{"id":1172,"date":"2011-11-06T15:15:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:48:09","slug":"the-little-prince-farewell-party-lifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2011\/11\/06\/the-little-prince-farewell-party-lifting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Prince, Farewell Party, lifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, something happened that I&#8217;d been hoping for!  I came across an episode of Gargoyles that I&#8217;m didn&#8217;t remember!  Either I hadn&#8217;t seen it before, or I&#8217;d only seen it once.  It&#8217;s nice, because I used to watch that TV series religiously, so saw repeats again and again.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, I had a pretty light day- 3 morning lessons and three afternoon lessons.  I finished reading &#8220;The Little Prince&#8221; Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry (1900\u20131944.)  I&#8217;ve seen this book translated into Japanese in so many book stores, and one was given to me (in Japanese) by a friend.  So I got curious and when I found it English at my school, I read it.  It&#8217;s written like a kid&#8217;s book, but to quote wiki, &#8220;The Little Prince makes several profound and idealistic observations about life and human nature.&#8221;  It was fabulous!  I often paused to think.  For example, &#8220;On ne voit bien qu&#8217;avec le c\u0153ur. L&#8217;essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. (&#8220;One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend this book.  If you have an hour or so, you could even stand in the bookstore and just read it, or do it in two trips.  It&#8217;s not that long.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I had a decent day at work, and then went to a farewell party for two of my co-workers-  Max and Matt.  BJ was fighting in Shooto, but people have tried to have a party before for Max and nobody went, including myself, so finally somebody organized something with a sign-up sheet and making reservations at TGI Fridays. \ud83d\ude42  It was a lot of fun!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kawasaki-TGI-fridays-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"504\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kawasaki-TGI-fridays-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kawasaki TGI fridays 1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kawasaki-TGI-fridays-1.jpg 678w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kawasaki-TGI-fridays-1-632x470.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I never really knew Max well when we worked together, because he always came just before his lessons and then left right after, as opposed to Michele, who I just hung out with and chatted with in the teacher&#8217;s room.  But now I&#8217;m lifting weights with him, so it&#8217;s really cool. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really know Matt that well, but he&#8217;s got a strong-willed character, and I respect him a lot. ^_^<\/p>\n<p>I went to the gym afterwards at 10 and moved around for about 15 minutes downstairs&#8230;.I tried the eliptical, but my knee started hurting, so I had to quit. wtf?  It doesn&#8217;t hurt now.  I get random pains that come and go for seemingly no reason. *sigh* Life of a fighter.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, right after work, I went to a gym near Max&#8217;s home and we lifted weights together- shoulders and arms.  I liked his routine a lot. I feel energetic.  Ground Slam this morning.  I have a test for myself this morning.  Let&#8217;s see if I pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, something happened that I&#8217;d been hoping for! I came across an episode of Gargoyles that I&#8217;m didn&#8217;t remember! Either I hadn&#8217;t seen it before, or I&#8217;d only seen it once. It&#8217;s nice, because I used to watch that TV series religiously, so saw repeats again and again. On Friday, I had a pretty&hellip;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-training","category-work","category-8","category-4","category-3","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}