{"id":86,"date":"2005-10-18T23:32:59","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T06:32:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-19T09:03:26","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T09:03:26","slug":"alive_and_almost_well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2005\/alive_and_almost_well\/","title":{"rendered":"Alive and (almost) well"},"content":{"rendered":"
Heads up, this content is 21 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div>

How do you reemerge from a cocoon you had no intention of being sucked into? There are no apologies to be made. No excuses to drum up. Just a mild embarassment that you’ve allowed yourself to be immersed in life for a little while. So what happened? Why did I disappear from the web? Well, my boyfriend and I broke up. “Broke up” is a horrible term for this situation because it carries a trite junior high school connotation. But if I were to say, “the intense relationship that has carried me for two years and that I believed would last forever has fallen to pieces in the palm of my hand,” you’d call me dramatic. So let’s just leave it as a breakup. I’ve been inundated with heavy conversations for the past month, I haven’t slept more than a few hours for the past few days, and quite frankly I’m a little concerned about getting through the semester. So lets change the tone to something lighter. The Top Ten Things I’ve Done After a Breakup<\/b> (in random order)<\/p>\n

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  1. Shaved my head.<\/li>\n
  2. Changed schools.<\/li>\n
  3. Went skydiving.<\/li>\n
  4. Dyed my bangs fire engine red.<\/li>\n
  5. Seduced a gay man.<\/li>\n
  6. Went into therapy.<\/li>\n
  7. Started a magazine.<\/li>\n
  8. Changed jobs.<\/li>\n
  9. Flew to China.<\/li>\n
  10. Tried to drive to the Grand Canyon from NH to “get some air.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Stay tuned for what will happen after this one. In the meantime, how about I get back to my old self and fill your RSS readers with useful web tips and crazy San Francisco anecdotes? Can you handle that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Heads up, this content is 21 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.How do you reemerge from a cocoon you had no intention of being sucked into? There are no apologies to be made. No excuses to drum up. Just a mild embarassment that you’ve allowed yourself to be immersed in life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}