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	<title>Annie Fox's Blog &#187; Annoyance Challenge</title>
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		<title>No constitutional right to be a jerk.</title>
		<link>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/09/10/no-constitutional-right-to-be-a-jerk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annoyance Challenge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In last night&#8217;s speech before a joint session of Congress the President was clear about his goals for health care reform. He also delivered a clear message to Americans about the most effective way to deal with rude and disrespectful people.  When the President stated the fact that the health care reform bill does not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 12-16: Now I get it</title>
		<link>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/24/days-12-16-now-i-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annoyance Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, folks, I&#8217;m officially ending the Annoyance Challenge. Tell you the truth there were aspects of this assignment that really bugged me. I know, I brought it on myself. But still, it&#8217;s a pain to have to blog every day, not that I did it every single day, as evidenced in the title of today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 11: Those annoying people at school</title>
		<link>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/19/day-12-those-annoying-people-at-school/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/19/day-12-those-annoying-people-at-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annoyance Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annoying people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The responses to my teen annoyance survey keep coming in, but I&#8217;ve got enough now to see a trend. Apparently, school is the most annoying place in the world. Why? Because so many of the other students are sooooo annoying. Here are a few of the choicest descriptions I received in answer to the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 10: I don&#8217;t want to be here</title>
		<link>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/18/days-10-i-dont-want-to-be-here/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/18/days-10-i-dont-want-to-be-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annoyance Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annoyance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Annoyance Challenge continues. (Huff, puff, grrrrrrr, $#@%! ) David&#8217;s getting with the program too. The other day while we were driving, I was grumbling about something. What was it? Hmmm. Ah yes!  Well, now that I actually remember, it&#8217;s too embarrassing to mention&#8230;. too petty and infantile. You say you want to hear it anyway? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 9: Asking teens to weigh in</title>
		<link>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/16/day-9-asking-teens-to-weigh-in/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/16/day-9-asking-teens-to-weigh-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annoyance Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quizzes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I expanded my Annoyance Challenge exploration by emailing a survey to one hundred tweens and  teens. The topic: annoying behavior at school. Here are the six straight-forward questions. At school what things annoy you? (Lots of details please but no names!) When someone’s behavior annoys you, what do you usually do about it? At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 8: Art = Annoyance Relief</title>
		<link>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/15/day-8-art-annoyance-relief/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/15/day-8-art-annoyance-relief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impressionists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian Street Painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian Street painting festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Rafael]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the end of the first week of The Annoyance Challenge, was annoyance-free. Seriously. David and I made our annual pilgrimage to the Italian Street Painting Festival in the neighboring town of  San Rafael and everything about it was cool. The weather. The crowds. The music. And, of course, thanks to the artists who sat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Days 6 &amp; 7: I&#8217;m not annoyed, dammit! I&#8217;m frustrated!</title>
		<link>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/14/days-6-7-im-not-annoyed-dammit-im-frustrated/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/14/days-6-7-im-not-annoyed-dammit-im-frustrated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[staking tomato plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomatoes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They were so cute when I brought them home. And so cooperative when I tucked them in. First lining their beds with just the right amount of $14-a-box-organic-plant-food. They never struggled or popped up making demands. They just smiled up at me as if to say, &#8220;It&#8217;s so reassuring to be in the hands of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 5: Send in the clouds</title>
		<link>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/12/day-5-send-in-the-clouds/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/12/day-5-send-in-the-clouds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you've got a good reason to be annoyed, but honestly you're not, does it still count?

That's what I asked myself this afternoon as I sat on the low wall looking out into the school parking lot knowing I might have an hour to kill before David returned to pick me up. Normally at this time I'd be mentoring an 8th grader, but today, she stood me up after calling on Wednesday to let me know that she wasn't going to make it to our weekly Thursday meeting and then agreeing to reschedule for today. And yet... after David dropped me off to do a Trader Joe's run (we were out of chocolate) it became clear that my mentee had gone straight home without telling me or the afterschool program director. In her defense, tonight is the 8th grade graduation dance and I'm pretty sure our meeting wasn't on her mind as she rushed home to get ready.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 4: Why am I doing this now?</title>
		<link>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/11/day-4-why-am-i-doing-this-now/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/11/day-4-why-am-i-doing-this-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[john irving]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The World According to Garp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Thursday and I am officially annoyed with myself for blogging instead of working on Book 4 of Middle School Confidential. True, the first draft isn&#8217;t due until late fall, but I had this plan of finishing it in June so I&#8217;d have July and August off and then in September I&#8217;d revisit the draft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 3: Since it&#8217;s you, I don&#8217;t mind</title>
		<link>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/10/day-3-since-its-you-i-dont-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.anniefox.com/2009/06/10/day-3-since-its-you-i-dont-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Rummel-Hudson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schuyler's Monster]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My &#8220;gift&#8221; from the Universe hasn&#8217;t arrived yet. I&#8217;m imagining Ms. U in line at the post office. She&#8217;s waiting, doing some re-centering breathing, and feeling herself age as she watches the wall clock creep forward faster than the queue. When she finally gets to the counter, she discovers she hasn&#8217;t got the correct postage and [...]]]></description>
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