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		<title>Major decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning &#8220;hung over&#8221; with grief, wondering if I should call up my sister and ask for a valium.  I almost blew off the pre-interview laboratory visit I had this afternoon, because I was barely functional.
But I didn&#8217;t blow it off.
And I went.  Mostly to force myself out of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&blog=3187728&post=2795&subd=raisingsmartgirls&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The bad part about being so sensitive</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You grieve more deeply.
You hurt more profoundly.
You can&#8217;t force yourself to ignore the thoughts that bring you pain.
Songs like this creep into your head keeping you in pain
Live Like You Were Dying
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		<title>My grieving child</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The grieving started tonight.  M&#8217;s school made the announcement yesterday that Mrs. P died over the weekend, losing a long battle with ovarian cancer.  M told me she wasn&#8217;t sad, and that she didn&#8217;t even cry in school.  She did, however, start crying buckets when we got into the car and she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&blog=3187728&post=2782&subd=raisingsmartgirls&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a week this is turning out to be</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We will be attending the wake for Mrs. P at the end of the week.  She was M&#8217;s teacher for first grade.  
M took the news of Mrs. P&#8217;s passing pretty well, though she did say that she would have been more upset if she and I hadn&#8217;t been talking about it all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&blog=3187728&post=2780&subd=raisingsmartgirls&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I hardly ever get important calls anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And I got two today within an hour of each other:
We regret to inform you that Ms. P, finally lost her battle with ovarian cancer.

Hi Casey, I&#8217;m so-and-so from three jobs ago.  If you aren&#8217;t currently working, I might have a job you might be interested in
I&#8217;m emotionally spent.  
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		<title>Because there can&#8217;t be enough of Chuck Bartowski</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t wait until Chuck starts up again next spring.  Isn&#8217;t he the sweetest, most handsome nerd turned CIA agent there is?  I find him dreamy &#8211; literally I dreamt about him once and it was one of the top 5 dreams I&#8217;ve ever had (I&#8217;m not going to kiss and tell though, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&blog=3187728&post=2755&subd=raisingsmartgirls&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fitting in is hard to do, or is it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[NaNoWriMo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On friendship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good laugh is hard to come by.  So is fitting in.
Well, for me it always has.
If you could go back about 10 years, I was sitting in the Dos Hermanos bar at the bottom of the Sears Tower after work from the crime lab on a Friday evening.  I was 28 years old and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&blog=3187728&post=2730&subd=raisingsmartgirls&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ah&#8230;true wuv</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Copyright 2009 by Casey and RaisingSmartGirls]
Because I know in a few days we will have to share some very bad news with my daughter, I thought I&#8217;d share a bit of an excerpt from the novel I&#8217;m writing for NaNo.  Last night I poured my heart into some happy prose.
This is the scene where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&blog=3187728&post=2708&subd=raisingsmartgirls&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That I wish I could do more.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(this is predominantly for tbs, but others are on my mind as well).
You know, there are times when you simply can&#8217;t affect a change for the better for someone else.  As much as you&#8217;d love to, there can be circumstances beyond your control to do much else than offer cyber support.  It is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&blog=3187728&post=2697&subd=raisingsmartgirls&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The plight of the novice writer.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Yeah, a bit of a whiny post&#8230;)
I should be catching up on sleep, or at least eating breakfast.  I have less than 45 minutes left alone before I have to get the girls from school.
But, I have a headache caused from staying up till 11 pm to get some more word-count in for the title-less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&blog=3187728&post=2693&subd=raisingsmartgirls&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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