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		<title>Holiday Schedules</title>
		<link>http://www.annalogue.net/blogue/?p=416</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are bars on our windows, which seems like a bad thing to some people, but it's pretty typical for a ground-level apartment in DC. They're tasteful bars, slender and black, twisted into heart-like swirl shapes where they meet in the middle. I'm sitting here on the couch watching a blizzard pour down, framed by those window bars. Feeling all warm, safe, and fuzzy in the grand scheme of things -- my kitchen is full of non-perishable food, so I don't have to go anywhere I don't want to.]]></description>
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		<title>A Car Returned</title>
		<link>http://www.annalogue.net/blogue/?p=415</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My car came back from the body shop yesterday. She's still a little scuffed up (most notably some scratches on the one door's inside plastic bits) but the real damage is repaired and she's a LOT cleaner than she was before. If my parents haven't forwarded these pictures to you yet, I got attacked by a Giant Metal Thing:]]></description>
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		<title>Old Friends &#038; the Blind Pilot Concert</title>
		<link>http://www.annalogue.net/blogue/?p=414</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Astorians are few and far between in DC (at least the Oregon variety), which makes it that much nicer to see a familiar face. Luke, one of my dear friends from high school, has been enjoying a great deal of musical success lately, and I shared a taste of his good luck last night when his band performed at the Black Cat, just down the street from my apartment. Brendan, Frannie and I went down for the show (which lived up to glowing reviews) and even got a chance to chat Luke up (which warmed my heart), so it was an all-around good night. It was a brief reunion, they're off to Philadelphia and beyond, but it was enough to recharge my nostalgia banks for a little while.]]></description>
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		<title>The Working Life</title>
		<link>http://www.annalogue.net/blogue/?p=413</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 03:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It's strange to think how American my life is right now, at least compared with the leisurely day-to-day pace in Norway last year. I wake up early to run on a treadmill before wolfing down some Kix or, if I was slow at the gym, grabbing an apple on my way out the door. I work from sometime before 9am to sometime around 6:30pm on an average day, though it gets later when projects are due. There's a lunch break in there, usually microwaved leftovers and a free diet Pepsi from the office fridge, but I usually eat it at my desk. The commute is an hour each way, so I only eat dinner before 9pm by the grace of a supportive boyfriend, who does most of the cooking after his own long day at school (or summer vacation, as the current case may be). I wrap it up with a movie or a readthrough of the news, and then I do my best to sleep.]]></description>
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		<title>Airplanes and Small Miracles</title>
		<link>http://www.annalogue.net/blogue/?p=412</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We planned this weekend's trip to the Air and Space Museum Annex a few days beforehand, we couldn't have anticipated the coincidence. We'd been wanting to go and we had errands to run in Northern Virginia so we set Saturday afternoon aside. Even just after the accident the irony didn't sink in, not until I was there, surrounded by every possible variation of airplane, from that nuke-dropping superfortress and the SR-71 Blackbird to human-sized stunt planes and dissected engines and gliders and flimsy prototype helicopters and the practice space shuttle Enterprise. The point was hammered home with no pretense of subtlety when my phone rang, just in front of the showcase on Japanese stewardesses. For the next ten minutes, as I wandered under a three-dimensional puzzle of suspended airplanes, Mom described the scene on the docks as they pulled Bill's plane out of the Columbia River.]]></description>
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		<title>Visitors &#038; Cherry Blossoms</title>
		<link>http://www.annalogue.net/blogue/?p=411</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Life</category>
	<category>Family</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the nicest visitors over the weekend. I'm apparently the annual spring break attraction for the Oregon crowd (last year this time they were in Oslo). At least this time I only made my parents trek across the country -- no oceans or language barriers -- to take a peek at my new DC home. We got to do all the fun things like grocery shopping and filling my car with gas! We also enjoyed some lovely dinners, a great lunch with Auntie Ann, and even some tourist stuff. It was great timing as the cherry blossoms are sprouting, although if they'd waited just one or two more days they might have seen sunshine.]]></description>
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		<title>Iced In</title>
		<link>http://www.annalogue.net/blogue/?p=410</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went in to work today for the first time this week (it's Wednesday). No, I didn't take a vacation, but I did get to work from home for two days after an unscheduled winter storm slapped the DC area silly. I expected to make it out there yesterday, but my car's little parking spot was a sheet of ice as was the hill and alley I needed to navigate in order to get to the street. It was nice to get such an extended and unexpected break (I still put in my 10 hours when I work from home, but I get to wear pajamas and listen to music!), but it was just as nice to return to the world of human contact. I headed out an hour early this morning, just in case I had to take the metro, but was able to free my car from the icicles and so treated myself to a latte and dug into the never ending pile of work.]]></description>
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		<title>Go Away Winter</title>
		<link>http://www.annalogue.net/blogue/?p=409</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dad insists that it's still winter, but Spring is definitely on its way. There were Canadian geese wandering around in front of my office today and the sun hadn't totally set when I headed home from work! I'm still spending a lot of time in the office, but this will be my fifth month (can you believe it?!) and it seems like the time to be stepping up and demonstrating my abilities. I even got out early today, having finished every task I could have possibly done, and went out for Wednesday pizza and free wine with Brendan. I love that deal.]]></description>
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		<title>February To Date</title>
		<link>http://www.annalogue.net/blogue/?p=408</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm usually busy, but lately it's been insane. I ended up bringing my work home with me last night, testing various cell phone offers on two different phones that went "bloop, bloop" all throughout the evening movie. Brendan and I are watching a lot of movies and are trying to keep up with a number of TV shows (downloads and DVDs, we don't actually watch them when they air): Battlestar Galactica (which actually got good again), The Wire, The Office, How I Met Your Mother. The weather can't make up it's mind -- some days are snowy and others are 65. I can't complain too much -- I'm planning an office going-out night this Friday, which is part of the reason why I'm so terribly busy. I'm trying to cram all of my work into the beginning of the week so that we can all get out in time to catch happy hour in DC next Friday. We have so many new people, I think it will be a nice chance to get to know everybody a little better.]]></description>
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		<title>Inauguration update</title>
		<link>http://www.annalogue.net/blogue/?p=407</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anna</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'll keep this brief, as I have to fight even more inauguration crowds early tomorrow in order to get to work in the morning, but this has been a truly unique few days. As I mentioned in previous posts, a steady stream of people have been arriving in DC for the past week or so. You probably saw the shots of people on TV, and they weren't exaggerated -- piles of people in the metro, lines of cars parked along the highways, oodles of vendors and tourists and giddy folks of every description and nationality. I went down to the mall to take pictures last night (the few of which that turned out are up on my Flickr page), and it was an amazing setup of bleachers and news cameras and port-a-potties. I stayed at home today since I had to work, but I watched the whole proceeding on ABC and it was really awesome to see everything happening practically on my doorstep.]]></description>
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