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I'm off to Houston for a holiday in less than a month! I'll be there for about 2 and a half weeks. I've been incredibly lucky with travels in my life, and I never take it for granted. This will be my second overseas trip by myself and on my own dollar (though having free accommodation with friends is a huuuuuuge help). All the rest were when I was a kid/young teen, so I was with family. I think my favourite place that I've visited so far would be India, though I definitely wouldn't want to live there. The differences in culture, people and sights all made it very interesting. Less fun when in our last week we travelled around more and I got

Expect some uploads soon from the scavenger hunt I did in the past week called gishwhes :D (google it if ya don't know what I'm talking about). I'm quite impressed with myself, especially since I had been working EVERY day except Friday, I managed to get a decent amount of items done. And my team really came through, wow some of their entries are awesome! Do I think we'll win? Not a chance. But I reckon whatever team does win will really really deserve it, and I hope they share the experience with the rest of us poor souls :D  . So yes, you'll be seeing a  few uploads, some good and some not so much, haha. The items I submitted: Roasted Ba

So I was at the mall (which is rather a grand word for it, it's a small mall) and I decided to donate money to some of the people collecting outside one of the more popular shops. Now this was all well and good until one of them said "Oh, you're an angel", which immediately made me wince and set my teeth on edge. Why? I'm not sure, all I know is that flattery almost always gets an immediate recoil from me. :D So, to the point of this. It got me thinking about the persuasion wheel mini-game thing in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and how its probably prettyy accurate in general terms. So there's Joke, Admire, Boast, and Coerce to choose out of t