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	<title>the purple patch</title>
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		<title>Thanksgiving memes!</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/thanksgiving-memes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to make this one up all by my lonesome, but I&#8217;m sure it exists out there somewhere. Still, I plan to tag people annoyingly at the end of this, just like it was a real meme. Hah. So, without further ado, my not-very-imaginative Thanksgiving meme, 10 Things I Am Thankful For. The only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=944&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a word on NaNo from Her Dogginess</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/a-word-from-her-dogginess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Her Dogginess]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear mom:

I am tired of all this stupid paper you&#8217;ve covered your office in. It smells funny, and I am very bored.

I have tried to remind you that I am also very cute,

But you just keep staring at that big square thing on your desk and making clicky noises with your fingers,

Until I can&#8217;t even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=934&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>teaser Tuesday: sort-of-magic kiss</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/teaser-tuesday-sort-of-magic-kiss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another one! Mostly because I can&#8217;t think of anything else to say right now: this has been a week of bad sleep thus far, and my IQ is a little lower for it. So, by request, a recently-written kissing scene, Dari-style, which is to say, awkward, jaded, slightly sarcastic, and with unexpected results.
***
Before I could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=929&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>in retrospect: lessons in writing</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/in-retrospect-lessons-in-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[7th grade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hairspray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[in retrospect]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t done one of these in a while. And it&#8217;s Friday the 13th, so I&#8217;m going to go for a relatively mortifying memory, because why not?  I can afford to. I&#8217;m so much more sophisticated now, yes?
Anyway. How The Hell I Got Myself Into This, part &#8211;um, whatever.

I am 12, a prickly 7th grader [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=922&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>teaser Tuesday, now with cursing children</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/teaser-tuesday-now-with-cursing-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://amybai.wordpress.com/?p=919</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t done one of these in a while, but I figured, since I&#8217;m doing a not-too-terrible job of keeping up with the NaNo folks (no, I am not doing NaNo, but I am kind of jogging along on the side of the road as they sprint by me) that I&#8217;d let myself have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=919&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a fabulous blog contest and two fabulous authors!</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/a-fabulous-blog-contest-and-two-fabulous-authors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lovely, talented and hilarious Lisa and Laura Roecker over at Lisa and Laura Write are holding a blog contest with an awesome prize: a Kindle.
That&#8217;s fun enough, but the reason for it is even more fun &#8211;their mystery novel THE HAUNTING OF PEMBERLY BROWN has been bought by Sourcebooks, and will be coming out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=915&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>an apology</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/an-apology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the gay community, in Maine and in all of America:
I apologize for my state. I apologize for the groundless  fear that apparently still lives in so many of us: fear of what isn&#8217;t like us, fear of what we don&#8217;t understand or were taught is wrong, or never gave enough thought to. I&#8217;m sorry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=911&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calling all Mainers: VOTE!</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/calling-all-mainers-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://amybai.wordpress.com/?p=906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever put anything flagrantly political on this blog. And I&#8217;m probably going to regret this later, because I think that was a deliberate choice on my part: but I just read an article saying that the voter turnout for today&#8217;s referendum election is predicted to be a whopping 35%, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=906&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Craft and Caring</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/craft-and-caring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a pretentious title for you, eh? Sorry, I&#8217;m feeling slightly ugh today, and this is all I got.
I was catching up on Nathan Bransford&#8217;s  blog this morning and read this piece on writers and sensitivity. It was such good subject for a post that I felt like doing my own about it. Nathan&#8217;s post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=897&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>spreading the book lurve</title>
		<link>http://amybai.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/spreading-the-book-lurve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Bai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lovely Lisa and Laura posted a challenge on their often hilarious blog (which if you haven&#8217;t yet visited, you definitely should) &#8212; post something online about a book you&#8217;ve read and loved. That seemed like the sort of throwdown I could get into, since I do it every now and then anyway, so I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amybai.wordpress.com&blog=5373792&post=891&subd=amybai&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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