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Problems
\n1.  Fifteen sources jamming into a ten-page essay draft.  +Eight pages
\nin. -I’ve ref’ed three. 
\n2.  Examination upcoming Monday.  In comes an email: You’ll want to
\nread this and this and this.  Oh, and this.  And this.  And this.
\n<\/i>[It keeps going.]  Plus review your notes and the fifteen books and
\nfourteen articles we read this semester.  Two hours?  Insufficient
\ntime for the test.  Let’s go with 2.5 hours. <\/i>Note:  This is *not*
\nexcerpted from the actual email, but I’ve done my best to capture the gist of
\nthe message.  Have I ever confessed how much I love exams? 
\n3.  Eighth grade is really a pain in the ass. 
\n4.  Another birthday fast-approaching.
\n5.  Back pain.
\n6.  A Bush’it administration and I scored a -20% on the
\nRepublicant
\nquiz<\/a>.
\n7. Gas prices.  Oh wait, I walk. 
\n8.  B’day card from my dad showed up early (everything okay?!), and
\ninside–"Happy Belated."  Maybe it’s for last year. Or maybe I wasn’t
\nsupposed to open it. ; )<\/p>\n

Solutions (in no particular order):
\nA.  Blog it; B. Ah yes, youth; C. Taxation; D. Kick where it hurts; E.
\nThree pages of notes (weee!); F. Lunch, get out and walk around; G. Continue to
\nwrite; H. Holarchy; I. Cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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