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		<title>Mr. Postman&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our mailbox in the mailroom of our building has been the source of a small joke for some time now. Shortly after we moved in, the nice postman or postwoman put a label on the inside of the box with our names on it to make sorting mail easier when the bank of boxes are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2009/10/01/mr-postman/</link>
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		<title>One life enters, one life leaves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(guest post by Adam)
While we were here in the hospital, our wee grey cat, Lightning, came to the end of a several-week decline. She&#8217;s had great innings, as the Brits say, and her slow-down over the last little while has been slowly breaking our hearts, even as we&#8217;ve been focusing ourselves more and more on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2009/07/13/one-life-enters-one-life-leaves/</link>
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		<title>They don&#8217;t deserve us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to our cats:
We love you dearly, but I really think we need to talk. First, do you really need to hork up a hairball right in the middle of the bed? On sheets I just washed yesterday?! I know I was a little late on making the bed, but even so, there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2007/11/04/they-dont-deserve-us/</link>
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		<title>Hallelujah!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exactly 14 weeks (yes, that&#8217;s weeks, not days) from when the NY State Education Department first received my applications for a nurse and nurse practitioner license, I have now received both! This process has been extremely frustrating, and has reduced me to tears on multiple occasions. It has also prevented me from starting my job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2007/08/06/hallelujah/</link>
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		<title>End of an era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While looking for a phone number on the Smith College website, I decided to visit the athletics page. There were a number of snippets on the page, including this one, that caught my attention:
Northampton, MA:  Senior Shayla Livingston (Sharon, VT) won the 400m Hurdles event in a time of 61.54 this afternoon at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2007/06/10/end-of-an-era/</link>
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		<title>I done made cement!</title>
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salted caramel
Adam and I have started to make Christmas cookies. We&#8217;re adding two new recipes this year and decided that we would do a test run to make sure they&#8217;re worthy to give to friends and neighbors. I decided that I wanted to make salted chocolate caramels from this month&#8217;s Gourmet, because really &#8211; who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2006/12/16/salted-caramel/</link>
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		<title>Father and Daughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While we were down in DC for a wedding this past weekend, we stayed with our friends Jeanne and Dave, and their 3 yr old son, Eli. It was a great visit, and there was always music on in the house. One of the CDs David played was Paul Simon&#8217;s new album, Surprise. I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2006/07/19/father-and-daughter/</link>
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		<title>What the rain dragged in</title>
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Drowned cat
We let our cats out during the day. They enjoy romping outside, and we feel that experiencing the joy of the outside improves their quality of life. This morning it was pouring, so we decided not to offer the cats the option of going out. As we left for Quaker meeting, Lucy slipped past [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2006/05/14/what-the-rain-dragged-in/</link>
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		<title>Warning: This could make you itch</title>
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Great hives of fire
Originally uploaded by kate hirsch.
So I&#8217;ve developed hives in the last 24-48 hours, and I can&#8217;t figure out why. I haven&#8217;t eaten things out of the ordinary, I haven&#8217;t been too stressed&#8230; My skin has been fairly dry recently and I haven&#8217;t been good about putting lotion on, which could be the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2006/02/20/warning-this-could-make-you-itch-3/</link>
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		<title>I thought I was going to asplode</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adam and I went out for a late dinner last night to celebrate Valentine&#8217;s Day. Neither of us feel like we have to shower each other with chocolates and gifts, because we&#8217;re pretty schmoopey all the rest of the days of the year, but a nearby cafe was doing a special dinner so we thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2006/02/15/i-thought-i-was-going-to-asplode/</link>
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