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    The Atman or Atma (IAST: Ātmā, sanskrit: आत्म‍ ) is a philosophical term used within Hinduism and Vedanta to identify the soul. It is one's true self (hence generally translated into English as 'Self') beyond identification with the phenomenal reality of worldly existence.

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    the NaBloPoMo hotwash

    Sunday, November 30th, 2008

    (If you are unfamiliar, hotwash is a military term.  I swear, dirty minds, all of you.)
    I’m not sure why I decided to do NaBloPoMo this year.  Maybe because I was averaging one post a week while I was on maternity leave.  Maybe just to see if I could, or because all the cool kids were [...]

    november resolutions

    Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

    This weekend I was informed that Thanksgiving at the in-laws will consist of not only our family staying at the house, but also an uncle.  I found myself irrationally pissed off by this and spent the morning stomping around, knowing that I had little right to be annoyed but being annoyed anyway.  It is not up to [...]

    this is my brain on facebook

    Friday, October 24th, 2008

    For a long time I didn’t understand the appeal of social networking sites. Then one day I heard that facebook makes you use your REAL NAME and immediately my competitive juices started flowing…I had to get on there and grab MY NAME before someone else with MY NAME got it!
    Huh.
    Turns out there can be more [...]

    a year in my life

    Monday, July 7th, 2008

    If you are my friend, you know that I am terrible about remembering birthdays.  And anniversaries.  Sometimes I’m off by a day or so, more often I don’t even get the month right.
    Thus it’s fitting that I forgot my own blog-iversary.  On July 5, 2007 I posted my first entry.  It was a tentative toe dip into [...]

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