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		<title>And In the Closet I Stay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 06:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>And In the Closet I Stay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 06:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Number Twelve!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of 5:00 p.m. CST today, Governor Mark Dayton will sign into law the bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Minnesota. This makes Minnesota the twelveth state in the Union to allow same-sex couples to marry. The law will take effect on August first of this year. WOOHOO! We did it, everybody! Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsthecolleenlife.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24945533&#038;post=340&#038;subd=itsthecolleenlife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lovely Weather We&#8217;re Having, Eh?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, it&#8217;s just about 60°F (so 15°C, give or take). I am so flippin&#8217; stoked, you don&#8217;t even know. So I&#8217;ve been working a lot lately, but not enough to excuse the lack of updates. At the end of April, there&#8217;s going to be a poetry slam at the coffeeshop down the street. There&#8217;s usually [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsthecolleenlife.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24945533&#038;post=329&#038;subd=itsthecolleenlife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When It Rains, It Pours</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, I had the opportunity to work at McDonald&#8217;s. I ended up sleeping in/suffering a mild catatonia/being too depressed to get out of bed/being too lazy to get up on my first day. That same day, I got a call from Taco del Mar. I hadn&#8217;t even applied to work there, but [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsthecolleenlife.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24945533&#038;post=316&#038;subd=itsthecolleenlife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Awful Comedy Fan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well this is embarrassing to admit. I&#8217;m normally so good with faces &#8212; and yet it took me months to be able to pick out one of my dear friends from a crowd, but anyway. Concerning the men of Monty Python, I can&#8217;t match up names with faces. There, I said it. It&#8217;s the same [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsthecolleenlife.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24945533&#038;post=298&#038;subd=itsthecolleenlife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aaand You&#8217;re Out.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, I went to a meeting with my CSP (Community Support Program) worker to appeal my suspension from university. I fucked up again and didn&#8217;t finish as many credits as I was supposed to. The point of the meeting was for me to convince a slew of professors that I wouldn&#8217;t fuck up again. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsthecolleenlife.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24945533&#038;post=271&#038;subd=itsthecolleenlife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Resolve To&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not being modest when I say that I&#8217;m quite the fuck-up. Other folks with ADHD can probably relate. It&#8217;s probably one of the reasons I like making New Year&#8217;s resolutions; it gives me a bit of hope that this year is the year. Of course it never happens, but a gal can dream, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsthecolleenlife.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24945533&#038;post=212&#038;subd=itsthecolleenlife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Molar Oral; or, Why I Wish I Could Get Dentures</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was growing up in the lower middle-class/upper working-class income bracket, going to the dentist wasn&#8217;t a high priority in my family. Hell, I only went to the doctor&#8217;s office if I was too sick to walk. That situation, combined with alleged bad genetics on my mother&#8217;s side, left me with a mouth full [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsthecolleenlife.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24945533&#038;post=161&#038;subd=itsthecolleenlife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please Don&#8217;t Vote Yes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This four-day weekend is my fall break from university, so my mother requested that I return home for a few days. One reason was because of an anniversary party for my brother-in-law&#8217;s parents, held today in a town about fifty miles south of my parents&#8217; home in rural southwestern Minnesota. I was noticeably femme&#8217;d up [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=itsthecolleenlife.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24945533&#038;post=128&#038;subd=itsthecolleenlife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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