ONCE AGAIN, GREETINGS FROM TIANJIN, CHINA. I decided that the best thing about China was its relatively cheap clothing. Not the kind in department stores, but the kind you find on the street. Oh how I love street shopping. And a couple of these shops are very trendy. A lot of them blast dance music. And the other day, I heard the dance song "With Love" by Hilary Duff! IT WAS AWESOME!!

On the other hand, people here seem to have never heard of vegetarianism. I go into a restaurant, prod my dad into explaining to the waitresses that I don't eat meat, and then they ask, "Oh, does she eat shrimp? Fish? What kind of vegetables can she eat?" And then one of my great-grandmothers asks if I can eat chicken. Practically everyone is equally confounded and idiotic when I announce my vegetarianism.

In those instances, I totally felt like palming their chests and sucking the life out of those nincompoops, exactly like the Wraith, an alien race from the Pegasus galaxy in the science fiction show Stargate Atlantis, does.

In conclusion, being a Wraith would be really cool.