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		<title>Wheat Salad – Meh, Oven-Fried Chicken – Thumbs Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s nectarine season! I know Spring/Summer has finally come to Vancouver when I can head to the little fruit and veggie stores near me and see one of my favorite fruits amid all the usual apples and oranges.

Sure, I could probably get nectarines or their fuzzy cousins, the peach, year round at the big chain grocery stores, but the little, less expensive stores within walking distance only get them when they’re in season. They’re so much better in season – I’m not really sure why. Perhaps it’s because they can be picked a little closer to ripe since they don’t have to be shipped so far. The ones that get boated up from South America in the dead of winter are hard as rocks still and never do ripen up very well.]]></description>
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		<title>Blood in the Social Media Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm jobless. That gives me a lot of time to surf the net and seek out job hunting advice. In the past year, I've probably seen a dozen or so articles about how people need to be careful about what they post on their social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

The warning is, someone is going to see it. Your drunken photos; your posts about hating your boss; the "free" supplies you told the world about getting from the office.

It's out there for the whole world to see, including potential employers. Even if you have your privacy settings set right, it's still possible the supervisor or hr person at the company you want to work for is connected to you through a friend of a friend.]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Eat, Pray, Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Generally I chose books like I choose the movies I watch; I look for entertainment value above all else. However, sometimes I stumble across a more artsy/enlightening/literary/soul searching book that catches my interest. This time it was Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert.

In a moment of weakness I was watching Julia Roberts on Oprah discussing the book and her experience starring in the movie. I’d never even heard of Eat, Pray, Love and here it was inspiring Julia Roberts, being talked about on Oprah and developing a small cult following.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/review-eat-pray-love/</link>
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		<title>Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can’t recall ever reading a Jane Austen novel. I’ve seen a few of the movies based on her books, but based on what I saw, I had no urge to read the books. At heart they seem to be basically Victorian era romance novels; however, you throw in some zombies, and I’m intrigued.

I had actually stopped at the bookstore the other day to pick up a different book, but in a moment of judging a book by its cover, I decided I had to give Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith a try. I was curious how someone could incorporate zombies into a Jane Austen novel without treading too much on her own style of storytelling as well as her basic storyline.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/review-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/</link>
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		<title>5k Runner in the House!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than a month ago I signed myself and my husband up to do a 5k run. My plan was that if I signed up to do it, and paid money for it, then I'd have to stick to a plan for the next seven or eight weeks to get ready for it.

On Sunday, May 30, that plan came to fruition as I ran the PMC-Sierra Science Fair Fun Run. Best $35 I've ever donated to a cause since the result was that I actually stuck to a workout plan and met my goal of jogging the whole darn 5k. I won't say yet that I'm a "runner" since I'm not sure there's a big difference in speed between my power walking and my version of a jog. ]]></description>
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		<title>May I Try Another Recipe Please?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's the last day of May and I haven't even told y'all about my culinary adventure from the latest issue of Cooking Light yet. In honor of the great weather we've been having and the possibility of barbecues in the near future, I tried a healthy potato salad recipe this month.

In my mind, potato salad is supposed to be a mayo and mustard concoction that's served cold and can't be left out too long or it will go bad. It sure does taste good, but perhaps a potato salad with less calories and less chance of food poisoning would be a nice change.]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Night on American Idol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Idol finale was the background soundtrack while I was studying last night. I haven't watched the show all season, but I figured at least it would mostly be music while I crammed in more Project Management info before my test next week.

Sure, it was mostly music, but it was also mostly a big love fest and goodbye to Simon Cowell. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/simon-night-on-american-idol/</link>
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		<title>My Lady Gaga Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's nothing like a long list of things I want to get done to drive me to complete avoidance and time wasting. It began by logging into Twitter and finding an update about a video on YouTube. That led to about two hours of finding and watching related videos instead of going for a run, making a grocery list, putting away the last of the laundry, cleaning the computer room, vacuuming me, and many more tasks for the day.

So to feel somewhat productive, I bring you the videos I was most entertained by or impressed with featuring Lady Gaga songs or parodies. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/my-lady-gaga-friday/</link>
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		<title>What Runner’s High?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I started Week 7 of the Couch to 5k training program. Before you start applauding too loudly, I have to be honest and say that I started on Week 2, so really I’ve only been doing this for six weeks.

I did that because I was already incorporating some jogging into my speed walking during the week, so I figured I could skip ahead a bit. This decision was made with full knowledge of all the warnings and advice on all the sites that you should start on Week 1 no matter what you think your own running fitness level is unless you’re already a runner and then you wouldn’t be doing this program anyway.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/what-runner%e2%80%99s-high/</link>
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		<title>Whale Tale From False Creek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vancouverites got a rare treat today as a gray whale made its way up False Creek and hung out around Science World for a while today.

There were reports of a gray whale feeding in other places along the coast yesterday as well, but according to news sources, this is probably the first time in 100 years a gray whale has come up False Creek. It was literally right downtown. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicalsarah.com/whale-tale-from-false-creek/</link>
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