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		<title>Hogmanay Hootenanny</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a taste for (admittedly very low level) video editing now. These are the highlights from last New Year&#8217;s in Edinburgh. I had uploaded this to Facebook, but they just pulled it down as I am apparently a copyright infringer. I&#8217;m sure Mr. Bowie wouldn&#8217;t mind though.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomschaller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2544735&amp;post=94&amp;subd=tomschaller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schaller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent trip to Okinawa it was discovered during the course of an epic game of Rummy, that one member of our party could not shuffle a deck of cards to save her life. This is her journey towards learning how. This is first time I&#8217;ve ever messed around with iMovie. It was all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomschaller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2544735&amp;post=88&amp;subd=tomschaller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry about boozing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schaller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a poem I wrote a little while ago to commemorate an epic (and fairly stupid) drinking session undertaken with some friends. Not very relevant or interesting unless you know those involved, but there it is. The Centurion &#8216;Twas evening in Hojo, And the darkness drew near, As warriors arrived, To do battle with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomschaller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2544735&amp;post=49&amp;subd=tomschaller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things About Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schaller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That upstanding gent, Deas, over at Rocking in Hakata was kind enough to tag me in this meme thing, and as I&#8217;m only too happy to catch a little bit of the resulting sparkle from his astounding traffic numbers, I thought at the very least I should attempt to fulfill the meme requirements. 5 Things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomschaller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2544735&amp;post=46&amp;subd=tomschaller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Come, old broomstick, you are needed&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schaller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer, the roster of schools I teach at changed. I now have a different junior high school as my base school and four new primary schools which I visit on rotation every Monday and Friday afternoons. One of these primary schools, Tataki, has a grand total of five students and four permanent members of staff. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomschaller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2544735&amp;post=36&amp;subd=tomschaller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Tea Ceremony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schaller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d never broken a bone in my body until a few weeks ago (I&#8217;d broken a bone in somebody else&#8217;s body, but that&#8217;s another story). Whether that is down to strong bones of a general aversion to bone-crunching activities, I&#8217;m not sure, but I would tend to lean towards the latter. My unblemished record has now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomschaller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2544735&amp;post=24&amp;subd=tomschaller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading time &#8211; The Lawless Roads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schaller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of my desperately inadequate ability to update this blog with anything approaching regularity, I thought I would branch out and attempt to use it for other purposes in an effort to encourage myself to be somewhat more productive. So I&#8217;ve decided to use this space to document the books I&#8217;ve been reading; more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomschaller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2544735&amp;post=20&amp;subd=tomschaller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Travel is only glamorous in retrospect&#8221; &#8211; Part the First</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 09:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schaller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sneak out of school early. Spend five minutes searching for bike; curse students for having moved it. Eventually remember it has a puncture and was left at home. Forced to walk. Arrive home with the intention of packing. Get distracted by recently acquired pop-up Star Wars book. Feel inspired. Watch Star Wars DVD. Go to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomschaller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2544735&amp;post=19&amp;subd=tomschaller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The floodgates open</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schaller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stereotypes are a nasty business. Potentially very offensive, not to mention hugely limiting, when we do revert to using them it is usually as a result of sheer laziness more than anything else. This type of shorthand is particularly tempting in Japan, where stereotypes allow us to pretend we have at least a basic level [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomschaller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2544735&amp;post=18&amp;subd=tomschaller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shameless self-promotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schaller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a man can&#8217;t use his own blog to promote himself, then really, what good is it in the first place? I have written a piece for a travel writing competition, and while I&#8217;m not actually sure that it strictly counts as travel writing (being the story of something that happened to me which could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomschaller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2544735&amp;post=17&amp;subd=tomschaller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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