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		<title>career explo    (one way to look at it)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 11:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday it occurred to me all at once (like that moment during the morning commute when I realize I&#8217;ve forgotten one earring or neglected to put on deodorant) that one big hank of my lust for the harebrained lab career is the immediacy of change. Thinking of this friend-of-a-friend who inspired me, I&#8217;m drawn mainly &#8230; <a href="https://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/career-explo-one-way-to-look-at-it/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">career explo    (one way to look at&#160;it)</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>career exploration &#8211; 3ish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 23:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In June a friend of a friend who&#8217;d been an art teacher for a decade told me she&#8217;s left her job for a program in biotechnology. She&#8217;s getting a two-year associate&#8217;s degree, after which she&#8217;ll be able to work in a hospital lab, as a histologist (a word I&#8217;d never heard before). She talked about &#8230; <a href="https://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/career-exploration-3ish/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">career exploration &#8211;&#160;3ish</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>career exploration.2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I came to my job—at a small non-profit, doing basically all the word work and some graphic design and what tech work I can muster—with a certain amount of idealism. Some realism, too; at 28 I was long past the idea that I&#8217;d save the world, but I came here wanting to feel I was &#8230; <a href="https://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/career-exploration-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">career exploration.2</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eleven years into my post-quitting-grad school life and I have the itch to start something new. Poetry continues; parenting continues. Work needs to pay, and it needs to feed those other parts of life. What I fantasize about is being part of a drywall crew—not lifting the big heavy slabs, but mudding the seams. Using &#8230; <a href="https://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/career-exploration/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">career exploration</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Surfaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Michael Dennis Browne&#8217;s What the Poem Wants, in an essay on the attractive topic of failure, I find this, from José Ortega y Gasset: So many things fail to interest us, simply because they don&#8217;t find in us enough surfaces on which to live, and what we have to do then is increase the &#8230; <a href="https://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/new-surfaces/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">New Surfaces</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Have I been here before?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I broke my toe. Not doing anything special, just walking down the stairs, slipping, and catching myself by whacking my right foot into the metal bar that turns a corner at waist level and becomes the railing. This bar/railing, I bought rust-inhibiting stripper and almond-colored metal-coating paint for back in August. The stripper and the &#8230; <a href="https://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/have-i-been-here-before/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Have I been here&#160;before?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lurch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 03:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As much as that looks like lunch, I really do mean lurch. Lunch isn&#8217;t for another few hours, YOUNG. Lurch. How our days, even in lives that are by all standards smooth (and by that I mean no huge medical issues, no death for the moment, no major economic troubles, natural disasters, and so forth) &#8230; <a href="https://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/lurch/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Lurch</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Art and the Sensitive Kid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over a month ago our family visited a sculpture park. We explored dozens of big sculptures, many of them fun, enchanting, climbable. Among them was A Place to grow Old by Carly Greene. I barely remember looking at it. I do remember a feeling of desolation around it. We didn&#8217;t go inside; we peered in &#8230; <a href="https://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/art-and-the-sensitive-kid/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Art and the Sensitive&#160;Kid</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sight Unseen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A and I spent January and February in a state of decision. Think of a bag of sugar left in the damp basement too many months, how the crystals fuse into one big brick. And then how dropping it hard once on the concrete floor will knock it all loose and pourable again. A was &#8230; <a href="https://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/sight-unseen/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Sight Unseen</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Words For It</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You dear people. Toni Morrison says motherhood frees a person from baggage and vanity. And you? Let me read your words back to you: If anything, it felt like having kids stripped me of everything about myself that I liked. I truly felt like my life as I knew it was over. Personally, having my &#8230; <a href="https://smallanimals.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/new-words-for-it/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">New Words For&#160;It</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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