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  <subtitle>inhale, exhale. repeat.</subtitle>
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    <name>elizabethjeanblake</name>
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  <updated>2008-06-08T04:51:30Z</updated>
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    <title>Just in case you're lurking.</title>
    <published>2008-06-08T04:48:16Z</published>
    <updated>2008-06-08T04:51:30Z</updated>
    <content type="html">I was laying in the tub tonight with Zac and Sara stuck in my head, a song I've pretty much avoided since the downfall in Vancouver.&lt;br /&gt;Stefani told me once that Sara loved that song because it shared the same spelling as her name...&lt;br /&gt;How could I have ever suspected that a Ben Folds song could help me so much?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sara was Stephani's best friend before I moved to Vancouver, which isn't to say that I was ever her best friend, because I can see now that she had massive amounts of trust issues, but I tried to be.&lt;br /&gt;She was the best friend I had in Vancouver, I tried to bridge the distance she created but I never really got there.&lt;br /&gt;We moved in together, which I was excited about because it would provide me with the situation to be in constant contact with her, the way I prefer people.&lt;br /&gt;I tried to reach out to her, but she stayed in her room all the time. &lt;br /&gt;No one in the house was paying rent besides me, all for various reasons; I fell in to my support mode, and did what I could.&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, my friendships flourished with the people in the house who actually met my effort.&lt;br /&gt;It wasn't for a while before I started getting bitter about it.&lt;br /&gt;They were working, why couldn't they pay a little in rent?&lt;br /&gt;It had been MONTHS since they dropped a single dime on rent before I ever confronted them about it.&lt;br /&gt;In December we got a notice from the office saying that we had tennants who weren't on the lease, and that they would have to leave or we would be evicted.&lt;br /&gt;It was true, we were like a fucking homeless shelter.&lt;br /&gt;Daniel, Stefani and I all had a talk, and we ended up deciding that everyone who wasn't on the lease had to go.&lt;br /&gt;It wasn't a straight compromise, they fought for someone to stay, just as I fought for someone to stay, this was more our lack of compromise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the end, I decided to move out, some buillshit went about, they told me THEY were moving out, and had been planning on it for a long time.&lt;br /&gt;So I gave up, and I stayed in the apartment I hated with one of the roomates who was supposed to move out in December, who I was going to move out with when I left the apartment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A couple months passed and there was no evidence that they were moving, my saving dwindled and finally I got pissed, and told them they had to be out by the end of May.&lt;br /&gt;I kicked out my other roommate and moved to Astoria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After I told them to pay rent or get out, they started tearing me down.&lt;br /&gt;I never understood until tonight that they were angry because I pulled their free ride, I asserted boundries when for a year there had been none.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm done kicking myself about this.&lt;br /&gt;Game over.&lt;br /&gt;You lose.</content>
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    <title>_flatline_</title>
    <published>2007-08-19T10:02:10Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-19T10:25:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;center&gt;this journal is effing DEAD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;much like Refused.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;but not nearly as cool.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Post here if I forgot to add you to my new one.&lt;/center&gt;</content>
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