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	<title>JessicarulestheUniverse &#187; Emotional weather report</title>
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		<title>How to be good?</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2011/02/20/how-to-be-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Albert Camus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note the question mark: it is the most important part of the title. This is a column pocked with question marks; I do not have the answers, nor do I trust those who claim to have them. I am especially wary of people and groups who issue prescriptions about how we should live—too many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read this. Just read this.</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2010/09/27/read-this-just-read-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Borghese Gardens, Rome. To an Aesthete Dying Young by Andrew Solomon in the Yale Alumni Magazine.]]></description>
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		<title>It creeps, then it leaps</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2010/01/22/it-creeps-then-it-leaps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional weather report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antioxidants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scary old age: Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. It creeps up on you imperceptibly—the tiny shock when you’re filling out a form and you have to compute the answer to “age”, the lone white hair sticking out on top of your head, running into classmates at the mall and being introduced to their tall, articulate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emily Postal at the taxi queue</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/09/04/emily-postal-at-the-taxi-queue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/09/04/emily-postal-at-the-taxi-queue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amok]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional weather report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Postal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manners]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My grocery chores done, I walked to the taxi stop to catch a ride home. As I approached the door leading to the taxi stop, a heavyset man darted in front of me, barely avoiding a collision, and parked himself in front of the queue. Since there was no one else standing in line, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In hindsight, Happiness</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/08/14/in-hindsight-happiness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/08/14/in-hindsight-happiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional weather report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=3917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Through the NYT&#8217;s Happy Days blog I discovered the work of Tim Kreider. The prose first, and then the cartoons for which he is better known. He&#8217;s Brilliant. &#8220;My Desk&#8221; from The Painâ€”When Will It End? This piece about how we only realize we&#8217;re happy after the fact kills me not just because it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And now for something really basic</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/08/12/and-now-for-something-really-basic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2009/08/12/and-now-for-something-really-basic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional weather report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Underwear]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=3896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The women&#8217;s underwear section at Marks &#038; Sparks. Good engineering. Boring styles. Years ago when I was writing in TODAY, the column that elicited the largest number of reactions was not about world domination, movies, or covering books in plastic. It was the column about brassieres. At the time there weren&#8217;t many brands available locally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of My Latchkey Childhood</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/11/29/memories-of-my-latchkey-childhood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/11/29/memories-of-my-latchkey-childhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional weather report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T.H. White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woody Allen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=1557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a spate of new books on â€œoverparentingâ€ or â€œhelicopter parentingâ€â€”spoiling oneâ€™s child (buying him too many toys) while subjecting him to â€œachievement pressureâ€ (sending him to kindergartens with advanced math, forcing him into extracurricular activities that would look good on his college application, zealously monitoring his test scores). Most of the authors agree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital telepathy</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/10/03/digital-telepathy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/10/03/digital-telepathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional weather report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cellphones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eraserheads]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The band had just started playing â€œLigayaâ€ when the guy in front of me started sending out text messages. Whoever you are, Iâ€™m sorry I read your messages but I couldnâ€™t help it, your phone was in my face. His message read, â€œPare nasa Fort kami ang galing galing ng Eheads concert the best!â€ (Weâ€™re [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Soft porn Thomas Hardy</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/09/27/soft-porn-thomas-hardy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/09/27/soft-porn-thomas-hardy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question from a reader: â€œSarah Palin and the fundamentalists make me think that &#8220;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8221; is now shifting from speculative fiction to fact. I read it when I was in my early teens and I remember being seriously freaked out. . . &#8220;Some years after the book was published, a film version with Faye [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Silence of the Retired FBI Agents</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/08/22/the-silence-of-the-retired-fbi-agents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/08/22/the-silence-of-the-retired-fbi-agents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional weather report]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The X-Files 2: I Want To Believe is not nearly as horrendous as the reviews say it is. If you were an X-phile, itâ€™s a pleasant way to pass two hours in the company of old friendsâ€”even if somebody onscreen has to say â€œI want to believeâ€ every 15 minutes to remind us of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comfortably Twisted</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/08/14/comfortably-twisted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/08/14/comfortably-twisted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study shows that being normal is actually extraordinary. I, for one, don&#8217;t know any normal people. I wouldn&#8217;t know what to do if I met one.Â  &#8220;Normal people may be nicer than average, but they also have character traits that aren&#8217;t universally appealing. They&#8217;re not adventurous. They&#8217;re not above average in intelligence, nor are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occam&#8217;s Razor does not cut here.</title>
		<link>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/06/06/occams-razor-does-not-cut-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/06/06/occams-razor-does-not-cut-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessicazafra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotional weather report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pointless Anecdotes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For years my friend Bernard-Henri Not Levy has been railing that Occam&#8217;s Razor&#8211;the principle that the simplest explanation is probably the best&#8211;does not work in the Philippines. He is terribly disappointed that no one disagrees with him. Now he goes around railing that we fail the Turing Test, and if no one has disagreed with [...]]]></description>
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