{"id":913,"date":"2024-01-08T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/?p=913"},"modified":"2024-01-08T23:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T04:00:04","slug":"back-to-work-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2024\/01\/08\/back-to-work-angst\/","title":{"rendered":"Back-to-Work Angst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I am not an employee, but, like many people with regular office jobs, I got to enjoy a few days of well-deserved rest at the end of the year. Now I&#8217;m sort of dreading coming back to work. The ball&#8217;s already in motion, though: boring tasks, unexpected to-do&#8217;s, confounding correspondence, surprise events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These first few days of the year I was able to enjoy the rare gift of clarity, knowing exactly how I wanted to spend my time and doing exactly that. Now I&#8217;m scared of losing that luxury. Of course, I could always scrape up odd bits of time and pour them into my preferred activities, but there&#8217;s always the potential for doomscrolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I&#8217;m starting to see, though, is how easy it is to just keep a tab open with a running draft and returning to it whenever I start to feel a certain level of mental pushback to continuing work. This is going to be my grounding space. And if I lose my way for good and never make it back to what I&#8217;m supposed to be doing, at least I&#8217;ll have something to show for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not an employee, but, like many people with regular office jobs, I got to enjoy a few days of well-deserved rest at the end of the year. Now I&#8217;m sort of dreading coming back to work. The ball&#8217;s already in motion, though: boring tasks, unexpected to-do&#8217;s, confounding correspondence, surprise events. These first few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}