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		<title>Finally, Texas is Complete</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2011/06/26/finally-texas-is-complete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from today&#8217;s trip to In &#8216;N Out Burger off of the 75 freeway.  It just opened this week. I feel that this year is now a success.  I have accomplished all that I want to.  Now I will do nothing for 6 months. From Summer 2011 Tweet This Post Delicious Digg This Post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in High School &#8211; Part 4</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2011/02/14/adventures-in-high-school-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: While I have kept as many details as possible completely honest, I have changed all of the names of the people in these stories.  I didn't think it would be fair to write about them in the way that I have if I hadn't protected the real people a bit.  In the case of one particular person, I don't remember his real name anyway.  Also, please don't take anything I say in this story to be tacit approval for the way I or anyone else acted.  I was in High School, and sometimes acted like quite a punk.

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The biggest caper involving Mr. Grady concerned a video that he was planning to show in our class.  We knew that a film was on the schedule because there was a TV and VCR on a cart in our room at the beginning of class.  We asked him about it and he told us that we would see it in the last half of the class, after that 15 minute break... [click the title above to read the rest of the article]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in High School &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2011/02/07/adventures-in-high-school-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: While I have kept as many details as possible completely honest, I have changed all of the names of the people in these stories.  I didn't think it would be fair to write about them in the way that I have if I hadn't protected the real people a bit.  In the case of one particular person, I don't remember his real name anyway.  Also, please don't take anything I say in this story to be tacit approval for the way I or anyone else acted.  I was in High School, and sometimes acted like quite a punk.

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Mr. Grady was a Christian.  This was well known at school.  His nephew, Sterling, was an outspoken Christian student-athlete, and I found out he later became a youth minister.  Although I was a pretty popular kid, I just never had much of a desire to hang out with the preppy crowd.  It seemed to me that they were a little too shallow for my tastes, although I was on pretty decent terms with most of the preppy kids... [Click the title above to read the rest of the article]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in High School &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2011/01/31/adventures-in-high-school-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: While I have kept as many details as possible completely honest, I have changed all of the names of the people in these stories.  I didn't think it would be fair to write about them in the way that I have if I hadn't protected the real people a bit.  In the case of one particular person, I don't remember his real name anyway.  Also, please don't take anything I say in this story to be tacit approval for the way I or anyone else acted.  I was in High School, and sometimes acted like quite a punk.

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Mr. Grady fixated at the back wall each day apparently in order to spare him from staring at faces who would mostly be populating our city’s jails in the near future.  We did not have to guess at this fact.  He told us this once toward the beginning of the semester... [click the title above to read the rest of the article]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in High School &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2011/01/25/adventures-in-high-school-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have often thought that real life stories are much funnier than sitcoms or jokes most of the time.  This seems to be mainly because the bizarre events of our lives are too strange to be funny if it weren't for the fact that they actually happened.  The following is a true story from my days in High School, many years ago.  Well, it is true to the best of my memory. This is the first in series of posts about the events of the summer prior to my Senior year.  Stay tuned for more posts in the series.

Note: While I have kept as many details as possible completely honest, I have changed all of the names of the people in these stories.  I didn't think it would be fair to write about them in the way that I have if I hadn't protected the real people a bit.  In the case of one particular person, I don't remember his real name anyway.  Also, please don't take anything I say in this story to be tacit approval for the way I or anyone else acted.  I was in High School, and sometimes acted like quite a punk... [click on the title above to read the rest of the article]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Holly and Mistletoe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Timmy stared wide-eyed at the mountain of tightly wrapped presents under the tree.  It all looked so beautiful to his young eyes.  Each little light reflected off of an ornament.  There was the small glass globe that he had received from Ma-ma two Christmases ago—‘May the glory of advent fill you with tidings of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Again</title>
		<link>http://ryanshinn.com/2010/09/07/fall-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fall descends, a blanket lifted The stuffy wool of summer gathered up and put away Fresh air breathes in puffs, the evening sun in golds and cherry reds The light filtered through trees and clouds, showing a new deep content Leaves rain on each new breath, and we laugh and sigh, with ciders, and coffees, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wandering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times of reflection, on some rare Fall evenings Where sun is set low and the sky fiery gleaming… Thinking back to past whens, where I am where I’ve been The choices I made all the plans that I’ve laid And I wonder I walk but don’t know, long journeys up mountains where paths [...]]]></description>
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