{"id":1382,"date":"2011-08-11T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2011-08-11T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:57:11","slug":"irrational-annie-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"Irrational Annie in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here on my blog I frequently talk about how crazy I am and how nutty life is, etc. \u00a0The truth is that, while I do have a crazy side, most of the time the rational, logical, calm side of my nature prevails. \u00a0It&#8217;s a good thing, too, because Rational Annie is in high demand with these males with whom I live.<\/p>\n<p>That rational side is holding on by her fingertips today, though, just barely holding on.<\/p>\n<p>Why? \u00a0Because I dropped my freshman off for orientation today.<\/p>\n<p>So, basically, the only sane thought that I&#8217;ve been having this morning is that it is okay for me to not know exactly how to feel today. \u00a0That is what my rational self is saying&#8230;.well that and my rational self is also repeatedly telling my irrational self to<\/p>\n<p><strong>JUST STUFF IT, ALREADY.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Irrational Annie isn&#8217;t buying it. \u00a0Nope. \u00a0She&#8217;s stomping on the floor and banging on the door and grabbing a brick so that she can bash the window out. \u00a0Dang it, I hate it when Irrational Annie shows up. \u00a0All she does is complicate things.<\/p>\n<p>I know that it will be fine. \u00a0Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m sure that J will have a good morning and that Rational Annie will prevail. And, just to prove it I&#8217;m going to quit nibbling on the baguette in the kitchen while pacing the floor and instead do a push up or two&#8230;..or twenty.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in, breathe out.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thursday, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here on my blog I frequently talk about how crazy I am and how nutty life is, etc. \u00a0The truth is that, while I do have a crazy side, most of the time the rational, logical, calm side of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}