{"id":1069,"date":"2005-04-12T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/12\/plans\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:31","slug":"plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/12\/plans\/","title":{"rendered":"plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just signed up for 10 weeks of intensive french at UC berkeley, which will probably eat 45 hours a week.  50 if you count bike commuting time.  So no summer job for me, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about what my first year at Wesleyan would have been like without Xena.  Disaster!  Woe!  Despair!  And my second year?  Lonelier, but with more trips to New York.  I haven&#8217;t been since Thanksgiving.  Alas.  Maybe it would have been the same, I don&#8217;t know.  She is sleeping at my feet right now.  I love my dog.  I don&#8217;t know if taking her to Paris would be best for her or for me.  It&#8217;s a selfish love.  What would best for Xena would be sending her to live on Angela&#8217;s parents farm, where she has ducks to chase and dogs to play with and a pond to swim in, but I&#8217;m not going to do that because then she would no longer be my dog.  I think that the best plan is probably, alas, to board her with Cola&#8217;s parents for the year.  If, for some reason, I&#8217;m in Europe for longer, I can get her shipped out.  A school year is kind of a long time.  It&#8217;s 6 dog years.  Will she even remember me when I return?  Will I remember her?  About half way through my 90 day excursion to Europe in 2001, I told Christi that I wanted to get a dog when we got back.  She said, &#8220;we have a dog.&#8221;  I said &#8220;really?&#8221;  So we went to an internet cafe and looked at online pictures of my dog.  &#8220;She&#8217;s cute.&#8221; I said, my memory stirring.  When we returned, the dog was so excited to see me that she accidentally peed on my foot.  (She&#8217;s never done that before or since, thank goodness.) So I guess it&#8217;s my memory that I worry about.  The trip would be very strenuous.  My living quarters are likely to be tiny (especially if they contain a tuba and a tuba shipping case too).  The best thing to do might be to leave her behind.  Alas and woe.<br \/>\nWhat happens if you get caught in France without a valid visa?  Under what circumstances does anyone ask to see your visa?<br \/>\nTag: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Celesteh\" rel=\"tag\">Celesteh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just signed up for 10 weeks of intensive french at UC berkeley, which will probably eat 45 hours a week. 50 if you count bike commuting time. So no summer job for me, it seems. I&#8217;ve been thinking about what my first year at Wesleyan would have been like without Xena. Disaster! Woe! Despair! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/12\/plans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">plans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}