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      <title>zebra!</title>
      <link>http://www.dioenglish.com/home.php?mod=space&amp;uid=10423&amp;do=blog&amp;id=26894</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A very cool picture:&amp;nbsp;  of a zebra! &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Not a real zebra, just painted that way.&amp;nbsp; I don't know.&amp;nbsp; Anyway, it's a cool picture.  How's everybody doing?&amp;nbsp; Life is so busy!&amp;nbsp; Hope you are all well.&amp;nbsp;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>busy; stories</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hello friends. &amp;nbsp;I have lots of things I want to write posts about lately, but no time to write them. &amp;nbsp;I've started my fall semester of classes, and am excited about all the things I have to learn. &amp;nbsp;Lots of papers and projects coming up also. &amp;nbsp;And later this month I will be taking ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Visual guide to a Ph.D.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here is a link to a  cute explanation in pictures  of what getting a Ph.D. really means in terms of knowledge and the world. &amp;nbsp;It's mostly graphs, and just has short sentences accompanying each one. &amp;nbsp;I thought it was interesting, funny, and smart. &amp;nbsp;Also probably accurate. &amp;nbsp;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Muted</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I am finding life mostly very discouraging. &amp;nbsp;Ever since December, when I left China, I have been unable to shake off this particular sense of loss. &amp;nbsp;The combination of the hurt from the betrayal of my marriage, plus the sadness of having to leave behind my life and the family we'd created, ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A dream: the blue lights</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In my dream last night I was alone with my grandmother and her sister, living in a big old stone house.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;          It was dusk, and I peered sideways out a high window.&amp;nbsp; I saw two trees, ancient and bare.&amp;nbsp; They were like straight black sticks rising high into the sky, branching  ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Utah heights</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My mother and I went to Utah over the weekend. &amp;nbsp;My brother's wife's parents have a condo in a small mountain city there. &amp;nbsp;We met my brother and sister-in-law in the airport Thursday night, and drove a rented car up through the mountain roads to the condo. &amp;nbsp;It was dark, and you couldn' ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>birth; past, future; sadness</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My birthday is coming up next week, but I am dreading it. &amp;nbsp;It will only serve as a reminder of everything I have lost. &amp;nbsp;    I will be 24. &amp;nbsp;I was 21 when I got married. &amp;nbsp;I feel like those years have been stolen from me. &amp;nbsp;The person inside me who is ready to be 24 is the pers ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Language, distance from</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I want to speak Chinese everyday, I want to speak Chinese all the time! &amp;nbsp;Any day that I don't spend speaking mostly Chinese is dumb and boring! &amp;nbsp;English does not excite me! &amp;nbsp;I want Chinese all the time, every day, forever and ever! &amp;nbsp;I need people to speak Chinese to! &amp;nbsp;(Why a ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A blog I enjoy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Do you guys read English language blogs?&amp;nbsp; I mean, other than the ones on this site?  If you do like to read English blogs around the internet, I thought I'd share one that I like to read pretty regularly.&amp;nbsp;   It's called  Brazen Careerist , it's written by a very successful businesswoman, a ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>classes begin!!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My summer classes started Monday.&amp;nbsp; I'm really happy to have them; I think they will be distracting and helpful to me, keeping me busy and focused on something productive instead of so many depressing things.&amp;nbsp; I live very close to campus, so most days I just walk to class, although sometime ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A Book I've Been Reading: Ash</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My old plan was to work for a publishing house, specifically working on Young Adult literature.&amp;nbsp; I was interested in YA because I think it's the most exciting and important branch of literature.&amp;nbsp; You're working with an audience that's largely new to the idea of independent reading for fun. ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>fun + health</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My summer classes start June 14th.&amp;nbsp; I'm really excited and somewhat nervous too, but that's not the point of this post.&amp;nbsp;       I'm writing this post because being a registered student means I have  free access to the school's recreation center.&amp;nbsp; Exercise machines,  swimming pool, hot  ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>a baby</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My brother's wife is pregnant.&amp;nbsp; I'm really happy for them, I really am.&amp;nbsp; And I am excited about having a niece or nephew.&amp;nbsp;   But there is also part of me that's jealous.&amp;nbsp; I want a baby.&amp;nbsp; And I'd thought I would have one before my brother did.&amp;nbsp; I thought I'd be the first ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 12:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>pre NYC happy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This thursday I am going to New York City to visit my best friend for a week! &amp;nbsp;    Although most of the time she will be at work and I will need to entertain myself. &amp;nbsp;I ought to be researching online to decide what to do with my time, but without a computer, it's kind of hard. &amp;nbsp;So. &amp;n ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 03:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Oh computer, why do you hate me?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My computer keeps breaking. &amp;nbsp;It's terribly annoying. &amp;nbsp;    This time, the cord broke, so now I can't charge the computer. &amp;nbsp;Without being plugged in, my computer's battery lasts only about twenty minutes. &amp;nbsp;So until I buy a new cord, I can't use my computer. &amp;nbsp;     It wouldn't b ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Bad dreams and overcoming obstacles</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I   may have mentioned before, I have a lot of nightmares.&amp;nbsp; Maybe three out of four nights, I have terrible dreams mostly about my husband and violence and awful things.&amp;nbsp; I have tried everything but I can't seem to make these dreams go away.          &amp;nbsp;      Recently, I've been appl ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>found music</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have so much music!&amp;nbsp;     &amp;nbsp;    I have a computer full of music, and I'd forgotten all about it.&amp;nbsp; There's thousands of songs on here.&amp;nbsp; And I haven't really listened to them since before I got married.&amp;nbsp; We only ever listened to my husband's music at our house.&amp;nbsp; So now I ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A book I read: After Dachau</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday it was sunny so I biked to the library and borrowed a bunch of books.&amp;nbsp; Then I went to sit on a patch of grass downtown, and I read one of them.&amp;nbsp; A novel.&amp;nbsp;   The weather was nice, and I was afraid to go home and be alone because it was kind of a depressing day yesterday, so I ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>&quot;In the desert&quot; by Stephen Crane</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I keep trying to write a post about paleoanthropology, but my computer's fan is half-broken, so sometimes the computer overheats and shuts down without warning.&amp;nbsp; I've written and lost the post twice.&amp;nbsp; So maybe one day I will decide to try again, but for now I've lost interest in trying to ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Best Monkey EVER</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have a lot of other news and events and thoughts that I should be posting about.&amp;nbsp; But instead I bring you something amazing.&amp;nbsp; It's a pygmy marmoset.&amp;nbsp;     &amp;nbsp;    Oh god I love this marmoset.&amp;nbsp;     &amp;nbsp;    He&amp;nbsp;is so great, I have trouble getting anything done anymore.&amp;nb ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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