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	<title>MIND READERS DICTIONARY &#187; Am I expecting too much?</title>
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		<title>Aspirational Tense: &#8220;I most definitely am, I hope.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/aspirational-tense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The relationship between reality and interpretation is always tenuous. Who’s to say what’s real? There is no simple formula to ensure that an interpretation matches reality—and besides, if there were one, we’d be ambivalent about using it. Our impressions bob and weave around our reality. Reality delivers a right uppercut and our impressions slide out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spit or Go Blind: Slang with cosmic implications</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/spit-or-go-blind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I can’t tell whether to spit or go blind.” I’ve always liked this phrase (alternatively, “shit or go blind”). It’s slang for confusion in the face of options, and etymologists aren’t sure where it comes from. Its appeal, I suspect, is partly onomatopoetic—it sounds confused. Its appeal may also be the precision with which it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youjustifications: Why are we fighting? Let me not count the ways</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/youjustifications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Youjustifications : I&#8217;m right because you just&#8230; Again, he&#8217;s ready to leave for an event and she&#8217;s not. He asks her how long she&#8217;ll be, honestly, because once he knows, he can adjust, do something to pass the time, manage his impatience with distractions. It&#8217;s just the uncertainty that irritates him. To appease his impatience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down &amp; Out, Up &amp; Out, Out &amp; Out: Reading between the lines on &#8220;Fine&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/down-out-up-out-out-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=29</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Fine.” A single syllable, so rich in possible meanings&#8211;does it mean fine as in “You’re right,” as in “You’re wrong,” as in “I fold,” or some complex blend of the three? Conflict within a relationship often leads to reflection about the relationship. Saying “fine,” we step out of the conflict for a little perspective. Psychologically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myopium: One day at a time as a drug.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/should-i-stay/myopium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=87</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the short run I measure my progress by immediate, concrete standards. Did I meet my deadlines? Did she smile at me? Did they say something nice about me? Does my boss think I&#8217;m doing a good job? Did I get a good grade? These may or may not be good standards by which to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;tibration: What do you mean, you can&#8217;t?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/cantibration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/business/cantibration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 16:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dinner at an all-you-can-eat restaurant last week reminded me how fundamentally ambiguous the word can is. Its meaning falls between “want to” and “can endure without dying,” just as, conversely, the word need falls somewhere between “want” and “will die without.” Imagine an all-you-can-eat restaurant with a reverse bouncer, a big galoot who won’t let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweating the petty vs. Petting the sweaty: Two ways to play the game of life</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/should-i-doubt-myself/should-i-hold-onto-my-dream-or-face-reality/sweating-the-petty-vs-petting-the-sweaty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 20:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Life is a game.&#8221; People interpret the parallel between life and games in two ways. The most common implies that like a game, life is no big deal, so you should just relax. This notion can be a comfort when you&#8217;re feeling stressed&#8211;stressed, in fact by the other way to take the statement: that in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R.O.S.C.O. (Right On Schedule, Chill Out): Global warming as inevitable</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/rosco-right-on-schedule-chill-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I burnt my feet very badly once, spilling ignited gasoline on them by mistake. I went up in flames. For a while I felt no pain. I got to experience the way the body sets upper limits on excruciation in the short term. I take comfort from knowing that some sudden physical shocks don’t feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Wife Crisis: It’s the economy, stupid.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/mid-wife-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was married by 24 and had my first child at 25. By the standard of my parents’ generation, 24 was normal&#8211;my father married at that age&#8211;but by my generation’s standard (especially within my Northern California subculture), it was peculiar to get married so young. My firstborn child is eight years older than those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some-nipotence; Some-nicsience: Having no power or knowledge would be easier</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Definition: Some power; some knowledge— all we mortals have in comparison to omnipotent and omniscient super-beings we can imagine but cannot be. We have some power and some knowledge. We have the power to change some things we would like to change and to keep some things we would like to keep. We believe some [...]]]></description>
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