{"id":170,"date":"2003-11-30T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-30T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodneycornelius.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2003-11-30T01:54:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-30T00:54:00","slug":"one-step-forward-the-best-place-for-a-book-and-the-stream-of-random-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"One Step Forward&#8230;The Best Place for a Book&#8230;And the Stream of Random Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am on the plane (again), where it seems to be a good time to write these journal entries.  We are currently over the Atlantic, about two hours away from London, where I must connect through to catch my final flight back to Stockholm.  There is a sense of excitement and relief to be back, but also getting ready to get back into the daily grind.<\/p>\n<p>I am still pretty wasted from partying in Atlanta.  I got sick three times on the flight from Boston to London.  And I was doing so well on the flight from Chicago to Boston.  I am sitting in business class on this flight, but since I sacrified dinner to the porclean god (or air sickness bags), I feel like I am starved, but I dare not right eating again.  I actually think what has happened is that I have been getting sick if I take ibuprofen, as I have done twice and I have gottne sick twice.  My body is looking for things to get sick on, so I just ate some pretzels&#8230;that ought to do something.  What, I am not sure.<\/p>\n<p>Onto another subject, when I was in Boston, I purchased the &#8220;Unbearable Lightness of Being&#8221;, which is one of my favourite books ever.  However, once my sister saw it, she had to have it, so I gave it to her.  Why would I give her my brand new book?  Perhaps because I believe that the best place for a book you&#8217;ve already read is in the hands of another reader who can get the opportunity to discover the same magic that I did when I first read the book.  So that is me, a bit altruistic in nature at times, but generally speaking, I am an asshole.<\/p>\n<p>And my stream of randomness today&#8230;has anyone tasted the new chicken nuggets from McDonalds?  They say now they have more white meat, but I&#8217;ll be damned if I can taste white meat.  Or even chicken.  Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on the plane (again), where it seems to be a good time to write these journal entries. We are currently over the Atlantic, about two hours away from London, where I must connect through to catch my final flight back to Stockholm. There is a sense of excitement and relief to be back, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=170\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Step Forward&#8230;The Best Place for a Book&#8230;And the Stream of Random Thought<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}