{"id":5428,"date":"2010-10-19T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=5428"},"modified":"2010-10-19T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:11:24","slug":"a-free-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20101019-5428.htm","title":{"rendered":"A Free Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a chilly day, a curl up under the covers and read day.  It&#8217;s a perfect brew a cuppa tea and watch a movie with a sister day.<\/p>\n<p>And thankfully, today I have the luxury of doing so.<\/p>\n<p>I spent my first day of UNL&#8217;s fall break at my other job, tying up loose ends from last week, getting things in place for this week&#8211;but today I made no such plans.  Today is a day that is completely free.<\/p>\n<p>Since I didn&#8217;t have labs yesterday and today, I don&#8217;t have the quizzes and questions I usually give to be graded.  I didn&#8217;t have a lecture to prepare or labs to attend, so I was able to spend that time doing other things.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have a luxurious morning alone around home, a fantastic afternoon date to watch a movie with my sister (who I haven&#8217;t had opportunity to spend time with one-on-one for at least a month), and another stimulating book club discussion this evening (yes, we decided to keep reading).<\/p>\n<p>What will I do with my free day, I wonder?  Will I curl up with a book and let time slip away?  Will I clean my house (which desperately needs it)?  Will I work on that huge pile of clothes I want to alter, or the other pile of household type items I want to work up?  Will I take a walk in the crisp autumn air?  Will I finally type up that Christmas list my siblings are anxiously waiting for?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know.  I don&#8217;t really have plans for today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my free day&#8211;and I&#8217;m not going to make plans.  I&#8217;m just going to do whatever I want to do today, even if I don&#8217;t get anything done.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be a nice respite from the craziness that has been my life (and that will resume again tomorrow!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a chilly day, a curl up under the covers and read day. It&#8217;s a perfect brew a cuppa tea and watch a movie with a sister day. And thankfully, today I have the luxury of doing so. I spent my first day of UNL&#8217;s fall break at my other job, tying up loose &#8230; <a title=\"A Free Day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20101019-5428.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Free Day<\/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\/5428"}],"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=5428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}