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		<title>Ain’t that a kick in the pants?</title>
		<link>http://debikm.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/aint-that-a-kick-in-the-pants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, another semester has begun. I&#8217;ve fallen into a pattern of one live and one online class. Online is the History of Jazz. I&#8217;ve never been a fan, mostly because the smooth jazz that such radio stations play sets my teeth on edge. However, a lot of classic jazz I love, and I&#8217;m quite surprised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debikm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4921247&amp;post=438&amp;subd=debikm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mysteries of where writing ideas come from has always fascinated me. How an author like Steven King, for example, can be so prolific and successful both heartens and discourages me as a potential writer. To someone like me, his rise to fame after the hordes of rejection letter he received spurs me to keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debikm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4921247&amp;post=433&amp;subd=debikm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>*sigh*</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the start of a new semester at The University, my writing, such that it was, has come to a halt, save that done for classes. Consequently, the people who live in my head are stirring. They are aware of my preoccupation with something other than their lives and their concerns and they are massing, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debikm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4921247&amp;post=426&amp;subd=debikm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Requiem for a flash drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Alas, poor SanDisc! I knew him, Horatio; a device of infinite storage, of most excellent quality; he hath borne my writing on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those wires that I have carried I know not how oft. Where be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debikm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4921247&amp;post=421&amp;subd=debikm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disaster&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is how I feel after this morning. The lanyard that I use to haul my flash drive everywhere, caught on the coffee table. Big deal, get a new lanyard, you say. Sure thing, but that&#8217;s not the problem. What went wrong was the flash drive, still in the usb port on my computer is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debikm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4921247&amp;post=411&amp;subd=debikm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So, whatcha doin&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://debikm.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/so-whatcha-doin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: This post is likely to greatly resemble a Seinfeld episode. Stuff goes on, but nothing really happens. Much like my writing. I wasn&#8217;t a big fan of the show, but the concept is interesting to me. You see, in my writing, stuff goes on, but nothing huge happens. Nobody jumps out of a helicopter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debikm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4921247&amp;post=406&amp;subd=debikm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There and Back Again, or Various Random Thoughts on Writing (since I&#8217;m a sucky blogger and have neglected this too long)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I started a writing forum, since the one I was participating in seems to have died quietly in its sleep. We are, besides posting bits and pieces and discussing each others excepts, are reading a mutually agreed upon book. The first one is Stephen King&#8217;s The Stand. It is a favorite and this is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debikm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4921247&amp;post=399&amp;subd=debikm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing and first drafts: or What I&#8217;ve Learned This Semester In College</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>debikm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve been taking an advanced creative writing class. I&#8217;ve had such classes before and they are loads of fun, as long as you aren&#8217;t afraid to let anyone else read your work. I got over that a long time ago. All our assignments have been 2-3 pages, some with some guiding theme. We were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debikm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4921247&amp;post=395&amp;subd=debikm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Quiet on the Western Front</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And right here in my writing attempts too. Okay, so I&#8217;m working full-time, taking two classes at UF and holding the filth in my house at bay (not very well, I might add). Add to that the purchase of a new heat pump that is partially installed (can&#8217;t fire the installer, I&#8217;m married to him), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debikm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4921247&amp;post=393&amp;subd=debikm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wow, I&#8217;m a bad blogger&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://debikm.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/wow-im-a-bad-blogger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, to sum up everything that has happened since the last time I updated this, I got into the University of Florida as an English major. That was an ordeal. Now I&#8217;m in my second semester, taking an anthropology class (because the community college isn&#8217;t as free with the information that &#8216;our graduation requirements and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debikm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4921247&amp;post=390&amp;subd=debikm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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