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		<title>Do you know your life story?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been around longer than 20 years, you&#8217;ve done a lot of things, a lot of things have happened to you, and it becomes hard to remember why you chose one path and not another. In my case, I&#8217;m in my second year out of school and working, and I have to admit that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&#038;blog=6803264&#038;post=1299&#038;subd=nanobysaad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Wish I&#8217;d Written This: Excerpt #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squaws and portages, and the Yankee fur-traders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&#038;blog=6803264&#038;post=1270&#038;subd=nanobysaad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Every graduate student needs a wife.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get out your headphones and iPods! Instead of a written post, I&#8217;ve made a podcast for you. Joining me on this podcast is my good friend Ebonee Walker, who is currently a grad student and one of those people who excel at the art of conversation. Our topic is the title of this post, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&#038;blog=6803264&#038;post=1222&#038;subd=nanobysaad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Goal for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might be wondering why there&#8217;s a photograph of a rain-drenched car at the top of this post. I&#8217;ll get to that. But first&#8230; 1. A quick look at 2011 on this site Which, really, is a look at only November and December since I didn&#8217;t do any writing in the prior ten months. Total [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&#038;blog=6803264&#038;post=1156&#038;subd=nanobysaad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Kindle Owner&#8217;s Christmas Wish List</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends and loved ones, you know I like books, and right now you have the perfect book in mind for a gift. I&#8217;m looking forward to reading it. But don&#8217;t give me the book unless it would look impressive on a shelf (and very few books qualify). Instead, give me an Amazon gift card &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&#038;blog=6803264&#038;post=1144&#038;subd=nanobysaad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If I Could Write to My 16-year-old Self&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.saadhasan.com/2011/12/21/if-i-could-write-to-my-16-year-old-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea for this post comes from Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self discovered here. Dear Saad, Take a break from that Ludacris song to read this. I&#8217;m going to tell you what the next ten years hold for you. I&#8217;ve got your attention? Good! While you&#8217;re sitting pretty right now with first semester classes, you&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&#038;blog=6803264&#038;post=1117&#038;subd=nanobysaad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can household product reviews be sexy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do this striking young lady and this dapper gentleman have in common? Post your best guess in the comments, then read on. So, I recently saw this link on my twitter feed: 10 Things an Adult Man Should Know About Laundry … but Probably Doesn’t I opened the link and skimmed the list. Clearly, they were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.saadhasan.com&#038;blog=6803264&#038;post=864&#038;subd=nanobysaad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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