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		<title>Everyone&#8217;s running and the world, it gets so crazy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AJ&#8217;s friend N came over for a sleepover last night.  N goes to a different school.  He and AJ know each other from playing sports.  N&#8217;s dad was AJ&#8217;s basketball coach two years ago and after that, AJ and N ended up quite by accident on the same baseball team in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spynotes.wordpress.com&blog=1082422&post=2304&subd=spynotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spynotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/everyones-running-and-the-world-it-gets-so-crazy/</link>
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		<title>Adventageous</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have become one of those families. No, not the ones who have all their Christmas presents bought, wrapped and mailed by December first.  We&#8217;ll never bee one of those families.  But this year we are one of those families with Christmas decorations up before December starts.  Usually we make fun of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spynotes.wordpress.com&blog=1082422&post=2302&subd=spynotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spynotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/adventageous/</link>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Index</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the seventh Thanksgiving I&#8217;ve posted about and the fourth Thanksgiving Index, which I first published in 2003, when AJ was two years old.  Here are the ghosts of Thanksgivings past, should you wish to compare notes.
2003
2004 (No index, thanks to the alarm caused by the convergence of a snowstorm and the furnace [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spynotes.wordpress.com&blog=1082422&post=2299&subd=spynotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spynotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/thanksgiving-index/</link>
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		<title>Safe from storms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annual Thanksgiving index has been postponed in order to publish this letter that we received from AJ today.  He wrote it at school and brought it home with instructions that we weren&#8217;t to look at it until Thanksgiving.  I think you all know what I&#8217;m thankful for this year.  I hope [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spynotes.wordpress.com&blog=1082422&post=2297&subd=spynotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spynotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/safe-from-storms/</link>
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		<title>Ms. Spy&#8217;s guide to an excruciatingly correct Thanksgiving dinner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the challenges of hosting many Thanksgiving dinners is that I&#8217;ve gotten quite good at it.  I realize you may not see the problem here, but Thanksgiving to me &#8212; most holidays, actually &#8212; are about a certain amount of freneticism.  And although I constantly strive to avoid the panic, when I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spynotes.wordpress.com&blog=1082422&post=2295&subd=spynotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spynotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ms-spys-guide-to-an-excruciatingly-correct-thanksgiving-dinner/</link>
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		<title>Moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we have yet to complete the Etch-a-Sketch experiment, as the weather has taken a turn for the worse and there is currently no part of our house with sufficient heat.  Stay tuned for the results.
Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Spy and AJ left with some friends to go see the Eagles beat the Bears and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spynotes.wordpress.com&blog=1082422&post=2292&subd=spynotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spynotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/moon/</link>
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		<title>A gigantic nuclear furnace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scene:  The Spy kitchen.  Harriet is washing the breakfast dishes.  AJ enters.
AJ:  I had an idea.
Harriet:  What&#8217;s that?
AJ:  I was wondering if the sun could erase my Etch-a-Sketch.
Harriet:  That&#8217;s an interesting idea.  What made you think of that?
AJ:  Well, I was thinking about how heat makes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spynotes.wordpress.com&blog=1082422&post=2290&subd=spynotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spynotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/a-gigantic-nuclear-furnace/</link>
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		<title>Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bus home snakes along the Midway and pauses at the Fountain of Time.  I contemplate the choice to make a sculpture about time out of sandstone and water, its subject its own inevitable demise.  The statues, worn faceless, ignore me.  The door clicks shut and we plunge into the park. 
Universities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spynotes.wordpress.com&blog=1082422&post=2286&subd=spynotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spynotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/evolution/</link>
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		<title>Prostrate to the higher mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m on an inbound train, full of commuters, with my suitcase full of library books, my laptop, my iTouch and my cell phone.  It’s practically like I haven’t left home at all.  If it weren’t for the small matter of registrar appeasement, I could just sit and ride the train all day.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spynotes.wordpress.com&blog=1082422&post=2283&subd=spynotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spynotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/prostrate-to-the-higher-mind/</link>
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		<title>Freeze frame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really didn&#8217;t mean to leave the blog hanging on such a depressing note.  The problem with blog posts is that they are snapshots.  Sometimes I move on and my posts, well, just sit there.  In general, this has been less of a problem with the blog than, say, with the journals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spynotes.wordpress.com&blog=1082422&post=2278&subd=spynotes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://spynotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/freeze-frame/</link>
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