{"id":110,"date":"2008-10-26T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T23:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2008-10-28T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T23:10:52","slug":"weekend-synopsis-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Weekend (+ Synopsis) Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Oh, honestly. How did Sunday get here so freaking fast?<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/greekkey31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"15\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/63\/60_Minutes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anybody out there remember the show &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108872\/\" target=\"_blank\">My So Called Life<\/a>?&#8221; \u00a0In one episode, Angela talks about how the ticking of the 60 Minutes clock makes her want to kill herself. \u00a0I completely relate. \u00a0Who needs to hear a ticking clock on a Sunday night?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">To me, Sundays are almost as depressing as Mondays. So much to do, so little time. \u00a0And if you&#8217;re a teacher, Sunday usually means hours of prep for the week ahead. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">As you can clearly see, I&#8217;ve got a very serious case of Sunday Blues. \u00a0Today involved house cleaning, grocery shopping, a voice lesson, lesson planning, and query letter editing. \u00a0And before I know it, I&#8217;ll be on that B train, on the way to school. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">So how&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/?p=103\">that synopsis<\/a> coming, you&#8217;re probably wondering? \u00a0As I&#8217;ve mentioned, it&#8217;s been an excruciatingly busy time with getting my last NaNo book ready to be sent off into agent land, non-stop holidays, work, and preparing for my next NaNo book. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">But here&#8217;s what I managed to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work on two versions of my query letter\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Edit my first scene (again)<\/li>\n<li>Make an outline for my synopsis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">It&#8217;s not enough. \u00a0But hey, I have until Friday to make my goal, right? \u00a0I&#8217;ll be home Wednesday, waiting for the cable guy, so I&#8217;ll be right here at my computer. \u00a0Sigh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; \">Cheers! \u00a0Here&#8217;s to a fabulous week! \u00a0We all need one!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/blackolive_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, honestly. How did Sunday get here so freaking fast? \u00a0 Anybody out there remember the show &#8220;My So Called Life?&#8221; \u00a0In one episode, Angela talks about how the ticking of the 60 Minutes clock makes her want to kill herself. \u00a0I completely relate. \u00a0Who needs to hear a ticking clock on a Sunday night? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}