{"id":156,"date":"2008-01-14T09:10:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2008-03-16T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T19:38:20","slug":"daydreams-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Daydreams of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"photo_h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2008\/01\/cousins_11Jan2007.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLily, Damian and I watched baby Clara for a couple of hours<br \/>\nlast Friday while Steve went to his doctor appointment.<br \/>\n11 January 2008<\/p>\n<p>When I was in college, I was always behind on my homework.\u00c2\u00a0 This was because I was a procrastinator and never did work in a timely fashion.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a recurring daydream in which time would stop and I would catch up on all my homework while lounging on a beautiful beach.\u00c2\u00a0 After I graduated, I thought that I would no longer have that daydream.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought that now homework was in my past, I would no longer feel the need to stop time in order to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, was I ever wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 I want to do so many things, but I have two <em>huge<\/em> hurdles that I am directly responsible for:\u00c2\u00a0 1) my inability to stay focused on a single task; and 2) my procrastination.\u00c2\u00a0 And I wonder, if I was able to stay focused and didn&#8217;t procrastinate, would I accomplish more?\u00c2\u00a0 Or, is it woven into the very nature of time and human curiousity that we will always have more things we desire to do than we have time for?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the answer to that.\u00c2\u00a0 If I ever learn to focus and quit procrastinating, maybe someday I will find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lily, Damian and I watched baby Clara for a couple of hours last Friday while Steve went to his doctor appointment. 11 January 2008 When I was in college, I was always behind on my homework.\u00c2\u00a0 This was because I was a procrastinator and never did work in a timely fashion.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a recurring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surburbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}