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	<title>The History of Ellen</title>
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		<title>bleh&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found this idea on  babbling abby who got it from I Teach for a Living… from Murdock&#8217;s Mama. Outside my window.. sunny and warm &#8211; not too hot The time is: 1:20 I am feeling: sad that summer is over and I didn&#8217;t get to the beach. I am thinking: How will this school year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teacher Week at http://babblingabby.blogspot.com/</title>
		<description><![CDATA[babbling abby is doing teacher week, so here is my first entry, and hopefully more to come. Ten things about me as a teacher 1. I really became a teacher because I believe in the notion that having an educated public leads to a better nation and society. Really. 2. I have a dry sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehistoryofellen.com/?p=85</link>
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		<title>Reflections on the pit&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that I work in a snake pit. **disclaimer: I have nothing against snakes themselves, and am using hyperbole and stereotypical characteristics of snakes. In discussing my last school year I realized that it was like being in a snake pit. If I planned and executed a good lesson or unit, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehistoryofellen.com/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Updates/Rambling illiterate style&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[-haven&#8217;t felt like writing -been doing lots of reading: Lincoln b David Herbert Donald; Hoot, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo; Under the War Torn Sky; various blogs, the Wapo, and the People mag -started fixing up the bathroom, but waiting until the showering two move out (tomorrow!) seriously 2 showers a day each? -redesigned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehistoryofellen.com/?p=77</link>
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		<title>And so it begins&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer. today i don&#8217;t have to go in to school at all, I finished my room! So far, I am still in my jammies, and have watched trashy TV and surfed the web. I also am playing solitaire. How boring! But, I love it. I will do more stuff at some point, but I may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehistoryofellen.com/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Summer Plans&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, everyone is talking about their plans, but I don&#8217;t have any. I mean, I have house stuff to do, and we *might* go camping, but that is it. I am wondering if I should get a job or something to do so I don&#8217;t get too bored. A student asked me if I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to Know You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, doing this by way of: http://www.pinklemonadeblog.blogspot.com/ and&#8230;. http://www.mannland5.com/ The questions.. (I&#8217;m answering before reading anyone elses so as to be authentic) 1. Do you have a fetish? If defining fetish in a sexual way, then no. If defining it as something I obsessively like, then maybe: food. 2. Do you sing in the shower? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehistoryofellen.com/?p=72</link>
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		<title>The Pioneer Woman&#8230;.!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I am a big fan. I know she probably doesn&#8217;t have the same political views, and I know she is filthy rich, but I still like her. Today, I bought her book, and on Tuesday I am going to get her to sign it. What should I ask her? What should I say? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehistoryofellen.com/?p=70</link>
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		<title>looking forward to the past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am really looking forward to this school year being over. I usually look forward to summer, duh, who doesn&#8217;t? But this year, I don&#8217;t have that feeling of melancholy that I usually get thinking of missing some of my favorite students. This year, I guess it could be the grade level, or it could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehistoryofellen.com/?p=68</link>
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		<title>camping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I have a warped and romanticized view of camping. I picture hot dogs on a stick and a glowing camp fire and a relaxing time soaking in fresh air and stars. I have been camping in a tent exactly once, and it was so long ago, and in a time in my life that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehistoryofellen.com/?p=65</link>
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