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  <title>The Extremophile's Lair</title>
  <subtitle>A Cactus's Home on Dreamwidth</subtitle>
  <author>
    <name>Cereus</name>
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  <updated>2013-01-05T02:58:18Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-10-05:655482:13897</id>
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    <title>Still Alive!</title>
    <published>2013-01-05T02:58:18Z</published>
    <updated>2013-01-05T02:58:18Z</updated>
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    <category term="shadowrun"/>
    <category term="connection"/>
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    <category term="joy"/>
    <category term="word poison"/>
    <category term="autism"/>
    <dw:mood>Healing</dw:mood>
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    <content type="html">I'm still alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you on DW that I&amp;nbsp;converse with - I haven't been ignoring any of you for personal reasons.&amp;nbsp; And I still will post sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I realized something - using words takes a toll on me.&amp;nbsp; A big toll.&amp;nbsp; And right now I am studying at University - which means that using words is at the *heart* of many of my duties as a student.&amp;nbsp; So by the time the semester ended, I had to take a break from all of that - to avoid going down in flames.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the other side to this (the &lt;strong&gt;Good&lt;/strong&gt; side). Is that as soon as it was all over,&amp;nbsp; as soon as I stepped back,&amp;nbsp; Parts of my emotions, &lt;strong&gt;joyful, connected parts&lt;/strong&gt; that I hadn't felt all autumn - they came back.&amp;nbsp; Slowly and with a *lot* of pain sometimes.&amp;nbsp; But they came back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just wanting to say that these things are not lost forever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Burt school is pretty close again, so I might not be posting or replying very much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I still care about you all and wish the best for you this new year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And happy new &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baktun"&gt;Baktun&lt;/a&gt; to you all!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May the &lt;a href="http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sixth_World"&gt;Sixth World&lt;/a&gt; treat you well and bring you what you need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=cereus&amp;ditemid=13897" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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