{"id":2779,"date":"2015-12-10T17:41:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T22:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2015-12-10T17:42:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T22:42:54","slug":"your-daily-digest-fun-and-how-to-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=2779","title":{"rendered":"Your Daily Digest: Fun and how to have it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I took the day off and played Dungeons of Dredmor all day while I meditated. Ironically, I neglected to actually meditate. I ate Taco Bell and ice cream, and binge-watched nearly all of\u00c2\u00a0It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/em>, which allowed me to try and figure out how I can allow myself to enjoy a day like that. I always feel guilty that I’m not getting other things done. Being married means that I’m always worried about how my “roommate” will react to things I do on my own. Marcee has never been mad about me taking a day off, but it still does not feel private. I don’t want anyone to know when I slack off to that extent, because people can’t know what goes on in my head when I’m doing that.<\/p>\n

But why should I care so much even if they did? Why should I feel the need to be thinking big thoughts while I’m goofing off for a day, typically to recover.\u00c2\u00a0I’m glad to know my friends think highly of me. I should join them in that feeling. Not about them, but about me. I always feel like my friends are superb\u00c2\u00a0people.<\/p>\n

I have achieved so much with stage combat, and I hope to be able to make more out of it. Could I fight through the lack of an MFA to teach at a college? It’s difficult, and I am tired. Could I do it, or is it beyond what is possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I took the day off and played Dungeons of Dredmor all day while I meditated. Ironically, I neglected to actually meditate. I ate Taco Bell and ice cream, and binge-watched nearly all of\u00c2\u00a0It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which allowed me to try and figure out how I can allow myself to enjoy a day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-IP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":317,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=317","url_meta":{"origin":2779,"position":0},"title":"Too right. 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