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    <updated>2008-05-15T20:41:33Z</updated>

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    <subtitle>I look for a life with an Rrraaashan ekcent</subtitle>


    
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        <title>Dear coworker,</title>
    
    
    
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        <published>2008-05-15T20:41:33Z</published>
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            if you need help removing the GIGANTIC STICK UP YOUR BUTT, please let me know. I would really like to watch.  XOXO, your fabulous friend  
        
    
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        <published>2008-05-09T00:11:30Z</published>
        <updated>2008-05-09T00:11:53Z</updated>
    
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            From the string of posts tagged &quot;annoyances&quot; and the fact that it stands out most prominently in my tag cloud, I think I am going to write a happy post. About cats.  I volunteer at a no-kill cat shelter called the &quot;Cat Adoption Team.&quot; Is it the la...
        
    
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        <title>A story about a GUY and his LAWNMOWER</title>
    
    
    
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        <published>2008-05-07T01:59:02Z</published>
        <updated>2008-05-07T02:01:24Z</updated>
    
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            Just thinking about all the crap that happened today makes me want to go throw rotten eggs at certain people. I thought the throwing-rotten-eggs craving wouldn&#39;t hit until Day 5 of Two Hell Weeks, but, alas, too much crap in one day.  It started w...
        
    
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        <published>2008-05-06T17:42:50Z</published>
        <updated>2008-05-06T17:42:50Z</updated>
    
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            Boss saunters in to work at 10:15am (we start at 8:30, did you know?). Chats with the admin downstairs. Then runs upstairs with the flower invoice I just submitted for his signature, all, &quot;Why is this so expensive? Last year I checked and it was t...
        
    
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        <title>How to annoy me even more</title>
    
    
    
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        <published>2008-05-02T23:45:41Z</published>
        <updated>2008-05-02T23:52:14Z</updated>
    
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            List my email wrong on something important. Like a registration form. So when people have questions, they email somebody else (unfortunately, the &#39;wrong&#39; email is owned by a mean, unhelpful person), don&#39;t get a reply, and then get pissed at me.  
        
    
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        <title>Annoying question of the day</title>
    
    
    
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        <published>2008-05-02T18:25:47Z</published>
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            &quot;Do you know of any professors that are interested in bird-watching?&quot;  
        
    
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        <title>I can vote! and all that other stuff!</title>
    
    
    
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            Finally!  Some fun information for anybody out there who still thinks becoming a citizen is a piece of cake.  Time that it took from the time application was sent in until the day of the oath: TEN MONTHS  Cost of application: $595  Number of times...
        
    
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        <title>I have a problem asking God for help</title>
    
    
    
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        <published>2008-04-29T23:16:54Z</published>
        <updated>2008-04-30T21:21:40Z</updated>
    
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            Big deal - I am becoming a citizen tomorrow morning!! I had my citizenship interview today, and after many &quot;no, I am not a habitual drunkard,&quot; and &quot;no, I have never solicited prostitution,&quot; and &quot;no, I am in no way associated with the Communist Par...
        
    
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        <title>In Honolulu, throwing up</title>
    
    
    
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        <published>2008-04-25T19:08:54Z</published>
        <updated>2008-04-28T04:05:29Z</updated>
    
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            How convenient that I started throwing up about an hour into my six-hour flight from Portland to Honolulu. What a friggin brilliant idea that my body had to make sure I lost those two extra pounds on my belly and was prepped for the beach. Today w...
        
    
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        <title>I have an idle citizen?</title>
    
    
    
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        <published>2008-04-07T18:23:01Z</published>
        <updated>2008-04-07T22:26:48Z</updated>
    
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            Productive things I did this weekend: --taxes (mostly expletives follow so use your imagination) --volunteered at a cat shelter and helped adopt four wonderful kitties  Unproductive things I did this weekend: --played &quot;rise of nations&quot; for a reall...
        
    
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