{"id":271,"date":"2003-05-17T19:06:47","date_gmt":"2003-05-17T19:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=271"},"modified":"2003-05-17T19:06:47","modified_gmt":"2003-05-17T19:06:47","slug":"the-interminable-issue-of-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/271","title":{"rendered":"The interminable issue of balance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing.  Most people out there who have worked at some consulting or research firm (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advisory.com\">The Advisory Board<\/a>) will know what a spider graph is: it&#8217;s a method of plotting multiple data points on the tines of some multi-spoked object like a star, asterisk or bicycle wheel.  The center is 0, the ends of the spokes are 10, and then you connect the plotted points with lines to come up with a graph that looks a little like a spiderweb.  Basically this allows you to see which areas you&#8217;re doing well in and which need help.  If all the data points clock in at around the same distance from the center, you&#8217;ve achieved balance.<br \/>\nMy personal spider graph is always, <i>always<\/i> skewed, but never the same way twice.  This is because I&#8217;m still learning the art of balance &#150; of dividing my time and attention between art, business\/finances, love, health, and friendships.  This week one spike peaked while another bottomed out.  Next week I&#8217;m going to have to bend over backwards to fix that.<br \/>\nAnother el quicko movie review: <i>Down With Love<\/i> was fairly fantastic.  There were a couple startlingly risque sequences, a couple head-scratchers, a couple tired old groaners, and a large number of flat-out hysterical moments.  You should go, really.<br \/>\nTomorrow morning I&#8217;ll be in Boston, attending <a href=\"..\/..\/biographies\/avellonej.php\">Jesica&#8217;s<\/a> graduation at Boston University, assuming all goes according to plan.  Possible issues that might preclude the success of this mission include time, weather, directions&#8230;  You know, the usual.  The drive&#8217;s about eight hours.  I need to be there around 10.  You can see the posting time of this entry.  Oy vey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing. Most people out there who have worked at some consulting or research firm (like The Advisory Board) will know what a spider graph is: it&#8217;s a method of plotting multiple data points on the tines of some multi-spoked object like a star, asterisk or bicycle wheel. The center is 0, the ends of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-4n","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}