{"id":31,"date":"2011-06-03T17:53:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T00:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/03\/lazy-lazy-driving-myself-crazy\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:44","slug":"lazy-lazy-driving-myself-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/lazy-lazy-driving-myself-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"lazy, lazy, driving myself crazy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have done absolutely nothing today but watch TV while surfing the internet.&nbsp; That&#8217;s what I usually do in my downtime, then it takes me a couple of days to get back into the swing of things.<\/p>\n<p> Basically, I write 8400 words a day for 20 days.&nbsp; Then I do a quick edit of what I wrote (the longer one comes later, but it goes faster if I&#8217;ve already cleaned up the worst of the mess.)&nbsp; Then I take a few days to just lounge around and decompress.&nbsp; I eat, sleep, watch TV, read porn (k\/d), and play videogames (I love to kill stuff on &#8220;Dante&#8217;s Inferno,&#8221; or go brainless with &#8220;Spongebob.&#8221;)&nbsp; I spend those few days living like the slacker teenager I barely remember.<\/p>\n<p> Then I get back to work and start the cycle all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have done absolutely nothing today but watch TV while surfing the internet.&nbsp; That&#8217;s what I usually do in my downtime, then it takes me a couple of days to get back into the swing of things. Basically, I write 8400 words a day for 20 days.&nbsp; Then I do a quick edit of what&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/lazy-lazy-driving-myself-crazy\/\" title=\"lazy, lazy, driving myself crazy&#8230;\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">lazy, lazy, driving myself crazy&#8230;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[273],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-real-life","tag-downtime"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3851,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/excerpt-some-sci-fi-thing\/","url_meta":{"origin":31,"position":0},"title":"EXCERPT: some sci-fi thing","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"June 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Seiver hit the ground hard. 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