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		<title>On training horses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Plato&#8217;s Apology, Socrates briefly draws a connection between the craft of teaching and that of horse training. Granted, this is in the midst of a meandering, oftentimes ham-fisted defense of himself against the accusation that he was corrupting the youth of Athens. Nevertheless, I feel that the metaphor is more apt than we teachers care [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://schweblog.com/2012/01/on-training-horses/</link>
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		<title>Axioms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, you feel alone, confused, worried about the future, and existentially bewildered. This does not make you special or unique. People have been feeling this way for A Very Long Time, even before the word &#8220;existentially&#8221; had worked its way into common parlance. If you try to quantify the feelings in (1) in an effort to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://schweblog.com/2011/07/axioms/</link>
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		<title>How to be a hipster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rockers. Jocks. Goths. Gangbangers/gangsters. Preppies. My teenage years were filled with concern over the prototypical social molds of the 1990s. Baggy pants? All black? Flannel? These concerns evaporated by the time I hit college, one of those things that is uncanny in how much it matters one moment and how little it matters the next. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://schweblog.com/2011/05/how-to-be-a-hipster/</link>
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		<title>Surreal experiences beyond the ivory tower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being only halfway employed has its perks. I have copious amounts of time to read the stack of fiction that collected over the course of my graduate career. I can spend lazy afternoons at the cafe reading said fiction. Or go on a bike ride during the first weeks of spring weather. Or cook some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://schweblog.com/2011/03/surreal-experiences-beyond-the-ivory-tower/</link>
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		<title>Completion with distinction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The thesis is done and defended.  I&#8217;m considering trying to have it published.  In the meantime, if you want to know what it&#8217;s about&#8230; Click for a bigger image.  (Made with Wordle, hat-tip to Bill.)]]></description>
		<link>http://schweblog.com/2010/11/completion-with-distinction/</link>
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		<title>Wanderlust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember the first time you saw the ocean, desert dweller?  We swept through the high lands and dropped off the mountain range and you could smell it from miles away.  It caressed you the way your first lover did.  And also like your first lover, it kept on going as soon as and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://schweblog.com/2010/06/wanderlust/</link>
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		<title>Reconfigured</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long time since I spent any significant period of time in your cave. Things still creak.  Unusual features stick out in my memory and punctuate just how long it has been—the weird shelves, the desk that&#8217;s really a door, the low ceiling.  It—and I suppose you, by extension—smell pretty much the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://schweblog.com/2010/03/reconfigured/</link>
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		<title>Unpacking my library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;More than that: the chance, the fate, that suffuse the past before my eyes are conspicuously present in the accustomed confusion of these books.  For what else is this collection but a disorder to which habit has accommodated itself to such an extent that it can appear as an order? —Walter Benjamin, &#8220;Unpacking My Library&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://schweblog.com/2010/02/unpacking-my-library/</link>
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		<title>On figuring out one&#8217;s shit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one part letter to self, one part letter to friends, and one part speculation. I have both endured and helped friends endure heartbreak of varying degrees.  In spite of it all, it seems like our generation doesn&#8217;t really suffer from an overabundance of heartbreak, but a profound deficit of risk-taking.  While unreciprocated love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://schweblog.com/2010/01/on-figuring-out/</link>
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		<title>2009 in music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I get older, I&#8217;m coming to appreciate shorter lists of bests and worsts.  Collections of top tens flood you with far too much information to digest, especially if it concerns a subject that you&#8217;re unfamiliar with.  Top three lists, I think, are better for a number of reasons.  First, it forces the writer of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://schweblog.com/2010/01/2009-in-music/</link>
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