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	<title>Grant Dobbe</title>
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	<description>Welcome to the internet. How may I help you?</description>
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		<title>In which I ask some very important questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first question I asked was of Caroline. She was taking a nap, and I entered the bedroom with a little ring box. She woke up and saw the box, and after a little nervous fumbling, I got down on one knee and asked the most important question I&#8217;ve ever asked anyone:
&#8220;Will you marry me?&#8221;
Thankfully, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grant.dobbe.us/2010/03/in-which-i-ask-some-very-important-questions/</link>
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		<title>In which we almost see a hippopotamus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy month. I turned 26 (thank you to everyone who sent birthday wishes!), and I feel no different whatsoever. I also got more computers in my computer lab, which involved quite a bit of travel, confabulation, and negotiating. I caught a stomach bug and spent 3 days at home because of it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sooo many things.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Sunday evening. Ghana just got into the semi-finals of the Cup of African Nations, I have successfully prepared my lesson plans and exercises for the week, and now, I&#8217;ve got nothing left to do but use the Internet. Or study Esperanto.
Yes, I&#8217;m learning Esperanto. I want to learn a bunch of languages, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When in doubt, plant things you can eat.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, everybody! I&#8217;m back at home after a nice, relaxing, and expensive vacation. I&#8217;m spending the day working on a bit of housekeeping and organizing, so you can expect a more complete write-up of my holiday travels soon. For now, I&#8217;m going to talk about something that is frozen solid for most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Requiem for a Chop Stall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a neighborhood in central Accra called Osu. It&#8217;s very popular among expatriates due to a proliferation of Western-style stores &#8212; one can get hamburgers, pizza, sushi, Levi&#8217;s jean, and home appliances &#8212; and high-level businesses. Most of the major mobile phone networks have their headquarters there, and several banks operate major branches in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grant.dobbe.us/2009/12/requiem-for-a-chop-stall/</link>
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		<title>Not dead, just covered in dust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    

﻿The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I know I
haven&#8217;t written in a while, and I apologize for that.
So, what happened in the month of November? Lots of things. For starters, the harmattan started in November &#8212; a Tuesday, in fact. Quite literally, we had rain and humidity on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grant.dobbe.us/2009/12/not-dead-just-covered-in-dust/</link>
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		<title>A Day In The Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The universe has a sense of humor.
There are 49 periods in a week on our school&#8217;s timetable. I was teaching 10 of them.
God saw this, said &#8220;What? NO! That Dobbe kid isn&#8217;t working hard enough! Give him the most out of any teacher on the staff!&#8221;
And thus, I went from teaching 10 periods a week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grant.dobbe.us/2009/10/a-day-in-the-life/</link>
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		<title>Back in the Village</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frisbee&#8217;s in heat. I thought she liked to yowl and meow before; man, I had no idea. Next time, I get a boy cat. Like Caroline&#8217;s cat, Lovelace. Yes, I know the name is not a boy name. She named him before she was able to correctly identify his gender. I refer to him as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grant.dobbe.us/2009/09/back-in-the-village/</link>
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		<title>In which our intrepid hero returns to America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in America for almost two weeks now. I&#8217;ve seen people I haven&#8217;t seen in a year, eaten foods I&#8217;ve missed, downloaded a bunch of stuff for my school and my own use, and enjoyed the novelty of hot running water. But it hasn&#8217;t been all easy.
Culture shock is something that you expect to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grant.dobbe.us/2009/09/in-which-our-intrepid-hero-returns-to-america/</link>
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		<title>Hurry up and wait</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting how little it takes to make me happy. 
Case in point: I spent 4 hours with about 150 of my colleagues standing on an airport tarmac with nothing to eat or drink, waiting to see Barack Obama for 30 minutes. When he finally arrived, we were nothing short of ecstatic. When he mentioned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://grant.dobbe.us/2009/07/hurry-up-and-wait/</link>
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