{"id":503,"date":"2012-02-15T20:06:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T20:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=503"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:01:23","slug":"always-chasing-after-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/always-chasing-after-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"always chasing after myself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>it was -6 degrees and snowing when i landed in munich on tuesday morning, having left a hot, humid brisbane 30-something hours before. the next day in munich a strong westerly wind blew the snow about, horizontally and upwards. the housemeister ploughed the footpath twice in the morning, but it was soon white again, and in the afternoon the &#8220;lawn&#8221; was decorated with children&#8217;s footprints. i&#8217;m happy to experience a bit of winter, after 2 months of southern summer. i lay in the outdoor hot saltwater pool at westbad, snow falling on my head &amp; warm bubbles massaging my body, &amp; it was bliss <br> <br> so, i was down south for 2 months &amp; only managed to write one blog post. well, time away from the keyboard was the priority, &amp; when i had to be at the keyboard, i just wanted to clear the email backlog &amp; do the required work as quickly as possible then get back to the relaxing part. my holidays are always generously sprinkled with work, just as my work often contains holiday elements &#8230; it&#8217;s impossible to separate the two, really. now that i&#8217;m back in the bavarian winter wonderland, fighting the jetlag to get to stammtisch this evening &amp; re-tune my ear back to the bavarian dialect, my antipodean adventures seem such a long time ago &#8230; i&#8217;ll trawl through the photos to find some for you and show you a bit of what i got up to.<br> <br> (that was written several days ago; i didn&#8217;t have time to look at photos before i left for nantes, i hardly had time to repack my suitcase &#8230; &amp; now here i am with the <a href=\"http:\/\/apo33.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">APO33<\/a> people in nantes, preparing for a presentation &amp; performance &#8230; )  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it was -6 degrees and snowing when i landed in munich on tuesday morning, having left a hot, humid brisbane 30-something hours before. the next<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/always-chasing-after-myself\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}