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| September 2013 - Potsdam |  
| 28 | Moving on |  
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| May 2004 - Scotland |  
| 1 | Oban, gateway to the Isles |  
| 1 | Hollis at Oban -- photo |  
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| April 2004 - Scotland |  
| 2 | The state of things |  
| 3 | Hyacinths -- photo |  
| 3 | Cuillins of Skye -- photo |  
| 4 | Stirling Castle -- photo |  
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| February 2004 - Scotland |  
| 18 | Trip to Stirling |  
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| January 2004 - Scotland |  
| 13 | Dream about the days to come |  
| 15 | Five months |  
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| December 2003 - Scotland |  
| 10 | Bagpipes and bad sex writing |  
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| November 2003 - Scotland |  
| 23 | Animal dreams |  
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| October 2003 - Scotland |  
| 4 | Baggage |  
| 21 | Two years |  
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| September 2003 - Scotland |  
| 6 | Napiershall Street |  
| 7 | Music for a Sunday |  
| 8 | A letter |  
| 11 | Honesty |  
| 18 | I lost my religion somewhere... |  
| 29 | Wandering about |  
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| August 2003 |  
| 4 | The witching hour |  
| 7 | Chateaugay |  
| 12 | Goodbyes again |  
| 13 | Across |  
| 22 | Glasgow |  
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| July 2003 |  
| 8 | Chiles and invention |  
| 10 | USB works! |  
| 13 | Mountains |  
| 14 | Road |  
| 18 | Peoplewatching |  
| 19 | Letters |  
| 22 | Time passing |  
| 31 | Cha |  
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| June 2003 |  
| 6 | Home |  
| 25 | Here and there |  
| 29 | Rambling |  
| 30 | Linux and biting |  
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| May 2003 |  
| 7 | Arriving |  
| 14 | Fauré paper |  
| 15 | The Fauré paper |  
| 16 | Thanks |  
| 17 | Another goodbye |  
| 20 | Passing |  
| 23 | Hello, goodbye |  
| 30 | Hello? |  
| 31 | Turning |  
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| April 2003 |  
| 11 | Returning at last |  
| 11 | Ceilidh |  
| 12 | Dancing and singing |  
| 13 | Choir |  
| 14 | Seminar break |  
| 21 | Wealth |  
| 22 | Chamber music |  
| 23 | Stuff |  
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| March 2003 |  
| 4 | Nightmares |  
| 15 | Starting to finish |  
| 17 | Watson |  
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| February 2003 |  
| 1 | Goodbye |  
| 23 | Life in many flavors |  
| 26 | Sleep? |  
| 27 | Fairy tales |  
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| January 2003 |  
| 5 | Where am I? |  
| 12 | Loose ends |  
| 13 | Neurotic boy |  
| 15 | Bagpiping |  
| 17 | Once more, dear friends |  
| 19 | Here again |  
| 27 | A birthday |  
| 28 | Birthday |  
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| December 2002 |  
| 1 | Happy birthday! |  
| 2 | Compilers |  
| 3 | Woohoo |  
| 16 | So much |  
| 19 | At last |  
| 21 | North |  
| 25 | Merry Christmas |  
| 28 | Keep on truckin' the fish |  
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| November 2002 |  
| 2 | Moving on |  
| 3 | Soup! |  
| 5 | New camera |  
| 6 | Friede auf Erden |  
| 7 | Leavetaking |  
| 11 | Back again |  
| 12 | Tired |  
| 17 | Philly musings |  
| 19 | Degas and days |  
| 24 | Domesticus |  
| 25 | Another day |  
| 26 | Late |  
| 27 | Footlights |  
| 30 | Thanks |  
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| October 2002 |  
| 16 | Symphonies |  
| 26 | Jumbled life |  
| 27 | Apple pie |  
| 28 | Stuff going weirdly |  
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| September 2002 |  
| 2 | Here or there |  
| 3 | No smallpipe-making |  
| 4 | Bravery |  
| 12 | Flute and change |  
| 17 | Watson application part 1 |  
| 30 | Where in life am I? |  
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| August 2002 |  
| 2 | To Maxville |  
| 7 | What? |  
| 12 | Bagpipes on the mountain |  
| 15 | Meaning |  
| 24 | Success in competition |  
| 25 | Long day |  
| 26 | New pipe case |  
| 27 | Farewell |  
| 28 | Risotto and feeling better |  
| 30 | Still more goodbyes |  
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| July 2002 |  
| 2 | Impending Eliz |  
| 3 | Eliz! |  
| 7 | Farewell, again |  
| 16 | Nothing |  
| 17 | Dentistry |  
| 18 | Funeral |  
| 19 | Very weird dream |  
| 20 | Presidents |  
| 24 | Ceiling constellations |  
| 25 | Shoes |  
| 27 | Slumping |  
| 29 | Bagpipe upgrade |  
| 30 | The joy of dry reeds |  
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| June 2002 |  
| 1 | Passat |  
| 2 | Eliz |  
| 3 | Greek pizza |  
| 7 | Another goodbye |  
| 9 | The Tobins of Lancaster |  
| 10 | Publicist |  
| 12 | Why I love the music |  
| 13 | Goodbye |  
| 15 | Live music |  
| 16 | Peanut butter cookies |  
| 17 | Remembering |  
| 20 | Leaving again |  
| 24 | Stuff |  
| 25 | Development and strangeness |  
| 26 | Preparatory |  
| 28 | Hollis meme |  
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| May 2002 |  
| 1 | Work |  
| 2 | Cleaning |  
| 3 | Fever |  
| 4 | 103.7 |  
| 5 | 98.6? |  
| 11 | Cooking |  
| 12 | Books |  
| 13 | Curricula and endings |  
| 14 | Linkbox |  
| 15 | Recording |  
| 16 | Done |  
| 17 | Tough farewells |  
| 18 | Packing and goodbyes |  
| 19 | Home |  
| 21 | On books and giving |  
| 22 | Little birds |  
| 23 | Paella |  
| 24 | Chocolat |  
| 25 | Chipmunks and ethernet |  
| 26 | Memorial Day |  
| 27 | Joseph Campbell |  
| 28 | Squirrel |  
| 29 | Two years |  
| 30 | Recordings |  
| 31 | Scripting |  
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| April 2002 |  
| 2 | Goodbye, Uncle Ralph |  
| 3 | Nothing much |  
| 5 | Dinner with Nori |  
| 7 | Noirmoutier |  
| 8 | Exam stupidity |  
| 9 | No problem |  
| 10 | Day of Silence |  
| 14 | Latkes for us |  
| 15 | Hurt again |  
| 17 | Frustration |  
| 17 | Gabilondo |  
| 18 | Worried |  
| 19 | Writing helps |  
| 20 | Not sleeping |  
| 21 | Six months |  
| 22 | Late |  
| 23 | Interview |  
| 24 | New flute |  
| 26 | Coding |  
| 27 | Coding works! |  
| 28 | A sysadmin in NYC |  
| 30 | Frazzled |  
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| March 2002 |  
| 1 | Bread with Amelia |  
| 3 | My fairytale princess |  
| 4 | Atonal composition |  
| 5 | Practice of things |  
| 6 | New blogs to read |  
| 7 | Atonal concert |  
| 9 | Rochester |  
| 17 | Swatward |  
| 18 | Ow, my face |  
| 19 | Runny babbit |  
| 20 | People in education |  
| 21 | Five months! |  
| 22 | Nori |  
| 23 | A less good day |  
| 24 | Palm Sunday Potatoes |  
| 25 | Reminiscing |  
| 27 | Renewal |  
| 28 | Recipes up! |  
| 29 | Orange rabbit package |  
| 31 | Happy Easter |  
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| February 2002 |  
| 2 | Soup, jobs, etc. |  
| 3 | Musing about recipes |  
| 4 | Perotinus and journal thoughts |  
| 5 | Suckage |  
| 6 | About CS psychology |  
| 8 | Doing okay |  
| 11 | Bitter |  
| 15 | Surviving |  
| 17 | No wine for me |  
| 18 | Quotes from professors |  
| 19 | I'm a CS major! |  
| 20 | Smile |  
| 21 | Four months |  
| 24 | A cappella frustration and Cranbury |  
| 26 | Acupressure |  
| 27 | Reading Kay |  
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| January 2002 |  
| 2 | Chocolates, recipes, and piano tuning |  
| 3 | Music and moods |  
| 4 | Helping |  
| 5 | Harry Potter |  
| 7 | New and old |  
| 8 | Reminiscing |  
| 9 | Recipes and musings |  
| 10 | Errands and leaving |  
| 11 | Hiccups whilst bagpiping |  
| 13 | Baltimore airport |  
| 21 | Back from Scotland |  
| 23 | Schönberg bites me |  
| 24 | Tango! |  
| 27 | Dance and pepper sauce |  
| 28 | Twenty-one |  
| 29 | Mmm, fire drill |  
| 30 | A list |  
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| December 2001 |  
| 1 | Happy birthday, sweetie |  
| 2 | People with perfume... |  
| 3 | Parsley by mail |  
| 4 | Eating chicken soup |  
| 5 | Consciousness-raising? |  
| 6 | What Cat Are You? |  
| 7 | Kicked in the groin |  
| 8 | Belt test |  
| 9 | Jamboree I |  
| 10 | Jamboree II |  
| 11 | Watch the stars, see how they run |  
| 12 | Terrifying dream |  
| 13 | So I gave her a rose |  
| 14 | Dorking |  
| 15 | Cleaning and party |  
| 16 | Looking for beauty |  
| 17 | Silly credit cards |  
| 19 | Goodbye, some friends |  
| 20 | No more algorithms! |  
| 21 | Finishing up |  
| 22 | Homecoming |  
| 23 | Baking bread at home |  
| 24 | Christmas Eve |  
| 25 | Christmastime! |  
| 29 | Elizabeth visits |  
| 30 | Pastry hedgehog |  
| 31 | Saving conversations |  
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| November 2001 |  
| 2 | Walking barefoot |  
| 3 | Uechi seminar |  
| 5 | Discourse on sparkling |  
| 6 | Stars! |  
| 7 | Bad incense allergy |  
| 8 | CS colloquium |  
| 9 | Piled Higher and Deeper |  
| 10 | Meet the Family |  
| 11 | Tunes from memory |  
| 12 | Aches and pains |  
| 13 | Up late again |  
| 14 | Me == Cover Boy |  
| 16 | Zen bread-baking |  
| 19 | Body go thunk |  
| 20 | Soup To Cure All Ills |  
| 21 | Bread tomorrow |  
| 22 | Giving bread and thanks |  
| 25 | No Bartky! |  
| 26 | Exuberance |  
| 27 | Chat with Jesse |  
| 29 | Silvery fog |  
 
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| October 2001 |  
| 1 | Kilt and silly foot |  
| 2 | Paul Simon and chipmunks |  
| 3 | GCD playing and chipmunks |  
| 4 | Pants returned |  
| 5 | Dactyl Hunt |  
| 7 | Honesty |  
| 8 | Bunkai and philosophy frustration |  
| 9 | Descartes irritates me some more |  
| 10 | Hufflepuff |  
| 13 | Homeward bound |  
| 13 | Home and thinking |  
| 14 | Frogs in the pond |  
| 15 | Tassajara! |  
| 16 | Contact |  
| 17 | Fun dorkage |  
| 18 | Hiking and perfect stars |  
| 19 | Hanging out |  
| 20 | WTC and back to Swat |  
| 22 | Working late late |  
| 24 | Brahms writing |  
| 25 | Sleep wins |  
| 27 | DEBall and Recital |  
| 30 | Migraines |  
| 31 | Books and food |  
 
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| September 2001 |  
| 1 | Moving in |  
| 2 | Activities and farewells |  
| 3 | Playing and writing |  
| 4 | Buying a flute |  
| 5 | Living with the world |  
| 5 | A day in the life |  
| 6 | A Susie lesson |  
| 7 | Uechi Ryu and redlight greenlight |  
| 8 | Playing with the big kids |  
| 9 | Welcoming Joy |  
| 10 | Uechi Ryu and Dave Cubley |  
| 11 | World Trade Centers |  
| 12 | The God of small things |  
| 13 | Phaedo |  
| 14 | Vigil |  
| 15 | Italian stone soup |  
| 16 | Quilt and concerts |  
| 17 | Issues with Werther |  
| 18 | Un feu petit |  
| 19 | On the eve of war? |  
| 20 | No recital? |  
| 23 | Ramblewood |  
| 24 | Bad CS homework! |  
| 25 | What is a good death, anyway? |  
| 26 | Looking at things |  
| 27 | Fahrenheit 451 |  
| 28 | Uechi Ryu and new friends |  
| 30 | Road trip |  
 
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| August 2001 |  
| 2 | Recipe and poems |  
| 3 | Haircut and sunglasses |  
| 5 | Glengarry Highland Games |  
| 6 | Lang Request |  
| 7 | Long driving |  
| 8 | Yoga and Wise Child |  
| 9 | Rabi's meme |  
| 10 | The Forgotten Day |  
| 11 | Syracuse games |  
| 12 | Stories and children |  
| 13 | Raccoons in the tree |  
| 14 | Pound Puppies and beaches |  
| 15 | Bagpipe polishing |  
| 16 | Indian potato balls |  
| 17 | De rien |  
| 18 | Six raccoons! |  
| 19 | Onion soup |  
| 20 | The Holy Ground |  
| 21 | Hypoglycemia |  
| 22 | Home fries recipe for Rabi |  
| 23 | Grump grump grump |  
| 24 | An early goodbye |  
| 25 | Almonte |  
| 26 | Almonte, part the longer |  
| 27 | Penne with onions |  
| 28 | Last band practice |  
| 29 | Finishing up |  
| 30 | Endings |  
 
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| July 2001 |  
| 1 | Tamias striatus |  
| 2 | My amazing pants |  
| 3 | Moving John |  
| 4 | Shirts and packing |  
| 5 | First night at Pinewoods |  
| 6 | Boston fiddle session |  
| 7 | Ralph and Wally |  
| 8 | A few goodbyes |  
| 9 | A session to remember |  
| 10 | Uechi ryu |  
| 11 | Pranked! |  
| 14 | Bastille Day |  
| 15 | Sleepy |  
| 16 | Tired |  
| 17 | Piping |  
| 18 | Twelfth Night |  
| 19 | Pinewoods part one |  
| 19 | Pinewoods part two |  
| 21 | Brenga Astur |  
| 22 | Aglio e olio |  
| 23 | Fife, but not East Neuk |  
| 24 | Linkfest |  
| 25 | Tao Te Small World |  
| 26 | Twasn't the 21st of July |  
| 31 | Memories of St. Lawrence Park |  
 
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| June 2001 |  
| 1 | Risotto and randomness |  
| 2 | Burying Shawn |  
| 3 | Almost Famous |  
| 4 | A new hotline shift |  
| 5 | Piping, Pinewoods, and philosophy |  
| 6 | Moving Day for John |  
| 7 | Chipmunks, O Best Beloved |  
| 8 | Sewing and crofters |  
| 9 | Missa Trinitatis |  
| 10 | Seasoning and sewing |  
| 11 | Tarry Pinewoods frustration |  
| 12 | Pipe Band uniform |  
| 13 | Lasagna and mice penne |  
| 14 | Sewing insignia |  
| 15 | Complete lack of paragraph structure |  
| 16 | Pie and buying stuff |  
| 17 | Selling baby chipmunks? |  
| 18 | Boy Scout in kilt |  
| 19 | CISM certification |  
| 20 | Saucy streetwalkers |  
| 21 | Preparations |  
| 22 | Playing the dance |  
| 23 | Ice cream and kittens |  
| 24 | Happy Birthday, Mom! |  
| 25 | Sheet music arrives |  
| 26 | Premeditated kindness |  
| 27 | Bagger Vance |  
| 28 | Tique-taque |  
| 29 | Tent and kheer |  
| 30 | Movie night |  
 
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| May 2001 |  
| 1 | Philly and Varèse |  
| 2 | Bryn Mawr class and Mahler |  
| 3 | Dancing and no more music |  
| 4 | Kilt and Advanced class |  
| 5 | Dancing and teaching |  
| 6 | Bryn Mawr demo and lighting |  
| 7 | Lighting and jamboree |  
| 8 | Happiness is |  
| 9 | Coding and not much else |  
| 10 | Flute, folkdance, leaving |  
| 11 | Coding and piping and SHS |  
| 12 | Functional incoherence |  
| 13 | Reminiscing and such |  
| 14 | Architecture exam |  
| 15 | Architecture project done! |  
| 16 | Cooking, candidate, lighting, etc. |  
| 17 | Bryn Mawr. Existentialism? Life. |  
| 18 | Mozart and parents |  
| 19 | Packing |  
| 20 | Home |  
| 21 | Reading and mustard |  
| 22 | Cooking and too many books |  
| 23 | Bagpipes and Perl |  
| 24 | Cookies, piping, and whatnot |  
| 25 | Duct tape and chocolate sauce |  
| 26 | Books, piping, haircut |  
| 27 | Randomness, writ small |  
| 28 | Driving and Walden |  
| 29 | Piping and Civilization |  
| 30 | Back in my day... |  
| 31 | Practicing and Walden |  
 
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| April 2001 |  
| 1 | B minor and Bach |  
| 2 | CS deferral |  
| 3 | Dancing, talking, and Oprah |  
| 4 | Alasdair, sort of |  
| 5 | Alasdair Fraser and Crum Walking |  
| 6 | Fun with lacerations! |  
| 7 | Happy dancing! |  
| 8 | Pensiveness |  
| 9 | Sickness and grar |  
| 10 | Flute, etc. |  
| 11 | Copying music |  
| 12 | 11 hours, 50 minutes |  
| 13 | Dreams of dance and karate |  
| 14 | Dover, DE |  
| 15 | Just like this |  
| 16 | Headache |  
| 17 | Migraines and Eleanor |  
| 18 | Bryn Mawr! |  
| 19 | Accidentally ranty entry |  
| 20 | Earthlust and college studentness |  
| 21 | HaverMawr and General Tso |  
| 22 | Tom and Demo set |  
| 23 | Housing and thesis and stuff |  
| 24 | Wanderjahr? |  
| 25 | This dancing's a wonderful thing |  
| 26 | Stewart Emery |  
| 27 | Surrealism and friends |  
| 28 | Orchestra and a cat |  
| 29 | Inverarity and wonder |  
| 30 | Architecture and change |  
 
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| March 2001 |  
| 4 | Sophomore paper and musings |  
| 7 | Whining about CS |  
| 9 | I am a music major |  
| 11 | Oatmeal, squirrels, and music |  
| 13 | Lighting, Getting In, WaWa. |  
| 14 | CelticFusion |  
| 15 | Shopping and people coming back |  
| 16 | Lighting and SWAPA |  
| 18 | Romance, love, and Spring Ball |  
| 19 | Not much, really |  
| 20 | Dancings and prancings |  
| 21 | A bad poem and a good |  
| 22 | More fortune cookies |  
| 23 | Haircut! |  
| 24 | Bryn Mawr and more |  
| 25 | Kimberly, Inverarity, budgeting |  
| 26 | Hell Week and Tom Petty |  
| 27 | Tea, tired, Thoreau |  
| 28 | Almost nothing |  
| 29 | Guildenros and Waltz |  
| 30 | Cast party |  
| 31 | Arcadia, pranked |  
 
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| February 2001 |  
| 3 | Things and stuff |  
| 4 | Concert and drafting |  
| 5 | Mixed Company meltdown |  
| 6 | Swat quotations |  
| 18 | A quick update |  
| 19 | A quick prayer |  
| 20 | Life's a dance |  
| 22 | Yet more thankfulness |  
| 26 | Beginnings and endings again |  
| 27 | Friendship in the round |  
| 28 | Weather and silliness |  
 
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| January 2001 |  
| 8 | Hogmanay et al |  
| 18 | Jed Bartlet is my hero |  
 
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| December 2000 |  
| 6 | Goodness in a general way |  
| 24 | I was home for Christmas eve |  
 
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| November 2000 |  
| 26 | A break from tradition |  
| 27 | Fire in the belly |  
 
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| October 2000 |  
| 4 | Goodness |  
| 11 | Pterodactyls and Troopers |  
 
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| September 2000 |  
| 1 | Back to school |  
| 4 | First day of classes |  
| 5 | Simplicity itself, really |  
| 11 | Still more |  
| 12 | Home? |  
| 13 | Figured bass and Kendra |  
| 23 | Bitter censorship |  
 
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| August 2000 |  
| 1 | Yeats and dreams |  
| 3 | Dead Again |  
| 4 | Crocodile Dundee |  
| 8 | Birthdays and remembrances |  
| 9 | Harry Potter didn't Crash and Burn |  
| 13 | Chris Layer and Susie Petrov |  
| 14 | Surreal dreams and Katie |  
| 21 | Heather and Kira, et cetera |  
| 22 | Piping at the river |  
| 23 | Macs, hemp, Survivor |  
| 24 | Conference and bad humor |  
| 25 | Wondering |  
| 27 | Almonte games |  
| 29 | Trauma Junkie? |  
| 30 | Fortune cookies |  
 
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| July 2000 |  
| 4 | Kildare, beginnings, endings |  
| 5 | Gay Scoutmasters |  
| 6 | Yo, Romeo, where you at? |  
| 8 | Imzadi and others |  
| 9 | Polish Wedding |  
| 10 | Bagpipes |  
| 11 | Ye'll tak' the high road |  
| 13 | 911 and stuff |  
| 14 | Narnia and the Butterfly |  
| 15 | July go bye |  
| 16 | The Potsdamer's Rambles, 64J3C |  
| 17 | Strathallan's Lament |  
| 21 | NYSAIRS and nice books, too |  
| 24 | Kildare and such |  
| 25 | Innis Fada and introspection |  
| 26 | I am sleepy and boring |  
| 27 | Dream !analysis |  
| 28 | Mailing stuff |  
| 29 | Disgruntled postal user |  
| 30 | The Opposite of Sex is Potsdam |  
| 31 | He believes in aristocracy |  
 
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| June 2000 | 
 
| 1 | Von Trapp, bagpipes, and pre-Kira |  
| 6 | Kira, Kyla, and Kümmelweck |  
| 7 | Asinkrit and Pre-Kyla |  
| 11 | Kyla and the Road North |  
| 12 | Eggplant parmesan |  
| 13 | No Kyla in Potsdam | 
 | 14 | Mulan and Macintoshes |  
| 15 | Eagle Scouts for dinner? |  
| 16 | Ink, campfires, and skirling possessives |  
| 18 | Border Patrol Dumbass |  
| 21 | It's a good thing |  
| 22 | Deranged children |  
| 24 | Mom's birthday! |  
| 26 | The Sixth Sense |  
| 28 | A Letter |  
| 29 | Angst and vitriol |  
 
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| May 2000 | 
 
| 27 | IKEA and Canada |  
| 28 | Felines and friends |  
| 29 | Sad Songs And Waltzes |  
| 30 | The Onion and people |  
| 31 | I be stylin |  
 
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