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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not normally one for New Year’s resolutions but, as I am an early-January baby, this time of year usually leads me to reflect, at least briefly, on The Year That Was and What May Come. Two things leap out: a) I need to stop wasting my time and energy on people who aren’t my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elegantalligator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248556&amp;post=1226&amp;subd=elegantalligator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying: it’s not just for kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was tempting to call this blog “How the Smite-y Have Fallen” because funny is what I do. Unfortunately, this blog is about the un-funniest thing I have ever written – which is, of course, why it is tempting to deflect that with humour. Like most people (hypochondriacs and Poor-Me’s aside), I would prefer to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elegantalligator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248556&amp;post=1214&amp;subd=elegantalligator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Aspergian&#8217;s Guide to Yoga</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Namaste, everyone. (Heh&#8230; made you look.) Well, after a year of gathering my data, it&#8217;s finally up: An Aspergian&#8217;s Guide to Yoga. This is a handy how-to guide for the Aspergian in your life (and you know you have at least one!). Or, if you&#8217;ve always wanted to try yoga but had no idea how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elegantalligator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248556&amp;post=1202&amp;subd=elegantalligator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apples for my teachers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMC</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My loyal readers will know that yesterday I received my first shipment of math and science DVDs from a company called The Great Courses. Using every ounce of self-control I have in my scaly little body (that is to say, I had to put the DVDs where I couldn&#8217;t see them), I waited till I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elegantalligator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248556&amp;post=1187&amp;subd=elegantalligator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas comes early chez Smiter!</title>
		<link>http://elegantalligator.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/christmas-comes-early-chez-smiter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, having just promised all of you a hasty return to more or less regular blogging, I blush to admit there may be yet another impediment to my best-laid plans. Yes indeed, loyal readers, I have fallen prey to the siren call of The Great Courses, whose stated mission is &#8220;To ignite the passion for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elegantalligator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248556&amp;post=1173&amp;subd=elegantalligator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m not dead yet!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://elegantalligator.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/im-not-dead-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently some of my loyal readers have started to inquire, at first with irritation and now with some uneasiness, whether Dr Smiter has a) stopped writing altogether and begun herding yaks for a living, or b) shuffled off this mortal coil altogether. Friends and acquaintances have tactfully asked whether I need a secretary, a vacation, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elegantalligator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248556&amp;post=1164&amp;subd=elegantalligator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Where there is danger, someone must go first”</title>
		<link>http://elegantalligator.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/%e2%80%9cwhere-there-is-danger-someone-must-go-first%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 17:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book review My margin notes for Trevor Norton’s Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth go something like this: “Ew!” “OMG!” “Gross!” “LOL!” “Wow!” “Eek!” “Oops…” “Ha ha!” and “oh, barf…” In other words, if you’re the type of person who enjoys eating while you read, this book is probably not for you. But if you’re willing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elegantalligator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248556&amp;post=1148&amp;subd=elegantalligator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nonstandard wiring: a blueprint for survival in a nypical world</title>
		<link>http://elegantalligator.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/nonstandard-wiring-a-blueprint-for-survival-in-a-nypical-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Head to the Asperger Café to read my review of John Elder Robison&#8217;s new book, Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian, with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families &#38; Teachers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elegantalligator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248556&amp;post=1138&amp;subd=elegantalligator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Asperger Café is moving!</title>
		<link>http://elegantalligator.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/the-asperger-cafe-is-moving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JMC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last year or so, the articles published in the Asperger Café section of my blog have consistently gotten so many hits that it&#8217;s time for them to have their own home. Don&#8217;t worry &#8212; they&#8217;re not going far. They&#8217;re just around the corner in a new sub-section of this one called (what else) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elegantalligator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248556&amp;post=1130&amp;subd=elegantalligator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gifted</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Smiter Archives, Feb. 17, 2001 Not too long ago I was having a sulk about my snail-like progress in my karate classes (I&#8217;ve been a Yellow Belt &#8212; the next-to-lowest level &#8212; for longer than most of you have had adult teeth), and about the difficulties of getting down to the hard slogging [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elegantalligator.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248556&amp;post=1123&amp;subd=elegantalligator&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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