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		<title>Body image isn&#8217;t just weight.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of people talking about and linking various body image posts on Twitter and Facebook lately, primarily this piece which links to this, which also began circulating among friends and acquaintances. Reading them, I was thinking about body image, self-esteem, how I sometimes see and unconsciously judge people without getting to know them as a person first. There is no getting around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello 2011 &#8211; Day 332</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the new year has come, and in the last handful of days I&#8217;ve been posting over at iamfiction rather than here. My life in the past week has certainly felt like a dirty smudge of fiction. Sort of here, but feeling very far away. Some good things are happening, and there are things on which I can improve. I&#8217;m facing fears, I&#8217;m taking chances, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye 2010 &#8211; Day 326</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2010 was a lot of things. It was freedom. It was obsession. It was confronting fears and swallowing pride and asking for help. 2010 was writing not-yet-finished memoirs, six zines, short stories sent to literary journals. Four to six months is a long time to wait, but I will still keep writing. That memoir, I&#8217;m scrapping it, turning it fiction because that&#8217;s how I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling fourteen &#8211; Day 272</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 03:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things culminate, twist, and inside all that&#8217;s left is the echoing voice of&#8230; disdain. Easier to call it disdain than anything else besides. It sort of reminds me why girls do this and why thirty-something men cling like parasites we, for some reason, want to keep on the inside. NaNoWriMo is going good so far. I&#8217;m close to being on the most minimal schedule, even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we do enough? &#8211; Day 252</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the question that&#8217;s haunted me for months, and it&#8217;s the one to which I still don&#8217;t know the answer. It&#8217;s the ever-dreaded, &#8220;Am I doing all that I can?&#8221; I know we need breaks, and I know that self-indulgence once in awhile is good for rejuvenating Self, but often I get caught up in the cycle of me, more, mine. I don&#8217;t like it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quick word on National Coming Out Day &#8211; Day 245</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stopped the frantic cleaning of my apartment to write this, so hopefully it will be brief. I was scrubbing the bathroom when the thought, &#8220;Why do we even need National Coming Out Day in the first place?&#8221; struck me. Why can&#8217;t people be open about who they love, and why do they feel the need to hide such things? Love is a beautiful thing! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coding with people&#8217;s words watching over me &#8211; Day 233</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave was kind enough to let me have an unused cork board of his, but this was back in March when it was still really cold outside. I think it had even rained that day. A chilly rain. And I couldn&#8217;t find where we were supposed to meet. Anyhow, that day I didn&#8217;t have any nails to hang it up, and I kept forgetting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the panda&#8217;s mojo back &#8211; Day 212</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met up with Mary after work at Uptown Cafe for a creative sort of evening. I brought paper and scissors and glue. Notebooks. Pens. We wrote and talked, doing what we could to make the things we needed. We need the drive, the urge, a push from all directions to make things happen. Spur creativity. At the end of 2009 I had lost the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shaun, SoulCalibur IV and nostalgia &#8211; Day 205</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I spent a couple hours fine-tuning edits for &#8220;Will,&#8221; which included completely axing 2,000 or so words. I like to be concise; I like leaving things up to the reader. Not everything, but a lot of things. Next comes all the smoothing, tying the loose ends and making sure it works the way it should. &#8220;Will&#8221; is a machine. It needs to work. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking, inking and watercoloring &#8211; Day 179</title>
		<link>http://jinked.net/introspection/thinking-inking-and-watercoloring-day-179/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I have something to think about, something scary or difficult, I want to make things. And the things I want to make usually fall into the vein of visual art or strange music. I write, yes—I&#8217;ve been journaling in a paper journal perhaps a bit too much lately—but it&#8217;s only during these times when buried pieces of creativity surface. When I am distressed, I [...]]]></description>
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