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	<title>Burning Like Water</title>
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		<title>fine. you win.</title>
		<link>http://catabolicist.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/fine-you-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had it said to me several times in the past few days, and I&#8217;ve argued back every time. &#8220;You seem distracted,&#8221; they say. &#8220;Is everything alright?&#8221; To the first question, I usually just shake my head and possibly give back a confused look. By the time the second question appears, I get annoyed. &#8220;I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catabolicist.wordpress.com&blog=286412&post=398&subd=catabolicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Sack of Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For better or for worse, there are stories and myths that keep cropping up in my life. I like to think of them as stories that I cannot shake. Some are comforting, others&#8230;not so much so. End effect is that I see them playing out all around me which is, one supposes, the real staying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catabolicist.wordpress.com&blog=286412&post=396&subd=catabolicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the lightness of being a n00b.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I caught a tweet this morning from Nova who was expressing her awe about watching people go through NaNoWriMo and I too, gentle reader, had a moment. I decided to do something different this November, and have hacked together an approach at NaNoReVisMo. My goal? Of course it&#8217;s to have a workable draft in one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catabolicist.wordpress.com&blog=286412&post=393&subd=catabolicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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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				<category><![CDATA[I do what they tell me to]]></category>

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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. 
Today I am back to the work, despite numerous interruptions. I guess it&#8217;s to be expected when one finally remembers to pay one&#8217;s phone bill. People suddenly call [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catabolicist.wordpress.com&blog=286412&post=386&subd=catabolicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://catabolicist.wordpress.com/?p=382</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://catabolicist.wordpress.com/?p=379</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://catabolicist.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/i-love-this-part/</link>
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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.
But others like myself have it a bit weirder. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catabolicist.wordpress.com&blog=286412&post=376&subd=catabolicist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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>
		<link>http://catabolicist.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/which-comes-first/</link>
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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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