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		<title>game theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the sibling rivalry was at its boringest late last year I tried a two-pronged approach. First, we instituted and enforced some non-negotiables: you will speak to one another with respect; you will respect one another&#8217;s personal space. Second, shameless bribery. A child could report an act of kindness undertaken towards it by another child. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/02/04/game-theory/</link>
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		<title>steak and mushrooms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[J: &#8220;I had a thought. As I was watching the blood and cream pool at the bottom of the dishwasher. I thought, this is what a Mongol nomad&#8217;s dishwasher must look like.&#8221; Reader, I married him.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/02/02/steak-and-mushrooms/</link>
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		<title>note to self</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things to do with the kids: Paddle. Ride. Hike. Adventure. Yay! Run. Skate. Swim, swim and swim. ETA (#1): Elephant seals! Sunday March 18 at 2.30pm. ETA (#2): Science Fair at Randall Museum Feb 21 &#8211; Mar 2 Maharaja at Asian Art till Apr 8 ETA (#3): Hearst Castle! Yosemite! Sundial Bridge in Redding!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/31/note-to-self/</link>
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		<title>where the heck have i been?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So glad you asked. Impulsively flew to Arizona for a work thing. Stunning resort, right up against Camelback Mountain, with bunny rabbits hopping adorably around the grounds. Flew home. Drove up to Elk Grove, outside Sacramento, for Magpie&#8217;s baby shower. Saw Tina and Pat and Noelle and talked about Jen and missed her very much. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/29/where-the-heck-have-i-been/</link>
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		<title>a thought that occurs while reading the bureau of labor statistics report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you are young and in possession of a shiny new Arts degree, that single word of advice from the film The Graduate &#8211; &#8220;Plastics&#8221; &#8211; seems hilariously inapt. When you have children of your own, it seems in retrospect like reasonably sound advice.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/21/a-thought-that-occurs-while-reading-the-bureau-of-labor-statistics-report/</link>
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		<title>jsgf said: &#8220;interesting&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Claire said: &#8220;If you take two numbers that are two apart, and multiply them, it&#8217;s the same as if you square the number in the middle and subtract one.&#8221; Me: &#8220;Really?&#8221; Claire: &#8220;Yeah, like nine elevens is 99, which is one less than ten tens.&#8221; Me: &#8220;Huh. Four sixes are 24, which is one less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/19/jsgf-said-interesting/</link>
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		<title>aroo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why isn&#8217;t this soup spoon design fashionable any more?&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask me. I was raised by wolves.&#8221; &#8220;Seems like wolves would have rules about that kind of thing.&#8221; &#8220;Oh we weren&#8217;t allowed to eat the liver before the alpha. There was a strict hierarchy. We weren&#8217;t ANIMALS.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/19/aroo/</link>
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		<title>primarily updatey in nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been back in Sydney for a week. I&#8217;ve been working and trying to get the kids to do their independent study, all while missing my family sorely. We had a few sunny days but lots of blustery windy ones and now, humidity and rain. Hi, Sydney. Ugh! None of that. Good points of Sydney [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/14/primarily-updatey-in-nature/</link>
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		<title>oh and i keep forgetting to tell you that</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;it turns out half the things I think of as My Personality &#8211; my taste in sandals, the way I pile my hair on top of my head in a messy bun &#8211; turn out to be so generically Australian it is not even funny.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/09/oh-and-i-keep-forgetting-to-tell-you-that/</link>
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		<title>even brieflier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I drove from Barraba to Nana Glen and back, an 11-hour round trip with a sleepover with Jeremy&#8217;s Aunt Brenda and Uncle Richard. We had a rest day, then I drove to Sydney in 8 hours. New South Wales is very, very large and also unbelievably beautiful. I am more tired than I can say.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/09/even-brieflier/</link>
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		<title>spectacular</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A thunderstorm boiling up from the west. Ozone smell in the air and rain on the cool breeze. Tea and Christmas cake with Mum and Dad on their screened-in back deck.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/04/spectacular-2/</link>
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		<title>briefly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday: Horton Falls. It was miles further on dirt road than I thought it would be. I had visions of crashing the car and Jeremy and the girls having to walk out of there with a single bottle of water in 40 degree Celsius heat. In the end, of course, it&#8217;s a ten minute stroll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/04/briefly-3/</link>
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		<title>a grand day out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Al left this morning, but I did get to follow him all the way out to Cobbadah, which made me feel a bit less like crying. Mum and Jeremy and I were on our way to Upper Horton and the last day of the big New Year&#8217;s campdraft. I had no idea what the rules [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/01/a-grand-day-out/</link>
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		<title>the new year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We didn&#8217;t watch the fireworks last night because Claire accidently gave Julia a nosebleed. Instead we washed everyone off and put them to bed. I chatted to Skud while Melbourne set fire to its spire and Jeremy worked on his LED Nyancat project. Alain and Sarah and Ross joined us at breakfast. We had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2012/01/01/the-new-year/</link>
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		<title>fragmentary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Delia Falconer&#8217;s Sydney is, I think, the best book I have ever read about my hometown, and an excellent short introduction to Why I Am So Fucked Up. Recommended! A reread: Seven Little Australians, which has aged amazingly well. The shock for me was realizing that Yarrahappini, Esther&#8217;s home &#8220;on the edge of the Never-never,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/31/fragmentary/</link>
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		<title>it&#8217;s the end of the year as we know it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogging with a kitten crashed out on my lap. Pics to come. It&#8217;s okay. I don&#8217;t find him cute at all. Not the tabby streaks from his eyes, or his tiny purple nose, or the fearless way he pounces on the dogs&#8217; tails. We&#8217;re good here. The last leg to my sister&#8217;s house runs through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/29/its-the-end-of-the-year-as-we-know-it/</link>
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		<title>half way there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A day that started pretty rough then improved enormously. Went to bed last night feeling sketchy &#8211; heartburn &#8211; and woke this morning feeling worse &#8211; sinus-y and coughing again and irritable and tired. Had to decide whether to drive seven hours to get to Barraba in one go, or split the journey. Felt very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/26/half-way-there/</link>
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		<title>that said, the air does smell delicious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we came in to land at Kingsford Smith I saw Wattamolla and the Shire, Kurnell and Botany Bay. For the first time ever flying into Sydney I felt&#8230; nothing. No anxious desire to prove that I have turned out well. No satisfaction at feeling I have nothing to prove. I felt nothing at all. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/25/that-said-the-air-does-smell-delicious/</link>
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		<title>changing planes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Me: Oh my God. Oh my God! Jeremy: Mmm? Me: My travelling companion! Is nine years old! She&#8217;s the child of my first marriage! Claire: What? Me: It&#8217;s a song I&#8217;ve been singing for about twenty years, and today, for the first time, IT IS TRUE. J: We&#8217;re going to Auckland, Auckland&#8230; EVERYONE ELSE IN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/24/changing-planes/</link>
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		<title>&#8217;tis the season for last-minute tax-exempt divestment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kiva and Partners in Health still get four stars on Charity Navigator. Hey! So does Donors Choose! Why are you not already a card-carrying member of EFF? Everyone who works there is ridiculously funny and charming, they throw the best parties OH AND THEY KEEP SAVING THE INTERNET. So there&#8217;s that. You will receive no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/23/tis-the-season-for-last-minute-tax-exempt-divestment/</link>
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		<title>archie and jackson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since we last spoke about riding in a frame, I have tried the same technique on Archie and Jackson. (Dudley, Bella, Louie, Archie, Jackson, Mattie, Ruth, Verina, Oliver: why yes, our barn is actually a Montessori preschool in Pacific Heights.) They&#8217;re much more difficult than Dudley and harder even than Louie and Bella to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/21/archie-and-jackson/</link>
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		<title>public service announcement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is mainly for my Northern Hemispherical peeps, but in any case: This was a hard year for so many of the people I love. For two of them, it was the last year. For the luckiest of my personfolk, it&#8217;s been a year of often-painful transformation. For others, it was a year of suffering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/21/public-service-announcement/</link>
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		<title>gloomy reflection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read 150 books in 2011. Assume that I&#8217;ll live another 30 years, and say I get through another 100 books in each of those years. That&#8217;s only 3000 more books. Shit. I have to read the rest of Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/19/gloomy-reflection/</link>
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		<title>books? that i enjoyed? this year? I AM GLAD YOU ASKED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I quite liked the Jennifer Egan and Allegra Goodman books, but fictionwise the discoveries of the year were Teju Cole, Sybille Bedford, Laurie Colwin and (is it really possibly I hadn&#8217;t read her before?) Lionel Shriver. Open City A Legacy: A Novel We Need to Talk About Kevin Happy All The Time I read a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/19/books-that-i-enjoyed-this-year-i-am-glad-you-asked/</link>
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		<title>introvert craves solitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[work trip to Seattle Jamey&#8217;s graduation party Ada sleepover Randall Museum riding lesson on Archie Cian playdate California Academy Heather&#8217;s birthday party *plonk*]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/18/introvert-craves-solitude/</link>
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		<title>happy birthday @jsgf: dinner at @saisonsf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Caviar sturgeon roe sea urchin chicken belly in a glass bowl with a mother of pearl spoon Me: umami jewels J: briny proteins! Nicholas Feuillat champagne 2. Trout roe and a watercress leaf with dill, potato, shrimp Me: one bite of creamy salad! J: &#8230;not quite CD: Music From When You Were In High [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/14/happy-birthday-jsgf-dinner-at-saisonsf/</link>
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		<title>maiden and crone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t think she would really get out of bed, but at dawn Claire and I were indeed up on Bernal Heights, watching the lunar eclipse. Then this evening she pored over Jeremy&#8217;s copy of Full Moon. I love her so much.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/10/maiden-and-crone/</link>
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		<title>something clicks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I rode Dudley, sweet Dudley, beautiful Dudley. He&#8217;s a thoroughbred-ish bay with a chewed-off half a tail (Jeremy: &#8220;Which half?&#8221;) and I have come to love him with a pure love. I have called him &#8220;Bella, only uphill&#8221; and &#8220;my favourite now.&#8221; It was a cold morning and he came out of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/09/something-clicks/</link>
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		<title>time travel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday was my best visit ever to the Dickens Fair. I found a bodice that almost exactly matches my silver-grey skirt, and wore them with a white peasant blouse and a black leather belt and high-heeled boots and a couple of strings of jet that used to be Mum&#8217;s. I looked adorably steampunk. The kids [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/12/01/time-travel/</link>
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		<title>more pride, more prejudice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a terrifying book. Austen only wrote horror stories. One is dumbfounded by the narrowness of their escape. Lizzy&#8217;s predicament is up in your face but I am acutely aware, this time, of Darcy&#8217;s. Magnificent estate schmagnificent schmestate. His chances of happiness are slimmer even than hers. Lizzy&#8217;s constant companion since earliest childhood? Jane. Darcy&#8217;s? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/11/25/more-pride-more-prejudice/</link>
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		<title>i hunted down the hunt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IMG_20111125_113607.jpg, a photo by yatima on Flickr. Now the hunter has become the hunted!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/11/25/i-hunted-down-the-hunt/</link>
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		<title>louie louie louie lou-ie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been riding at McIntosh long enough now to have a sense of the changing seasons. In summer, the poplars sparkle in the sunshine and we jump vast fences, laughing at danger. Then one day in October someone flips the switch and it&#8217;s winter. The horses have the wind under their tails and riders faceplant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/11/24/louie-louie-louie-lou-ie/</link>
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		<title>pride and prejudice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trigger warning for: Wickham Things you notice for the first time on the umptieth read through: the chronology is so exact you could set your watch by it. Darcy wrote his letter to Elizabeth on Friday, April 10, 1812. In it, he says: About a year ago, she was taken from school, and an establishment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/11/24/pride-and-prejudice/</link>
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		<title>the autobiography of bertrand russell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So far ahead of his time. On institutional corruption: While I was an undergraduate, I had regarded all these men merely as figures of fun, but when I became a Fellow and attended college meetings, I began to find that they were serious forces of evil. When the Junior Dean, a clergyman who raped his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/11/18/the-autobiography-of-bertrand-russell/</link>
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		<title>bebe the circus queen the cat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Basement cat, a photo by yatima on Flickr.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/11/14/bebe-the-circus-queen-the-cat/</link>
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		<title>that&#8217;s why they call it fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bella was fresh on Sunday morning. Maybe&#8230; maybe too fresh. We rode a bending line from a crossrail to a vertical, then we were supposed to roll back to an oxer. But I was over-focused on the vertical and forgot about the rollback until we had landed, at which point I asked Bella for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/11/10/thats-why-they-call-it-fall/</link>
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		<title>chocolate mouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A chocolate mouse, a photo by yatima on Flickr. Claire is having her school friends round for a cat party. Have mercy upon me O Lord.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/11/04/a-chocolate-mouse/</link>
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		<title>juliastory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Once there was an evil witch and she made a spell that looked like blueberry juice. The people loved blueberry juice so much they drank it all up and then they were under the spell! The evil witch cackled and cackled. One young girl did not drink the blueberry juice because she did not like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/11/01/juliastory/</link>
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		<title>okay then</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Claire: &#8220;Mama, what do you think is the most dangerous part of a lion or a bear? Lemony Snicket says it is the stomach, because by then you are already torn up and eaten. But I say that by the time you get to the stomach you are already dead, and so Lemony Snicket is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/10/30/okay-then/</link>
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		<title>texas messed with me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I expected to hate the place. I expected to lie low and conceal my politics and edge towards the exit. I was pre-alarmed by the non-ironic Stetsons. I did not expect a city in Texas to make me catch my breath at its beauty. But for all the corporate touristy shit slathered on it, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2011/10/28/texas-messed-with-me/</link>
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