Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Mar 17, 2010, 2:22 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Mar 17, 2010, 11:35 am

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Mar 11, 2010, 4:23 pm
I passed out for a while and woke up with this taped to my forehead: I'm taking a break for a few days. I've been getting really clumsy and unable to articulate myself well - so I have reason...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Mar 9, 2010, 9:40 am
"I hate you." You are in the bathroom at work, washing your hands in the never-warm water. Tuesday is shuffling around in the stall behind you. There's the occasional whisper and soft chuckle. ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Mar 8, 2010, 12:02 pm
And opener, Laura Barrett.
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Mar 5, 2010, 10:55 am
By Billy Collins From Picnic, Lightning First, her tippet made of tulle, easily lifted off her shoulders and laid on the back of a wooden chair. And her bonnet, the bow undone with a light for...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Mar 4, 2010, 2:03 pm
1. This morning, on the train, we saw a security guard and his dog. The security guard was a young African-American man, and the dog was a muzzled German Shepherd. The two of them were alone, look...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Mar 3, 2010, 11:48 am

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Mar 2, 2010, 9:24 am
Tuesday looks at you across the break room table. The two of you are eating, but not together. Tuesday has his usual microwaved burrito, you have your Bowl Appetite you got on sale at Walgreens (alo...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Mar 1, 2010, 8:25 am
The other night, we passed a sign**. It read: As we passed this sign, my heart sagged a little. The tug wasn't the joy of promised bacon, or the thrill of three cheeses at once. It was fatigue....
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 25, 2010, 3:27 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 24, 2010, 12:34 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 23, 2010, 10:13 am
There is no way you are getting out here without taking something with you. Towards the end of your visit with the Sisters of February Tuesdays, the anticipation of this creeps up through your stomac...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 22, 2010, 12:39 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 18, 2010, 10:08 am
1. February is a month of Tuesdays. 2. I was looking out the window at a giant, fat squirrel as it scurried around a light pole. A pigeon looked on with indifference as the tubby little guy frette...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 17, 2010, 1:40 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 16, 2010, 1:18 pm
Covers are a delicate art form. One "Too-Right" move, and your emo-indie-garage band with a respectable following can be catapulted into the national arena. This might be a dream for the hapless roc...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 15, 2010, 8:44 am
When I was twelve**, I entered a solo dance competition at a school dance. My reason for doing such a thing is unclear. In the sixth grade, to place oneself on display, unprompted and without a consi...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 12, 2010, 2:06 pm
More Valentines for anyone and everyone**! Clip n' Save! **Do not give these to ANYONE. Want more? Here's last year's crop!
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 11, 2010, 8:32 am
1. I hate the first ten minutes of pretty much every play I see. This changes in retrospect, as the play's world envelopes me, as I give myself over to the story. But I gotta get through the fi...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 10, 2010, 2:20 am

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 9, 2010, 10:09 am
You left late. It's your own fault, too. No on else is to blame for the sluggish morning. Walking out the door right after you have one more cup of coffee and you don't really want to leave...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 8, 2010, 7:51 am
Last night, the USofA watched the Saints march in right over the Colts. It was a great game. Well played, some bold surprises and some genuinely tender moments. Had I been alone, I might have wept o...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 4, 2010, 9:03 am
1. I am not a parent. With my sister living nearby, and the amount of time I have spent with R & J (The Noble Savages), I have come just about as close as anyone can to parenthood without actually b...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 3, 2010, 12:29 pm
**The first person to email me, comment or message me will receive the Valentine in the mail. Contest closed!
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 2, 2010, 10:07 am
"Oh, wow! This will be the perfect song for my blog post tomorrow, you guys!" Both of your best friends, Jake and Cyprus lie on the couch in a Heartland Rock cum Calvin Klein ad cuddle lump. The wa...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Feb 1, 2010, 9:08 am
... art thing you did in high school, aren't you? (A waiter once asked me what my tattoo was all about. I told him and he let out a rye laugh. "How old were you when you got that, like sevent...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 28, 2010, 3:35 pm
"The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid." -De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (1952)
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 28, 2010, 8:44 am
My reign of terror has ended in Lakeview and I will be moving away to fair Albany Park. I'm so glad Nature finally remembered that it's January just in time for me to head out. Thanks, Gaia...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 27, 2010, 4:23 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 26, 2010, 1:43 pm
(Editor's Note: This post was done sort of on the fly, so I've reduced the main sentiments to outline form. If you need further instruction, I'll send the study guide out later.) 1. Be...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 25, 2010, 10:21 am
Maybe it's just the time of year. My apophenia has been acting up again. It would help if the patterns were useful (or if I even paid attention to them except in hindsight), but these mundane pre...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 22, 2010, 11:18 am
I've discovered that I enjoy reading the Dictionary. People make jokes about this kind of thing, in order to highlight how boring a person's taste in reading might be. (In the break room) A: ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 21, 2010, 8:25 am
1. I am experiencing Pop Culture Fatigue. This past weekend, the Golden Globes aired, and I only knew about it because of all the Facebook status updates. Oh? The Golden Globes are on? Huh. Maybe...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 20, 2010, 10:25 am

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 19, 2010, 2:34 pm
"Do you ever have one of those days where nothing goes wrong in particular, but nothing goes right either? You find yourself unsatisfied by music or movies (and you are aggravated by the very idea of ...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 14, 2010, 9:29 am
The next few days are going to be hectic, so I will not be posting again until next Monday. In the meantime, if you you have a suggestion or thought you'd like to have addressed, email me or co...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 13, 2010, 1:58 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 12, 2010, 8:57 am
"Second Tuesday in January" is gregarious and charismatic. You know this because he says that's how his friends describe him. This is also how you know that he is hilarious. STiJ said this grea...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 11, 2010, 3:00 pm
1. I was in a classroom where the students researched creatures once thought mythical. Hanging from the ceiling was a Narwhal - only it looked like a Jackalope. I said to the teacher: "These don'...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 7, 2010, 9:41 am
1. Recently, I came across a term that I am unfamiliar with: Ableist. Ableism is defined as discrimination against persons with disabilities. Ableist language is comprised of terms, phrases and wo...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 6, 2010, 1:28 pm
#fb Click on here for a movie of the karaoke.
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 5, 2010, 9:22 am
Tuesday looks across the table at you. "You know what?" He says, "This meatloaf is really dry." Your fork drops with a clang onto the plate and you stare at the crumbling ground beef. "You just CO...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Jan 4, 2010, 1:20 pm
New Year's resolutions are a curse. I know why we do it to ourselves. The sense of rebirth into a new year gives us a clean start. The sins of the previous year are washed away by the snowy ri...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Dec 30, 2009, 11:21 am

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Dec 29, 2009, 10:17 am
It's four o'clock in the morning. The sun has not risen and the city is in it's most quiet hour. Your dreams pulse from one image to the next, recycling conversations from days before, w...
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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Dec 25, 2009, 2:03 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Dec 23, 2009, 3:51 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Dec 23, 2009, 3:42 pm

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Jen E. posted an article on Just Enough Shame Wear Clothes - Dec 23, 2009, 3:24 pm

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