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	<title>Pookus McVeigh</title>
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	<description>Small victories, daily</description>
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		<title>(Balagan)</title>
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This convenience store is located across the street from Tel Aviv&#8217;s central bus station. The parenthetical &#8220;balagan&#8221; in Hebrew means &#8220;mess,&#8221; which pretty much sums everything up here.  I can&#8217;t tell what the intended meaning of &#8220;balagan&#8221; here is- maybe it&#8217;s supposed to indicate a variety of eastern and western products, or maybe the owner [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com&blog=5041359&post=247&subd=pookusmcveigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/balagan/</link>
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		<title>Chagim and Mangalim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week Israel observed two holidays. Monday to Tuesday evening was Yom Ha&#8217;zikaron, which is like Memorial Day, directly followed by Yom Ha&#8217;atzmaut, or Israel Independence Day.
I worked a half day on Tuesday and had off from school on Wednesday, so I headed over to my family friends’ place, but this time I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com&blog=5041359&post=239&subd=pookusmcveigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/chagim-and-mangalim/</link>
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		<title>Holocaust movie/arsim night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, I visited my mom&#8217;s friends in Rishon LeTzion again. It&#8217;s been a while since I last saw them because of finals, the New York visit, and readjustment time since my return.
I woke up Friday morning with the intention of getting to the Israeli Cartoon Museum in Holon (which is open only 3 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com&blog=5041359&post=235&subd=pookusmcveigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/holocaust-moviearsim-night/</link>
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		<title>In Israel, time changes you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My new schedule may kill me, if I don&#8217;t learn to go to sleep earlier. This semester, I have to be somewhere by 8.30am every day of the week. Two of those days, I need to be in class, which is only a short walk away, so I can get up at a leisurely 7.15am. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com&blog=5041359&post=229&subd=pookusmcveigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/in-israel-time-changes-you/</link>
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		<title>Flirting with di-sabras</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, maybe my title is stretching the wordplay a bit.
Life has been peacefully quiet since the Russian left. Maybe too quiet. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love hearing crickets instead of Armin Van Buren when I go to bed, but still, I&#8217;ve been getting antsy about moving out of the dorms. Real life feels on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com&blog=5041359&post=222&subd=pookusmcveigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/222/</link>
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		<title>El Israel Al Delta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back in Israel.
After two and a half weeks of a great time in New York, I came back to my stuffy room in Jerusalem. Is my visit really over? It made me sad to see my room here in the state it was the day I was so excited to leave for New York, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com&blog=5041359&post=205&subd=pookusmcveigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/el-israel-al-delta/</link>
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		<title>(It&#8217;s the) final countdown.. tadadada tadadadada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been so long.
I spent last weekend visiting the family friends in Nes Tziona. I almost didn&#8217;t go because I could not get my day started, and before I knew it, it was 3pm and Shabbat was nearing. I ran out to the bus stop and waited for 20 minutes along with a gruff guy who gave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com&blog=5041359&post=195&subd=pookusmcveigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/its-the-final-countdown-tadadada-tadadadada/</link>
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		<title>In training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I used the gyms in New York, I dreaded the roaming trainers who would stop you as you work out only to show you you have no idea what you&#8217;re doing and that you need them to train you. The other day, a trainer (or &#8220;midrach&#8221;) showed me an exercise on the equipment where you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com&blog=5041359&post=192&subd=pookusmcveigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/in-training/</link>
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		<title>Cookies!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today at work:
 

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		<link>http://pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/cookies/</link>
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		<title>Bus drivers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I have a job, I ride the bus in Jerusalem much more often, and I have noticed something.
 
The bus drivers in this country are crazy- period. Especially in Jerusalem.
 
Since I&#8217;ve gotten to this city, I have had to learn a few things:
 
1.  If you don&#8217;t know the Hebrew word for driver, then you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com&blog=5041359&post=170&subd=pookusmcveigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://pookusmcveigh.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/bus-drivers/</link>
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