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	<title>Stephen Witherden's Website</title>
	<link>http://stephen.geek.nz</link>
	<description>A website about my interests: baking, software, photography, religion, politics and sex.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Vinegar Hill 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Gay</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lay there in the darkness, wrapped tightly in my sleeping bag. My hips ached from sleeping on the softening inflatable mattress. I shifted my weight, making sure not to lie on the saturated bit. The sound of rain hitting taught canvas came at me in three dimensions. It had been raining solid these past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Porridge over Auckland</title>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/esoteric/other/porridge-over-auckland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Other</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my friend Peter Mason once said “a breakup always puts me in an existential mood”. These last two months after the breakup, especially over my birthday, have got me thinking: what is my purpose in life and when will I know that I have achieved it?
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		<title>Action Stephen</title>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/action-stephen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Personal</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Hello? It’s Craig here,” my phone enunciated in my ear.
“Hello Craig” I replied encouragingly.
“From&#8230; Body by Craig”, it added, somewhat apologetically.
Thus was my introduction to Craig, my personal trainer.
Yes, that’s right: I have a personal trainer now. I’ve been to the gym a few times in the past but I haven’t been particularly good at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Without a Paddle</title>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/angst/without-a-paddle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Angst</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I drove Russell home and pulled up into his driveway. “I’ve been thinking&#8230;.” oh dear, this can’t be good news. I put my foot on the brake. “I feel like there’s been a bit of tension between us lately&#8230;” he continued.
That’s how it started, in the next 30 minutes Russell broke up with me there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Shared</title>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/life-shared/</link>
		<comments>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/life-shared/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Personal</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The groomsmaids filed in to the tune of “teenage dream”, their dresses flowing magnificently down the stairs, their respective escorts dangled off their arms like so much blue, black and white jewelery. I smiled just a little as I noticed the lesbian couple: that girl pulls off the suit and tie look better than some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sala kahle Emilina</title>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/esoteric/politics/sala-kahle-emilina/</link>
		<comments>http://stephen.geek.nz/esoteric/politics/sala-kahle-emilina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sawubona umfaan, wena usaphila na?&#8221;
My subconscious registered the formal Zulu greeting and the response came unbidden to my lips.
&#8220;Yebo, ngisaphila, wena usaphila, na?&#8221; I surprised myself by how much Zulu I know.
&#8220;Yebo, ngiyabonga, umfaan&#8221;
I cringed at the repetition of the diminutive &#8220;umfaan&#8221; (meaning &#8220;young man&#8221;). I shook my head mutely and raised my hand above [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-flight ordeal</title>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/funny/pre-flight-ordeal/</link>
		<comments>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/funny/pre-flight-ordeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Funny</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was scheduled to travel back to South Africa: my country of birth. A place I hadn&#8217;t been to since I was 18 years old, about 13 years ago.
Everything was planned (in as much as I ever plan anything) down very finely. I arrived in Auckland from Brisbane at 7pm on Sunday, did a bunch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By any other name</title>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/esoteric/other/by-any-other-name-2/</link>
		<comments>http://stephen.geek.nz/esoteric/other/by-any-other-name-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Other</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was two weeks ago, late Friday afternoon and I was just putting the finishing touches on a spreadsheet or some such when my phone buzzed angrily. I don&#8217;t know why I hate the sound of my phone no matter what the ringtone is. I guess I just don&#8217;t look forward to phone calls. &#8220;Ally&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vinegar Hill 2010</title>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/gay/vinegar-hill-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/gay/vinegar-hill-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Gay</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had been in two minds about going to Vinegar Hill for a few weeks. Vinegar Hill, for the uninitiated, is a great big gay camping event that&#8217;s held here in New Zealand every year and every year I seem to be able to come up with an excuse: too far away, too busy, don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One night stand</title>
		<link>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/gay/one-night-stand/</link>
		<comments>http://stephen.geek.nz/personal/gay/one-night-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Gay</category>
	<category>TMI</category>
	<category>Sex</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do what makes you happy, Stephen, but don&#8217;t do those&#8230;. one night stand things&#8230; that just makes me frightened&#8221; My grandmother&#8217;s sound advice. Now, though I have been figuring out how relationships work for quite some time, and though I often go to gay bars. I have never, ever, ever &#8220;met&#8221; anyone at a bar, [...]]]></description>
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