{"id":354,"date":"2004-01-23T19:50:37","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T19:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=354"},"modified":"2004-01-23T19:50:37","modified_gmt":"2004-01-23T19:50:37","slug":"me_and_my_shado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Me And My Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I mentioned I spoke to a class at Hamline<\/a>. I had one other duty to fulfill as part of that commitment, which was to have one of the students job-shadow me. I did that today. I was a little concerned because there just isn’t much to see at my work. After all, I’m not performing surgery or or fighting fires. And I didn’t think it would be very exciting for my student to watch me write e-mail and answer the telephone. So I decided to talk to her and simply let her ask me whatever questions she had. My student was a sweet and charming young woman and it was fun to listen to her talk and remember my own college experiences (which are nearly ten years ago now). College was a mixed bag for me. I went to a small liberal arts college in Wisconsin where there weren’t too many students with disabilities and the student body was surprisingly conservative. In more ways than one, I felt like I really didn’t fit in there. At the same time, I had some truly awesome friends and some first-rate professors who taught me how to write well.
\nI’ve been on an iTunes spree lately, with a particular emphasis on The Cure<\/a>. I dig Robert Smith’s voice and his melancholy verses resonate with me. I can’t stop listening to “Pictures of You.”
\nWatch this space next week for a really cool announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I mentioned I spoke to a class at Hamline. I had one other duty to fulfill as part of that commitment, which was to have one of the students job-shadow me. I did that today. I was a little concerned because there just isn’t much to see at my work. After all, I’m […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-5I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}