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		<title>Wait Till You Get All Your Stuff In</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The good thing about having a very immediate-yet-mostly-dealable crisis is that it focuses all your nervous energy into a very specific direction: Do This Thing, Now. Make It Happen. Make It Work. The night sweats and the upset stomach and the inability to concentrate all of a sudden have a reason and a purpose: I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/09/05/wait-till-you-get-all-your-stuff-in/</link>
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		<title>Crying In August</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did so much crying in August. I did lots of different of kinds: the kind where you can’t get out of bed and have to remember to drink water at hourly intervals to replenish your vital fluids; the kind where you start sobbing at work; the kind where you weep silently on the bus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/09/02/crying-in-august/</link>
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		<title>July and August 2010 Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August has been a very rough month for me: it started out so rough that I completely forgot to post what books I read in July, and has continued on rough-ish (with the bright spot of my books from Seattle arriving, woo!) Anyway, here’s what I’ve been reading for the last two months, and here’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/08/31/july-and-august-2010-books/</link>
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		<title>Boxes Of Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was in Seattle in the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2008, I got rid of something like three hundred books which my buddies at the Blue House in Ballard had been storing for me in three identical IKEA bookcases (I had another one upstairs in the cloud room, also full to bursting) along with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/08/24/boxes-of-books/</link>
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		<title>Four Year Anniversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s four years exactly today since I first came to Wellington, coming from Napier on the Intercity Bus, waiting to meet Deirdre at the station with my big green backpack. That was so long ago. For my one-year anniversary in 2007 I was in Australia, not even paying attention, and for my two year I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/08/12/four-year-anniversary/</link>
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		<title>There Is No Requirement To Still Your Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The yoga teacher seems to want to touch the American a lot in class tonight. She doesn’t correct or realign her, she just lays her hands on lightly, gently, softly: spread-out fingers in down dog, shoulders in Warrior II, the small of the back in child’s pose. She can tell, thinks the American, lowering down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/08/10/there-is-no-requirement-to-still-your-mind/</link>
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		<title>Sunday Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You told yourself you were going to scale back from social stuff this weekend but you’ve been out every night all the same. Brunch and lunch and coffees and dinners, lots of friends, lots of talking. Lots of texting and running around. You are home only to sleep and to throw your clothes in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/07/25/sunday-night/</link>
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		<title>My Imaginary Boyfriend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday morning, Chiara and her flatties lay around the lounge discussing their respective Friday nights they wait for a load of firewood to arrive, which they will have to lug up four flights of muddy slippery steps if they want to stay even slightly warm for the next eighteen months of Wellington’s winter. Outside, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/07/18/my-imaginary-boyfriend/</link>
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		<title>Closure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was one (okay, more than one) time in my wasted youth where I would regularly get calls from weepy friends and I’d drop whatever I was doing and be all “I’m on my way!” and hop in the car with a breakup CD and extra padding on my shoulders, ready to rumble. Everyone is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/07/12/closure/</link>
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		<title>Squeeze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things go quick or they don’t go at all, these days. I’m never at home anymore, there’s never enough time to do anything like grocery shopping or laundry or reading or writing blog posts or anything, because either I’ve got dinner with one friend or dinner with another friend or easy-ish yoga or really hard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/07/08/squeeze/</link>
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