Back from China - highlights were Harbin and Tibet.
Met some nice people, also some arseholes, and one too many Bush voters, including one who described "Australian-English" as "a hideous language." This guy was a freak to begin with, and when he said it, I very regrettably said nothing in response, but later had wonderful fantasies of having stood up and poured my Tsingtao all over his crotch - something you'd see in an American movie, for example. And I would say "and here's a hideous stain on your pants, arsehole." The hostel bar would suffer shock for the rest of the night, and I would become known as that ultra-sensitive Australian chick who had an emotional disturbance or something... but I wouldn't have had it any other way.