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		<title>Day 30: Willpower.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week insists on being awful. Yesterday, I realized my debit card was missing, which led to me being frazzled and getting on the wrong bus. This morning, I was hopeful, which at 6:30 a.m. is quite a feat. But this was not meant to be &#8212; I ended up missing my bus and was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaestepa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5845703&amp;post=1042&amp;subd=jessicaestepa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 29, part 2: Bright lights.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched the Mormon version of Pride and Prejudice tonight. If you&#8217;ve never seen it, I highly recommend it. It embraces how ridiculous it is. Anyway, when the shots of Vegas came up at the end, Kaitie turned to me and went: No wonder you like neon and bright lights. Truth. (Last night, while walking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaestepa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5845703&amp;post=1040&amp;subd=jessicaestepa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 29: Clarity.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, I am the worst meditator in the world. My mind is always buzzing with something. Years of multitasking means a lack of focus. So, when I&#8217;m in yoga class and the instructor goes, &#8220;Still your mind and focus on your breath,&#8221; I do anything but. I also don&#8217;t have deep, calming thoughts. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaestepa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5845703&amp;post=1036&amp;subd=jessicaestepa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 26: Quote.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not quite 9 p.m. yet and I&#8217;m already lying in bed, ready to go to sleep. So, one quote before I go (bonus points if you get that reference): I guess if true love was easy, we&#8217;d all have it. From my new favorite show, Once Upon A Time, because I&#8217;m sappy when I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaestepa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5845703&amp;post=1034&amp;subd=jessicaestepa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 25: Tired.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://jessicaestepa.wordpress.com/?p=1027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not a morning person. Once, I was supposed to meet up with someone for coffee. He suggested 8 a.m. I asked him if he knew who I was. He then suggested 10 a.m. So imagine how tough this week has been. I know getting up at 6:30 isn&#8217;t that early. I know I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaestepa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5845703&amp;post=1027&amp;subd=jessicaestepa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 24: Experience.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is a two post kind of day, since the last week and a half has been full of no posts kind of days. A year ago (or so), I was up at the Capitol, helping cover State of the Union. I sat in the Senate press gallery with another RCer then went down to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaestepa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5845703&amp;post=1018&amp;subd=jessicaestepa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day whatever: Yuppie.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I completely failed at blogging in the last week. I admit it. But in my defense, it was a busy week. I left my job at Roll Call, started a new one at Greenwire, went to the goodbye party of a friend who was moving back to Germany, went to another party that was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaestepa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5845703&amp;post=1011&amp;subd=jessicaestepa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 15: Karaoke</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At karaoke for Charita&#8217;s birthday. No time to blog. Happy Sunday/three-day weekend!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaestepa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5845703&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=jessicaestepa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 14: Cab rides.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://jessicaestepa.wordpress.com/?p=1004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I ventured out with roommate Kaitie to see a friend of a friend&#8217;s band play at the Velvet Lounge on U Street. I thought the downstairs bar vibe was more my thing than the live music upstairs. But then, a few hours later, I grabbed a cab home. The driver was blasting Nicki [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaestepa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5845703&amp;post=1004&amp;subd=jessicaestepa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day 13: Late nights.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just spent the last eleven hours in the office. And it was only in the last two hours that I really focused on crafting this story that will run sometime next week. It wasn&#8217;t until the end that the words started to flow. It wasn&#8217;t until the final paragraphs were in my head that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jessicaestepa.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5845703&amp;post=1001&amp;subd=jessicaestepa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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