{"id":7102,"date":"2013-05-24T15:57:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T19:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=7102"},"modified":"2013-05-24T15:57:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T19:57:56","slug":"retrobruxist-friday-52413-or-i-am-rad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/retrobruxist-friday-52413-or-i-am-rad\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobruxist Friday 5\/24\/13, or I Am Rad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 5. That&#8217;s when I cancel my Match subscription. Twelve more days.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason I&#8217;m keeping my nose above water is my friends.\u00a0My friends are pretty great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Not-Scary-Spice.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7108\" alt=\"Not Scary Spice\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Not-Scary-Spice.png\" width=\"429\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Not-Scary-Spice.png 429w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Not-Scary-Spice-300x151.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;We are all rooting SO HARD for you.&#8221; And I know they are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/i%C2%B4ll-take-this-tequila-and-a-pack-of-camels-it%C2%B4s-ok-i-was-bar-mitzvahed-in-june\/\">Dan NJ<\/a> wrote: <em>Since it&#8217;s been at least a month since I said so- can I remind you of the Avogadro&#8217;s number of awesome particles that make up, and emanate from, you? \u00a0These particular elements represent a periodic table of Amy&#8217;s awesomeness, and are subdivided into categories such as brilliance, loveliness, kick-assedness, nice-assedness, and noble gases. \u00a0(The last one is pure speculation on my part&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And a little faerie (possibly named Megalu) writes pro-me statements on the sticky notes on my desk every time she comes over, which I find later and stick to my computer monitor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5456.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7109\" alt=\"IMG_5456\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5456-e1369424572426.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5455.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7110\" alt=\"IMG_5455\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5455-e1369424628586.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And all these words of encouragement serve to remind me that, no matter what happens in my love life, I most definitely have love in my life. Thank you, friends, and I love you all.<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>Three<strong> years<\/strong>\u00a0ago, I cheered you up with some stellar <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/this-too-shall-pass\/\">knock-knock jokes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some people love my teaching stories; others enjoy the tragically delicious\u00a0dating stuff. But there are those who just really revel in the fact that I&#8217;m, to quote a friend, &#8220;bad at lawnmowers&#8221;,\u00a0e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/24\/remember-when-i-said-i-was-handy\/\">this post<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<strong>two years<\/strong> ago.<\/p>\n<p>You know how Google&#8217;s informal motto is &#8220;Don&#8217;t be evil&#8221;. I wish that sentiment could be codified into all companies&#8217; bylaws. Alas, as I mentioned <strong>a year<\/strong> ago,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/17\/racket\/\">insurance companies<\/a> are nothing but dens of thieves.<\/p>\n<p>What you may have missed on <a href=\"http:\/\/fatcrossfitter.tumblr.com\/\">Fat CrossFitter<\/a>: Who gets to <a href=\"http:\/\/fatcrossfitter.tumblr.com\/post\/50936029851\/defining-fatness\">define my fatness<\/a>, and my two cents on the <a href=\"http:\/\/fatcrossfitter.tumblr.com\/post\/51039732905\/the-problem-with-progress\">problem with progress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Retrobruxist Friday, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 5. That&#8217;s when I cancel my Match subscription. Twelve more days. The only reason I&#8217;m keeping my nose above water is my friends.\u00a0My friends are pretty great. He added, &#8220;We are all rooting SO HARD for you.&#8221; And I know they are. Dan NJ wrote: Since it&#8217;s been at least a month since I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/retrobruxist-friday-52413-or-i-am-rad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retrobruxist Friday 5\/24\/13, or I Am Rad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20,7,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dating","category-first-world-problems","category-teaching","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head","category-the-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7112,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions\/7112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}