{"id":364,"date":"2008-12-16T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2008-12-16T01:00:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T07:00:53","slug":"the-perfect-study-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2008\/20081216-364.htm","title":{"rendered":"The perfect study break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finals generally mean hardcore studying, sitting at my desk poring over a combination of computerized and printed material.  They mean spending hours at a stretch on schoolwork, as opposed to my usual 30-45 minute bursts.<\/p>\n<p>But the brain (and the bottom) grows dull with prolonged sitting, and study breaks are in order.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite study break?<\/p>\n<p>Cleaning.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike studying, cleaning involves getting up and moving around.  Unlike studying, cleaning gives instantly visible results.  And best of all&#8211;I don&#8217;t generally get sucked into cleaning and rendered useless by it (as I would by other common study avoiding activities such as Facebook, web-surfing, blog reading, computer game playing, novel reading, and the like.<\/p>\n<p>So, thanks to a Food Chemistry test tomorrow, my dresser and desk surfaces are decluttered, organized, and dusted.  And thanks to the research manuscript from a couple of weeks ago, my bathtub got a thorough scrubbing.<\/p>\n<p>It feels nice to know, that even if I didn&#8217;t study well enough to get a good grade on my final, at least I&#8217;ll come home to a clean(er) house!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finals generally mean hardcore studying, sitting at my desk poring over a combination of computerized and printed material. They mean spending hours at a stretch on schoolwork, as opposed to my usual 30-45 minute bursts. But the brain (and the bottom) grows dull with prolonged sitting, and study breaks are in order. My favorite study &#8230; <a title=\"The perfect study break\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2008\/20081216-364.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The perfect study 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":[37,12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}