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      <title>Well, I have no plan for what to write but I need to take a break from...</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Well, I have no plan for what to write but I need to take a break from obsessing over the timeline and waiting for a blow from heaven to fall down and bust my head open. I need to be safe. I don&#39;t know how to be calm, I can&#39;t remember what it feels like. I don&#39;t remember what to do. I don&#39;t know what normal people take for granted. I feel like an alien trying to pretend to be a human but getting everything wrong, not understanding people at all. I&#39;m not a convincing simulacrum.&#xA;&#xA;I might just kind of go with the flow as my mind is kind of reeling after watching a video about a deranged computer programmer, a true life story. I may just go with the crazy in me and write like that.&#xA;&#xA;Here I&#39;ll try.&#xA;&#xA;In the next post. ]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I have no plan for what to write but I need to take a break from obsessing over the timeline and waiting for a blow from heaven to fall down and bust my head open. I need to be safe. I don&#39;t know how to be calm, I can&#39;t remember what it feels like. I don&#39;t remember what to do. I don&#39;t know what normal people take for granted. I feel like an alien trying to pretend to be a human but getting everything wrong, not understanding people at all. I&#39;m not a convincing simulacrum.</p>

<p>I might just kind of go with the flow as my mind is kind of reeling after watching a video about a deranged computer programmer, a true life story. I may just go with the crazy in me and write like that.</p>

<p>Here I&#39;ll try.</p>

<p>In the next post.</p>
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