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	<title>The Laursonian Institute &#187; hopeless</title>
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		<title>The King (and Swing)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Urgh, I&#8217;m having one of those gloomy sidekick kind of days.  I woke up with &#8220;Blue Christmas&#8221; stuck in my head.  Subtract out the holiday-ness of it, and you&#8217;ve sort of got my soundtrack of the day.  &#8220;I&#8217;ll have a blue, blue, blue, blue&#8230;&#8221; &#8230; day.  Sigh.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Urgh, I&#8217;m having one of those gloomy sidekick kind of days.  I woke up with &#8220;Blue Christmas&#8221; stuck in my head.  Subtract out the holiday-ness of it, and you&#8217;ve sort of got my soundtrack of the day.  &#8220;I&#8217;ll have a blue, blue, blue, blue&#8230;&#8221; &#8230; day.  Sigh.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t even think there&#8217;s anything amiss, other than it&#8217;s been raining for a solid week.  Maybe that&#8217;s enough to bring a girl down in this land of bright sunshine and relative warmth.  Partially I know it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m stressed out about the semantics presentation I have to give next week, though that in itself isn&#8217;t either very important or very difficult.  Maybe it&#8217;s just the only thing I have to stress about?  I&#8217;m feeling underworked again.  Like my quarter is filled with people who have low expectations of me.   This makes me tired, and perpetuates this feeling that I have nothing to give.  I&#8217;m not a person who can run with an idea very long without guidance or support or counsil.  I have to monkey-bar my way up the ladder, I don&#8217;t sail on my own.  And I&#8217;m lacking those in-between-y grips.</p>
<p>I guess when it comes right down to it, I&#8217;m always just me, swinging into the unknown again and again.  And there are a lot of days I don&#8217;t feel like I have anything worth sharing.  And lonely on these bars without someone on the ground watching.  All I can do is keep swinging, and wondering where these bars lead, and how soon and how far I&#8217;m going to fall.</p>
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