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		<title>Here in Oxford.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m finally starting to settle into life here in Oxford. It&#8217;s a somewhat surreal experience. Some days I almost forget where I am, and then I&#8217;ll see something and be reminded that I&#8217;m in Oxford. Crazy.  The town is quite unique. It&#8217;s fairly small, but very dense. The majority of the town is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lavendertomatoes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9895579&amp;post=1001&amp;subd=lavendertomatoes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hope.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hope&#8221; is the thing with feathers&#8211; That perches in the soul&#8211; And sings the tune without the words&#8211; And never stops&#8211; at all&#8211; And sweetest&#8211; in the Gale&#8211; is heard And sore must be the storm&#8211; That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm&#8211; I&#8217;ve heard it in the chillest land&#8211; And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lavendertomatoes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9895579&amp;post=920&amp;subd=lavendertomatoes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feminism in Literary Criticism.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I began reading my Literary Criticism textbook in the section titled &#8220;Feminisms and Gender Studies&#8221;. It begins with an entertaining quote, so I thought I&#8217;d share: &#8220;I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that other people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lavendertomatoes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9895579&amp;post=918&amp;subd=lavendertomatoes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsburgh Travels.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had fall break this week, and I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Pittsburgh and stay with a friends&#8217; family. I was accompanied by many other friends, making this trip even more delightful. Besides enjoying superb hospitality and delicious food, we were able to spend a day in downtown Pittsburgh, which was awesome. The University [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lavendertomatoes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9895579&amp;post=912&amp;subd=lavendertomatoes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Please Come Soon.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 12 weeks and 3 days, I will be in a wonderful little place called Oxford. Not that I&#8217;m counting&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lavendertomatoes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9895579&amp;post=896&amp;subd=lavendertomatoes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Music can make us do what it wants”- Pythagoras While Koch touched on the idea that poetic language is like creating music with words, he spends the following chapter explaining some of the ways to go about doing this. He talked about the use of repetition—both in sounds and in rhythms. Line division is an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lavendertomatoes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9895579&amp;post=903&amp;subd=lavendertomatoes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sweetness from a Stranger.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At work tonight, I waited on a sweet lady named Ilene. She sat out on the patio in the beautiful 70 something degree weather, ate a caesar salad, and drank a glass of Hahn Meritage. She asked my name and invited me to sit. Since I didn&#8217;t have any other tables at the moment, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lavendertomatoes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9895579&amp;post=901&amp;subd=lavendertomatoes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Languages.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book Making Your Own Days, Kenneth Koch begins his discussion of poetry by identifying poetic language as its own language within whichever language it&#8217;s written. He regards poetry as a mysterious being, as no one has quite been able to explain where poetry comes from. The ancient Greeks called the Muse the source of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lavendertomatoes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9895579&amp;post=898&amp;subd=lavendertomatoes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Months Too Long.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I blew my own mind today when I logged into my blog, only to find that I haven&#8217;t posted in exactly 2 months. Incredible how quickly that times goes by. To have a quick life update, after my previous post I: -Spent one more week in West Virginia. -Drove home to Indiana, getting lost at least once [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lavendertomatoes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9895579&amp;post=893&amp;subd=lavendertomatoes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Week of Blessing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago we had a pretty rough Kids Club&#8230;I&#8217;m not going to sugar coat it. It was awkward from the beginning because two teams wanted to do Kids Club, so one team did Monday and Tuesday, while the other team did Wednesday and Thursday. This is a very terrible idea in case any of you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lavendertomatoes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9895579&amp;post=875&amp;subd=lavendertomatoes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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