{"id":9378,"date":"2015-02-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=9378"},"modified":"2015-02-24T21:22:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T05:22:48","slug":"processing-in-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9378","title":{"rendered":"Processing in process"},"content":{"rendered":"

What some take for magic at first glance
\nIs just sleight-of-hand depending on what you believe
Something gets lost when you translate
\nIt’s hard to keep straight
\n
Perspective is everything 
–Aimee Mann\/Invisible Ink<\/p>\n

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There are times when there is a shit ton of stuff going on, and I just have to take a step back and breathe. As proud as I am of my ability to multitask, that ability really doesn’t apply to anything involving emotions and feelings. <\/p>\n

Damn it. <\/p>\n

Meeting people and trying to make connections is one of those things that is inherently feely, and I am just not cut out for serial dating and all of the figuring out of emotions that goes with it. I am cut out for either sleeping around without any sort of emotional connection or dating one person at a time with a full complement of them. It’s too hard to focus on multiples. <\/p>\n

And then, on a more prosaic\/practical note–Wordpress has updated their blogging client and I can’t figure out why certain things are happening when I write. There is a visual wsywig editor that is inserting random formatting for no apparent reason. So if all of my future blogs are highlighted in gray. Well. I have no idea why. <\/p>\n

Sorry. <\/p>\n

I’ll try to figure out the html, but I just went out with someone I am pretty sure is gay. Who talked of nothing but parrots and RC planes. I am not sure I have enough mental force to troubleshoot html at this point.   <\/p>\n

Where was I?<\/p>\n

Right. Processing all of this.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should read a book. Give my brain a rest. Think about poutine, back bacon and Inigo Montoya. I can figure out why the two guys I kind of thought were interested have totally disappeared but the guy with the parrot fetish is totally into me. <\/p>\n

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Back soon. <\/p>\n

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