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		<title>Running longer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Endurance running up to 25 minutes, looking for 40.. Inching along&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writing4sanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12543042&amp;post=66&amp;subd=writing4sanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Endurance running up to 25 minutes, looking for 40.. Inching along&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Cab</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[warm and fuzzy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ummm good.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writing4sanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12543042&amp;post=63&amp;subd=writing4sanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ummm good. </p>
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		<title>Comfort food</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel as though my subliminal conscience may have given oil a bad rap. Not just corn oil, just about any oil that is heated before consumption, but my gut tells me &#8220;this would just be the end of cooking &#8230; <a href="https://writing4sanity.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/comfort-food/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writing4sanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12543042&amp;post=54&amp;subd=writing4sanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel as though my subliminal conscience may have given oil a bad rap. Not just corn oil, just about any oil that is heated before consumption, but my gut tells me &#8220;this would just be the end of cooking altogether.&#8221;</p>
<p>So for all the steamed red bliss&#8217; that melt with velvety roundness and soft poaches that hold decadent sauces, I must say sautéing is the funnest.</p>
<p>So this little anecdote is about hummus and portobello&#8217;s. Hummus for its belly consuming heartiness and big mush caps for their odorous flavor and delicacy in a pan with hot olive oil.</p>
<p>And here it is, coming to an empty apt near you.</p>
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		<title>Food, diets, and everything else.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So today was the first day that I ate no meat whatsoever. The closest thing were about 6 shrimps for lunch. Really lunch could have been mistaken for an appetizer at a fancy restaurant. Either way I progressed. After lunch &#8230; <a href="https://writing4sanity.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/food-diets-and-everything-else/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writing4sanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12543042&amp;post=42&amp;subd=writing4sanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So today was the first day that I ate no meat whatsoever.  The closest thing were about 6 shrimps for lunch.  Really lunch could have been mistaken for an appetizer at a fancy restaurant.  Either way I progressed.  After lunch I had my usual puréed salad.  Which then carried me into dinner which consisted of butternut squash, cauliflower, and red potatoes.  And I didn&#8217;t even finish it, I had to eat the rest later. This worked out well for me because I tend to get hungry after dinner&#8230; Only to scavenge the fridge for nothing.  </p>
<p><strong>A few results from today&#8217;s diet are: (1) increased energy (2) increased alertness (3) less drag in slow moments (4) a certain clarity and conscious presence of thought.</strong></p>
<p>Now, I don&#8217;t know if I can say that some of this is due the fact that I planned to find a way for this to happen the day before and maybe my mind is playing a trick on me somehow over the excitement and lack of other stimuli currently.  </p>
<p>I will however say that I feel light as a feather, not emaciated, mentally unsluggish.  Generally speaking I feel fantastic.  At a specific point in dinner I started to feel stuffed and had to stop eating, but I did not nearly feel the laziness and abject weakness of a nap or any such retirement of the day.  I&#8217;ve been bright eyed and bushy tailed since lunch really.  </p>
<p>Now for the test, I must continue this pattern for a few weeks conducting myself as usual and in two weeks aggressively with a full load of classes.</p>
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		<title>Naps and rude awakenings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that people have multiple dreams even if they can&#8217;t recall any of them, or if they just remember one of them.  This afternoon I remembered one of them, I think the last as it was the one as &#8230; <a href="https://writing4sanity.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/naps-and-rude-awakenings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writing4sanity.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12543042&amp;post=35&amp;subd=writing4sanity&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They say that people have multiple dreams even if they can&#8217;t recall any of them, or if they just remember one of them.  This afternoon I remembered one of them, I think the last as it was the one as I remembered.</p>
<p>So I got up early today and feeling sluggish and decided to take a nap in the afternoon.  I don&#8217;t know who catnaps or power naps are good for, but I don&#8217;t they are for me.</p>
<p>I woke up feeling groggy, but with a belittled sense of despair and weakness.  I dreamt about an ex who I decided to marry.  We married and I came to introductions to my extended family who hadn&#8217;t met her.  It was, well, awkward.  I felt a stump of confidence and a piercing sense of judgement coming from the family.  &#8221;She&#8217;s really not that pretty.&#8221;  Is what I remembered the most.  Although that is not a deciding factor, it was the tip of the iceberg of how I felt about the situation.  I married her because I wanted someone, not because I wanted her.</p>
<p>I woke with a lazy sense of emotional weakness and distraught.</p>
<p>This harkens to my latest thoughts of will I ever meet someone  for me and more so should I settle.</p>
<p>I knew then that that was not an option.  I refuse to accept less.  I&#8217;d rather be dead.</p>
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		<title>New girl fun, Old girl feeling</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its ironic, recently I&#8217;ve been writing furiously without an outlet to other people.  I then stumbled on this blog thing&#8230; so there I was two days ago, thinking and thinking and thinking about something nice to write, something that wouldn&#8217;t sound like an 11th grader trying to impress his teacher with a thesaurus&#8230; during this time I was feeling unusually unconfident&#8230; I had just experienced a new woman&#8230; (dun dun dun)</p>
<p>So I met this girl, lets call her Margaret, at the library, we talked and had good conversation.. she seemed like a thoughtful person, sincere, and with a sort of playfulness about her.. we met at the same place for a week and then I took her out to a play.. well from there it was awkward.. sort of like Ichabod Crane walking through a land mine field.. of course without due involvement on my part..</p>
<p>That aside we continued to see each other (to my surprise), and the more I felt as though I could share something with her&#8230; things were heating up, she felt the same, as though we had known each other for some time&#8230; then something happened&#8230; I felt overcome with feeling and tried to explain it to her&#8230; and she gave no response&#8230; she mentioned that things may have developed too quickly&#8230; at that point I realized that I was on my own with this runaway feeling&#8230;</p>
<p>Wow, what a feeling, to feel more connected to someone than they do to you&#8230; what to do?  Should  I accept this and continue chasing her?  Should I back off?  Should I stop everything and continue on my way?  So many routes on how to handle this.</p>
<p>Well I tried swallowing the bitter pill and it seemed as though I could not get over this and grew short in patience.  I mentioned backing off and she did not agree with the idea.  Its like putting a damn up on Niagra, and then opening and closing arbitrarily.  Sort of like giving permission to another to regulate how I feel.  Wow, thats something special, I can&#8217;t believe I did that.</p>
<p>I now see that I&#8217;ve been holding on to something&#8230; I&#8217;ve been keeping those extra feelings locked up and thus stopping my energy flow.  Attempting to follow her, I let her whim dictate how much I felt.</p>
<p>So I basically put my foremost energy on hold (the feeling of love, not being in love) and to the discretion of another  and it caused a disaster..</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;ve realized that my energy flow must flow unbridled in order for me to truly experience love and happiness (life).</p>
<p>During my incubating process I started to notice her peculiarities&#8230; too much drinking, energy vamping, inconsiderate to personal belongings, mixed messages, and etc.</p>
<p>After she told me that it was a bit early for such expressiveness I lost it&#8230; I didn&#8217;t know how to react&#8230; or act accordingly.</p>
<p>The more we hung out, the more I realized that she was trying to hold on to me (like playing the game), but our connection at this point was by a string.  I wanted that relationship with a person that would allow for me and them to be completely open, I thought that I could have that with this girl, and in my greed for this I ended up chasing something that was not there.</p>
<p>My transitive thought from this situation is why I was attracted to such a person.</p>
<p>Strangely, after the fact, she reminded me of a toned down version of my ex&#8230; (uh oh)</p>
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