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		<title>Me fail English? Unpossible!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could it be? Could it possibly be that I am actually enjoying making revisions to an existing project? It&#8217;s oddly fulfilling and pleasant&#8230;a chance to interact with my story on a way more gentle level than a scratch and rewrite. S&#38;W is my normal mode of &#8216;revision&#8217; BTW, and I dare say it was killing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catabolicist.wordpress.com&blog=286412&post=389&subd=catabolicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running Through the Jungle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if on cue, the universe is lightening up after my last post. It was strangely hard to talk (even so obliquely) about that in the open. 
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		<title>this will only make sense to about 1 in 100 people.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you&#8217;ve noticed that I don&#8217;t update much of late. Or perhaps not. That&#8217;s what happens when you don&#8217;t update often enough- people stop checking in on you, your name falls off of blog rolls. It&#8217;s the nature of the false connectedness of the internet, sure. But it&#8217;s exactly the nature of the depressive brain. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catabolicist.wordpress.com&blog=286412&post=382&subd=catabolicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Half flu, shouldn&#8217;t travel.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that flu shots are no longer produced as attenuated vaccines, but let&#8217;s just say that about 12 hours after mine I started to wonder if maybe I&#8217;d had some old school batch. Don&#8217;t feel too bad for me&#8211; it&#8217;s only about half the flu. Instead of full-on sore throat/headache/body ache/chills/high fevers/lethargy/in your bed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catabolicist.wordpress.com&blog=286412&post=379&subd=catabolicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I love this part.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this part: the pause. The important mind-blanking part.
I know writers who do this part with seamless grace. They just stop writing and then they stare into the distance. One hums a song. Some just get up for more coffee, maybe a little chore or something.
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		<title>this just in</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I kind of forgot that I had a blog. And that it didn&#8217;t just auto-magically update with deep thoughts and grumpy whining. Turns out, that in Real Life &#8482; I am also so much of a space cadet that I frequently assume I&#8217;ve told someone something when I have only *thought* it. 
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		<title>Which comes first?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life, it has a nasty habit of intervening just when you&#8217;d rather toss it all and go write. I don&#8217;t have anything specific in mind, either. There is no sweeping idea or whatnot that I want to go pound out furiously on the keys.
What there is, however, is an apartment that&#8217;s been fully subsumed in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catabolicist.wordpress.com&blog=286412&post=372&subd=catabolicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things I should not see: Study Partner Edition</title>
		<link>http://catabolicist.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/things-i-should-not-see-study-partner-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone just asked me who bell hooks is. Note: the someone is studying feminism, cultural studies, and taking contemporary poetry as an elective. Said someone is also considering taking African American Studies in the fall&#8230; I know because she said &#8220;maybe I can learn more about him in my African American Studies Class in the fall&#8230;&#8221;
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		<title>Things I wish for Annika on her Big Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In handy bullet-point because (seriously) who doesn&#8217;t love a list:
-health. For you, for your bun, for your whole family.
-time. To enjoy yourself.
-money to fall out of the sky. I know, but it would seriously contribute to the availabilty of the above.
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		<title>Eyes closed, fingers flying, lots of typos to follow.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the hardest work of recovery is letting yourself relax after what you&#8217;ve just learned. Or accomplished. Or shed. &#8220;Relax&#8221; is oversimplified perhaps. Here &#8216;relaxing&#8217; is an odd jumble of forgiving, patience, and keeping an open mind. Oh, and being cautious because you&#8217;re in a new raw skin. I won&#8217;t go in to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catabolicist.wordpress.com&blog=286412&post=362&subd=catabolicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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