{"id":148,"date":"2011-02-24T20:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T03:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=148"},"modified":"2011-02-24T21:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T04:00:53","slug":"to-celebrate-or-to-hybernate-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"To celebrate or to hybernate, that is the question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing the first draft of the proposal has felt like a very slow process. Each section, paragraph, and some sentences have felt like quicksand. But through raw perseverance, I waded through. Finally, today, I reached the timeline section. I found a nice little Excel template online that allowed me to quickly create a nice timeline to map out my thesis. And, poof! I&#8217;m so close to getting the draft done and submitted. I felt like celebrating. Unfortunately, the temperature has sunk into the -20s, with an expected low of approximately &#8211; 30 according to <a title=\"Edmonton Forecast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weatheroffice.gc.ca\/city\/pages\/ab-50_metric_e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Environment Canada.<\/a> So, here I am sitting in my office watching a television show about raccoons (<a title=\"The Nature of Things: Raccoon Nation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/documentaries\/natureofthings\/2011\/raccoonnation\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Nature of Things<\/a>).\u00a0 Just when I&#8217;m feeling spry, good old-man Winter has me captive.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhoo, I thought I&#8217;d upload my timelines:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-149\" href=\"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?attachment_id=149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149\" title=\"Phd_timeline_2011\" src=\"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Phd_timeline_2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Phd_timeline_2011.jpg 804w, https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Phd_timeline_2011-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-150\" href=\"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?attachment_id=150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150\" title=\"Phd_timeline_2012\" src=\"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Phd_timeline_2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"808\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Phd_timeline_2012.jpg 808w, https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Phd_timeline_2012-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kinda wondering if I should plan some holiday and break time. But, perhaps I should schedule it for a warmer time of year&#8211;or better&#8211;perhaps I should get a plane ticket for a warmer clime. Oh . . . Big Bang Theory is on. Gotta run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing the first draft of the proposal has felt like a very slow process. Each section, paragraph, and some sentences have felt like quicksand. But through raw perseverance, I waded through. Finally, today, I reached the timeline section. I found a nice little Excel template online that allowed me to quickly create a nice timeline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phd-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}