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	<title>The McManual &#187; holiday break</title>
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		<title>A couple of older poems I wrote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all.  I just got home from work.  It&#8217;s only a week before the winter break, so a lot of people at my school are wigging out.  It&#8217;s a weird time of year, the week before winter holiday.  I have been feeling great, though.  I think that I am not really in the game as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sheilamcmahon.wordpress.com&blog=2329125&post=6&subd=sheilamcmahon&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Hi all.  I just got home from work.  It&#8217;s only a week before the winter break, so a lot of people at my school are wigging out.  It&#8217;s a weird time of year, the week before winter holiday.  I have been feeling great, though.  I think that I am not really in the game as far as teaching goes, but I feel really good, so that might count for something.</p>
<p>I found a couple of poems that I had written a while ago, so I was thinking that I would enter them here.  I&#8217;m not sure whether they should be under their own sections as poetry &#8211; now that I think about it, I  believe I will enter them as seperate posts under their titles.  (there.  done.)  Kinda weird having my work just out there for anyone to read.  I like it, though.</p>
<p>Jay is worried that people might copy my work and say it&#8217;s theirs.  I hope that none of you do that! <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   I&#8217;m not really worried about it, though.  I don&#8217;t see myself having those types of problems.</p>
<p>Today it felt as though there was a force working in me; it felt like I was doing yoga all day; I felt calm and detached; I felt connected to everyone; it seems like there&#8217;s nothing I can&#8217;t do.  It&#8217;s strange to feel so good, but it feels natural, too.  It also seems that my mental state has nothing to do with my physical state. By that I mean, I am still sick, I even have a minor headache, but I still feel euphoric.  And of course, I am sober &#8211; I think I&#8217;m high on life.  High on possibilities.  High on writing. </p>
<p>So maybe I should keep writing and getting others to write.  I like how it feels.  Now I feel that I am rambling unforgivably.  I think I&#8217;ll go off and let my friends know that I&#8217;ve started a blog.  Good night, dear friends.</p>
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