{"id":439,"date":"2020-01-02T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samigardner.net\/?p=439"},"modified":"2020-01-06T06:09:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:09:36","slug":"hello-2020-lets-get-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samigardner.net\/index.php\/2020\/01\/02\/hello-2020-lets-get-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"HELLO 2020, Let&#8217;s Get weird."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"439\" class=\"elementor elementor-439\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2425d67 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2425d67\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c2a0824\" data-id=\"c2a0824\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14580be elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"14580be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>At the start of the decade, I was in college with low self-esteem, bad eyebrows, and still in the grips of my awkward phase (which lasted from age 13-27.) I was afraid to be myself because I didn&#8217;t think that I could be.<\/p><p>FLASH FORWARD. It&#8217;s 2017, we waved goodbye to the Obama era, Kenan Thompson was his 105th year on SNL, and that white blinking guy meme dominated the internet. Best of times, meh of times as I worked for a groovy grant project that was about to get defunded. Maybe it was the political climate, maybe it was all the hardwon realizations of my mid-20s, but I was ready for a quarter-life crisis.<\/p><p>I finally made good on a promise to my teen self &#8211; I got the hell out of Tucson. In the last 3 years, I have been like David Carradine in Kung Fu if he wrote resumes and talked a lot about LinkedIn. Living in a dozen countries and growing freelance business, I finally got the confidence to wear hats despite my nagging fear that my head is oddly shaped. I also got the confidence to write fiction again.<\/p><p>It has been a crazy journey these last few years. And I am not letting up. The biggest &#8216;aha&#8217; of the decade is that there are no standards, no one knows what they are doing, and the universe is random so hell, just chase your dreams.<\/p><p>HELLO 2020, let&#8217;s get weird.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of the decade, I was in college with low self-esteem, bad eyebrows, and still in the grips of my awkward phase (which lasted from age 13-27.) I was afraid to be myself because I didn&#8217;t think that I could be. FLASH FORWARD. 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