leave as well. My manager in Columbus will not be returning and I am pleased to announce that, as of next Monday, I will no longer be traveling. I will be giving up my two long-distance buildings and will be the RD\/Director of Dining Services for Columbus. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching<\/strong><br \/>\nTeaching Sunday School continues to be a delight. It is much easier this year since I have a great curriculum and helpers-but it continues to take time. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nMy national professional conference just finished up today in Philly-and I&#8217;ve been here soaking up classroom time. I&#8217;ve also been <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bekahcubed\" title=\"Twitter feed\">tweeting<\/a> from the conference, which has involved learning how to use the touchscreen of a borrowed tablet. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sightseeing<\/strong><br \/>\nI did take the afternoon after the conference to see the most important Philly sights (that is, but the historical ones). The loaned tablet came in handy for snapping pictures of myself with the Liberty Bell and at Independence Hall. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_20121009_143649_1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_20121009_143649_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10362\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_20121009_144126-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_20121009_144126\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10363\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>With Daniel<\/strong><br \/>\nBefore I flew out, Daniel and I got to spend some time together. We spent some time in the city-but also some time just hanging out at his brother and sister-in-law&#8217;s house (where I was staying). Daniel&#8217;s adorable niece (almost 4 years old) took some pictures of us-which means I can let you see him (albeit a facial-hair-less version of him, which is unlikely to last long). <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_20121007_052559-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_20121007_052559\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10364\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last stint has probably been the longest I&#8217;ve gone without blogging since I began posting regularly some 4 or so years ago. It has now officially been 14 days. I&#8217;ve considered blogging breaks before, but never too seriously-and I didn&#8217;t end up planning this one at all. I&#8217;ve just been busy. In no particular &#8230; <a title=\"An unintended Blogging break\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20121009-10357.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An unintended Blogging break<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}