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	<title>Ferociously Observant</title>
	<link>http://ferociouskater.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. -Anon.</description>
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		<title>Be Strong, Be Fierce, Get Over It. (New Blog)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having arrived at my parents&#8217; condo in Lakewood, I am reminded all the more that I am a guest here by the fact that my father is at work and my mother is doing some sort of volunteering job until dinnertime. I have to beg the office manager to let me in. When this does [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ferociouskater.wordpress.com&blog=988077&post=149&subd=ferociouskater&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ferociouskater.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/be-strong-be-fierce-get-over-it-new-blog/</link>
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		<title>Books as Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love reading. I love books. But sometimes, when I finish one that has been particularly good to me, I feel like I&#8217;ve lost a friend. And I don&#8217;t really know what to do afterwards. Do I read it again? Do I go read the reviews? Do I call up my mother and make her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ferociouskater.wordpress.com&blog=988077&post=148&subd=ferociouskater&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ferociouskater.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/books-as-friends/</link>
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		<title>Thanks, Miss Smith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My 5th grade gym teacher had a framed poster in her office. It said, &#8220;You Miss 100% of the Shots You Don&#8217;t Take.&#8221; It was a basketball sign, and for a while I took it literally (probably one of the reasons I didn&#8217;t make the team). Now of course I know it applies to life, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ferociouskater.wordpress.com&blog=988077&post=147&subd=ferociouskater&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ferociouskater.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/thanks-miss-smith/</link>
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		<title>Autophobia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As excited as I have been about this trip to Boston, over the last few days another, meaner feeling has crept in and taken over my mind. It&#8217;s pure, unadulterated fear. I fear loneliness, and suddenly I am faced with the good possibility it will grip me a lot of the time while I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ferociouskater.wordpress.com&blog=988077&post=146&subd=ferociouskater&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ferociouskater.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/autophobia/</link>
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		<title>Customer Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I try my hardest not to let rude customers bother me, sometimes I am shaken anyway. And lately, instead of huffily taking care of the next customer (who might be perfectly cheery and nice), I take a moment to feel sorry for that rude customer. Rude people can&#8217;t be happy, deep down. Somewhere in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ferociouskater.wordpress.com&blog=988077&post=145&subd=ferociouskater&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ferociouskater.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/customer-service/</link>
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		<title>Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Let me go through life the way we are, after all is said and done, meant to: shocked.&#8221;
Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied
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		<link>http://ferociouskater.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/life/</link>
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		<title>Zombie Doctor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, as I was checking on my nice, 3cm-long scar on my hip from a mole removal, I had a random thought &#8211; when people dress up like monsters, pirates, zombies, etc. and draw scars, why do they always include the cross-lines of sutures? I don&#8217;t know many emergency room doctors that would sew [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ferociouskater.wordpress.com&blog=988077&post=142&subd=ferociouskater&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ferociouskater.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/zombie-doctor/</link>
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		<title>Small Pleasures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing like the little things to make your not-so-fun, have-to-clean, lonely-at-home night a little brighter: like finding there really was one more Oreo hiding in the pack.
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		<link>http://ferociouskater.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/small-pleasures/</link>
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		<title>A Confession: I Don&#8217;t.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Writing is a form of prayer.&#8221;&#160; Franz Kafka

I don&#8217;t believe in God. I wasn&#8217;t comfortable saying this until a few years ago, when I became friends with other nonbelievers (secular humanists, post-theologians, Freethinkers, atheists, etc.) who showed me that admitting such a thing isn&#8217;t taboo. For a long time, I would tell people I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ferociouskater.wordpress.com&blog=988077&post=140&subd=ferociouskater&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ferociouskater.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/a-confession-i-dont/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s the wonder of nature, baby!&#8221;</title>
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Flashback to 1996.
I&#8217;m 14. The movie Twister has just come out. And more than anything else, I want to be a tornado chaser. I am that geeky girl who dreams of moving to Oklahoma, getting a Dodge Ram, and moping through the winter until it&#8217;s glorious tornado season once again.
I like to think this silly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ferociouskater.wordpress.com&blog=988077&post=136&subd=ferociouskater&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ferociouskater.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/its-the-wonder-of-nature-baby/</link>
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