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		<title>Switching It Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Friday marks the one-year anniversary that I left my full-time job to pursue freelance work as a writer, community manager and big old bucket of random-odd jobs-er.  It&#8217;s been great and I&#8217;ve learned a lot.  But after one year, I hang my full-time freelance hat on the rack of tried-its.  For anyone that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anniversary Dinner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sir Opti and I celebrated our 2-year anniversary last month.  My sweet mom-in-law gifted us with a restaurant certificate and we decided to get some fancy fondue at Gejas Cafe.  Our waiter informed us about the menu like a flight attendant giving his 1,541st safety demonstration: lifeless and anticipating either death or the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woo, Doggy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a dog.  My dog is named Toby.  My dog is cute.  My dog is a rascal.  My dog&#8230;. is mine. Many of you readers either had personally met my old dog, Prancer or remember the stories I have told about her.  She died in December of 2003.  Ever since the day after she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2011/05/woo-doggy/</link>
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		<title>Purging Things – Purging Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While packing up a 2-bedroom apartment, I&#8217;m amazed by how much stuff 2 people can seemingly collect over the course of 2.5 years of living in one space.  We have a nice sized apartment, but you would think we were living in a Barrington-like McMansion with the items we have strewed about just waiting to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2011/04/purging-things-purging-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>My Return</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Bridge Beat Readers, I&#8217;m still alive.  I&#8217;m still breathing.  It&#8217;s been over a month so I should hop on this train to blog town.  Sorry readers, for my lag in updates.  I feel like I hit my funny bone on the corner of winter and trying-to-make-a-living.  It&#8217;s left my typing hands numb and my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2011/03/my-return/</link>
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		<title>Conversations of Hilarity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Converstation #1 At the polling location near my house. The Bridge:  Hi, I&#8217;m here to vote. Polling Volunteer:  Ok, let&#8217;s take a look here.. oh, BRIDGET. The Bridge:  Yep, that&#8217;s me Polling Volunteer:  You know, my grandmother, who was from Ireland was named Bridget? The Bridge:  Oh, very nice.  I was named after my great-great-great-grandmother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2011/02/conversations-of-hilarity/</link>
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		<title>VDay Dinner Statements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sir Opti took me out to dinner last night to a new wine bar in Noble Square.  We had a lovely time trying new cuisines paired nicely with fancy wines of the red and white persuasion.  Clearly, I learned so much.  Well actually, I did, but it wasn&#8217;t about wines, it was about people.  For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2011/02/vday-dinner-statements/</link>
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		<title>Now Approaching: Rageaholic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I work from home, I don&#8217;t frequently ride the train like I used to.  When I do, however,  I sit back and enjoy the mania of public transit riders.   Crazy and angry are descriptions that never wane on buses and trains.  You may recall one such trip I took on the California bus. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2011/02/now-approaching-rageaholic/</link>
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		<title>Blizzard vs. Blizzard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blizzard is going to kill every human being it touches.   What with its freezing-wind-whipping and snow-flake-fallery, children will be banned from school, adults banned from work and if one even thinks about stepping outside &#8211; death will be waiting. That&#8217;s the message I received from highly-ranked news sources.  Fear, fear and more fear. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebridgebeat.com/2011/02/blizzard-vs-blizzard/</link>
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		<title>The Bears Game on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Did you see The Game?&#8221; That seems to be the question that bitterly falls off of the lips of all Chicago Bears fans.  And it will continue to be the question that will awkwardly tumble from their mouths for years to come.   I capitalize &#8220;The Game&#8221; because it seems like the Bears vs. Packers NFC [...]]]></description>
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