{"id":257,"date":"2002-03-09T03:29:38","date_gmt":"2002-03-09T08:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2002-03-09T03:29:38","modified_gmt":"2002-03-09T08:29:38","slug":"half-a-hundred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"half a hundred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting the last half.<\/p>\n<div>\n50.&nbsp;  I stay until the credits finish rolling.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n51.&nbsp;  I cried after Men In Black.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n52.&nbsp;  I recently saw &#8220;Life is beautiful&#8221; and it is haunting me.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n53.&nbsp;  I can&#8217;t pay my bills <i>and<\/i> my rent.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n54.&nbsp;  Once in a while, I wake up &#8216;foggy,&#8217; unable to concentrate or even think straight for ten whole seconds together.&nbsp;  This indicates I am going to have a seizure; in fact it is the effect of &#8216;partial seizures&#8217; which are the beginning of a generalized seizure before it has spread throughout my brain.&nbsp;  If my thoughts are coherent enough, I can at this point take 3 mg of Ativan, and sleep for eighteen hours.&nbsp;  Somehow this prevents me from having a seizure, but it still costs a whole day.&nbsp;  I woke up that way this morning.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n55.&nbsp;  I do not want a lingering death.&nbsp;  But I believe that within the transition from the temporal to the metaphysical, though it may count from our perspective as only a minute or two, it may contain days, months, or even lifetimes of suffering.&nbsp;  I think it is funny how we use the phrase, &#8216;Better off dead,&#8217; when we really have no idea.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n56.&nbsp; I am not sure, but I suppose human culture has improved since the Crusades.&nbsp;  I know Humanity has not.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n57.&nbsp; I like the sky to be gray and overcast, and and the ground to be white and snowy.&nbsp;  Everyone&#8217;s mood descends closer to the mood I live in always, and I don&#8217;t feel so all alone.&nbsp;  Blizzards are good.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n58.&nbsp; When I first get out of bed, I pee sitting down.&nbsp; It relieves the need to aim.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n59.&nbsp;  There is no such thing as a lone gunman in a political assassination.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting the last half. 50.&nbsp; I stay until the credits finish rolling. 51.&nbsp; I cried after Men In Black. 52.&nbsp; I recently saw &#8220;Life is beautiful&#8221; and it is haunting me. 53.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t pay my bills and my rent.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=257\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}