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		<title>We Need To Talk About Kevin</title>
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by Lionel Shriver
What&#8217;s it like to raise a child who winds up wounding and murdering some of his high school classmates, including a teacher?  Is it because of your lack of maternal skills, maybe even a dislike of your own child?  Is it because he was born with an inherent malice so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Cat Blogging No. 78 &#8211; Staking Their Claim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[featuring Basil (l) and Hopper (r)
We finally bought a new comforter last December.  It&#8217;s spread over our futon because it had just come out of the dryer but wasn&#8217;t completely dry yet.  So of course, our fur kids got to use it before we did.
I tried fixing Basil&#8217;s &#8220;laser eyes&#8221; with Paint Shop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggochicago.com/2010/02/05/friday-cat-blogging-no-78-staking-their-claim/</link>
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		<title>The Great Interview Experiment 2009, Featuring Me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember a while back I participated in The Great Interview Experiment 2009?  You sign up, then you&#8217;re assigned a blogger to interview and a different blogger is assigned to interview you.  I interviewed Wendy, who writes Midwest Green.  You can read the interview here if you missed it the first time.
Supa Dupa [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggochicago.com/2010/02/04/the-great-interview-experiment-2009-featuring-me/</link>
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		<title>My Health Is Making Me Miserable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been avoiding the Internet &#8212; Twitter, Facebook except for my Mafia Wars account, my blog, your blogs, even e-mail when possible.  It&#8217;s a sign of depression for me.  But this time I&#8217;m determined to continue blogging, no matter how difficult it is.  I&#8217;m at least getting out of bed, though I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggochicago.com/2010/02/02/my-health-is-making-me-miserable/</link>
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		<title>Master and Commander</title>
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by Patrick O&#8217;Brian
What in the world possessed me to read yet another book about a bunch of British guys on a ship (the Royal Navy) in the late 18th century, immediately after reading an edition of Joseph Conrad&#8217;s short story, &#8220;The Secret Sharer&#8221; (complete with representative works of critical essays), that&#8217;s also about a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggochicago.com/2010/01/26/master-and-commander/</link>
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		<title>Some Good News About My Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, there were the holidays, and then this depression crap, so I didn&#8217;t have a chance to announce that my poem, &#8220;Domesticity&#8221; was accepted for publication in the Spring 2010 issue of Center:  A Journal of the Literary Arts.  Of my 2 separate poetry submissions last year, I got an acceptance and what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggochicago.com/2010/01/25/some-good-news-about-my-work/</link>
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		<title>Friday Cat Blogging No. 77 &#8211; Cats&#8217; Lap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t own lap cats; my cats own my lap.
Angelo says:  More pet pics are available for your viewing pleasure at this week&#8217;s Friday Ark. If you post your own pets&#8217; photos, leave them a trackback or comment and you&#8217;ll be listed there, too.  And remember &#8212; they don&#8217;t limit pictures just to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggochicago.com/2010/01/22/friday-cat-blogging-no-77-cats-lap/</link>
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		<title>Sheer Will</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw the pdoc yesterday.  He brought up ECT.  This morning I thought fine, let&#8217;s do this.  I&#8217;m sick of feeling the way I do.  I don&#8217;t want to try yet another med that I&#8217;ve already tried only for it to work for a month or so and then stop working. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggochicago.com/2010/01/20/sheer-will/</link>
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		<title>About That Fitness Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian took a long lunch to drive me to the first session of my fitness class last week.  Several times during the lecture portion I nearly burst into tears and started hyperventilating, manifestations of panic attacks for me.  Luckily, closing my eyes and taking deep breaths prevented them.  It was tough, though.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggochicago.com/2010/01/19/about-that-fitness-class/</link>
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		<title>Alarmed, Used, Hurt, Angry, Confused</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday I got a short message from an old friend who has bipolar.  It simply asked what I thought of her new blog and included the URL.  That&#8217;s it.  When I saw the Web address, I didn&#8217;t think it was right, so I checked it out and sure enough, this person [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bloggochicago.com/2010/01/18/alarmed-used-hurt-angry-confused/</link>
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