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	<title>Just the meat and the bread</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>tiny mental falter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. I do not believe in endorphins.  I have never believed in endorphins.  Working out is painful and makes me feel gross.
2. I&#8217;m so tired all the time!  In the mornings I will admit that I have been feeling downright perky, but I&#8217;ve also been taking early evening naps cause I just crash.  Excercising makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back on the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now embarked on my abbreviated but ambitious trip.  It&#8217;s a domestic jaunt in the spirit of Commuter RailFest 2003 and I love America 2006, but it doesn&#8217;t have a name yet.  First stop is Norfolk, VA to attend a fancy dinner in honor of my sister ad the other senior residents in her program.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>out of the storage room, into the fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to try and run over to school today and get some pictures of the storage room/band room I&#8217;ve been teaching in for the past few months before they (hopefully) come clear away the detritus tomorrow morning.  It wasn&#8217;t pleasant when I had ten to fourteen children, but I didn&#8217;t complain (in fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early on in this teaching adventure I called son1 to extoll the many virtues of the format of the results from a standardized test that the children took before I started.  So informative!  Such a useful metric!
Now, not so very far into the future, I see why they are so unpopular in the press and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>optimism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m starting to hit my stride as a teacher, or at least I don&#8217;t feel so seat-of-my pants each day.  From the time I was hired until Spring Break, I made a (mostly) systematic improvement in each subject starting with English, then Social Studies, Math then Science.  Each day we also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tragic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halfway through the school day the vice-principal came to tell us that one of my student&#8217;s brothers was shot and killed this past weekend.  He was 17.
It was the first time it occurred to me that not every one of my kids is going to be ok.
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		<title>Pilgrimsomething</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I can&#8217;t tell you a thing about The Mayflowerexcept that it&#8217;s written by Nathaniel Philbrick (who wrote Sea of Glory, which was very good).  I meant to bring it with me on my trip to Denton as fun reading, but I forgot it.  Now I probably won&#8217;t get to it again until summer break.Oh, well.I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know-it-All</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may be jinxing myself by posting here before I&#8217;ve actually finished this one, but it&#8217;s hilarious and A.J. Jacobs is a tiny god.   Go read it, so we can talk about it.  Can&#8217;t wait to finish it, can&#8217;t wait to read Year of Living Biblically.
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		<title>Not teaching</title>
		<link>http://plain.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/not-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oof!  There are some school related blog posts that have been brewing in my head for so long that they&#8217;re growing positively stale.  No matter!  I&#8217;m not writing them now, because I&#8217;m on blissful Spring Break!  I&#8217;m not even going to write about immigration, which is the other topic On My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not good, but not terrible</title>
		<link>http://plain.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/not-good-but-not-terrible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, allow me to say (with great relief) that today was not the disaster that I thought it would be.  Also, thank the SBJ for Blockbuster.  They were not what you might call &#8220;attentive&#8221; or &#8220;well behaved&#8221;, but considering that we didn&#8217;t have PE, Fine Arts, recess, or lunch in the cafeteria, I [...]]]></description>
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