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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather is struggling against a disturbing tendency to be bone-chillingly cold. Sometimes it’s successful, and we have a patch of warmth accompanied by humidity that makes the buildings sweat. When the weather is winning, Athena and I spend some time on the kindergarten playground before going home. Athena likes the sandbox the best. It’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinatroll.com&amp;blog=26345271&amp;post=464&amp;subd=chinatroll&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know why, maybe there’s a romantic sound to it or something, but I wanted to go to Hong Kong for Christmas. Another one of those, “It seemed like a good idea at the time,” sort of things. Nathan, my bus driving, photo-taking, film-making friend, needed to pick up some film that he had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinatroll.com&amp;blog=26345271&amp;post=438&amp;subd=chinatroll&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waxing Pathetic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much of life can be summed up with the phrase, “It seemed like a good idea at the time.” My legs, after the long month of November, which not only hosts NaNoWriMo, but also No-Shave November, were dang hairy. I poked around online a bit, trying to find a recommendation for leg and bikini [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinatroll.com&amp;blog=26345271&amp;post=426&amp;subd=chinatroll&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Haven of Hong Kong</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of NaNoWriMo and the genesis of the never-ending sinus infection, I got the undeniable urge to get the hell out of Dodge. I wanted to be among Friends of the capital F variety (as in Quakers, for those of you who don’t spend Sundays sitting in silence), and I wanted to have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinatroll.com&amp;blog=26345271&amp;post=419&amp;subd=chinatroll&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Hello, White-knee?” She speaks in a husky voice with unintentional Valley Girl overtones, and without waiting for an answer she continues, “This is Helen from Nogogo.” I manage a sort of salutary grunt while experiencing a flashback to being called “Whitey” by my sixth-grade classmates, most of whom were African-American, after they discovered that my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinatroll.com&amp;blog=26345271&amp;post=390&amp;subd=chinatroll&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Never Ending Sinus Infection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a rapidly expanding family of cockroaches living in my laptop, giving new meaning to the idea of one’s electronics being bugged. I think they must like the warmth the computer provides, especially now that the temperature has actually dropped. It has been sampling the 40s at night for the past few days, providing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinatroll.com&amp;blog=26345271&amp;post=378&amp;subd=chinatroll&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Return from NaNoLand</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have made it through NaNoWriMo very nearly unscathed. I am a winner! Athena got really excited when I told her this, and even more excited that we were going out for dinner to celebrate. She asked me if I had written my novel faster than everyone else, if that’s why I was a winner. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinatroll.com&amp;blog=26345271&amp;post=372&amp;subd=chinatroll&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wingless Fairies and Drunken Englishmen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Athena and I watched the draining of the swimming pool in our apartment complex, more poetically referred to as a “Garden” by the Chinese, at the end of September. This ended our nightly swims, much to Athena’s chagrin and my ill-concealed relief. When we walk to our Metro station, Xiangmihu, we cut through the courtyard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinatroll.com&amp;blog=26345271&amp;post=338&amp;subd=chinatroll&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, on my way back from a sanity-restoring trip to our local Starbucks, I stopped in the lobby of my building and opened my mailbox. As I fitted the key into the lock, turned it, opened the little metal door, and took out the junk mail that was lying in wait there, a joie de [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinatroll.com&amp;blog=26345271&amp;post=331&amp;subd=chinatroll&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is nearly upon us. Every November, thousands of people who have been bitten by the creative bug hunker down at their computers, typewriters, notepads, rolls of parchment, and papyrus scrolls, to pound out 50,000 word flights of literary fancy. WriMos, as we are frequently referred to, sign up for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinatroll.com&amp;blog=26345271&amp;post=313&amp;subd=chinatroll&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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