I applied (and am still applying) for summer internships, but nothing is biting\u00a0so far. The boat’s sailing away, and I’m disappointed that I’m not on it — not because I feel entitled to ride on\u00a0that boat, but because I feel like I could have run a little faster to the harbor to catch it.<\/p>\n
But that’s how it goes sometimes. That boat’s gone, but I can get on the next one.<\/p>\n
The last thing I want to do over the summer is just sit on my ass, and I told Tavish I wouldn’t mind scooping ice cream or something like that. Anything, really. My friend Kenny had done it a couple years\u00a0ago, and he said it’s more tiring than one would imagine. Scooping ice cram is good for character, and it’s good for the forearms.<\/p>\n
Tavish: “Don’t forget to switch arms. You wouldn’t want one to be bigger than the other.”<\/p>\n
~<\/p>\n
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A daydream: an attractive woman walks up and squeezes my right arm. You\u00a0working\u00a0out? \u00a0<\/em>Nah, I tell her.\u00a0Just scooping ice cream.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I applied (and am still applying) for summer internships, but nothing is biting\u00a0so far. The boat’s sailing away, and I’m disappointed that I’m not on it — not because I feel entitled to ride on\u00a0that boat, but because I feel like I could have run a little faster to the harbor to catch it. But … Continue reading “plan b for summer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,22,2],"tags":[57,56,58],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-misc","category-writing","tag-forearm","tag-ice-cream","tag-summer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-vq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}