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		<title>Been Too Busy To Blahg</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8221; I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.&#8221; - Molly Ivins

Make that select parts of Texas: San Antonio was as great this year as Austin was last year.  The class went stupendously well. People were working like mad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1720&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>24 hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Load car from storage space &#38; studio, drive to Vespine gallery, install 54 pieces, dinner w/ friends, drive home, pack, sleep 2 1/2 hours, airport, San Antonio, unpack, class prep, class prep, class prep, dinner w/ friend, sleeeeeep now.
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		<title>Are We Having Fun Yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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I am, actually (having fun)&#8230;but am also assuredly feeling a wee bit zippy.  October&#8217;s quiet, contemplative, organizational energy has given way to full tilt full speed ahead.  I&#8217;ve been in the studio the past few days, tweaking the work for Respite&#8230;and, of course, that planned work time was interrupted by sudden, unforeseen bureaucratic needs that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1706&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Samhain, Samhuinn, Halloween</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s my new year&#8217;s eve.  Just getting dark here in Chicago, and a steady stream of kids (and one costumed Great Dane, who got a dog biscuit) have been coming to the door for awhile now. It&#8217;s cool and crisp, windy with scudding grey clouds and blowing brightly colored leaves: perfect.
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		<title>Watch it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Abigail Uhteg was one of the two book residents at Women&#8217;s Studio Workshop while I was there; she and I shared the apartment above the studio building.  She was making a gorgeous edition of a book titled, &#8220;The Complex Of All Of These.&#8221; Fellow book resident Amanda Thackray named Abby the Studio Paparazzi, because she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1690&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of Returns&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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I rather love this poster.  Many thanks to Eileen at Evanston Print &#38; Paper for creating it!  As I just wrote on my Facebook page, it keeps making me think of the scene in The Shining when Jack Nicholson hacks through a door with an axe, sticks his head through, and says, &#8220;Heeeeeeere&#8217;s Johnny!&#8221; with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1678&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Turns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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I’ve just not been in a very blahg-ish mood lately; this may be the longest I’ve  gone without writing something since I started. It’s a quiet and introspective time right now; I am beginning to rethink many, many things, have been paring things away and making plans to rid myself of more.  I’m working steadily [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1668&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fally Folly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
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I’ve still got a lot of adjusting to do.  Taxes were more tedious than usual this year,  partially due to currency conversion, and also to all the fluctuation and moves in and out that took place from December 2008 to September 2009.  Except for a class description that I’m wrestling with, my next deadlines aren’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&blog=2470281&post=1658&subd=melissajaycraig&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Backstage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Jen binding &#38; schmoozing, doing both excellently.
Re: my recent lack o’ blahg: it seems I need to feel my way towards what to write about while in this somewhat slowed-down behind-the-scenes period. I’ll repeat that I’m truly enjoying a sane, steady pace for a couple more weeks.  It’s so…so…humane!
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