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	<title>My Life As A Farce</title>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t know a damn thing about me, and you won&#8217;t ever unless you can get through this</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how to start this. It&#8217;s so rare for me to write, let alone feel compelled to write about feeling good.  My hypergraphia has usually always been the result of anguish, fear, or mania, yet here I am with my brain telling me I must write, specifically about this.  Not for posterity, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cassandradisque.com/2010/06/05/you-dont-know-a-damn-thing-about-me-and-you-wont-ever-unless-you-can-get-through-this/</link>
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		<title>Castilla Elastica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You treat me just like rubber &#8211; a cheap, oft-used commodity. Importable on demand. Bendable, expendable. You think your words will just bounce off me without a care. But I&#8217;m not at all like rubber &#8211; I&#8217;m porous like the earth, soaking up your every word and glance. I&#8217;m fragile like a hot house flower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cassandradisque.com/2010/05/28/castilla-elastica/</link>
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		<title>What if I could be honest?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The general consensus in modern psychology is that it&#8217;s unhealthy to question &#8212; particularly to continually question &#8212; your past life. As in, asking &#8220;what if,&#8221; is only going to drive you crazy. As a disabled person, I can particularly find truth in that. It&#8217;s better for me to accept and move forward than to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cassandradisque.com/2010/05/08/what-if-i-could-be-honest/</link>
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		<title>Dirt under my bourgeois nails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gardening soil under my nails that won&#8217;t come out. What was once a sign of the working class is now a sign of the bourgeois. Except I&#8217;m basically unemployed, can&#8217;t afford a manicure, and every job I have held in the past decade has been in a form of the service industry, give or take. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cassandradisque.com/2010/04/25/dirt-under-my-bourgeois-nails/</link>
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		<title>This isn&#8217;t passive-aggressively meant toward anyone in particular</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I was 13, I&#8217;ve been dealing with &#8220;knowing who my real friends are&#8221; every time I&#8217;ve become longterm sick (1-2x/yr for 15 years). I have since come to the conclusion that &#8220;real friends&#8221; either live with me, used to live with me, or know me so thoroughly as to not ask if I&#8217;m &#8220;feeling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cassandradisque.com/2010/02/15/this-isnt-passive-aggressively-meant-toward-anyone-in-particular/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Looking forward to being attacked&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember I told you something was happening on my campus yesterday? A female student left one of her classes to go to the bathroom. In the bathroom was a guy &#8212; non-student &#8212; with a gun. He raped her. It was 3:30 in the afternoon. One of my classrooms is right across the hall from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cassandradisque.com/2010/01/27/looking-forward-to-being-attacked/</link>
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		<title>More grandparent closure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in Florida to help settle up my grandparents&#8217; estate. We barely made a dent in it; I&#8217;m going back in three weeks, having the ex&#8217;s daughter meet me there, and then we&#8217;re going to box up all the remaining photography and framing equipment and put it in storage near her house. We&#8217;re going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cassandradisque.com/2010/01/02/more-grandparent-closure/</link>
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		<title>Seventeen Years of Crazy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, I managed to come of age thinking I fit a U.S. size nine shoe. In the past year, I&#8217;ve learned I actually fit a U.S. size eight on the left foot and size eight and half on the right foot (or is it the other way around?). That&#8217;s a literal fact as well as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cassandradisque.com/2009/12/22/seventeen-years-of-crazy/</link>
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		<title>For real, I&#8217;m a Peep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband let me open a Christmas present early. It turned out to be a version of this: except in fuzzy light pink fleece. Mine doesn&#8217;t have a drop bottom, but it does have booties, an attached hood, a kangaroo pouch, and &#8220;Cassbot&#8221; embroidered on the chest. It makes me look an elongated, but still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cassandradisque.com/2009/12/19/for-real-im-a-peep/</link>
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		<title>Bummer of a Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I lost my SSI today because Matt makes about $100 too much per month for me to qualify. Which means I no longer qualify for Medicaid or any of those other things&#8230; but it&#8217;s not like Medicaid was paying for anything, anyway. Shit, we fucking GOT MARRIED because Medicaid wouldn&#8217;t pay for the surgery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cassandradisque.com/2009/12/07/bummer-of-a-day/</link>
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