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		<title>The Ghost Shift.</title>
		<link>http://rattusphere.com/2009/07/08/the-ghost-shift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with being Major Depressive, or with suffering from any kind of mental problem (mostly) is that you feel foreign.
You feel like an alien most of the time. Someone or something outside of everything else.
It&#8217;s hard to belong, to know that you belong, especially when you aren&#8217;t told this by those around you, aren&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rattusphere.com&blog=3534012&post=927&subd=rattusphere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surrounded By Icon Death.</title>
		<link>http://rattusphere.com/2009/06/29/surrounded-by-icon-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rattusphere.com/?p=925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just trying to figure things out.
It isn&#8217;t going that well.
What else is new, right?
Two weeks to the Philly Women&#8217;s Triathlon. I&#8217;ve had root canal work on the same tooth for the past two weeks, and have too also the week of the tri. I&#8217;ve resigned myself to the notion that if I&#8217;m not able to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rattusphere.com&blog=3534012&post=925&subd=rattusphere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Picture Worth A Thousand Words.</title>
		<link>http://rattusphere.com/2009/06/21/a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rattusphere.com/?p=923</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was climbing at the rock gym with a friend on Friday and I got a picture message from my sister: just an image of her hand, and a ring, with the words &#8221; not going climbing tonight.&#8221;
I shook a little, nervously punched back a text reply, &#8220;is that?&#8230;.!!!!!!&#8221; and then immediately sent it and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rattusphere.com&blog=3534012&post=923&subd=rattusphere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Placemarker</title>
		<link>http://rattusphere.com/2009/06/19/placemarker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ dusts away the cobwebs ]
This place seems to take on everything when my physical life is less than what I would require it be.
And it is full of everything I&#8217;ve longed for it to be, so, dust can settle, cover, and wait for me to return.
The moto is amazing. I am learning &#8230; things. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rattusphere.com&blog=3534012&post=920&subd=rattusphere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Line.</title>
		<link>http://rattusphere.com/2009/06/03/the-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rattusphere.com/?p=915</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I sat in my car and watched a stranger&#8217;s funeral. It was raining. It was cold. The sky was dark.
The multicolored caravans blinking into infinity compelled me to pull over and stop, to sit for a few minutes and wait. To pay a respect to someone I hadn&#8217;t met before, I had to wonder.
I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rattusphere.com&blog=3534012&post=915&subd=rattusphere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Forbidden Zone.</title>
		<link>http://rattusphere.com/2009/06/02/the-forbidden-zone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rattusphere.com/?p=912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every week I try to challenge myself. Challenges include pushing myself into new and slightly uncomfortable territory when it comes to the personal self. Most of the time this translates to doing things I&#8217;m not use to doing, or taking risks I wouldn&#8217;t have before:
Riding a motorcycle.
Rock climbing.
Asking people out on dates. (ugh)
Every week I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rattusphere.com&blog=3534012&post=912&subd=rattusphere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Love Story.</title>
		<link>http://rattusphere.com/2009/05/30/the-love-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 23:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rattusphere.com/?p=910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought a motorcycle. My first.

Yesterday evening my friend and I rode through a virtual downpour to see the bike that I now own. Half way to our destination the skies opened up, the heavens blasted white light, and everything under the clouded sky came crashing down on us on 202 south. We sat in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rattusphere.com&blog=3534012&post=910&subd=rattusphere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Booya.</title>
		<link>http://rattusphere.com/2009/05/24/booya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 23:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Blog Thing,
I haven&#8217;t had internet capabilities to update you in a week now. Today the internet was restored, and now that it doesn&#8217;t take 10 minutes to load a page I don&#8217;t know what to say. Maybe I&#8217;m distracted because I don&#8217;t have to push the refresh button at all now, or hit &#8220;retry&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rattusphere.com&blog=3534012&post=908&subd=rattusphere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vroom.</title>
		<link>http://rattusphere.com/2009/05/14/vroom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 02:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rattusphere</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rattusphere.com/?p=906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I ♥ motorcycles.
So much. Like tons even.
Tomorrow I get to wrap up the riding part of my MSF safety course with the skills evaluation. Monday there&#8217;s a written test, then -boom-&#8230;.Motorcycle License.
With that, I&#8217;m hoping:
Dear Universe,
please send me a cute, but awesome little 250cc I can keep learning on through the summer and fall, thanks. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rattusphere.com&blog=3534012&post=906&subd=rattusphere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sky Is Falling!</title>
		<link>http://rattusphere.com/2009/05/13/the-sky-is-falling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rattusphere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are the Boy Who Cried Friend.
Crass.
Distant.
False.
F A L S E.
He sits at a wooden table, surrounded by soft cafe light, the warm rich tendrils of smoked New Guinea wrapping themselves around his head, his words, him. He smiles. I relax. This isn&#8217;t so bad. Not like I imagined it would be, not really. What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rattusphere.com&blog=3534012&post=903&subd=rattusphere&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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