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		<title>Music To Get You Through</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These assorted rippers are currently making editing far more tolerable:Florence and the Machine, Dog DaysMumford and Sons, The CaveStornoway,* ZorbingThe Band, Rag Mama RagExample, KickstartsJulian Cope, Sunspots*Will shamelessly add that they were amo...]]></description>
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		<title>Life Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was my birthday yesterday. 31. My 30th birthday itself was a surprisingly simple and elegant time, but the year that followed was punctuated by way too much personal angst and drama for my liking: loss, two grief cycles, isolation, moving rooms five...]]></description>
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		<title>Life Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was my birthday yesterday. 31. I remember my 30th birthday being a surprisingly simple and elegant time, but the year that followed was punctuated by way too much personal angst and drama: big decisions, loss, two grief cycles, isolation, moving roo...]]></description>
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		<title>10 Signs you have a Development Studies student in your house</title>
		<link>http://academichopeful.blogspot.com/2010/07/10-signs-you-have-development-studies.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[imageHe doesn't let not having met you before get in the way of helping himself to your beer in the fridge.He scoffs that you don't use your oven very often (No, earth child, I am not up for much roasting or baking at the moment.)He challenges the stat...]]></description>
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		<title>My Special Cupboard</title>
		<link>http://academichopeful.blogspot.com/2010/06/my-special-cupboard.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am in a black jumper (sweater), with a big, stencilled, white zebra on it,  and black leggings, inside, editing my thesis, on one of those English,  still, white-sky days. But, fortunately for me, I have all these pretties ready to unleash over the Sum...]]></description>
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		<title>A Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[imageA while back, I started subscribing to the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-day emails. Today's poem was a nice wink. Thanks Tones!I Have News for YouBy Tony Hoagland     There are  people who do not see a broken playground swingas a symbol of rui...]]></description>
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		<title>To be done with these worries</title>
		<link>http://academichopeful.blogspot.com/2010/05/to-be-done-with-these-worries.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 13:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[imageMy new romantic object said to me the other day, 'Won't it be nice when you finish your thesis if only to have new things to worry about?' 'Yes, champ, it will be very nice,' I probably replied.Later, I realised that this is part of the reason why...]]></description>
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		<title>Honey, I Zapped the Kids</title>
		<link>http://academichopeful.blogspot.com/2010/04/honey-i-zapped-kids.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[imageThesis stress, some personal worries, and the warm weather have teamed up to give me some wacky dreams lately.One of last night's dreams:My sisters come over to visit my newborn baby. I take them to the kitchen, say, 'Here she is', as I open the o...]]></description>
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		<title>Spring and Babies and Nests and Whimsies</title>
		<link>http://academichopeful.blogspot.com/2010/04/spring-and-babies-and-nests-and.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey team. I don't have much free time for blogging at the moment, which is no fun. I am trying to follow my tips below and be a good thesis writer, and also good (outdoorsy, stretchy-stretchy) break taker.I took a longer, more lovely break yesterday. M...]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for Finishing a PhD</title>
		<link>http://academichopeful.blogspot.com/2010/03/tips-for-finishing-phd.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[imageI have been lucky to have several friends send me advice on how to approach the final edits of a PhD (or DPhil!), what are the final laps in the stadium after a cross country marathon.I know some of you are writing too, so I thought I would share ...]]></description>
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