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  <pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:53:14 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I&apos;m feeling better but my modem isn&apos;t</title>
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  <description>I&apos;ve been feeling quite a bit better over the past few days and I wanted to than &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/127840.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:12:43 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>involuntary</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;In a way the self-pity and recriminations of my recent post &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/127535.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:20:23 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>one step forward, two steps back</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I just realized that as of today it’s been five years since &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/127435.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:40:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>sick of being sick</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I made it through my blood tests on Wednesday without incid &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/126985.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:11:22 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>more hypoglycemic fun</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I’ve got to be at the doctor at &lt;div class=&apos;ljparseerror&apos;&gt;[&lt;b&gt;Error:&lt;/b&gt; Irreparable invalid markup (&apos;&amp;lt;st1:time [...] http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/126975.html&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&apos;) in entry.  Owner must fix manually.  Raw contents below.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;width: 95%; overflow: auto&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;p class=&amp;quot;MsoNormal&amp;quot;&amp;gt;I’ve got to be at the doctor at &amp;lt;st1:time minute=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; hour=&amp;quot; &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;(&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/126975.html&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Read more ...&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;)&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:26:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>under sweet blood</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I talked to my Doctor yesterday morning about my blood test &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/126690.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:39:54 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Terminus</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Thursday was my day off and also the first day of Terminus, &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/126214.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:17:59 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>call the doctor</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I went to the doctor on Wednesday; I just really have not b &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/126149.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:43:23 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Terminus</title>
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  <description>I&apos;m not going to be at Terminus proper however I do live in the city of Chicago  &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/125887.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:19:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>stormy munday</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;On Monday night (&lt;st1:date month=&quot;8&quot; day=&quot;4&quot; year=&quot;2008&quot;&gt;08 &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/125523.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:48:25 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I really feel like my visit to &lt;st1:state&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;New    &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/125240.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:17:22 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>why so serious?</title>
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  <description>I saw &lt;i style=&quot;&quot;&gt;Dark Knight&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp; a couple days ago and was more or less b &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/125108.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:00:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>the proverbial red x</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;My period started yesterday which goes a long way towards e &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/124766.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:15:48 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;For the last month or so I’ve been engrossed in Susanna Cla &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/124470.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:01:17 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>my &quot;before&quot; pictures</title>
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  <description>When I was 22 and 23 years old (in 1994 and 1995) I lost over 100 pounds.&amp;nbsp;  &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/124349.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:34:15 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>why is this so difficult?</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I ended up calling in to work yesterday and today which is  &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/123969.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:36:38 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>back to work</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Yesterday was my first day back &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/123714.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:32:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>perfect daughter or perfect horror</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I got back from my visit to my parents yesterday evening an &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/123635.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>ready for vacation</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Tomorrow I fly to &lt;st1:state&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;New York&lt;/st1:place&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/123283.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:18:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Goody Goody Goody</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I’m going to be going to visit the parents in Upstate New Y &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/122911.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:24:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>how far will you go...</title>
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  <description>Yesterday I had lunch with my sister, her husband and kids and my brother-in-law &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/122816.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:44:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Mother of Tears</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I had both Thursday and Friday (07/03 and 07/04) off so I e &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/122394.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:34:30 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>late Christmas gift</title>
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  <description>I e-mailed my sister about how it had hurt my feelings when she told me I had em &lt;b&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/122303.html&quot;&gt;Read more ...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:02:56 GMT</pubDate>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:22:15 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>This little pill in my hand that keeps the pain laughing</title>
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  <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;This weekend was Gay Pride in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&apos;ljparseerror&apos;&gt;[&lt;b&gt;Error:&lt;/b&gt; Irreparable invalid markup (&apos;&amp;lt;st1:ci &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&apos;) in entry.  Owner must fix manually.  Raw contents below.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;width: 95%; overflow: auto&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;p class=&amp;quot;MsoNormal&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;This weekend was Gay Pride in &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;st1:ci &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;(&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://bitterfig.insanejournal.com/121721.html&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Read more ...&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;)&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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