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		<title>Alston</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Alston at Yulblog.  I had just joined the group, which was celebrating its five-year anniversary with a party at the now defunct Zeke’s Gallery.  I sat on a vintage couch that had seen better days and smoked a cigarette, and within moments Alston and I were engaged in a furious argument about smoking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesmokingsection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616963&amp;post=1337&amp;subd=thesmokingsection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/?p=1333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was time.  First, an impromptu birthday party, which the weather conspired to make perfect for a wispy summer dress and a terrasse overtaken by friends, even though it was a Tuesday on the cusp of fall.  Then, a full-on barnburner that throbbed through the night and ended with slowdancing and the sudden jolt of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesmokingsection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616963&amp;post=1333&amp;subd=thesmokingsection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Released</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/?p=1325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, everything’s okay&#8230; sort of.  My father paid off his debt, probably with gambling winnings, which allowed me to remove my name from his bank accounts.  The process took more than six weeks and involved countless phone calls, several wayward faxes, and miles of pacing, but as of today I am no longer financially tethered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesmokingsection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616963&amp;post=1325&amp;subd=thesmokingsection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reunion</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/reunion-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/?p=1311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With another anniversary looming, I thought I might write a post about my continuing estrangement from my father, and, in so doing, provide friends and onlookers with a bit of a “me” update.  In retrospect, and largely unintentionally, this blog stands as an archive of my family’s dissolution, so it seemed to me like a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesmokingsection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616963&amp;post=1311&amp;subd=thesmokingsection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Served</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/?p=1303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t feel like cooking so I stopped off to get a pizza on my way home from work.  As I surveyed my options, I said hello to the red-haired girl behind the counter, who smiled brightly as she waited to take my order. “Are you having a good day today?” she asked.  I wasn’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesmokingsection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616963&amp;post=1303&amp;subd=thesmokingsection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hot</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/hot-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 03:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neighbourhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/?p=1292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first real summer night.  All of the windows are open; the neighbours straggle on their balconies, subdued by the Habs’ loss.  I don’t follow hockey; I just listen to the alley. It was too hot today to clean my apartment, which is still strewn with the detritus of last semester.  Hydro bills, lecture notes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesmokingsection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616963&amp;post=1292&amp;subd=thesmokingsection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slow</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/slow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/?p=1286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so maybe I spoke too soon.  I will concede that reviving a blog while working two jobs, staving off student loans, and trying to finish a dissertation is an unrealistic goal.  Then again, that’s never stopped me before. Frankly, it’s been good to be busy.  Despite my bohemian pretensions, I am not someone who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesmokingsection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616963&amp;post=1286&amp;subd=thesmokingsection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here</title>
		<link>http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/here-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vila H.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesmokingsection.wordpress.com/?p=1279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been long enough that I suspect I am writing, now, to myself, and perhaps to a few diligent search bots.  This is probably just as well, since I don’t quite know what it is I mean to say.  Still, here I am, on a bitterly cold night after a long week and an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesmokingsection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616963&amp;post=1279&amp;subd=thesmokingsection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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