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	<title>Pumpkins Don't Have Ankles</title>
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		<title>The Salmon of Knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best part is, I didn&#8217;t even make that title up. It&#8217;s a part of traditional Irish folklore, as my friend Christin shared with me earlier this week. (She&#8217;s also the one who first showed me the Irish Dirt website.) Here&#8217;s part of our instant message conversation:
CHRISTIN:
I just came across another great piece of folklore—the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pumpkinankles.com/?p=357</link>
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		<title>Buying dirt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today my friend introduced me to the website officialirishdirt.com.  Yes, take a minute to go back and separate those URL words out. It&#8217;s Official Irish Dirt dot com.
What do they sell, you ask?

Why, Irish dirt, of course!
That&#8217;s right! For a mere 10 dollars (plus shipping and handling), you can be the proud owner of 1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pumpkinankles.com/?p=352</link>
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		<title>Mugged</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, the title of the post is not the reason that I haven&#8217;t posted in so long.  Although it would be more excusable than my long list of non-excuses which I will not even bore you with now. All you need to know is &#8230; I&#8217;m back, and I&#8217;m bigger and badder than ever!! Minus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pumpkinankles.com/?p=349</link>
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		<title>Dentists and worse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An email conversation with me and my apartment-mate after I returned from the dentist.
AMY
hey, em, how did it go? any cavities? Did they say, &#8220;oh, do you mind smiling? we need to take your picture for the files &#8230;&#8221; I hate that. They always take my picture when I look terrible. *sigh* They really need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pumpkinankles.com/?p=346</link>
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		<title>Death by snow flurries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we’re barely surviving here in frigid Greenville, S.C. We have a few inches of …


&#8230; sleet. Yep, not even snow. Either way, the State of South Carolina has been cancelled until further notice.







An even if we could brave the roads, there’s no milk to be had. This is what the milk section looked like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pumpkinankles.com/?p=320</link>
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		<title>Oh, so that&#8217;s how it works &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feeling blue because you haven&#8217;t kept your New Year&#8217;s Resolution to bench press six times your weight, cut out all carbohydrates from your diet or read through all of the writings of James Boswell*??
No worries! In a recent email, my friend Judith explained to me why this isn&#8217;t a problem:

ME:
I hear from a marginally reliable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pumpkinankles.com/?p=315</link>
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		<title>Impending doom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another lunchtime email&#8211;this one from last week when there was talk of snow.
Subject Line: Impending doom*
EMILY
Anyone luncheoning on this day of impending doom*?
Noon at the DC if you are brave enough.
*please note that in the Southern context, &#8220;doom&#8221; is pretty synonymous
with &#8220;any chance of snow.&#8221;
BRIAN:
I brought lunch with me since I could not bring myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pumpkinankles.com/?p=310</link>
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		<title>My year in Facebook status updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen this Facebook app that will collect all of your statuses for the year and put them together. That got me thinking &#8230;
Here are some (definitely not all) of my Facebook status updates for 2009, with a few funny comments included too. I learned some things about myself in the process of putting them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pumpkinankles.com/?p=300</link>
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		<title>Of Pilgrims and Banshees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So &#8230; my sister Becky and I should not spend too much time together. Especially if we&#8217;re both procrastinating and in a particularly sarcastic mood. Here&#8217;s just a sampling of some of the conversations we&#8217;ve had today:
SNIPPET 1:
BECKY
Are you frying an egg?
EMILY
No, I just got out the pan, the carton of eggs and started heating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pumpkinankles.com/?p=291</link>
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		<title>Another sentimental story about the Prairie &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another chat between me and my friend Mike. Somehow while we were complaining about a particular genre of popular lit, we spontaneously created one. (It was surprisingly easy!)
me
I do NOT like sentimental books about people living on the prairie, which is like 94.3% of Women&#8217;s Christian fiction
Mike
94.35% since my new book &#8220;Cyclone of Romance&#8221;
about Debra, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pumpkinankles.com/?p=285</link>
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