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		<title>(a long) Study in Contrast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always assumed that at some point (always in the future), life will naturally become an affair of relatively even rhythm; still with its high points and lows, to be sure, but evenly paced.  This week blew that illusion completely away, yet again. Late Friday came the news that a loved one needed to have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470281&amp;post=3725&amp;subd=melissajaycraig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Calm and Carrion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 2012 is indeed proving to be ‘interesting’ with rather huge unexpected, un-ignorable events dropping in our already busy laps at this house this week, affecting us next week and a bit beyond.  The hardest part was admitting that I simply had to drop one postponed project and continue to postpone another, but the people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470281&amp;post=3706&amp;subd=melissajaycraig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am not in Iowa again&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[book art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but I was, and had a fine time, and will return again in ten days. If you are in Iowa, I will be giving two public presentations at St. Ambrose University in the Galvin Fine Arts building.  One is geared for artists, on Thursday evening, January 26,  from 6 -7pm, when I’ll talk techniques, about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470281&amp;post=3695&amp;subd=melissajaycraig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I am not in Iowa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statistically speaking, you probably aren&#8217;t in Iowa, either, but I am supposed to be, installing this show.  Half the artwork is there; the lovely gallery director and I loaded her car in the dark at 6 this morning, so she could race against the season&#8217;s first winter travel warnings (she made it safely).  I couldn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470281&amp;post=3690&amp;subd=melissajaycraig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thick Of It</title>
		<link>http://melissajaycraig.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/3684/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deadlines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work, work, work, deadlines, deadlines, deadlines, write, write, write about me, me, me and my work, work, work. I&#8217;ll get a break tomorrow for a much-needed haircut, trying out a new, nearby place. At the moment I closely resemble Albert Einstein, probably from pulling on my hair in exasperation while I write, write, write.  Shawn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470281&amp;post=3684&amp;subd=melissajaycraig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here We Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did say 2012 would begin intensely, didn&#8217;t I?  Yes, I did, and I already feel as if I&#8217;ve put in a full week in the past two-and-a-half days.  To my great consternation, I worked all day on January 1st, no lazy Hogmanay here.  I had not planned to do that at all, but for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470281&amp;post=3680&amp;subd=melissajaycraig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Into 2012</title>
		<link>http://melissajaycraig.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/into-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Paul&#8217;s friends recently got an embroidery machine. This is his name for me: Bro left and we headed out to the &#8216;burbs for our family gathering yesterday. A quiet celebration tonight and this year&#8217;s sweet rich holiday season is over: time to see what 2012 will bring.  It will start out with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470281&amp;post=3665&amp;subd=melissajaycraig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pie, Productivity, Play</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been having a lovely, relaxed and rather hilarious time here. That said, I’m still working: resolving curating issues, helping a few folks apply to grad schools (the only type of effective academic recommendations I can still do). I’m also applying for a few things soon, so, thanks to last summer’s hard drive crash, once [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470281&amp;post=3656&amp;subd=melissajaycraig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merriment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why not a blog on Christmas eve?  For me, it’s the beginning of a sweet holiday week.  For the first time ever, Paul and I are home tomorrow.  I’m progressively cooking a feast, it’s warm and lovely and the house smells like the spicy pie I just baked, and tomorrow the atmosphere will be savory, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melissajaycraig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470281&amp;post=3649&amp;subd=melissajaycraig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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