Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I know now (after lasts nights conversation with him) that it was after my little bout of jealousy (which he totally knew about) that he really started to think seriously about the possibility of us being together.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It’s a story about my own latest bout with – what else? – artistic failure.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I’m a bit late because of my extended bout of 100 % travel, much of it disconnected, but I thought I’d do a post about this anyhow because it is a very significant piece of news.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
On one hand, I like it, because I can see an outfit from all sides and be able to tell without a doubt if the fucker fits or not, but on the other, I get to see in very crisp, no – nonsense detail what exactly an effect my bout with cancer has had on my body.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Told her about my bout with acute depression in early 2000 (which was caused by MULTIPLE emotional stresses, all of which involved life and death) in the context of when I last needed a sleeping aide, and her only question was, “Do you want to kill yourself right now?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It must have been a remnant of my bout with the flu, when I was going through tissues too fast to be able to fit the empty boxes in the wastebasket.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Now that I am more or less over my bout of flu or whatever it was, I felt the need to get out.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
(Heather asked me to review this… so I’m doing a guest spot here!) I’m a big geek – I just finished my weekly bout with Guitar Hero just before writing this, and I’m a software developer by trade.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Anyway, I’m hoping my recent bout of insomnia is not going to be a regular thing.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And it being possible that my bout of depression last week ended something I had started makes me really sad.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
“I’ve mused on occasion in this blog about the future, about the loss of thinking about the future during my first bout with colorectal cancer, about the return of future thinking as I entered my’ ’ no evidence of disease’ ’ period, and finally about this second challenge and its frontal attack on my personal future.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The heavy rains made me experience my first bout of MOTION SICKNESS.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Hi All I have posted on here numerous times and recently about my bout with breast cancer (due to the Christina Applegate situation).
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I’m a bit late because of my extended bout of 100 % travel, much of it disconnected, but I thought I’d do a post about this anyhow because it is a very significant piece of news.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Nowak’s bout of insanity was worse since it’s completely unexplainable if not for the fact that he had already indicated that the way for the US to win was to go against conventional soccer wisdom.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Once I figured this out, my latest bout of day care angst evaporated.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Yes, I finally got the all-clear from my optometrist today to start wearing my contacts again after my bout with a corneal ulcer in my right eye.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Disregard for a moment my initial bout of sarcasm when mentioning the pollster establishment.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
As I recall from my lengthy bout of unemployment and daily rotting infront of Guitar Hero, what generally emerges for me after 6 hours is cramped fingers and the exclamation, “EEEP!?
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(. ?)))
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