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		<title>101/1001 almost a month in!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update on 101/1001 project Days: 29/1001 Tasks Completed: 2/101 Tasks in progress: 8/101 In progress: 2. Read 100 books Finished book #3, American Wife, which is based on Laura Bush, former First Lady. It&#8217;s fiction, but depending how much is based on truth, I can&#8217;t believe she married W. I&#8217;m currently on book #4, The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 best experiences of my life</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2010/07/23/100-experiences-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Number 92 of 101/1001! 1. Getting married 2. Meeting Kevin 3. Graduating with my master&#8217;s degree 4. Getting Gracie (my friendly,fat, calico kitty) 5. Moving back to Philadelphia from New Jersey 6. Meeting my best friend&#8217;s newborn son 7. Attending Society for Neuroscience meeting 8. Graduating with my dual bachelor&#8217;s degrees 9. Being accepted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies and books and video games, oh my!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend was a very homebody weekend for us. Lots of movies, video games, and reading (on my part). We watched Taken on Saturday night, and (500) Days of Summer last night. Taken was a very well done action movie (Kevin loves this movie and had been trying to get me to watch it for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t completed any of my 101/1001 goals, but I&#8217;m working on several of them! For the read 100 books goal, I finished one book, and started on another. I finished reading The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British over the weekend. It was hilarious, very well-written, and enjoyable to read. I&#8217;m now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working on a game plan</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2010/07/02/working-game-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 1001 days for my 101/1001 list started yesterday. I had worked overnight the night before, so it was a mostly lazy day of catching up on TV and sleeping. I&#8217;m the only tech in the lab today, and my PI and lab manager are in Europe for a conference, so I&#8217;ve been a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look! A blog post!</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2010/04/22/blog-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been ignoring this blog/website for over a year now&#8230;bad Melissa! What better thing to do while working an overnight shift at work than update your blog! So let&#8217;s see&#8230;I&#8217;m getting married in 38 days. I&#8217;ve been on antibiotics for almost 6 months because I was diagnosed with chronic recurring Lyme disease last summer, probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes you have to remember your limits</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2008/11/14/sometimes-you-have-to-remember-your-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned in passing several times, I have quite a list of chronic illnesses. At the end of my junior year of high school, I was bitten by a brown recluse spider, one of the only two types of poisonous to humans spiders. I had a hard, purple indentation on the outside of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pay no attention to the one-armed bandit</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2008/11/13/pay-no-attention-to-the-one-armed-bandit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ligament in my left wrist is still torn (from being mugged at the end of September, and then exacerbated by me twisting caps on tubes at work a few weeks ago); this means that I&#8217;ve got a fairly heavy brace on my wrist/hand. And that I can&#8217;t really use my left arm/hand effectively. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to stay sane in times of change</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2008/11/11/how-to-stay-sane-in-times-of-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change is stressful; uncertainty is stressful. I&#8217;m a planner; I write to-do lists constantly, I&#8217;m usually pretty uncomfortable if things are in flux and not figured out (though I&#8217;m getting better about that). I can be spontaneous, and I enjoy change and surprises; I just tend to plan more so than just act. Which means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping the spiral</title>
		<link>http://www.melitami.com/2008/11/11/stopping-the-spiral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having one of those periods of time in my life where a lot of things aren&#8217;t going as planned for awhile, and I&#8217;m having to rethink almost my entire life plan, and it&#8217;s hard not to just keep spiraling deeper and deeper down. Occasionally there are things that knock me back up the spiral [...]]]></description>
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