{"id":1994,"date":"2010-05-09T02:04:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T07:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:21:57","slug":"its-not-a-choice-its-a-way-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s not a choice. It&#8217;s a way of life.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now I&#8217;m sitting in an eight-foot puddle of refrigerator drippings, packing away my crap and getting ready to shave off my finals beard. (I look like Ghost from the Matrix; badass but with no suit.) My unused caffeine sits on my desk and nauseates me to look at it. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sick. But I also got an A in Immunology. So I know what&#8217;s going on in my tonsils which makes me yell at them. Which doesn&#8217;t do much more than make my tonsils hurt. Stupid lymphocytes. Of course, this is probably my fault. Staying up until 3AM every night for a week huddled in a steel carrel twenty feet underground in a building that, I&#8217;m pretty sure, doesn&#8217;t exist until finals and shotgunning sweetener with coffee on it is bound to decimate anyone&#8217;s immune system. Oh, well. Three finals in twenty hours. Had to be done. Right now, my GPA&#8217;s activity comes down to 10 points of Biochem questions and something involving Sanger sequencing. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s hard to be funny at a time like this (even though my <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tommy_tran\/status\/13591123547\">tweets<\/a> may <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tommy_tran\/status\/6510038730\">contradict<\/a>) so I&#8217;m going to stop now and try to live like a normal person.*<\/p>\n<p>*No! I&#8217;m not going to stop blogging and live normally. Chill the hell out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now I&#8217;m sitting in an eight-foot puddle of refrigerator drippings, packing away my crap and getting ready to shave off my finals beard. (I look like Ghost from the Matrix; badass but with no suit.) My unused caffeine sits on my desk and nauseates me to look at it. I&#8217;m sick. But I also [&hellip;]<\/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:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}