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		<title>Where I&#8217;m really at now</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new format of this blog is really ugly. Ugly! And I haven&#8217;t cared. I find the joys of microblogging on Facebook (and more occasionally, Twitter) more rewarding. Follow me there!
Do check out this photo of my new bicycle, though. It&#8217;s on these wheels that I&#8217;m spending most of my time. Though today I&#8217;m headed to Istanbul then Ankara [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contexted.wordpress.com&blog=4704078&post=452&subd=contexted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Cause Status Updates are Social Gatherings, Part Due</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monikaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting now and going backwards in time, snipits of life and thought.


Ah, Seattle is so lovely in the summer.
 
Going to yoga in the morning sun.
Finally got with the program and signed up for a frequent flyers mileage program.
Last day in Istanbul: tomorrow.
Admired Neolithic matriarchies at Ankara&#8217;s most famous museum.

Learned my lesson: stay away from room [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contexted.wordpress.com&blog=4704078&post=428&subd=contexted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hiding from the government, evading deportation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monikaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s day two of hiding from the government inspectors touring the expensive, private international school I teach at in Istanbul. The other illegal English teachers and I are hiding in the drama room. If he comes too close, we&#8217;ll head out back to disappear off campus. While the official is allegedly on &#8220;friendly&#8221; terms with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contexted.wordpress.com&blog=4704078&post=416&subd=contexted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Timeless Obama; here just in time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monikaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s arrived in Turkey just in time to catch a free exhibition on time. Of course, I doubt he&#8217;ll be going, though he is pictured above with the Turkish president (who speaks English, unlike the PM), with a grand 19th century clock between them. (Photo: CNNTurk).
The most moving  part of the exhibition for me was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contexted.wordpress.com&blog=4704078&post=411&subd=contexted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why there are so few euphemisms for female masturbation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monikaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Don&#8217;t know. But the question certainly gets your attention.
Another point worth pondering: fantasy is said to be an integral part of the human experience, yet why do so few women have sexual fantasies? Charlotte Roche, author of the erotic book Wetlands, talks about this and more in an interview with Salon.com, here.
There&#8217;s nothing more provokative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contexted.wordpress.com&blog=4704078&post=407&subd=contexted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wake up little blog, here comes Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monikaj</dc:creator>
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See, there&#8217;s Obama in the Taksim metro station. It&#8217;s time for this blog to wake up.  The world is moving quick, as usual: the G-20 summit finished with mixed reviews, another mass shooting in the ol&#8217;  States, Hungary&#8217;s government is collapsing, so is it&#8217;s currency &#8211; the global financial crisis in full throttle. Meanwhile, spring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contexted.wordpress.com&blog=4704078&post=403&subd=contexted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;My joy doubled&#8217; at 41 degrees</title>
		<link>http://contexted.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/my-joy-doubled-at-41-degrees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monikaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s cold. It&#8217;s dark. It&#8217;s lonely. The season passed without so much of a public carol and now I&#8217;m in the thralls of the bitter winter.
I just want to fold into a little clam like the five-year old boy on my mini bus. Every afternoon he does, without fail. His eye lids slide down. His [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contexted.wordpress.com&blog=4704078&post=398&subd=contexted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Her heart was beating into the palm of my hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monikaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her heart was beating into the palm of my hand like a drum. So incessant I wondered if she would pop out of her thin, fuzzy skin. She was shaking. Bleating echoed down the hallway. As I walked down the corridor carrying her in my arms, I wondered if she would wet herself.

I was thinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contexted.wordpress.com&blog=4704078&post=395&subd=contexted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who else is speaking in tongues?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monikaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Zadie Smith. Her thoughts on context and the language we speak are beautiful and really hit home.  Plus reading this some how makes me feel like I&#8217;m part of the smart set.
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		<title>I&#8217;m blue, da ba dee da ba dee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monikaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Left to my own devices, I can be a very sentimental person. When writing greeting cards, for instance, I don&#8217;t make jokes, I write sensitive things. And also when around sad things. For instance, there are these five puppies that live behind a concrete barrier nearby and seeing them makes me want to cry a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contexted.wordpress.com&blog=4704078&post=389&subd=contexted&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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