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		<title>Four Off-Putting Foods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the exception of all manner of fuzzy, feathered, or fishy critters, there&#8217;s very little I won&#8217;t eat. I love food, all manner of tastes and textures. But there are certain foods that, though I enjoy them in certain dishes, completely gross me out on their own. Here they are:
1. Hard boiled eggs: Tasty on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts and Groceries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went grocery shopping with my grandmother and her caregiver today. As we were unloading bags from the car, I was struck with this sudden memory, a full on flashback of the time Brian and I visited grandma back in 2003, when we first moved to the West Coast.
I guess grandma must have been about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day Late Hot-or-Not Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello! I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;ve been neglecting things over here, along with everything else that&#8217;s not a paper on database systems or intellectual freedom. But the semester&#8217;s almost done, which makes this a great time to explore the hotses and notses of the week a la Loobylu.
Hot!
1. Backyard Astronomy: Or in our case, Duboce Park astronomy. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2009/12/day-late-hot-or-not-wednesday/</link>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m thankful for</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found my cellphone (it was in my bathrobe pocket).
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		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2009/11/what-im-thankful-for/</link>
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		<title>All Over Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stayed up til a little past seven this morning, working on the final paper for one of my classes. I got up three hours later, and I swear all I must&#8217;ve done while I was sleeping was dream my way through the paper and wander some dreamscape paper cut-out of my house, because all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ah, the Urban Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian and I have just gotten back from a gallery talk, and are hanging out in his studio, settling down for a long winter&#8217;s paper writing and sculpture carving. All of a sudden, we hear voices in the alley. Drunk voices, yelling &#8220;Whaddaya doing?&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m peeing!&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re all peeing!&#8221; 
In unison, we spring in to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot or Not Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here it is again, the hotses and notses for the week, inspired, as always, by Loobylu:
Hot:
Library school: Like, sizzly hot. Like water sputtering across a hot pan hot. Like, too much work to even think about hot. Plus it&#8217;s time to select courses for next semester. How much can I realistically put on my plate? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2009/11/hot-or-not-wednesday-2/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a story there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More from the Social and Cultural History database:
Letter from Lydia Maria Child to Anne Lynch Botta, 1839

Providence, R. I., 1839.
Dear Miss Lynch: I thank you for your kind invitation to visit you, with Mr. Furness. If I ever went anywhere, I certainly should have come. But for ten years past I have made no visits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2009/11/theres-a-story-there/</link>
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		<title>Ladies and Gentlemen!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May I present: Owl in a Box! (Found via the ever-enlightening Mimi Smartypants).
And can I just tell you that the first owl photo looks disconcertingly like Brian when he&#8217;s annoyed? (And how is it I never noticed that I&#8217;ve paired off with X the Owl? Does that make me Henrietta Pussycat, meow meow? And while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2009/11/ladies-and-gentlemen/</link>
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		<title>Lordy, but the Shelby dog smells.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think he must have rolled in something at the park. OOoo-eeee!
In other news, I haven&#8217;t seen my cell phone in two days. And my (main) computer up and died on me. Reviving the computer and recovering the  therin looks to be a bit spendy, so I&#8217;ve decided just to sit on my dead computer [...]]]></description>
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