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		<title>Working towards self-discovery.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meeting people, listening to their stories, their life experiences, soaking it in and learning about the little ways in which the world works. Tiny things. Seemingly insignificant things. Eye contact across the crosswalk. The song playing one floor below my apartment. The messages in my inbox, my mailbox. The happiness and sorrow, it all awaits. I learn best from other people, even if we&#8217;re never [...]]]></description>
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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>Scrambling, scraping, holding on &#8211; Day 295</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a rough weekend. Thanksgiving and all that stuff with the family was good, but things sometimes have a way of falling apart afterward for no reason whatsoever. I would like to blame it on PMS or the short days and cold nights, thunderstorms, but it&#8217;s not always in someone&#8217;s best interest to pin blame upon other people and things. Or entities. I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></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>Sometimes I forget: a confession &#8211; Day 241</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have the tendency to get a little too wrapped up in things, especially when I am working. It doesn&#8217;t matter if I&#8217;m writing, editing, designing, coding, but when I am focused everything around me fades, and the importance of some things diminishes. Eating is the biggest one. I don&#8217;t know why I can so easily toss eating on the back burner. I always find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life upside down, inside out &#8211; Day 160</title>
		<link>http://jinked.net/self/life-upside-down-inside-out-day-160/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some have noted, I haven&#8217;t updated in awhile. Ten days to be exact. Why? This past Friday I had finished my contracting job with a local company. I guess the last week or so I&#8217;ve been a little unmotivated to blog once I made it home from work. I tend to get wrapped up in things individually, which sort of sucks because I really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgetting &#8211; Day 148</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading this zine called Not Lonely. It&#8217;s from a girl out of Scotland who writes in a pleasant, conversational tone about some of the bigger choices she&#8217;s made in life, like choosing not to drink, not getting married to her partner despite social expectations, and dropping the bipolar meds from her daily routine. This was the last part of the zine, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guilty &#8211; Day 146</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a horrible habit of feeling guilty. When I&#8217;ve done things to hurt others, I feel guilty, and rightfully so. However, I feel guilty for many things I probably shouldn&#8217;t even feel guilty about. This week is a good example. The place I&#8217;m contracting for had given me this past week off, and so I did a lot of fun things with the free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry Twilight lovers; I&#8217;ve been there too &#8211; Day 144</title>
		<link>http://jinked.net/video-games/sorry-twilight-lovers-i-have-been-there-too-day-144/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realize that I haven&#8217;t been 100% fair to Twilight fans, especially those who are head-over-heels for Edward Cullen. Twilight is not my cup of tea (and truth be told, I think the writing is tripe but to each their own), but I need to step back and quit criticizing all the girls and women who want an Edward (or I guess that werewolf guy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoidance &#8211; Day 139</title>
		<link>http://jinked.net/self/avoidance-day-139/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[introspection]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[therapy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jinked.net/?p=984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like when I&#8217;m busy because I don&#8217;t have the time to think about things that bother me. Being busy is great though, and being busy stirs all the happy in me, coating my insides with that warm, cozy feel-good feeling. I imagine it like warm chocolate drizzled over vanilla ice cream. Cherry on top. Right now I&#8217;m doing the two things I love (writing [...]]]></description>
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