{"id":185,"date":"2009-11-17T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-17T21:27:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T21:27:53","slug":"this-is-what-we-call-growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"This is what we call growing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mum rang tonight, while I was preparing dinner. She asked if I saw the news tonight. I said no, and that I avoid watching the 6pm news as its quite depressing. <\/p>\n<p>She mentioned the name of a kid I went to school with, and mentioned a story which was pretty major news. I remember him as a child, at school. Mum mentioned what a bully he seemed to be then. I said he was a cunt. Then followed it up with another short burst of expletives. I can imagine my mother felt the same way, but is a lot more refrained than I in these circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>I apologised to her. I did however feel quite agitated by it all for a good couple of hours after I hung up the phone.<\/p>\n<p>I have a vivid picture in my head of his dark curly hair, and his messy school uniform. I feel haunted by that mental image since my mother mentioned it. To be honest I wouldn&#8217;t have made the connection of the name in the paper to the child I knew when I was 6 years old.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired and restless. I&#8217;m struggling to get through days at the moment. There&#8217;s just so much that needs to be done, on a personal, work, other work, and other projects level. Then I come home, am social for a while, but end up sitting in my room on my own, TV on, Daily Show with the sound off, trolling the Internet for forms of social interaction.<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking I want my every day life to be a certain way, but the practical me, tells me now is not the time do look for that.<br \/>\nThe practical me gets far too much say in how I am these days. When I was 20 the practical me wasn&#8217;t allowed a say in things. I had a damn good time mostly, but I don&#8217;t think I was any happier.<\/p>\n<p>I am also a queen of sabotage.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/francesrosey\/4111251155\/\" title=\"2009-11-17-225721 by francesrosey, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2538\/4111251155_5f6bd6805e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"2009-11-17-225721\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Mum rang tonight, while I was preparing dinner. She asked if I saw the news tonight. I said no, and that I avoid watching the 6pm news as its quite depressing. <\/p>\n<p>She mentioned the name of a kid I went to school with, and mentioned a story which was pretty major news. I remember him as a child, at school. Mum mentioned what a bully he seemed to be then. I said he was a cunt. Then followed it up with another short burst of expletives. I can imagine my mother felt the same way, but is a lot more refrained than I in these circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>I apologised to her. I did however feel quite agitated by it all for a good couple of hours after I hung up the phone.<\/p>\n<p>I have a vivid picture in my head of his dark curly hair, and his messy school uniform. I feel haunted by that mental image since my mother mentioned it. To be honest I wouldn&#8217;t have made the connection of the name in the paper to the child I knew when I was 6 years old.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired and restless. I&#8217;m struggling to get through days at the moment. There&#8217;s just so much that needs to be done, on a personal, work, other work, and other projects level. Then I come home, am social for a while, but end up sitting in my room on my own, TV on, Daily Show with the sound off, trolling the Internet for forms of social interaction.<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking I want my every day life to be a certain way, but the practical me, tells me now is not the time do look for that.<br \/>\nThe practical me gets far too much say in how I am these days. When I was 20 the practical me wasn&#8217;t allowed a say in things. I had a damn good time mostly, but I don&#8217;t think I was any happier.<\/p>\n<p>I am also a queen of sabotage.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/francesrosey\/4111251155\/\" title=\"2009-11-17-225721 by francesrosey, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2538\/4111251155_5f6bd6805e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"2009-11-17-225721\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/?p=185\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francesrosey.googlehax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}