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	<title>Over Here</title>
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	<description>This world is a funny place to live.</description>
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		<title>Peering over the edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So now the end of the year has come already, and I have not written anything here for almost two months. Forgive me, those of you who have stopped by hoping for news of my doings, strange facts about Swedish holidays, or simply a respite from all those websites that impart useful information.

I reported over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is this? (#4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not finding a lot of time to write blog entries, but I certainly have time for another installment of &#8220;What is this?&#8221;. As before, the rules are simple: Try to guess what the object is that is pictured here. All guesses and musings are welcome.
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		<title>How to finish a dissertation</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/54</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I have to admit that that title is a bit overblown, but I wanted to get people&#8217;s attention. Did it work? I wasn&#8217;t going to write anything here about my work schedule, since I figured that work schedules aren&#8217;t a very sexy topic (unlike, for instance, ham). But then I realized that I know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where have I been?</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/53</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now it probably seems, to those inclined to notice, that I&#8217;ve dropped off the map. I haven&#8217;t added to my blog for months now, and my e-mail and other contacts with the rest of the world have dwindled. Some people have publicly wondered where I disappeared to.
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		<title>Seeing the world through ham-colored glasses</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/52</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[For an explanation of what&#8217;s going on here, you might read Incognito ergo sum.]

The day I left Albarracín, I was standing at the bus stop, waiting for the bus&#8212;and I really mean the bus, as there is only one per day that goes to the provincial capital&#8212;when I started chatting with an elderly couple, also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sketches of lunch</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/51</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[For an explanation of what&#8217;s going on here, you might read Incognito ergo sum.]

My schedule here includes one meal per day in a restaurant. Given that restriction, it&#8217;s clear that lunch is the one to go for. Spain does lunch the way the US does an &#8220;international police action&#8221; (except that the Spanish have an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What language do your products speak?</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/50</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[For an explanation of what&#8217;s going on here, you might read Incognito ergo sum.]

I really like the flat I&#8217;m staying in here in Albarracín. It has a beautiful view despite the medieval moisture level. It also has all the modern conveniences, including a dishwasher that speaks Italian.

Yes, that&#8217;s right, every few days, I am forced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll have seen a bar in Albarracín</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/49</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[For an explanation of what&#8217;s going on here, you might read Incognito ergo sum.]

I am reasonably pleased with the title of this piece&#8212;though I have to concede that it doesn&#8217;t come anywhere close to Dorothy Parker&#8217;s brilliant &#8220;I&#8217;d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy&#8221;&#8212;not least because there are surprisingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rain in Spain is mainly just a pain</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/48</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[For an explanation of what&#8217;s going on here, you might read Incognito ergo sum.]

I got to Albarracín on the evening of my second day in Spain, after two trains and a taxi ride. Albarracín is a small town (1100 inhabitants) in the mountains, half an hour&#8217;s drive from Teruel, the smallish capital of the second-most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bienvenido a casa</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/47</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[For an explanation of what&#8217;s going on here, you might read Incognito ergo sum.]

I touched down at Barajas airport in Madrid on a plane full of Swedes who where on their way to represent Absolut vodka at a trade fair. A very jolly bunch, as Swedes go. While talking with the young woman beside me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incognito ergo sum</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/46</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this piece is Latin for &#8220;I am in hiding in order to think&#8221;. OK, that&#8217;s not actually true as far as Latin goes, but it&#8217;s true about me. I am presently conducting an experiment in discipline, work, and lifestyle. That may sound grandiose, but you should see where I&#8217;m doing it.
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		<title>Oh yeah, I&#8217;m a surfer dude</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/45</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever visited a city, stayed in a big hotel, eaten in the tourist restaurants, seen the top ten sights, taken the duck tour, and secretly wondered all the time what kinds of things a local would show you?

Imagine that when you went to a foreign city, you could just grab a resident, stay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In-Between Days</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/44</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 11:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s now late May, and I&#8217;m right in between two trips. We&#8217;re also in between seasons here in Sweden. We often seem to be in between seasons in Sweden. In fact, the Swedes&#8212;especially those from the north&#8212;count far more than our four seasons. They have, for example, vårvinter and höstvinter, or &#8220;spring-winter&#8221; and &#8220;autumn-winter&#8221;. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is this? (#3)</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/43</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, it&#8217;s time for another installment of What is this?, and boy let me tell you that you folks are going to have to work to get this one. I was a real softie last time, and so it was over all too briefly.
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		<title>Unfortunate choice of image</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/42</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Pope is visiting the US. Not being a Catholic, I do not get too excited about such things. However, being a former resident of Boston, I am very angry with the Catholic church for its long-standing tolerance of priests who sexually abuse children.

Even so, I find it possible to laugh at this very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A pastoral moment of disorientation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you occasionally have these &#8220;Where am I and what am I doing&#8221; moments? Moments when you suddenly see yourself from without, as though you had stepped out for a while and have just come back, and now can&#8217;t figure out how in the world you&#8217;ve ended up where you are? I do.

Last night I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is this? (#2)</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/40</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, I realize that the What is this? series will never become a series until there are at least two entries, so here is number two.
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		<title>Days with names</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to kick off the &#8220;Strange/Nice things about Sweden&#8221; series with something that seemed strange to me at first, but which I have come to regard as nice. That is the concept of name-day (namnsdag). You see, in North America, we celebrate people&#8217;s birthdays. In Sweden, they do that too. However, in addition to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And now for the completely different things</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/38</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick announcement to say that I am starting two new categories of posts here, which I am calling &#8220;Strange things about Sweden&#8221; and &#8220;Nice things about Sweden&#8221;, which should be pretty self-explanatory. I think it&#8217;s time to start letting the world in on the more interesting and exotic aspects of life here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Shminter</title>
		<link>http://www.garretson.info/blog/archives/37</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It recently occurred to me that I haven&#8217;t written anything here in several weeks. To my vast legions of fans, I apologize. I hope you have been able to go about your lives without too much psychic distress.

Fact is, I haven&#8217;t been writing because I&#8217;ve been really busy working on my dissertation. Yes, I&#8217;ve finally [...]]]></description>
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