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		<title>Utterly shocked</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractor.com/2009/09/utterly-shocked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[today to learn that I know an actual living, breathing creationist. Who is under the age of 80. And is convinced of the high quality of the education that led to that belief. (I think indoctrination would be a more accurate name for it, but whatever.) I have a hard enough time trying to comprehend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weirdness.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had four random strangers with realllllly long gmail addresses subscribe to this blog. I&#8217;ve deleted them on principle, since I don&#8217;t know them, and it&#8217;s easy enough to bookmark the blog if you have an overwhelming interest in it. Subscription doesn&#8217;t confer any posting or editing powers or anything. If there&#8217;s some reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Grace</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractor.com/2009/08/modern-grace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tweeted this thought some time ago, making me guilty of what I am about to decry. Yay me! With the social networking that so many of us are involved in, we have tons of opportunities to talk to each other. Most of my friends, both real life and strictly internet-based, are available to me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And of course,</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractor.com/2008/08/and-of-course/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[no sooner did I thank the powers that be for Skype and internet than the Main Distractor lost the wifi he was hijacking. (It was beneficent and emergency hijacking: when he was originally supposed to have moved last month, he took the leap of faith and cancelled a whack of services, and when he learned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OH HAI</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractor.com/2008/05/oh-hai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 02:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been remiss. Soz. Since I wrote last, there&#8217;s been a minor flea invasion (possibly, and in addition to spiders; I never met a flea that I was as allergic to as some of these bites; as well, there are the mosquitoes at the park. Why am I so irresistible to all these creatures?). The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telecommunication</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractor.com/2008/04/telecommunication-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my modem crapped out on me. I went on Tuesday to buy a new one (before the Radiohead presale), and found out that London Drugs doesn&#8217;t sell ADSL modems at all anymore. WHAT?! They have some wireless package for $150, no thanks. I had called tech support, and he said you have to buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OH NOES</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractor.com/2008/03/oh-noes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe my food geek site has been hacked. How fucking lame is that. What&#8217;s even lamer, is that I can&#8217;t submit a help desk ticket at my SUPER AWESOME WEBHOST SITEGROUND.COM. Because it&#8217;s looping me around for no apparent reason (yes I disabled the popup blocker on my firefox). And there&#8217;s no other way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circularity</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractor.com/2008/02/circularity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Gibson has blogged about Die Ärzte, the band my college bf Rodrigo is now in&#8230;and whom I&#8217;m seeing in Berlin this summer when he plays the same venue as Radiohead a few days later. Another Gibson boardie from Berlin is a fan, and I&#8217;m going to try to see if I can get a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>and in a way,</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractor.com/2008/02/and-in-a-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to protest the sexism of spam. Not sure if it&#8217;s because they think women are canny enough not to click on their retarded links, but fer chrissakes, I don&#8217;t need a 9 inch cock. Well, not to make me feel like more of a man. Uh yeah. Never mind.]]></description>
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		<title>Telecommunication</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractor.com/2008/02/telecommunication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bittersweetdistractor.com/?p=45</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is blowing for me right now. (As Shanny would say, you&#8217;re a big girl now: suck, don&#8217;t blow. But that&#8217;s beside the point.) I&#8217;m hearing from people I don&#8217;t care to hear from (well, not so much), and then the few people I really am interested in hearing from at this moment in time are [...]]]></description>
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