{"id":1363,"date":"2010-12-09T22:48:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T06:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2010-12-09T22:48:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T06:48:30","slug":"what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2010\/12\/09\/what-now\/","title":{"rendered":"what now"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My ideal guy is an axe wielding bearded mountain man who is too busy chopping wood to fill out an online dating profile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t grow up in the middle of nowhere, I grew up, well, next to nowhere. Right? I don&#8217;t know. I want to have people who say this sort of thing read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Took-Woods-2nd-Louise-Rich\/dp\/0892727365\/\">We Took to the Woods<\/a><\/em>. Still, might that be too romantic?<\/p>\n<p>I tried to talk to the girls about quantifying how much they&#8217;ve dated, but we ended up spending most of the time discussing the rules for if you&#8217;d count someone or not. Ultimately, have I been dating too much? Relative to the first 25 years of my life, the last three has been, well, busy. From a perspective of Maslow, this is to be expected. I&#8217;m relatively successful in the other parts of my life. I&#8217;m seem past the conversations of this past spring regarding how I was waiting for a partner for certain things to change, so they could change together. Partially, reality is catching up with me. My father seems to get exponentially worse as time passes. People I&#8217;ve never met ask me to come and talk about what I do. I have more insurance policies than I care to keep track of. Are these the things by which to measure life? Or is it the discussions about what&#8217;s important. There was a time when I didn&#8217;t consider moving from Seattle, not because I was against the idea but just because I was caught up in life. Now it feels inevitable, only a matter of years. Will I finish up my current project in the new few years and move on, or will something else enticing keep me here rather than taking me back to the woods.<\/p>\n<p>In the second chapter Fromm has begun to talk about how all anxiety stems from our aloneness.  I spoke to M tonight about my problems sleeping last night, and stress came up. That&#8217;s too complicated to draw those lines, but sure, its a big empty bed, and I&#8217;ll play some <em>Whiskey &#038; Company<\/em> to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ideal guy is an axe wielding bearded mountain man who is too busy chopping wood to fill out an online dating profile. But I didn&#8217;t grow up in the middle of nowhere, I grew up, well, next to nowhere. Right? I don&#8217;t know. I want to have people who say this sort of thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}