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		<title>The Pale King</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading David Foster Wallace&#8217;s posthumous novel, The Pale King, lately (which reminds me that I should probably try to return it to its rightful owner, seeing as I borrowed it without asking quite a while ago. He finished Infinite Jest in the time it&#8217;s taken me to read PK). Now is a good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prospectofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15009962&amp;post=413&amp;subd=prospectofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(I Have Missed) The Joy of Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve neglected this thing for a while, for lots of reasons. Because I&#8217;ve been working a TON, trying to make ends meet and pay all my bills, trying to be a generally responsible 26 year old after my six month fully-supported teaching excursion in Thailand. I haven&#8217;t written because in the time that I&#8217;m not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prospectofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15009962&amp;post=410&amp;subd=prospectofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Light all the Same</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corrigan once told me that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prospectofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15009962&amp;post=406&amp;subd=prospectofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hosanna: Palm Sunday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the last few weeks I was in Thailand I taught the ALC kids this song (their request) in English, and we performed it together at church the last Sunday I was there. I love how they sing with their whole hearts (when they think they know the English words well enough). Happy Palm Sunday<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prospectofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15009962&amp;post=401&amp;subd=prospectofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Joy of Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I have God, and he has the provisions. Tomorrow it will be the same. Dallas Willard, &#8220;The Divine Conspiracy&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prospectofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15009962&amp;post=395&amp;subd=prospectofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little Bit of a Shameless Plug Here&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was published online today. Self-effacing comment: probably not my finest piece of writing, but there it is, in digital print, for the world to see. Eeeee<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prospectofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15009962&amp;post=392&amp;subd=prospectofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All the Things I Didn&#8217;t Tell You about Thailand &#8211; PART 1</title>
		<link>http://prospectofjoy.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/all-the-things-i-didnt-tell-you-about-thailand-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not exactly sure how to proceed with this blog now that I&#8217;m no longer a volunteer English teacher in Thailand, although I am still very much living for the prospect of joy. Maybe I&#8217;ll update the little tag on my title to say: &#8220;The Prospect of Joy: Notes from a 26 year old unemployed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prospectofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15009962&amp;post=378&amp;subd=prospectofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>con dio(s)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning, on my last morning in Thailand! This past week I went to Bangkok to visit the cutest little babies in the world&#8230; and now I am trying desperately to squeeze six months of my life into two checked bags and two carry-ons (one being a hand-woven basket from Burma) and all my last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prospectofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15009962&amp;post=367&amp;subd=prospectofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Last Day of ESL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last day of ESL classes. Here are the three classes, with the three teachers, and their certificates of completion: So proud of them. Such a strange feeling to be finished with what I came to Thailand to do. Tomorrow is my last day with the ALC kids and then it&#8217;s a week of packing, shopping, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prospectofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15009962&amp;post=363&amp;subd=prospectofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Post Brought to You by Non-Vanilla Creamered Coffee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a huge &#8220;foodie&#8221; person. I appreciate really good foods and I&#8217;m particular about loving some things, I hate others with the passion of a two year old who hates brussel sprouts. For example, when it comes to ridiculously loving certain things, and my roommates can attest to this: I always drink my coffee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prospectofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15009962&amp;post=357&amp;subd=prospectofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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