{"id":2274,"date":"2002-10-25T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2002-10-25T18:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2002-10-25T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2002-10-25T18:52:29","slug":"same-as-it-ever-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/10\/25\/same-as-it-ever-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Same As It Ever Was"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know what the greatest thing is about the Western Lowland Gorilla? I shall tell you. The greatest thing about the Western Lowland Gorilla is that his full, scientific name is — I kid you not — “Gorilla gorilla gorilla<\/i>“. That is simply awesome.<\/p>\n

In other news, I’m having one of those days where everything I do is steeped in deja vu<\/i>. I started a write an email this morning, and then spent 10 minutes searching my “sent” folder to make sure I hadn’t already emailed that exact same message. And at the meeting I just went to, I swear I could have predicted every word that was said by the participants. (This is the case at almost any meeting, true, but the feeling was especially strong today.)<\/p>\n

I think The Fates fucked up and gave me a rerun today.<\/p>\n

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Clotho<\/b>: Okay, the sirens have this room in 20 minutes, so let’s keep things moving. Matthew Baldwin. Lachesis?<\/p>\n
Lachesis<\/b>: Yeah?<\/p>\n
Clotho<\/b>: What’s in store for Matthew Baldwin tomorrow?<\/p>\n
Lachesis<\/b>: How should I know?<\/p>\n
Clotho<\/b>: Because tomorrow’s Friday.<\/p>\n
Atropos<\/b>: And you’re doing Matthew Baldwin on Fridays, now.<\/p>\n
Lachesis<\/b>: Whoa whoa! I did him last Friday, one time, as a favor. That’s all<\/i> I agreed to.<\/p>\n
Atropos<\/b>: Well I<\/i> didn’t schedule anything for him, because you said you had him covered.<\/p>\n
Lachesis<\/b>: That is such<\/i> bullshit.<\/p>\n
Clotho<\/b>: All right, knock it off you two. It’s too late to come up with a game plan, now. Lachesis, just take one of his days from a few months ago, change a few of the details, and give him that one again. His short-term memory sucks, he’ll never know. Moving on! Who’s got Betsy Sein?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The most unsetting thing about the deja vu<\/i> is the constant sense of —<\/p>\n

Hey, wait. Have I posted that Gorilla<\/i> thing before?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you know what the greatest thing is about the Western Lowland Gorilla? I shall tell you. The greatest thing about the Western Lowland Gorilla is that his full, scientific name is — I kid you not — “Gorilla gorilla gorilla“. That is simply awesome. In other news, I’m having one of those days where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}