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    <title>Clever not Beautiful</title>
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    <updated>2009-08-30T01:32:30Z</updated> 
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        <name>Mina B.</name>
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    <subtitle>The thoughts, ramblings, rantings and sighs of a surprisingly sane cat-lady in training.</subtitle>  
    
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        <title>My new favorite quote.</title>   
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        <published>2009-08-28T17:51:56Z</published>
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         &quot;If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.&quot; - Anatole France.  After weeks of deathers, birthers, teabaggers, and other utter morons, I feel that it&#39;s important to keep in mind that something is not less stupid if a...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>In which I talk about a few things. </title>   
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        <published>2009-08-06T16:52:30Z</published>
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    I&#39;ve become convinced that my bathroom lighting is conspiring to make me panic. I&#39;m wearing purple eyeshadow and liner today, and while I was putting it on I had this feeling that I&#39;d done something terrible wrong and there was no fixing it.  Nev...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>In which I sell my soul to the cosmetic industry.</title>   
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         I found an entry I had made a while back, in response to a QoTD if I&#39;m not mistaken, where I railed against cosmetics. Not women who wear cosmetics, but cosmetics in general.  &quot;Nobody,&quot; I emphatically said, &quot;needs to wear make-up!&quot;  I had to laugh...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Nice to know that I&#39;m as reliable as usual. </title>   
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        <published>2009-07-29T19:22:11Z</published>
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         So, as usual, a boatload of things has happened, all of which I have neglected to write about. So it&#39;s good to know that all is well and naught has changed in Mina (doesn&#39;t) Blog land.  Dig my bullet point style.    Firstly, the tests I had at Qui...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>In which I muse about a defective body and culinary experiments. </title>   
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        <published>2009-04-28T00:41:02Z</published>
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         My joints have been bothering me. Nothing huge, but my fingers, ankles, shoulders and knees have started popping like crazy. My left wrist has started locking every few weeks, my elbows ache. I&#39;m stiff.  It wasn&#39;t a huge thing to me, really, I att...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>How to lose friends and irritate people in the customer service industry.</title>   
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         Step 1: Buy a product.  Step 2: Take product home and realize that said product is broken in some way. For the sake of this example, product has a minor scratch on it.  Step 3: Do NOT take product back to where you bought it.  Step 4: Do NOT take ...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Is it wrong to enjoy this? </title>   
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        <published>2009-04-14T18:20:24Z</published>
        <updated>2009-04-14T20:54:35Z</updated>
    
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         Sure, I&#39;m not getting nearly as much money as I was before, but a girl could definitely get used to 6 hours a day 4 days a week.  Yesterday I was productive for the first half of the day, until I ran out of stuff to do. But instead of sitting arou...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>You said it kitteh. </title>   
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        <published>2009-04-13T17:41:12Z</published>
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        <title>Oh, THAT recession. </title>   
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        <published>2009-04-10T16:49:59Z</published>
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         It&#39;s been at least four months since I last posted, and I&#39;ve really been meaning to. As I&#39;ve said before though, blogging lives in the realm of boredom and unhappiness for me, so unless I&#39;m feeling astonishingly creative, I don&#39;t blog. Usually I j...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>I adore you with a love transcending words, a heart ignoring distance, a mind defying the impossible</title>   
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        <published>2008-12-17T19:55:52Z</published>
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         Once in a while I listen to Dir en grey and get a shock of nostalgic loneliness. Like a boot to the chest, that voice, those melodies creep through my exterior and chips at the subconscious defenses I&#39;ve built up against the sort of things that ma...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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