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	<description>Standing by my jukebox choices</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>HAPPY THREE DAYS OFF, BLOGLAND! Now go outside &#38; be merry.</title>
		<link>http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/happy-three-days-off-blogland-now-go-outside-be-merry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA['Boozing']]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Babbling]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Friends]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tae Kwon Do]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[What more could I ask for?]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Woot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[abusing links 'cause I'm bored at work!]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hoppity hop hop hopping]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reasons to cartwheel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[things that complete me]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[you wish they were your friends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Long Island Correspondent is home for a spontaneous visit this weekend, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier. (Perhaps I&#8217;ve mentioned this before? Whatev. When you get to spend the next 48 hours with the person that makes you whole, just TRY not to blab to everyone abt it. Annnnnnnd point taken.)
We&#8217;re heading out tomorrow night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(This means you, people!)</title>
		<link>http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/this-means-you-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pare</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[My Pickle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[help a girl out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an almost superhuman effort to cheer myself up, I am ignoring my severe stresses today and heading to the dojo for an hour and a half of getting-it-all-out. Then, after a shower and some lavender lotion, I&#8217;m barricading myself in the closet and making a cd for my Pickle.
I&#8217;m kicking off with &#8220;Hang On, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fuck Your Shit Up</title>
		<link>http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/how-to-fuck-your-shit-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pare</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Acting like a Crazy Person]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Admissions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Boo Hiss]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GAH]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[idiocy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[just go ahead and goddamn commit me already]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[oops]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ravens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[what the hell is happening to me?]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[WTF?!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forget to take your craziness medication for oh, five nights in row.
Experience extreme lightheaded-ness, brain zaps, headaches, severe lower back pain, and very worrisome symptoms of depression.
Cry at even the most asinine, ridiculous things for 72 hours straight. Alternate screaming at and demanding things of beloved, consume own body weight in salt. Cry some more.
Rinse, repeat.
Welcome to unintentional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cry</title>
		<link>http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/cry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Acting like a Crazy Person]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eating the Pavement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Feeling Sick]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Panic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tired]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[the Blow by Blow]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[curled into the fetal position]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[emotionally drained]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feeling like mashed shit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[I'm actually serious]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[writing that could and should be better]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I got to work this morning and found out my coworker had thrown me under the bus in the shittiest way, I was so angry I cried.
A few minutes later, I had to wrestle my inner pitbull for over-protecting my closest friends and the effort made me cry.
At lunch I forced myself to eat an entire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Dahlia by Elisa Albert</title>
		<link>http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/the-book-of-dahlia-by-elisa-albert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hmmm]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Neuroses]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stealing Other People's Shit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[I'm actually serious]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[so familiar it's creepy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[page one in its entirety, I kid you not]
Were there signs, willfully ignored? Did you know, on some level, that something was wrong? Did you avoid knowing? What were the signs? What did you know?
She had been having symptoms. Only recognizable as such in hindsight, but symptoms, nevertheless. A headache. Some sluggishness. Disinclination to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday night</title>
		<link>http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/wednesday-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pare</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[I Should Probably Keep All This to Myself]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Talking to Myself]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[abusing italics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[has this made any sense at all?]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[I'm probably gonna get in trouble for this]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/?p=783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently weddings lead to COMPLETE FUCKING HYSTERIA.
And no! Not hysteria on my part! About anything! For once.
We&#8217;re fighting we&#8217;re fighting we&#8217;re fighting and all of a sudden, my hand is out the blue truck window in the wow-is-it-really-finally-summer-in-Wisconsin breeze and a small part of me wants to laugh and laugh, because this is preposterous, this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter</title>
		<link>http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/open-letter-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pare</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Aminals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[surprises]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[yeeeeeeah]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[you tell me]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[you'd think I was back in Milwaukee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Weird Local Woman Literally Sitting on the Curb on Main St Chopping the Heads Off a Handful of Peonies,
When your vicious, yappy, scabies-riddled toy whatsit dog lunged at me and you said, &#8220;Oh it&#8217;s just a nice lady!&#8221; I admit I was surprised.
Because really? We&#8217;ve been over this.
And because I&#8217;m curious: when my gut reaction was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Listen, in the next 16 months Im&#8217;a need you two to suck some ass fat up top here. Thanks.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/listen-in-the-next-16-months-ima-need-you-two-to-suck-some-ass-fat-up-here-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pare</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[GAH]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[I Should Probably Keep All This to Myself]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[adding to the list of reasons Jaime should come home]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[excitement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[oh sweet jesus I'm in a wedding dress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
*this is not THE dress. THE dress is 39898 times prettier. But I like to tease you, duh.
       ]]></description>
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		<title>I might be a little drunk. Or more than a little.</title>
		<link>http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/i-might-be-a-little-drunk-or-more-than-a-little/</link>
		<comments>http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/i-might-be-a-little-drunk-or-more-than-a-little/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pare</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA['Boozing']]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Babbling]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Friends]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blessings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[classy!]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mah ladeez]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[you wish they were your friends]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/?p=768</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the thing I have over all y&#8217;all. &#8216;Cause no matter how good you have it, you still don&#8217;t have her.
(Also: you can&#8217;t have her or her either. I&#8217;ll fucking fight you. Fer real.)
       ]]></description>
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		<title>You said it</title>
		<link>http://thealmostroyal.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/you-said-it-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pare</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conversations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eating the Pavement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Talking to Myself]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[abusing italics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[emotionally drained]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lessons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with you. You are NOT a bad person. You are going to be okay.
Fuck you, brain. What do you really know.
       ]]></description>
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