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		<title>Hot Mess</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you&#8217;ve read this hilarious post about a hot yoga participant. While I&#8217;m not about to sell my yoga mat, I have Feelings about my most recent hot yoga experience. It started, as things sometimes do, with a Groupon. This new hot yoga place opened near us and I was interested in trying it out. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewritingspider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1572614&amp;post=1241&amp;subd=thewritingspider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On correspondence I have had since 1986</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I&#8217;m a little bit of a pack rat when it comes to paper. I saved all my train tickets and theater stubs from my college trip to Europe. In   my scrapbook, there are wedding invitations (from people who aren&#8217;t even married anymore) and birth announcements. There is a massive box of stationery in my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewritingspider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1572614&amp;post=1234&amp;subd=thewritingspider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hallelujah!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Casa de la Crazytown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[THUG LIFE IS GONE! Yes, Dear Readers, Thug Life, bane of my existence, scourge of Shadowood, King of the Asshats&#8230;is in jail! Let me &#8216;splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Thug Life&#8217;s real name is Gage. (Nope, not making that up.) Gage has been arrested and imprisoned on two counts of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewritingspider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1572614&amp;post=1231&amp;subd=thewritingspider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The t-shirt&#8230;I do not think it means what you think it means</title>
		<link>http://thewritingspider.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/the-t-shirt-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought the t-shirt featured in this post back in 2010 when BP&#8217;s Deepwater Horizon assploded in the Gulf of Mexico and sprayed plumes of oil far and wide. It cost something like $15 and it contributed a donation to the Gulf Restoration Network (please go there, donate something &#8211; if that picture of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewritingspider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1572614&amp;post=1228&amp;subd=thewritingspider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployment desert: Day 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right. So. People have already started asking me if I&#8217;ve heard anything about jobs. NO. Agh. Didn&#8217;t you people read the last eleventy million posts I have written on the subject of Asking Me if I have a Job Yet?? Well go back and find them and read them. Here it is in a nutshell: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewritingspider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1572614&amp;post=1225&amp;subd=thewritingspider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seriously, Universe? SERIOUSLY???</title>
		<link>http://thewritingspider.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/seriously-universe-seriously/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Hunt 2010]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[job loss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You all are going to think I&#8217;m just making this up. Like I&#8217;m a parody of the job market, since this is what? The fourth post I&#8217;ve written on this topic? I got laid off yesterday. Thank God I wasn&#8217;t wearing my pajamas. I went to work in my jammies yesterday &#8211; purple flannel with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewritingspider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1572614&amp;post=1221&amp;subd=thewritingspider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is NUTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I adore peanut butter. Until my dermatologist suggested I lay off foods with nickel in them on account of my crazy skin allergies, I ate peanut butter every. Single. Day. About the time I hit high school, we’d switch from Jif (Choosy moms choose Jif!) to our grocery store’s natural peanut butter. Actually, the health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewritingspider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1572614&amp;post=1218&amp;subd=thewritingspider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jill-of-all-trades</title>
		<link>http://thewritingspider.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/jill-of-all-trades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll never be able to get a tattoo.  Not because I’m afraid of the pain. It’s because I can’t settle on the message. Do I want a fleur de lis? A sunflower? A frog? An owl? A quote? Each of these has a different message it projects to people who see it. I met a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewritingspider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1572614&amp;post=1213&amp;subd=thewritingspider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gift horses and mouths</title>
		<link>http://thewritingspider.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/gift-horses-and-mouths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three pieces of advice I’ve been given that have recently been the subject of some object lessons. Rather, one is a piece of advice, the second is a sort of handy attitude adjuster, and the third is a kind of a philosophy. First, the attitude adjuster. I worked with a woman who talked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewritingspider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1572614&amp;post=1208&amp;subd=thewritingspider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What, exactly, IS in a name?</title>
		<link>http://thewritingspider.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/what-exactly-is-in-a-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Larry the Lobster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moxie festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mudra]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was about twelve, I complained to my dad. “My name is so short! It’s only got four letters and two of them are the same letter!” My dad, ever the smartass, said, “Well, do you want me to give you one of those long African tribal names?” “YES!” “Fine. We’ll call you Zoomabalagadooga!” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewritingspider.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1572614&amp;post=1201&amp;subd=thewritingspider&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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