{"id":712,"date":"2009-11-02T22:04:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2009-11-02T22:04:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:04:32","slug":"life-is-looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20091102-712.htm","title":{"rendered":"Life is looking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a friend found my camera&#8211;the one I&#8217;ve been looking for for over a week.  It has dozens of pictures from our ladies retreat on it&#8211;and I promised myself I wouldn&#8217;t buy another camera until I could afford a digital SLR.  Now I won&#8217;t have to renege on my promise.<br \/>\n&#8230;I managed to get most of this morning&#8217;s lab reports graded and handed back today&#8211;with only a minimum of student complaints.<br \/>\n&#8230;I had a lovely conversation with a former classmate (under- and over-grad) who is now a lecturer in the department<\/p>\n<p>Seasonal Affective Disorder still seems to be kicking my butt.  I&#8217;m behind in nearly every class&#8211;not to mention laundry, cleaning, blogging, reading, bill paying, you name it.  But every so often, I can see a glimmer of sunlight that promises that winter is not forever.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for praying&#8211;and please continue when you can.  I need to find some time to talk to a medical practitioner about switching my meds&#8211;but right now just the thought of scheduling an appointment and discussing all this with a new doctor (since my teaching assistant insurance doesn&#8217;t pay for my regular PAs) is overwhelming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a friend found my camera&#8211;the one I&#8217;ve been looking for for over a week. It has dozens of pictures from our ladies retreat on it&#8211;and I promised myself I wouldn&#8217;t buy another camera until I could afford a digital SLR. Now I won&#8217;t have to renege on my promise. &#8230;I managed to get most of &#8230; <a title=\"Life is looking up\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20091102-712.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life is looking up<\/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":[11,21],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"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=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}