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		<title>#30. Not being sarcastic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. That was great. This week’s change was a blast. I really think I got something out of it. Learned so much about myself. I’m totally transformed and I think you’re going to be transfixed reading about how fascinating it was. I just wish it wasn’t over! Okay. That was a bit predictable. See what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readjulia.com/change/?p=78</link>
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		<title>#29. Being informed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’d think that a person with as many opinions as I have would be better informed. I’m not. Really. On balance, I know almost nothing about what’s going on in the world, except what I pick up skimming headlines throughout the day or what seeps into my brain from having NPR on in the background [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readjulia.com/change/?p=76</link>
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		<title>#28. Not second-guessing myself (HA!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the benefits/drawbacks of being a loudmouth is that people often mistake volume for confidence. As with many people, there is often a sizable gap between my outer bluster and my inner assurance. Which is fine, for the most part. I benefit at times from acting “as if” and soldiering through a difficult situation. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readjulia.com/change/?p=74</link>
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		<title>#27. Meeting new people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Year o’ Change rolls on, sometimes I get stuck for ideas. Or, rather, get stuck for ideas for changes I would actually undertake. Fortunately, my readers are quick to make suggestions. They generally do so with a little gleam in their eye, as though they were the organ grinder and…well, we know what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readjulia.com/change/?p=71</link>
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		<title>#26. Counting calories. Or tracking nutrition. Or&#8230;something.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On weeks like this, I feel like I should issue a disclaimer. It would go something like this: “This is not one of those funny blog entries. It’s one of those difficult changes that inspires much introspection on my part, most (if not all) of which I’m unsure is remotely interesting to anyone else. Please [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readjulia.com/change/?p=69</link>
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		<title>#25. Breathing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, when I was musing about what counts as necessary consumption, I went off on a tangent, as I am wont to do. I mentioned that if we were listing the things a person actually needed to survive for seven days, food doesn’t even make the cut. It made me wonder what was necessary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readjulia.com/change/?p=66</link>
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		<title>#24. Curbing unnecessary spending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could spend a lot of time (yours and mine) trying to convince you how un-materialistic I am. What a spiritual giant I am. But the truth is: I enjoy money way too much to qualify. More specifically, I enjoy using money to buy things. Mostly things that are pretty and that I think will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readjulia.com/change/?p=64</link>
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		<title>Not doin&#8217; it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you want the good news first or the bad news? Too bad. The bad news – if you can call it that – is that I didn’t change anything this week. The good news is that means you can stop reading right now and go back to your regularly scheduled life. Think of it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readjulia.com/change/?p=62</link>
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		<title>#23. Not bein&#8217; such a fraidy cat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of my earliest memories are, if not of being afraid, of worrying – specifically, worrying about bad things happening. To me, to those I love. Long before I had any notion of what the saying meant, I was wandering the globe, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Trying to discern which part is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readjulia.com/change/?p=60</link>
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		<title>#22. Cleaning up my potty mouth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Readers, do you remember a few weeks ago? When I tried to give up caffeine for a week? And I pronounced the experiment a failure because I fell off the wagon once or twice? Oh, what I would give for that success rate now. Because, by any measure, this week was a bona fide failure. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readjulia.com/change/?p=58</link>
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