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		<title>Burger report: Five Guys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We saw that Five Guys Burgers and Fries had opened a Sugar Land location last weekend. On President Obama&#8217;s (and my in-laws&#8217;) recommendation, we decided to check it out.
Considering the source of the recommendation, we had pretty high hopes. However, Five Guys didn&#8217;t make the cut among our burger testers. Dan thought it was excellent, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dsandler.org/erinmak/diary/2009/07/16/burger-report-five-guys/</link>
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		<title>Summer Lit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been the summer of the faux Victorian novel for me. It&#8217;s a genre that I&#8217;ve enjoyed for some time (Think Mr. Timothy, The Poe Shadow, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, etc.), but somehow I&#8217;ve chosen to really steep this summer in it. 
Last week, I took in The Dark Volume, the sequel to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dsandler.org/erinmak/diary/2009/07/07/summer-lit/</link>
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		<title>Contemporary fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard for me to believe, and even harder to say out loud, but I&#8217;ve actually really enjoyed my contemporary fiction class this semester. As I&#8217;m sitting down to write my final paper, I&#8217;m realizing that there&#8217;s a real liberation in writing about contemporary works, which is that there isn&#8217;t an enormous body of critical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dsandler.org/erinmak/diary/2009/04/30/contemporary-fiction/</link>
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		<title>Separate and unequal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it OK to like one of your classes better than the other? This is pretty typical for me. I often have one class that participates eagerly and another that sits there like lumps every day. The same lesson plan will get the first class enthusiastically buzzing and then fall flat in the other. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dsandler.org/erinmak/diary/2009/03/26/separate-and-unequal/</link>
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		<title>Pottery Barn Robots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got the latest Pottery Barn Kids catalogue yesterday in the mail, and since I had nothing else allotted to the five minutes before I left for class, I flipped through it. I was seriously creeped out by the lifestyle they&#8217;re promoting.
Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong. I loves me some Pottery Barn. Dan and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dsandler.org/erinmak/diary/2009/02/27/pottery-barn-robots/</link>
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		<title>Checking IDs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan and I finally went to see Slumdog Millionaire this past weekend at the AMC theater in Sugar Land. (Verdict: outstanding. It would get my vote for Best Picture, although I&#8217;ve only seen two of the other contenders (Milk and Frost/Nixon))
Anyway, I had occasion to notice, as I passed by our theater a couple times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dsandler.org/erinmak/diary/2009/02/17/checking-ids/</link>
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		<title>Burger report: Smashburger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post should properly be &#8220;Holy crap! Smashburger is Awesome!,&#8221; but for consistency&#8217;s sake, I&#8217;m leaving it as it is.
Dan and I tried Smashburger the day after it opened last week, to see if it would be worth taking my mom to to try for our burger hunting. It was amazing, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dsandler.org/erinmak/diary/2008/12/30/burger-report-smashburger/</link>
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		<title>History lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan and I saw Frost/Nixon last weekend, and it brought up a point that he and I have talked about many times before: When were we supposed to learn about contemporary American history? It didn&#8217;t happen in school, but we&#8217;re too young to have lived it ourselves. We were born just after the Frost/Nixon interviews [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dsandler.org/erinmak/diary/2008/12/17/history-lessons/</link>
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		<title>Burger report: Lankford Grocery and Tornado Burger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The burger detectives went to Lankford Grocery over Thanksgiving. Incidentally, any place that doesn&#8217;t have a website I can link to is a good candidate for &#8220;best burger,&#8221; because that means it&#8217;s a one-off kind of place and not a chain.
Anyway, Lankford was incredibly crowded, which affirms its status as a lauded Houston institution. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dsandler.org/erinmak/diary/2008/12/03/burger-report-lankford-grocery-and-tornado-burger/</link>
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		<title>Fall TV &#8216;08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I only picked up two new shows this year: Life on Mars and My Own Worst Enemy, and one of them has already been cancelled. Fortunately, it&#8217;s My Own Worst Enemy that&#8217;s been cancelled, because I have really preferred Life on Mars.
Life on Mars, ABC, Thursdays 10 ET/9 CT
The 2008 version of Detective Sam Brady [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dsandler.org/erinmak/diary/2008/11/16/fall-tv-08/</link>
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