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		<title>New Zealand: an introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between a year “in the land down under” and eventual return to the U.S., there exists a gap the size of a childhood dream fueled by sheer adrenaline in the shape of New Zealand.  Thus far, I’ve written nothing of my adventure, despite the outcry from my tiny audience.  Few have seen pictures.  Less know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perfectmisfits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9086576&amp;post=321&amp;subd=perfectmisfits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A hug from Emily</title>
		<link>http://perfectmisfits.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/a-hug-from-emily/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t necessarily have the most exciting job in the world at the moment. The majority of my responsibility entails maintaining a massive database that catalogs information on the generous people that donate to our organization. Unfortunately, this has banished me to a land of computers within cubicles where post-it notes become exciting because they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perfectmisfits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9086576&amp;post=312&amp;subd=perfectmisfits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Because sometimes, you should just jump.</title>
		<link>http://perfectmisfits.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/because-sometimes-you-should-just-jump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 04:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My love affair with New Zealand began so long ago that I can’t actually remember how it started. For the last two years, my travel bug has been otherwise occupied, first in China, then in Australia. But living in Brisbane has re-awakened that childhood fantasy to trek the land of hobbits and elves. There it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perfectmisfits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9086576&amp;post=309&amp;subd=perfectmisfits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updates of the Muddy Kind</title>
		<link>http://perfectmisfits.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/updates-of-the-muddy-kind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desiree</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://perfectmisfits.wordpress.com/?p=305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine walking through a drying bog.  The air is filled with the stench of mold and wet decay. Each faltering step taken plunges you into thick, squelching mud that threatens to suck you into the ooze. The sun is merciless, baking the water out of the ground and blanketing everything in ninety-degree heat. Sweat is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perfectmisfits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9086576&amp;post=305&amp;subd=perfectmisfits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updates of the Flooded Kind</title>
		<link>http://perfectmisfits.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/updates-of-the-flooded-kind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desiree</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who has not been watching the news: my beloved Brisbane is flooding.  For those that have been following the story closely, concerned for my safety: I’m okay. Until this point, I have given my current location simply as “Brisbane.”  This is, as you may now know, a vague description.  To be more specific, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perfectmisfits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9086576&amp;post=300&amp;subd=perfectmisfits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>d deth of d ritN wrd</title>
		<link>http://perfectmisfits.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/d-deth-of-d-ritn-wrd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desiree</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://perfectmisfits.wordpress.com/?p=296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#60;run program:‘morning routine’&#62; &#60;push ‘brew’_coffee.maker&#62; &#60;pour[glass]orange.juice+pulp&#62; &#60;walk:downstairs/frontdoor/porch&#62; &#60;pick^up[paper+mail]&#62; &#60;walk:frontdoor/upstairs&#62; &#60;sit@kitchen.table&#62; &#60;sort_mail&#62; &#60;advertisement&#38;junkmail&#38;magazine&#38;bill&#38;bill&#38;bill&#38;bill&#38;letter&#62; &#8230;. &#60;Letter?&#62; &#60;Letter-handwritten!friend&#62; &#8230;. &#60;Really?&#62; &#60;SystemFailure&#62; &#160; This morning, I very nearly spit a mouthful of orange juice across the table simply because I received a letter&#8230;in the mail (I mean, it had a stamp and everything)!  And it wasn’t a business letter, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perfectmisfits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9086576&amp;post=296&amp;subd=perfectmisfits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Tree or Not To Tree?</title>
		<link>http://perfectmisfits.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/to-tree-or-not-to-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas tree: Should you?  Should you not?  Is it religious?  Is it tradition?  Is it right?  Is it wrong? My friends and adoptive family here in Australia have been both inquisitive and wonderfully sensitive to my religious background.  In our household, we have quite easily forged a Utopian existence: we’re all laid-back, open-minded, and respectful.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perfectmisfits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9086576&amp;post=288&amp;subd=perfectmisfits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Epic of the Pilgrim</title>
		<link>http://perfectmisfits.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/the-epic-of-the-pilgrim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desiree</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There I was, in the place of honor at the head of the table, glass raised, gazing happily around at the dozen or so friends that had come to celebrate Thanksgiving.  I was about to make a toast when someone called out: “What is Thanksgiving?” Indeed. Thanksgiving used to be an epic trip to my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perfectmisfits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9086576&amp;post=285&amp;subd=perfectmisfits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the far side of observation</title>
		<link>http://perfectmisfits.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/on-the-far-side-of-observation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desiree</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began this blog with the intention of sharing with family and friends the adventures and inevitable misadventures of temporarily relocating to China. It has since become a random collection of personal anecdotes and raw, roughly hewn cultural observations written mostly for my parents, my best friend’s parents, the rare person whose bored curiosity pushed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perfectmisfits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9086576&amp;post=205&amp;subd=perfectmisfits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wollumbin</title>
		<link>http://perfectmisfits.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/wollumbin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I had my first crash course in local Australian bush culture.  After two months steady learning—driving on the other side of the road from the opposite side of the car, understanding terms like “bogan” and “ranger,” tasting jelly babies, musk sticks, and lamingtons, and learning the “proper” pronunciation for words like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=perfectmisfits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9086576&amp;post=203&amp;subd=perfectmisfits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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