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		<title>some kickass bukes that i have read of late</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Four Immigrants Manga is an amazing thing, a window into the lives of four Japanese men living in San Francisco at the turn of the century. Rediscovered in the nineties and intelligently translated, it&#8217;s really unlike anything else, and joins A Streetcar to Subduction and The Golden Gate on my shelf of marvellously eccentric [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/09/08/some-kickass-bukes-that-i-have-read-of-late/</link>
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		<title>no cute headline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy is in Australia so I am spending the week cross and sad. Which is a bit ridick, because Saturday night was an especially fine Balsa Man (I made a fortress of solitude on the cliffs, and all my friends came and hung out there to watch the burn), Sunday I had a fun ride [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/09/08/no-cute-headline/</link>
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		<title>nerdcore marriage leads to dancing in the streets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On mornings when the timing works out &#8211; not all mornings, but definitely the best mornings &#8211; the whole family walks down Eugenia together, the girls in school uniforms and non-uniform tights and boots, their bright backpacks on their backs, and Jeremy and I in our serious grownup Linux hacker and industry analyst standard city [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/09/02/nerdcore-marriage-leads-to-dancing-in-the-streets/</link>
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		<title>traffic report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Driving to the barn first thing in the morning, red brake lights and the cars slowing up ahead, flares in the fast lane. We all eased down to a stately second gear and looked left to see what had happened:
A police car.
A woman with her hands over her mouth, staring in distress at:
A deer, sphinx-like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/08/24/traffic-report/</link>
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		<title>mad august</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesus, what is it about this time of year? My ghosts walk; the past comes squirming Buffy-like out of its grave. Hand me my shotgun and swear to me, if I become one of the evil undead, you will kill me.
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/08/24/mad-august/</link>
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		<title>with great power comes great responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All of which is to say: dear my Australian friends, screw both candidates and vote Independent or Green. But you were going to do that already.
Eek!
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/08/21/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/</link>
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		<title>not boringly so</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I dreamed Tony Abbott sat next to me on a train, maybe a Tangara. We were heading West. I don&#8217;t know why that was important. I do blame this hilariously homoerotic oped for disturbing my beauty sleep:
I could not fail to notice the walk – which with an obviously athletic body could only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/08/18/not-boringly-so/</link>
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		<title>tryhard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just because it hasn&#8217;t been all Bella, all the time around here doesn&#8217;t mean I am ever thinking about anything else. Oh, I know, I have children and a great job and, oh yeah, Optimal Husband, and the Legion of Optimal Friends Forever (LOFF), and yes I adore you all &#038;c.
ANYWAY. I&#8217;ve been riding regular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/08/17/tryhard/</link>
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		<title>purple AND garnet yams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Claire and I had a sleepover at the Cal Academy on Friday night, which was completely brilliant. &#8220;Can I eat whatever I want?&#8221; &#8220;Knock yourself out, kid.&#8221; We staked out the absolute primo position &#8211; under the tree in the African Hall &#8211; and woke up to birdsong, and the shadow of a leopard. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/08/16/2169/</link>
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		<title>gray lady or clusterfuck nation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who said it: Krugman or Kunstler?
&#8220;Was that the sound of the economy rolling over?&#8221;
&#8220;The lights are going out all over America — literally.&#8221;
&#8220;Here are some truths which I believe to be self-evident: that the USA has been running on fumes since the beginning of the 21st century.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8230;a country that once amazed the world with its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/08/11/gray-lady-or-clusterfuck-nation/</link>
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		<title>also, this</title>
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Massive props to my bff Skud!
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/08/07/also-this/</link>
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		<title>wotcha doin&#8217;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thinking. I&#8217;m thinking about women. I&#8217;m thinking about my body, about beauty, about politics, about my daughters, about the war. I am thinking about the books I want to write. I am thinking about the weekend. I am thinking about my childhood, and my Daddy, and the future. I am listening to a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/08/06/wotcha-doin/</link>
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		<title>milo&#8217;s song</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tyrannosaurus!
Tyrannosaurus Rex!
He was the king!
But then he had a breast.
Everybody!
Has to run and hide!
Because if we don&#8217;t
We&#8217;ll all get died.
Tyrannosaurus!
Oh, no! A meteor!
Tyrannosaurus!
Oh, no! A leaf-eator!
Milo: I think that I will never ever write another song.
Me: Because this one is so perfect?
Milo: Yes.
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/07/29/milos-song/</link>
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		<title>nerdcore marriage &amp; 2 kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You need some back story, an essential piece of family lore which I have mysteriously never blogged. Once when Claire was very small, we made one of our regular visits to (be still my heart) the Monterey Bay Aquarium. A docent was introducing her granddaughter to the Pacific Giant Octopus. When the docent ran her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/07/23/nerdcore-marriage-2-kids/</link>
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		<title>can&#8217;t believe i am resorting to &#8220;five things make a post&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Item the first: When I fell off Bella I landed on the point of my hip. I was kinda stiff for a few days but mostly okay, and even had a riding lesson in the midst of it; but then I had an evening lesson with Dez and Dez was eeeeville; no-stirrups, trot over a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/07/22/cant-believe-i-am-resorting-to-five-things-make-a-post/</link>
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		<title>did i mention the apricots? god!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Um, and so. France was freakin amazing. I set up shop in the kitchen of the flat and cranked out words and words and words. Janny had a couple of friends with pools: Annette, with a walled garden on a hill surrounded by vineyards and wind farms; Ian and Jill, with a pool among prickly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/07/07/did-i-mention-the-apricots-god/</link>
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		<title>a chimpanzee manifesto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Clark, as ever, cuts to the heart of a recent debate between the Krugman/Delong alliance and Everybody Else. Krugman and Delong say we should spend government money to help the 10% of Americans who can&#8217;t find work, find work. The Grown Ups say we can&#8217;t do this obviously compassionate and necessary thing, because Bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/06/29/a-chimpanzee-manifesto/</link>
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		<title>paradise is from ancient persian and means a walled garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, God, where did I leave you? Shoreditch? Damn. We struggled back to Cambridge that night and got the girls to sleep by about a million o&#8217;clock. Monday they played, we worked. Tuesday I schlepped down to London again for work. I&#8217;d booked a hotel for Tuesday night, then changed my mind and tried to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/06/28/paradise-is-from-ancient-persian-and-means-a-walled-garden/</link>
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		<title>little more than a list of things done, with a pig</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard to blog when there is so much going on. We went back up to London on Thursday night to watch the amazing Miss Jo as Tallulah Mockingbird as the Log Lady in the first annual Miss Twin Peaks 2010. She was brilliant and hilarious, but by the time we got standing room on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/06/20/little-more-than-a-list-of-things-done-with-a-pig/</link>
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		<title>dialectic and praxis, women and love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look, I know how foolhardy it is to even try to recreate one perfect day; so sue me. We were up as I mentioned at hideous a.m. and out of the house by 8, having coffee and a sausage roll and a meringue at my favourite Cambridge delicafe, Origin8. Then we caught a double-decker bus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/06/16/dialectic-and-praxis-women-and-love/</link>
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		<title>recursion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our flat this time is a different address but the same management company, and they use the same rather pungent bathroom cleaner. So every time I walk into the bathroom I am vividly reminded &#8211; of being in the bathroom in Cambridge, which is where I am.
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/06/12/recursion-2/</link>
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		<title>in which we cross the atlantic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh hi there! How are you? Since we last spoke I have been to New Orleans, returned to San Francisco to collect my family and brought them all to Cambridge, England, except, as Julia keeps pointing out, for Bebe the cat, who is not here. Yesterday was pretty epic, in fact, starting with the old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/06/11/in-which-we-cross-the-atlantic/</link>
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		<title>the child garden</title>
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/06/06/the-child-garden/</link>
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		<title>i have a new theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;concerning the multiverse, in which other Rachels elsewhere are engaged in feats of world-saving derring-do, while I have been given the job of quietly raising my children and reading good books and learning to ride well.
It follows from this theory that all the other Rachels are as consumed with envy of me as I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/06/03/i-have-a-new-theory/</link>
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		<title>a sunny public holiday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to get up early and run today. When I talked to Claire about it she squinched up her face and said, &#8220;I&#8217;d rather sleep.&#8221; Fair enough, but after I lolled in bed and slopped around not getting into my running clothes until about nine, she had finished breakfast and got dressed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/05/31/a-sunny-public-holiday/</link>
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		<title>the gospel according to jessa crispin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meaning, I think, comes from doing a full accounting of your limitations and assets, your passions and your weaknesses, your belief system and your fears, and then rubbing up against the things that cause you to panic, like an allergy skin scratch test, and find out what your reactions are. Once you figure out how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/05/27/the-gospel-according-to-jessa-crispin/</link>
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		<title>serves me right for having lunch at the armani cafe bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was not eavesdropping. They were braying. They are both in their fifties.
She: How about this rain? Cold enough for ya?
He: Obama weather.
They snigger.
He: I scored. I took a short position worth 1.5 million, and the whole market went down four points this morning. They&#8217;re mad at me at work but I don&#8217;t care! I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/05/25/serves-me-right-for-having-lunch-at-the-armani-cafe-bar/</link>
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		<title>i guess he could go in the goldfish bowl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dreamed I was trying to tidy up my room at Bluegum Crescent. Stuff was stacked six feet high and sliding; a maze had been built between the stacks. &#8220;Got somewhere for this little one to live?&#8221; asked Sarah, who had caught a shiny brown mouse in her hands. There was also a rat, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/05/25/i-guess-he-could-go-in-the-goldfish-bowl/</link>
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		<title>i&#8217;m glad i spent it with you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I jumped Bella, and then Claire and Milo played really well at her second piano recital and his first, and then Heather and Gilbert and their kids came over for dinner. So it was pretty much a perfect day.
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/05/23/im-glad-i-spent-it-with-you-2/</link>
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		<title>liveblogging air tenzing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO, 9:59PM PST: Aaand I&#8217;m home.
T. remained a rock star for the rest of the flight. I think maybe two other passengers figured out I had a cat in there. Rose met us at the arrivals area with a hot chocolate from Emporio Rulli for me. Handover accomplished. 
ARE WE THERE YET? 5:30PM PST: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/05/19/liveblogging-air-tenzing/</link>
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		<title>little dude</title>
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/05/15/little-dude/</link>
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		<title>saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would be misleading if I were to give the impression that life with the girls is unpleasant. Yesterday I took Miss Four to the Farmer&#8217;s Market with me. She was glowing, in a shiny ivory dress and orange cardigan. She was very helpful and cooperative, and then we danced together at Jackie Jones. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/05/09/saturday-2/</link>
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		<title>david and goliath, starring me as goliath</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a week shy of her four-and-a-halfth birthday, right on schedule, Julia became a sudden and zealous Haver Of Opinions. Her sister also experienced this phase, during which we coined the phrase Four Is Hell.
For example: I&#8217;ve been experimenting with wearing things other than jeans and tshirts very occasionally. This morning I walked out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/05/08/david-and-goliath-starring-me-as-goliath/</link>
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		<title>huge work meetings, dental appointments, the pta and such</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I was going to have some unstructured down time for the first time in a week; and lo, Julia peed her pants. Nobody told me parenting would require endless, inhuman efforts of will. Well, okay, everyone did but even so! I didn&#8217;t know they were serious!
And what is more: I would never have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/04/29/huge-work-meetings-dental-appointments-the-pta-and-such/</link>
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		<title>bella the wonder horse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not all grief for the old horse around here, I should make clear. It may be that Bella is so spectacularly nice that she is making me miss Alfie by being so like him. I&#8217;m of the school of thought that believes Bella is an appendix QH &#8211; lots of Thoroughbred in her, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/04/23/bella-the-wonder-horse/</link>
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		<title>the dark horse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time before dawn I walked down to his stable. My boots crunched in the sand. The dark pressed my eyes. I ducked between the bars of his fence, careful not to skin my back on the top bar. He came out of his shed merry and glad to see me. I put my arms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/04/13/the-dark-horse/</link>
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		<title>support our troops: bring them home</title>
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It would be really nice if anyone who ever supported the unjust occupation of Iraq would kindly STFU about the deficit. Unless it is to say: &#8220;We are very sorry. We were wrong.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/04/12/support-our-troops-bring-them-home/</link>
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		<title>no one has ever decluttered as we have just decluttered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy&#8217;s office and the underneath of our bed are purged of e-waste. The kids&#8217; toys and the underneath of their bed are purged of goo. Good baby toys and clothes have been carefully stored for friends&#8217; future babies. Dust and pollen have been carefully stored IN MY NOSE.
Julia sings:
&#8220;I love the world.
I love everybody in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/04/10/no-one-has-ever-decluttered-as-we-have-just-decluttered/</link>
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		<title>great scott</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scottie has been sold, this time for sure maybe (selling horses is a Byzantine process) so yesterday was (probably) my last ride on him. I was a bit meh about it, because Bella is so easy and fun and rewarding and with Scottie I have to be much more disciplined and correct and it&#8217;s much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/04/05/great-scott/</link>
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		<title>fear my gardening fu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I actually slept last night, because Julia didn&#8217;t wake at 1am or something and demand to sleep in my armpit as has been her wont. I lay in my warm bed this morning blinking wonderingly and snuggling my cat. Jeremy brought me hot tea.
Then Salome called so I dragged on some clothes and we ran [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yatima.org/archives/2010/03/27/fear-my-gardening-fu/</link>
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