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		<title>Hello!  Check out the giveaways!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many giveaways right now, and all of you should consider entering them. First, for a shiny new Dyson.  I do not have to tell you how excited about this thing I am, because I am the world&#8217;s most enthusiastic, unrequited champion of the Dyson vacuum.  You most certainly want one, too.  You can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064473&amp;post=1403&amp;subd=catchthetradewinds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October 15th</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 15th is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Last year on this day, I remember reading some pregnancy loss blogs, thinking how heartbreaking it would be to lose a baby.  I even thought, &#8220;that could be us,&#8221; which I think is probably good, because it could be ANYONE.  Fifteen percent of all pregnancies end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064473&amp;post=1396&amp;subd=catchthetradewinds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, FYI:  We live in a socialist country.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How&#8217;s that for a title? So hey! Have you heard? The President is going to indoctrinate brainwash talk to the many small children of our great nation on Tuesday! During school hours! That&#8217;s right! There will be some minutes spent on such appalling and morally questionable topics like, &#8220;staying in school&#8221; and &#8220;school is great!&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064473&amp;post=1389&amp;subd=catchthetradewinds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to clean up spilled liquid laundry detergent from a hard-wood floor</title>
		<link>http://catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/how-to-clean-up-spilled-liquid-laundry-detergent-from-a-hard-wood-floor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(That category is a little bit dramatic, I realize.  Sorry.  I mean, &#8220;Super useful things&#8221;.  I don&#8217;t have too many of them, so when I do, I share.) A few weeks ago, when we still had a subfloor and not a real floor, we spilled about half a gallon of Tide [liquid] laundry detergent all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064473&amp;post=1387&amp;subd=catchthetradewinds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming to America (and other legislative stuff)</title>
		<link>http://catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/coming-to-america-and-other-legislative-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an article in the NY Times today: New Policy Permits Asylum for Battered Women So in a somewhat tragic turn of affairs, I did not know about this case, nor did I follow it as it was coming down the line for a decision. I used to follow these issues, closely. It&#8217;s kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064473&amp;post=1347&amp;subd=catchthetradewinds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birth control</title>
		<link>http://catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/birth-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night in our church small group, somehow (don&#8217;t ask) the topic of family planning came up. One of the couples said, &#8220;our friends got pregnant using &#8220;natural family planning&#8221; and the doctor said, &#8220;do you know what we call couples who use that method? PARENTS.&#8221; Everyone laughed. But it bugged me. I feel fairly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064473&amp;post=1341&amp;subd=catchthetradewinds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There is so very much wrong with this world</title>
		<link>http://catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/there-is-so-very-much-wrong-with-this-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the blogs I lurk on read has a post about this horrific organization, the Westboro Baptist Church, which has a theology that is, in summary, stomach-wrenching and unthinkable, with abhorrent practices to match. They are protesting in NYC today &#8211; at a synagogue &#8211; and will be in your neighborhood soon, too, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064473&amp;post=1336&amp;subd=catchthetradewinds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alive (and coming up short)</title>
		<link>http://catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/alive-and-coming-up-short/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written here. I don&#8217;t have a lot of words these days. I&#8217;m studying for the MCAT, now, since I did well enough in bio and physics to justify continuing on this quest.  I have a lot of studying to do.  It seems that my head *still* resembles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064473&amp;post=1334&amp;subd=catchthetradewinds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Important fundraiser (&amp; giveaway)</title>
		<link>http://catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/important-fundraiser-giveaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 14:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen up! Heather is an adoptive mom who is trying to raise $1750 to build a home for a family in Vietnam.  She has been trying to raise this money for a long time, and her deadline is the end of May (which is COMING UP) and she still needs people to donate. She is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064473&amp;post=1331&amp;subd=catchthetradewinds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The morning after.</title>
		<link>http://catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/the-morning-after/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 15:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Grad school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new career paths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blech. I really have no words to describe how it feels to be done with school for potentially forever.  I mean REALLY potentially forever.  Especially when it&#8217;s ALWAYS been over my head &#8211; for my entire life &#8211; now, it&#8217;s just&#8230;I&#8217;m underemployed.  And a well-oiled science-class study machine at this point, which is so out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catchthetradewinds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064473&amp;post=1326&amp;subd=catchthetradewinds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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