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		<title>The Realities of Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;One of the perks of teaching is the summer.  There&#8217;s just no way around that one.  We really are very blessed as teachers to have that time to recuperate and prepare ourselves for the upcoming academic year. The kids also seem to enjoy it, to a certain extent.  I&#8217;m never surprised, though, to discover students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/myblog/2010/06/14/the-realities-of-summer/</link>
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		<title>Myths About Teaching, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;How much time does a teacher really work? A. Well, according to the district, we only work for five hours a day.  At least, that&#8217;s what we technically get paid for and that is how our &#8220;hourly&#8221; rate is determined.  For example, if the district has to hire a substitute to cover my class, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/myblog/2010/02/10/myths-about-teaching-part-1/</link>
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		<title>My Fat Cat&#8217;s Food Fights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;Now, people have made comments about how big Mochi is, but I certainly wouldn&#8217;t use fat to describe him.  He is a little pudgy around the middle, but he is nothing compared to some of the other cats  I&#8217;ve seen.  Plus, I thought we were doing pretty good about monitoring how much he eats. Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/myblog/2009/09/12/my-fat-cats-food-fights/</link>
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		<title>We don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; mock-ups!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;As a historical costumer, I almost always do mock-ups well before cutting into my fashion fabric.  There are always little kinks to work out of any pattern, and I want to go through that process using cheap fabric that I don&#8217;t care about rather than my precious fabric that will be used for the final, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/myblog/2009/08/20/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-mock-ups/</link>
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		<title>And then again&#8230;this also feels a little like summer&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;I was at work a bit later than usual this afternoon, and came home feeling a bit burned out and lazy.  Fiddled around on Facebook for a while and then vegged on the couch with my crochet project.  I was going to do a bit of reading after that, but got sucked into FB again, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/myblog/2009/07/07/and-then-again-this-also-feels-a-little-like-summer/</link>
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		<title>Feeling a Little Like Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;Work still kind of sucked today, but my afternoon actually felt like a normal summer day.  I ran some errands as soon as I got home, and then went out to my studio.  I know it doesn&#8217;t sound like much, but it felt good to feel like I&#8217;m getting something done other than work. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/myblog/2009/07/06/feeling-a-little-like-summer/</link>
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		<title>Reconstruction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;Worked on my website for a bit today.  For those of you who have been wondering what ever happened to my navigation buttons on my homepage&#8230;I have no idea.  However, I have replace them with links so that you can actually navigate my site again. I&#8217;ve also started new blogs for my book reviews and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/myblog/2009/07/01/reconstruction/</link>
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		<title>People Are Bubbleheads!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;Nothing makes me lose faith in the human race like driving around town.  I mean, people behind the wheel of a moving vehicle manage to be the biggest dunces and the greatest threat to continued existence I&#8217;ve ever seen.  Driving home from work, I couldn&#8217;t manage to cross a four-way stop; the line of vehicles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/myblog/2009/06/05/people-are-bubbleheads/</link>
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		<title>Feels like a Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;Okay, so it has actually felt like a Friday since yesterday, though it shouldn&#8217;t.  After all, every day so far this week has been a minimum day.  I&#8217;m dreading the real Friday because it will be the only full day I have to teach&#8230;a full day to fill with something at least marginally meaningful.  I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/myblog/2009/06/04/feels-like-a-friday/</link>
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		<title>Feeling productive again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;It&#8217;s funny&#8211;no matter how much reading I get done, it just doesn&#8217;t feel as productive as when I sew, no matter how little I actually accomplish at it. I managed to get about an hour and a half of sewing in before K got home this evening.  Of course, all that happened in that time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://booksnthreads.com/myblog/2009/06/02/feeling-productive-again/</link>
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