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  <title>The Wordsmith's Forge</title>
  <subtitle>The Writing &amp; Other Projects of Elizabeth Barrette</subtitle>
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    <name>ysabetwordsmith</name>
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  <updated>2023-03-03T03:35:05Z</updated>
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    <title>Snowflake Challenge 3: Scream into the Void</title>
    <published>2023-01-05T11:39:33Z</published>
    <updated>2023-03-03T03:35:05Z</updated>
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    <category term="snowflake challenge"/>
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    <dw:mood>frustrated</dw:mood>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">&lt;b&gt;Challenge #3&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;In your own space, Scream Into the Void. Get it all out. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know Snowflake is sunshine and rainbows and singing from the rooftops all the lovely and brilliant that is being in a fandom. But, let&amp;rsquo;s be honest. Sometimes--like with other things--there are sucky parts, heartbreak parts and just plain UGH parts. Rather than holding onto those slights and resentments, or burying them and pretending they don&amp;rsquo;t exist, just to have them slowly and almost imperceptibly seep into the rest of the challenges this month, why don&amp;rsquo;t we just let it all out?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of us who celebrate Festivus for the rest of us, this will be familiar. We call it &amp;ldquo;Airing of Grievances&amp;rdquo; and it is actually very satisfying, whether you do it tongue in cheek, get introspective or just literally scream.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Warning: Here there be dragons.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org"&gt;&lt;img src="https://i.imgur.com/LiGYnns.jpg" alt="Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of snow-covered trees and an old barn in the background. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31." width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/13818647.html#cutid1"&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ysabetwordsmith&amp;ditemid=13818647" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-03-08:484350:10325659</id>
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    <title>Three Reasons Employers Are Stupid</title>
    <published>2015-08-08T23:40:55Z</published>
    <updated>2015-08-08T23:40:55Z</updated>
    <category term="economics"/>
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    <dw:mood>angry</dw:mood>
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    <content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.inc.com/jt-odonnell/3-reasons-millennials-are-getting-fired.html"&gt;That wasn't the original title of this article&lt;/a&gt;.  But allow me to elucidate ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesus H. Christ on a gluten-free cracker.  Millennials are having problems because the workplace is DIFFERENT now.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/10325659.html#cutid1"&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ysabetwordsmith&amp;ditemid=10325659" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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