{"id":121,"date":"2011-12-20T01:54:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T09:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/?p=121"},"modified":"2011-12-20T03:45:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:45:05","slug":"nothing-but-smooth-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/2011\/12\/20\/nothing-but-smooth-sailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing But Smooth Sailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last exam today. Yes, I\u2019m the sucker who has an exam on the 20<sup>th<\/sup>, but I\u2019m feeling less stress and more a feeling of,<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday! One day left for DECEMBER EXAM MADNESS!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That needed to be read in a monster truck rally voice. Otherwise, I just sound like a crazy lunatic with caps lock, which is now mostly for angry people on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is over for me, its rough waves of sleep-deprivation countered with caffeine overdose a thing of the past. I feel smug eating an apple now, content that I have the time to enjoy a juicy piece of fruit, not crouched over my laptop, much like a troll would, separating my candy stockpile into sour and sweet, the sole organization I\u2019d use for nights of sporadic cramming with the occasional maniacal epiphany that doesn\u2019t make much sense in a rational morning. I\u2019ve lost the \u201cexam posture\u201d too, that hunched stance on a leaned-back chair, paired with a scowl saying, \u201cnone of this makes sense and I have to prove it does in two days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, my room\u2019s still messy, but let\u2019s just tick that off as a solemn memorial to what I used to be, the somber monument to the Exam War of December on my brain. Perhaps I should add a reflecting pool of nacho cheese. I really do need to clean my room though. If there were ever a time for an upbeat montage of room-cleaning success, played to the tune of Hall &amp; Oates, it would be now.<\/p>\n<p>The residence atmosphere\u2019s changed too. I remember the commonsblock being a beehive of activity, the worker students seeking the honey of academic closure. Now, it looks like the set of a spaghetti western, barren with the past aura of frustration and concentration, Powerade bottles and sandwich wrappings rolling by like tumbleweeds. While I\u2019m more constructive in a lasagna thriller atmosphere (the opposite of a spaghetti western), this pace is nice. It fits with the holiday spirit I\u2019ve been repressing for the sake of productivity. And it just feels nice to know that for a good few weeks, it\u2019ll be nothing but smooth sailing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last exam today. Yes, I\u2019m the sucker who has an exam on the 20th, but I\u2019m feeling less stress and more a feeling of, \u201cTuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday! One day left for DECEMBER EXAM MADNESS!\u201d That needed to be read in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/2011\/12\/20\/nothing-but-smooth-sailing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747,329488,232178,206],"tags":[329515,4926,329489,394767,329504,37],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-holidays","category-seasonal","category-wellness","tag-a-ubc-adventure","tag-blog-squad","tag-evan-brow","tag-nothing-but-smooth-sailing","tag-totem-park-residence","tag-ubc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}