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 <title>What Do You Want for Christmas, REALLY?</title>
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 <description>* A PS3/Wii/iPod/Tech Crap\n* World Peace\n* A Special Someone To Snuggle with and Watch &quot;A Christmas Story&quot;\n* An Expensive DVD TV Series Collection\n* An Acre of Rain Forest in Brazil\n</description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:10:19 +0300</pubDate>
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 <title>OMG!! I Can&#039;t Believe It!!</title>
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 <description>&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, my semester in DC is almost over. I will miss many aspects, but I need to get out of the city for a while, I have no money left, and I didn&#039;t have much to begin with (the joys of being a poor college student), and I&#039;ve been beyond stressed by the damn bureaucracy and profs who have no clue.  But I&#039;ve met fab ppl.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m also pumped about the Democrats taking the majority in the House and Senate. It&#039;s been a zoo here for the last  3 months, and it will be getting even crazier in January, right before session begins in February.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:01:28 +0300</pubDate>
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 <title>Finding Meaning In College...Without Going Crazy</title>
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 <description>&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a 20-year old young woman, I am somehow supposed to retain idealism through constant reminders of how crappy things are by my professors. It&#039;s especially rough when your Economics class follows your sociology class, and you wonder who&#039;e telling you the truth: Is it the Market, or greedy fat-cats making billions who just don&#039;t care and have turned their backs on the minorities of the world, proliferating injustice, and a heterosexist patriarchical society?&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:29:19 +0400</pubDate>
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 <title>I Found Jesus, and am Getting Hitched to a Man named Bubba!</title>
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 <description>&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is pathetic, but...APRIL FOOLS!!!&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:35:03 +0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Geez...</title>
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 <description>&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, it&#039;s spring in South Bend, which has been nice the last few days. Today I even got to lay out in the field and read with some friends. But now it&#039;s dark and windy, and I&#039;m kind of bummed. But anyway,to my point...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I want a girlfriend, and not just some hook-up (as if I would do that anyway)but being here it&#039;s hard because all my friends who are &quot;different&quot;, as we like to say, are bi and some have boyfriends, which is really depressing. There&#039;s really no one to meet around here, but I&#039;d love to meet someone back home. Hopefully I can get  in touch with youth organizations, and be able to talk openly about my feelings without feeling like I have to hold back things. It&#039;s incredibly frustrating to be in an environment that does not really foster any sort of open comraderie, everything&#039;s very clandestine, which I guess is understandable (and somewhat special) But this leads to a great deal of questioning of myself,and although I come back to the same conclusion every time, I still wonder things like &quot;is my mom right?&quot;, &quot;can I just be imagining I&#039;m gay?&quot;, even going to &quot;just because I don&#039;t want to have sex with a man, but with a woman, that doesn&#039;t make me lesbian, right?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:01:09 +0400</pubDate>
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 <title>Political Musings by a College Student</title>
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 <description>&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am going to read this at a peace event at school in a couple weeks.  I&#039;d love comments.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Children,&lt;br /&gt;
Raise your hands, to God on High&lt;br /&gt;
Weapons drawn, shall prophecy&lt;br /&gt;
Lives lost in vain&lt;br /&gt;
Hallowed Be Thy Name&lt;br /&gt;
United States, lies without shame&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sons,&lt;br /&gt;
I swear to you this day&lt;br /&gt;
Patriots,&lt;br /&gt;
oil-stained&lt;br /&gt;
Vultures&lt;br /&gt;
Say Democracy&#039;s the name of the game&lt;br /&gt;
For false idealism,&lt;br /&gt;
Is W to blame?&lt;br /&gt;
Paul and Dick and Bertie, too&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:44:19 +0300</pubDate>
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 <title>So...</title>
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 <description>&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;&lt;p&gt;So...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m so excited.  My parents are coming for Sophomore Parent&#039;s Weekend at school.  Yes, I&#039;m a nerd, but I love my parents with all my heart.  It HAS been over a month, and too much has happened in that span of time. They still haven&#039;t found a house in the Fresno/Clovis area yet, although that should change soon.  I&#039;m really pumped, but am nervous about the weekend.  I&#039;ll be so happy to see them, and vice versa.  But, I&#039;m really scared that the same crap that always comes up will come up:  if I&#039;m ready for a semester in Washington DC, how I need to be more disciplined, and more and more things they (esp. my mother) will bring up.  But, hey, as long as I can stay in the hotel with them for the weekend, it&#039;s all good! ;)&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:41:57 +0300</pubDate>
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 <title>So Confused...Help</title>
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 <description>&lt;!--paging_filter--&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m at college, and if you looked at me, you would probably looking at someone who seems all together, smart, happy, and headed for the skies.  And you&#039;re 95% correct.  I do love school, and I have the most awesome friends in the world, seriously.  And I hope that I will go great places, and meet great people, and find that special woman who means everything to me. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, my mother seems to be totally oblivious to my feelings in a variety of areas, especially in regards to my sexual orientation.  I first asked my mom about liking girls when I was a freshman in high school, because I had a painful crush on this girl who I was in choir with.  She had told me she was bi, but her preference was toward guys.  I was bummed and really didn&#039;t understand my feelings clearly enough.  So, I talked to her, and she assured me that I was not a lesbian or bisexual, and that she would know if I was.  The years passed and I went out with guys, but really had no feelings toward them at all.  But whenever I would be near another girl I liked a lot, or thought was gorgeous and amazing, my heart would skip a million beats, and my belief in my assumption got stronger.  I told my mom on the phone earlier this year that I liked women.  My mom replied that I was not, that my &quot;mind was being fucked&quot; by a friend of mine, that I should cut off ties with her. Mom then told me that this had happened to her, and that I was just being manipulated.  I then took that position for while, but at Christmas, I realized I really do feel the way I do, and that this is valid.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:04:36 +0300</pubDate>
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 <title>What Celebrity will Jump on Oprah&#039;s Couch in 2006?</title>
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 <description>* Kirstie Alley (it&#039;s a Scientology thing, maybe?)\n* Mick Jagger, to show off his newly replaced knees and hips\n* Dave Chappelle, happy he still has a job\n* Tom Cruise, again, because he found out the Spaceship&#039;s coming early\n* Paris Hilton, because she can&#039;t jump on anything/one else for 5 years\n</description>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:02:10 +0300</pubDate>
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