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		<title>probably my last post.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started &#8220;Palmer&#8217;s Blog&#8221; a month after leaving New York in the summer of 2008, and now, having just returned to New York, I&#8217;m nearly overwhelmed with reasons not to blog. This may be a temporary hiatus, but it may also be a break of a year or two. Here&#8217;s why&#8230; I don&#8217;t feel comfortable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://palmersblog.com/?p=3616</link>
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		<title>&#8220;this is Austin, and I still love you.&#8221;*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mom arrived in Austin late Saturday night, to help me buy a car and drive with me up to New Jersey, so that I could start work this coming Monday. We spent Sunday driving around town testing a series of gasping, jerking, wheezing cars, finally collapsing at Shady Grove. The beloved Austin restaurant has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://palmersblog.com/?p=3575</link>
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		<title>why it took a couple months to make the statement &#8220;I&#8217;m moving back to New York&#8221; true.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I arrived in Austin three weeks ago. In that time, I&#8217;ve been on more dates then I went on the entire time I lived in Buffalo, met some interesting women, worked on websites, explored Austin, and basked in blue skies and sunshine. And I&#8217;m leaving, at the end of the month. Flying into Newark on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://palmersblog.com/?p=3563</link>
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		<title>this is how I feel right now.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did not ask permission from the friend who created this song to post it on my blog, so I won&#8217;t tell you who that person is. Yet. I will say that it&#8217;s how I feel right now, and it&#8217;s because, in the immortal words of Richard Dreyfus in What About Bob? &#8220;It feels right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://palmersblog.com/?p=3534</link>
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		<title>paradigm shift!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually make it a rule not to write about generalities. Still, today requires one. To quote Wikipedia, &#8220;paradigm shift&#8221; means &#8220;a change in basic assumptions.&#8221; I have experienced a paradigm shift, and man, do I love them puppies. For the past twenty-eight years of my life, I have acted on one basic, gloomy principle: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://palmersblog.com/?p=3530</link>
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		<title>a bit of a novel (seriously).</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I need a few days or months before I write about current events. But the novel I started in the fall of 2008 came up in conversation today. I was cleaning up a random excerpt to send the person I&#8217;d been discussing it with, and decided to just share it here until I can write [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://palmersblog.com/?p=3515</link>
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		<title>15 life tips for the unitiated, or, how to flourish as a stranger in a strange land.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago, my grandpa&#8217;s girlfriend found out he was still married, to my grandmother, who no longer lived with my grandpa. So upset at that initial &#8220;I&#8217;m married&#8217; confession to even hear the details, this woman, who later became the woman I called &#8220;Grandma,&#8221; climbed on a bicycle and rode from his house in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://palmersblog.com/?p=3483</link>
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		<title>diamonds.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sat in front of a pilot on my way from Buffalo to Austin last Tuesday. As the plane descended into fogbound Newark, I flipped through the fashion magazine I&#8217;d bought for the flight, wondering if there was any reason to lug it on the next leg of the journey. I decided to leave it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://palmersblog.com/?p=3434</link>
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		<title>inside the revolution, part three: doing March right.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started this blog back in July of 2008 with the express intent to write about life from a positive viewpoint. A recovered depressive still too inclined to sleep too much and avoid emotional risks, I needed this unofficial platform to publicly say &#8220;hey, life is good- even if I have to force myself to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://palmersblog.com/?p=3416</link>
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		<title>for your desktop pleasure: wallpapers in five sizes.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wallpapers created for Smashing Magazine&#8217;s monthly assortment. To use, click the thumbnail closest to your monitor&#8217;s size, right-click the image that appears and select &#8220;set as desktop background.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://palmersblog.com/?p=3408</link>
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