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		<title>and just like that</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 17:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We left. I am (incredibly!) all moved out. The house is all boarded up for the summer. I&#8217;ll be back on visits, but this is still, irrepressibly, goodbye. For now.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iowasthinking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9061588&amp;post=3545&amp;subd=iowasthinking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 14:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ascending order: 1. The snow. Yes, after all that complaining, I will miss the snow. Justalittlebit. In my hometown, two inches of snow is grounds for canceling school. Easily. Virginia just doen&#8217;t get that much snow (er, excepting the last couple snowpocalypse years. Don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on there). Snow has never lost its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iowasthinking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9061588&amp;post=3504&amp;subd=iowasthinking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>top five things i won&#8217;t miss</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 14:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. The cold. Cold, gray, and wet winters that blow in early and linger until first of May: good riddance! (NB: I know it is not actually good riddance, as Williamstown winters are nothing to sneeze at, either. But go with it.) 2. The house&#8217;s almost complete lack of insulation. Which necessitates keeping the thermostat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iowasthinking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9061588&amp;post=3501&amp;subd=iowasthinking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the last week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 17:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is less than the last week. This is the last three days. Shortly after noon on Thursday, when the boys get out of their last exam, B and I will be leaving Iowa &#8212; he for the summer, and me forever. We&#8217;ll load up the car with his summer suitcases and my life ones, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iowasthinking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9061588&amp;post=3491&amp;subd=iowasthinking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a terribly auspicious occasion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With less than 24 hours to go, it&#8217;s time for me to admit, with some embarrassment, that I am one of those royal wedding watchers. My name is Natalie, and if I have not sat down and watched every obnoxious TV special on the couple &#8212; &#8220;William and Kate,&#8221; that objectively horrible Lifetime movie, not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iowasthinking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9061588&amp;post=3474&amp;subd=iowasthinking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the king of fruits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, because it&#8217;s me, there was Easter dessert. And it was not themed, either &#8212; not in terms of cuisine or holiday animals. (Read: there were no decorative bunnies or spring chicks.) No, instead I made a very yummy, near-summery mango and raspberry crisp. I came to mango late in life. My first memory [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iowasthinking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9061588&amp;post=3454&amp;subd=iowasthinking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>eating easter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easter to me will always mean Greek food. And not just because of the lamb, which doubles as traditional Easter fare and, I believe, the most prevalent meat in Greek cuisine (though that is a happy coincidence). It&#8217;s because I spent spring break during my semester abroad at a friend&#8217;s house in Athens. Four years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iowasthinking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9061588&amp;post=3439&amp;subd=iowasthinking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the best chocolate chunk cookies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a party several months ago, I froze the half-dozen leftover chocolate chunk cookies for some future, unknown yet entirely foreseeable occasion when I&#8217;d feel like a intravenous shot of fudge. And then promptly forgot about them. I caught glimpses of them every now and then, like when I went rummaging in the freezer for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iowasthinking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9061588&amp;post=3418&amp;subd=iowasthinking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>wordless wednesday: pea salad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>visiting american gothic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, I wrote that before leaving Iowa in two weeks, my number one goal was to visit the American Gothic House &#8212; the house with that famous upper-story Gothic window in Grant Wood&#8217;s American Gothic, which is, yes, a real, standing house in a small, 1,000-person town in southern Iowa called Eldon. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iowasthinking.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9061588&amp;post=3386&amp;subd=iowasthinking&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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