{"id":15526,"date":"2010-05-06T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2010\/05\/06\/the-hours\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:17","slug":"the-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2010\/05\/06\/the-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as I learned how to prepare then hang pencil-pleat curtains, I felt uncomfortably like Julianne Moore&#8217;s character in <em>The Hours<\/em>. As I interspersed work-work with setting up house, culminating in a bit of flat-pack assembly in the afternoon that made me feel like Jacob wrestling with a wooden angel, I kept thinking about that character, and felt sure that being a housewife would soon drive me totally stark raving mad. It&#8217;s not a judgment, just a personality thing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t fully arrived here yet. The fella and I have been so busy setting up our home that I&#8217;ve been busy staying within the confines of our house. And, since it&#8217;s the first house I&#8217;ve lived in for ages, it doesn&#8217;t feel particularly confining. And there&#8217;s a lot to do, with more packages and appliances and services arriving daily.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Still, I will soon have to step outside. The thought of that makes me realise something else: besides Craig, <em>I don&#8217;t know anyone here<\/em>. I imagine that would freak a lot of people out, but I&#8217;m okay with it for a few reasons:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:decimal\">\n<li>It gives me big space to do my own stuff for the next little while. <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll know people soon enough. I have lots of past experiences of this &#8212; including a trans-Atlantic move &#8212; to back up this hunch.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m still in regular contact with good friends and my family, thanks to the &#8216;net. That said, apologies if I&#8217;ve dropped the communication ball in the past few days; living in a house full of boxes and piles of things, with lots still missing (like a fridge!) is very disruptive. Order is coming to our house, though, slowly and surely.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1155\/the-hours0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as I learned how to prepare then hang pencil-pleat curtains, I felt uncomfortably like Julianne Moore&#8217;s character in The Hours. As I interspersed work-work with setting up house, culminating in a bit of flat-pack assembly in the afternoon that made me feel like Jacob wrestling with a wooden angel, I kept thinking about that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}