{"id":702,"date":"2010-08-27T07:43:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T23:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=702"},"modified":"2010-08-27T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T23:45:11","slug":"wide-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Wide Awake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a short flight from Rapid City, South Dakota to Chicago, I waited in the airport for eight hours to catch my flight to Beijing.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 So, I talked to random strangers, chatted with some people, and watched TV online (while I can still get it without a VPN!)\u00a0 The flight was AMAZING!\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really enjoy flying all that much but this particular flight was great!\u00a0 It was pretty empty on the plane so there was a lot of room to stretch out. My flight went a little something like this:\u00a0 watch an episode of <em>The Office<\/em>, eat something, sleep, sleep, sleep, play some tetris, (on the screen in my seat! \ud83d\ude42 )\u00a0watch a movie, get off the plane.\u00a0 It was probably my best flying experience, EVER. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I got home at about 2:00 am and couldn&#8217;t sleep.\u00a0 When I finally did get to sleep it was about 3:30 and I only slept for four hours.\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 I was definitely functioning on adrenaline the first day!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First day included moving a couch and LOTS of other stuff, trying to unpack, eating amazing Chinese food, helping the new people get some things worked out, getting a much needed massage, meeting my friend Tim who happened to be in Beijing for a couple days \ud83d\ude42 and climbing 6 flights of stairs over and over and over.\u00a0 Oh yeah, I forgot to mention biking!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I&#8217;m having dinner with Mr. Wang to talk about where I&#8217;ll be teaching since CRCC will not send any of it&#8217;s employees to Tsinghua this semester.\u00a0 (I&#8217;ll try to remember to take his picture!)\u00a0 Pr-y for something as great as my classes last year.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let you know when I know!<\/p>\n<p>GB!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a short flight from Rapid City, South Dakota to Chicago, I waited in the airport for eight hours to catch my flight to Beijing.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 So, I talked to random strangers, chatted with some people, and watched TV online (while I can still get it without a VPN!)\u00a0 The flight was AMAZING!\u00a0 I don&#8217;t [&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:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}