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	<description>an "insect psychologist" contemplates human behaviour</description>
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		<title>What she said was, &#8220;Aquacise&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/what-she-said-was-aquacise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Random thought:
When my rheumatologist said to get more exercise,
I&#8217;m not sure she really meant
that I should be hauling meself up &#38; down stairs
over and over because of my ADHD forgetfulness.
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		<title>Congratulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[to my daughter and her honey, on the arrival of their little geekling.  The boy is healthy and beautiful.  We&#8217;re all so proud and excited!
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		<title>Periods</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arthritis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eye contact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypermobility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migraine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then someone asks a question that helps you define an issue in life.  Recently a nurse asked me, “Do you have days when you’re not in pain?”
I considered this for a few seconds and replied, “I have periods during the day when I’m not in pain.  Usually because of my meds.  But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1780&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The long and short of it</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/the-long-and-short-of-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auditory Processing Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Autism/Asperger's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s going to be a long day; I can tell already.
Last night I finally got eight hours of sleep, aside from several prolonged coughing fits.  The previous three nights I&#8217;d only gotten four hours of sleep.  You&#8217;d think the extra rest would make me feel better, but I&#8217;m still running short on good sleep because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1772&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Illuminated</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/illuminated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insects & Arachnids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ooh, shiny!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordless Wednesday]]></category>

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		<title>News Bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behaviour management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects & Arachnids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[w00t!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our carpenter bees are happy, but the short-haired bumble became extinct in its native country several years ago.  Fortunately, immigrant populations survived in New Zealand, and are being re-introduced.  The value of native pollinators is being rediscovered as honeybee populations have dwindled. Find out how to prevent jet-lag in bees and more here in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1758&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>712</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/712/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter was finally moved back from school and doing the librarian thing, organising hers and her honey&#8217;s and everyone&#8217;s books all together.  &#8220;We have too many books,&#8221; she complained, &#8220;Or at least, not enough bookcases.&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah well, what can I say &#8230;&#8221;  At least she hadn&#8217;t had to sort out the ten shelves of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1728&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>B is for Bob, C is for -</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attribution Errors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Eek, a bee!&#8221; yelped the little girl as her mother paid for some flowers at the nursery register.
&#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s just Bob; he can&#8217;t sting you.  He&#8217;s a carpenter bee.&#8221; I explained, holding an open hand up toward where Bob was doing loop-de-loops.  But my repeated explanations aside, most people were not buying Bob&#8217;s reported status [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1721&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weather&#8217;s here, wish you were fine</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/weathers-here-wish-you-were-fine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism/Asperger's]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raynaud's Phenomenon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer sucks.  I hate the heat, the humidity, the sizzling sun boring into my head, unpeeling my limbs from each other, the restless nights spent searching futilely for a cool spot on the sheets and being sleepless for the lack of the comforting weight of blankets, the lack of appetite, the omnipresent glare, the complete [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1723&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mulch Ado About Nothing</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/mulch-ado-about-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 05:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pseudoscience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was schlepping plants around at the garden center when my mobile buzzed.  It was M calling to ask my opinion regarding an interaction he&#8217;d had over in the garden center at his store.
&#8220;There was a customer just in who was raising a big fuss because we&#8217;re selling cocoa mulch, and how it&#8217;s poisonous to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1670&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cartfuls of Spoons</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/cartfuls-of-spoons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 05:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re out.  Or, Out.  We have the exquisite &#8220;Privilege of Being Clouted By Cabbage&#8221; and are navigating the hazards of the supermarket.  When things are done the way they&#8217;re supposed to be, going to pick up a few groceries is just as boring, or as Dave discovered, lonely, for disabled people as much as it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1698&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;All we want are the facts, ma&#8217;am.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/all-we-want-are-the-facts-maam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 05:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism/Asperger's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sergeant Joe Friday of the old American cop show, Dragnet, was famous for asking witnesses &#8212; in characteristic deadpan delivery, &#8220;All we want are the facts, ma&#8217;am.&#8221;
Sounds good to me.  Not just facts (albeit they&#8217;re tremendously useful, especially when you have them in variety), but also the focus upon transmitting information, without a lot of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=510&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hotbed of Apathy</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/hotbed-of-apathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 05:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arthritis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[*sniff, sniff*
&#8220;You sound sick,&#8221; stated my daughter&#8217;s fiancé, M.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t be sick,&#8221; I mumbled in protest, and honked into a tissue.
&#8220;Redunculus; you&#8217;re sniffling.&#8221;
&#8220;I can&#8217;t be sick; it was Mr W&#8217;s day to be sick,&#8221; I explained.  &#8220;He got first dibs on being out sick today &#8230;  If all the classroom staff members who were sick [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1677&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gee, what would YOU call it?</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/gee-what-would-you-call-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 00:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coffeespew warning:
The owner of an Austrian gasthouse refused a booking by a family because they are Jewish.  
The mayor of Serfaus, Georg Mangott, defended Monz&#8217;s right to refuse guests, and said the incident should not be interpreted as antisemitic.
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		<title>A Luxury</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/a-luxury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 04:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lining Things Up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being bored is a luxury I do not have.
Not the boredom that is the enforced tedium from being exhausted by illness, or from waiting and waiting for indeterminate periods of time without diversions. But rather, the boredom that comes from choosing to be disinterested at work.
Sure, some jobs are seriously duller than others, such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1647&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brief bits of bliss</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/brief-bits-of-bliss/</link>
		<comments>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/brief-bits-of-bliss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordless Wednesday]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1650&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bureaucracy v. Teaching</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/bureaucracy-v-teaching/</link>
		<comments>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/bureaucracy-v-teaching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[OMG]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We could do all the things we NEED to do
if we weren&#8217;t so dang busy
doing all the things we &#8220;have to&#8221; do!
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		<title>Gone Bananas</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/gone-bananas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auditory Processing Disorder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago &#8230;
&#8220;4011 !&#8221; I exclaimed to my daughter.
She looked up from her Mac where she was composing her latest essay. &#8220;What?&#8221; she asked in confusion.
&#8220;They started me on cashiering today at the grocery.  4011 !&#8221;
And then we both broke out laughing.
&#8220;4011&#8243; of course being the PLU (Price Look Up) code for bananas.
When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1529&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;To Serve Man&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/to-serve-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects & Arachnids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy Crap.
So why am I taking Crap&#8217;s name in vain?  This bang-head-here piece of news:
Sen. Danny Martiny, R-Kenner, has filed Senate Bill 115 on behalf of the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Conference lobbyist Danny Loar said the bill is designed to be a &#8220;pre-emptive strike&#8221; against scientists who might want to mix &#8220;human and animal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1613&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ADD-ing new perspectives</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/add-ing-new-perspectives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ADD/ADHD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inclusiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter is sailing rather gracefully through her pregnancy &#8212; well, as gracefully as one can when they have reached the &#8220;beached whale&#8221; stage that is the third trimester.
And yet, as with many pregnant women, she is experiencing some &#8220;third trimester brain rot&#8221;, that intermittent or semi-chronic reduction in frontal-lobe functioning.  Meaning:

forgetting important things you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1587&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, sheet!</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/oh-sheet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doggone, I&#8217;ve done it again.  I even washed my bed linens earlier in the day so they would be promptly dried, but it is 1 a.m. and I realise that I have neglected to make my bed.
Well, one benefit to having to climb all over my queen-size bed (it&#8217;s up against a wall, so I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1606&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That joist isn&#8217;t funny</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/that-joist-isnt-funny/</link>
		<comments>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/that-joist-isnt-funny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor/ Fun Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyperacussis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[squeeee-squeeey-squeeeeee
The bathroom to the master bedroom is above the kitchen, and when someone is (dressing? brushing their teeth? pacing?) at a particular spot, the floor squeaks abominably, like two pieces of Styrofoam [polystyrene] being scraped together.  (Were this a ground level floor, we could go to the basement to hammer in some splints in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1567&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cool thoughts</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/cool-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home stuff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wordless Wednesday]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Not-quite Wordless Wednesday]
M&#8217;s wisdom, via poetry magnets on our fridge:
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		<title>Where are my offerings?</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/where-are-my-offerings/</link>
		<comments>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/where-are-my-offerings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor/ Fun Stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am become divine.
When I walk quietly down the hall and come up to one of the students, he often turns around and exclaims, &#8220;Oh my god!&#8221;
(Dark chocolate and garden plants are acceptable.)
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		<title>Nicely Non-verbal</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/nicely-non-verbal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism/Asperger's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coping strategies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I like about garden center work is being able to help people select plants for their different needs, and discuss how to care for them.  There are few things more pleasant than being able to share information about one of your special interests with other enthused people.
But the other day there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qw88nb88.wordpress.com&blog=240321&post=1540&subd=qw88nb88&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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