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	<description>All the cool kids are doing it.</description>
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		<title>Fortunately, I never decide to only half-bake a cake and leave the rest for when I&#8217;m feeling more motivated.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am resisting the urge to start yet another knitting project. A quick glance at the number of unfinished or sleeping proejcts on my Ravelry page remind me that the last thing I need is another distraction. I should at least finish ONE of them before starting something new. But I have several piles of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blisteredavalon.com/2008/08/17/fortunately-i-never-decide-to-only-half-bake-a-cake-and-leave-the-rest-for-when-im-feeling-more-motivated/</link>
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		<title>Updates? Pshaw!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who needs updates?
This blog does, that&#8217;s who. It occurs to me that since i last &#8220;wrote&#8221;, I have attended two fairly major swing events, celebrated my birthday, joined a second knitting circle, joined forces with our local swing dance non-profit group, and watched my favorite time of spring arrive and then begin to sneak away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>just testing images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a test. This is only a test.
Here&#8217;s a picture of my cat.

And it worked! Sort of. This is why I don&#8217;t generally put pictures into my posts; it gets messy! But people like pictures, and I do too. I&#8217;ll keep working on this. 
In other news, my new dancing shoes came in! I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m supposed to be doing the dishes right now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my dance instructors recently said - I believe it was either Devona Cartier or Noëlle Gray - that partner dancing is a conversation between two bodies. I returned last night from a weekend of delightful conversations in southern CT, and all that movement rattled some parts of my brain that have been dormant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blisteredavalon.com/2008/03/10/im-supposed-to-be-doing-the-dishes-right-now/</link>
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		<title>Dry the Rain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel much better today. Not perfect, but better.
I&#8217;m looking very much forward to knitting with the girls tonight. My goal is to get the first sleeve and much of the second sleeve finished for this sweater. If I can do that, I might have a finished sweater by the weekend. And that would rock! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blisteredavalon.com/2008/03/06/dry-the-rain/</link>
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		<title>Metaphors for pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was little, I dreamed of being chased. Sometimes, the assailant was the thumbtacks hanging posters above the head of my bed - they would fly through the air, aiming to stab me, and there was no where I could run that they couldn&#8217;t follow. Sometimes the assailant would be an unknown man, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blisteredavalon.com/2008/03/05/metaphors-for-pain/</link>
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		<title>Ahem.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would appear that I need to do something drastic with this blog to kick start me back into actually using it. I have some ideas, but nothing concrete. Most of them hinge around owning a digital camera, because let&#8217;s face it, everything is better with pretty pictures. Unfortunately, my camera has gone MIA since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blisteredavalon.com/2008/02/14/ahem/</link>
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		<title>haiku on a rainy morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January thaw -
the stray cat slept
somewhere else
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		<link>http://www.blisteredavalon.com/2008/01/09/haiku-on-a-rainy-morning/</link>
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		<title>16k</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no way I&#8217;m going to finish this novel by the end of November. And that makes me very sad. I very much want the satisfaction of writing &#8220;The End&#8221; after 50,000 words of fiction. But I&#8217;m going to keep plugging away at it. Maybe I can catch up over Thanksgiving weekend. I still have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blisteredavalon.com/2007/11/19/16k/</link>
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		<title>This is the definition of my life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The weather outside this morning is a perfect mirror of my insides.
It has been raining, and as I leave my apartment, the world is covered in a slick, slippery coat, the kind of surface that thoughts and memories slide right off. There is a thin layer of sticky, blanketing fog, and the trees stand barren, [...]]]></description>
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