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		<title>Sick In Bed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sick in bed for a day and a half, in a way I haven’t been for over a year, not since the Bush Administration. Tired and sore and achey and shaky, sweating through the sheets, sweating through my purple octopus shirt, dazed and dehydrated, staring at nothing. The last time I was this sick I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/03/12/sick-in-bed/</link>
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		<title>February 2010 Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February  1 2010

Birthday Stories edited by Haruki Murakami
This is a set of stories all about, yes, birthdays. They’re all stories in English that were translated into Japanese, but re-issued again in English. I thought this was a pretty good way to organize an anthology, especially because Haruki decided to write little musing English-teacher introductions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/02/27/2085/</link>
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		<title>Carrying Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bay heaves and surges, flexes its muscles but never breaks into waves; the clouds filter the evening’s light whitely, greyly, into the fading hills. I look out the window at the smudged harbour, tired from yoga, tired from my week. Looking forward to dinner and bickies and bed. Mist gauzes over the open mouth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/02/18/carrying-me/</link>
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		<title>Switching Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right after we all got back from Christmas and New Year’s my very lovely flattie gave us some simultaneously awesome and awful news: she was moving out. Awesome: she’s moving in with her fantastic boyfriend! Awful: she’s leaving us! I had a couple days to wrap my mind around that, thinking about the hassle of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/02/15/switching-up/</link>
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		<title>Yoga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a good yoga class tonight, lots of hip openers, which I love, and my sore toe (which I totally blame on last year’s extraordinarily expensive high-heeled boots) wasn’t too bad. I like the studio I go to and I like the teachers and I like stretching and breathing, so I’ve been trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/02/10/yoga/</link>
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		<title>Sevens Weekend 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was pretty exciting because not only was it Waitangi Day and good old Sevens, it was also like the one day of summer that we have in Wellington per year, and when I say that I mean that that’s what they were actually saying on the news, like, “Summer to fall on weekend this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/02/06/sevens-weekend-2010/</link>
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		<title>January 2010 Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aaaaaaages ago I decided to track what I read every month, kind of just for fun. I did it for a year, during which I read something like a hundred and eleven books, and then when I started backpacking in 2006 I was all “I have no time to record my reading! I am living [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/01/31/january-2010-books/</link>
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		<title>Watching And Listening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday night I went to see Neko Case at the good old San Francisco Bath House, scene of many fun times over the past couple of years. It’s a pretty small place but I’ve seen some very good shows there&#8211;Kristen Hersh in 2007 springs to mind, for example, plus lots of local stuff. I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/01/24/watching-and-listening/</link>
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		<title>Summer Concert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have been going to the summer garden concerts since you first arrived in this city: as you walk down from the cable car along the path to the soundshell you think about the night you first thought you might like to stay for longer than a year. So many memories, now, as you search [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/01/19/summer-concert/</link>
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		<title>This Year&#8217;s Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been pretty awful weather since I got back from Golden Bay, as in it’s currently 54 degrees (Fahrenheit, that&#8217;s 12 for everyone else) outside, in the middle of what’s supposed to be summer, and it’s raining sideways and the wind is whipping the tree branches against my window in such a manner that suggests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allchiara.com/2010/01/15/this-years-summer/</link>
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