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		<title>Long Hard Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You know there&#8217;s something that you need to know, it&#8217;s gonna be alright.&#8221;1.
A glance at the clock. It&#8217;s 11pm. I usually try call it a night by 11pm. The last couple nights I&#8217;ve seen 12:30pm before I made myself stop looking at the clock. Just had to get some stuff done.
Sometimes I think it&#8217;s because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caught in the flow with rapids ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this is supposed to be spring-break for us graduate students. For me it&#8217;s a week where I&#8217;m able to concentrate on work projects without too much of an academic shadow. And I have, leveraging skills learned over the last couple years.
But right now, even though I could be working on a white paper draft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engagement Platforms Require Interaction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 18th I cleaned up my work bench area in the basement and put up this canvas and set out these tubes of oil paint. That was nearly a month ago to this day. And there they sit. Since then, there has been no engagement. It&#8217;s a matter of priority I tell myself. School, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Approaching User Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we reach the 1/3 point of this semester, there isn&#8217;t much let up. It&#8217;s going to be a lot more exercise problems, reading, group meetings, and paper writing.
In between school and the whirling dance of complex interactions that is software development, I find myself making connections to things I&#8217;ve studied during the the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-Creation and Dependent Arising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, 3 weeks into winter semester. I&#8217;m driving into Ann Arbor more than I have in a couple years. At least 3 times a week, at most maybe 5. Feels like I have a part-time job on campus.
The two classes promise to educate and awaken my brain. In one class I&#8217;m learning to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The January Cold and Lonely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s pushing ten o&#8217;clock on a Monday night near mid-January. I&#8217;ve been studying how to use the program &#8220;R&#8221; for the last hour and a half.
Today was cold and miscellaneous. Lots of things working to get traction, most things slipping and gripping for purchase.
As I wind down my studying, I can&#8217;t help but miss that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Puzzle Piece</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s early morning and I&#8217;m up with my cat, keeping him company. He&#8217;s hungry but I can&#8217;t feed him until after his visit to the vet today. I don&#8217;t like it any more than him. He paces, rubs against my feet, declaring his need for attention and food.
Amidst the blizzard like conditions of yesterday, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holidays approach, family valued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For generations families have been celebrating holidays in varying ways with amounts of tradition. Over the years you meet at different places, see familiar and new faces, chat, eat, drink beer, then you go back to your life.
As the years pass, more faces become familiar and you can&#8217;t help but notice the maturing. The weathered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.interspike.com/considerations/gone-are-the-minutes-of-last/</link>
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		<title>Seven Eighths Complete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless I forgot an assignment, I&#8217;m done with this semester. I&#8217;ve already registered for my final two classes and both are on my mind  with a mere 3 weeks between us. I&#8217;ve already ordered books for my statistics and data analysis class.
But the last few have been fast paced and filled with familiar agony of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.interspike.com/considerations/seven-eighths-complete/</link>
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		<title>The Wisdom of No Escape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[However painful, discomforting, or frustrating something is, from such situations is born opportunity to become stronger, more resilient, maybe wiser. There is the saying often voiced in times of strife, &#8220;what doesn&#8217;t kill you makes you stronger.&#8221; I think I used it in a previous post. I&#8217;d like to take it back.
Thinking about it now, [...]]]></description>
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