{"id":171,"date":"2004-08-18T09:18:17","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T07:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatedream.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/18\/good-and-bad-news\/"},"modified":"2004-08-18T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T07:18:24","slug":"good-and-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/18\/good-and-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good and bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news first &#8211; I seem to be somewhat sick. That sucks, because I can&#8217;t concentrate and feel quite crappy, especially when combined with the good news:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got the internship at the Swiss Tropical Institute here in Basel. I hadn&#8217;t thought that they still had capacities on such short notice, but they do, and I&#8217;ll spend three weeks there from Sept 13, together with two uni friends. That&#8217;s what you get from your uni connections &#8211; one of my teachers (actually, the one I want to be my mentor for my Masters exams) works there and got us the jobs. Not that we get paid or anything, or that this is something I want to do later in life &#8211; but it&#8217;s an internship, which is better than having to rush around looking for one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This of course means that suddenly I don&#8217;t have as much leisure time to finish my fieldwork paper and then write my German Lit paper as I had thought. Pity, I&#8217;d been kind of looking forward to taking it easy and just working (at my old people&#8217;s home &#8211; some extra shifts because people are on vacation) and writing for the next two months&#8230; Oh well, I&#8217;ll try and get it all done nonetheless. <\/p>\n<p>Just not today, as my head is in no shape to do decent work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news first &#8211; I seem to be somewhat sick. That sucks, because I can&#8217;t concentrate and feel quite crappy, especially when combined with the good news: I&#8217;ve got the internship at the Swiss Tropical Institute here in Basel. I hadn&#8217;t thought that they still had capacities on such short notice, but they do, and [&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":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}