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Well howdy again ladies and gents,

I am currently writing y'all from my "home" as I like to call it, West Bay Lagoon, Doha, Qatar.... I'm loving it already because it took me a good 15 minutes to figure out how to get this website out of Arabic so that I could actually understand what I was doing. (Some of y'all are wondering why I couldn't understand it... Well... That's because it's Arabic, and yes, it is a VERY hard language to learn... Even if you enjoy it as much as I do... :D ) To recount the experience, Armed with my new camera (which hopefully y'all will see some shots from over the course of the next few weeks. I'm gonna try to incorporate a few into this entry... Whoop!!!) and my two carry-on bags... I began my trip over here... The flights over were awesome... Houston to London, I pretty much watched movies the entire 8 hours over, lets see if I can remember them all... Started off with G.I. Joe, which I might add, I had been skeptical about due to some BAD reviews. This movie taught me one thing... That I must have a bad taste in movies, or that I'm forgiving of mistakes, because I thought it was a pretty good one... I enjoyed it! Second up... I think I watch the Family Guy parody of Star Wars, and it was safe to say I enjoyed it as well, but I figure that's because I'm a major Star Wars nerd, I eat the stuff up... Then I recall playing asteroids for a good 2 or so hours because it was pretty easy and the game took a while to take me out.. :D Then, the best decision of my trip thus far occurred...

Yeeaaahhh Baby Yeeaaahhh!!!

I put on an old favorite of mine, Austin Powers: Goldmember, and OH MAN... That movie was good when I watched it 4-5 years ago, but it only got better seeing it again as a college student, and singing along to "It's a hard-knock life" with Doctor Evil and Mini-me was definitely the highlight... The stuff I memorized as a High Schooler... *Sigh* Alright, by now there's about three hours left in my flight, and I'm looking for a new movie to watch. Under the comedy section there was a movie called "Post Grad" which looked interesting for two reasons, one the extremely good looking lady on movie's title page (or whatever you want to call it) and it has one of my favorite actors from Friday Night Lights the TV show in it, but two (and probably more applicable to the ladies who read this...), it was about a time period us college students are about to enter... (and one I'm worrying about right now, with the future uncertain.) As I come to find, it's a bit of a chick-flick... But you know... You gotta take what you can get on these flights, but I happily surprised with the theme of it all and the ending kinda had me thinking. *SPOILER ALERT* (for those of y'all who care) The main character had her life planned out for herself, getting everything done until she applies for this job and doesn't get it... It spins her life outta control, she loses the guy she likes to Cambridge college but gets the job she wants in the end. However, she bucks the trend of going with her scheduled life to go to New York to be with this guy. Now I'm not one for all the lovey-dovey stuff at the end... *END OF SPOILER ALERT*But the message of the movie was a pretty neat one... And that's be ready for problems with the goals in your life, but be flexible because good things can happen where you least expect them too... And while the guys are slapping their heads right now mumbling about how I've lost some major "man-points" with them, I feel like it pointed out the fact I should be more flexible with my future, be more excited about possibilities I haven't even considered yet... Who knows...

Anyways... My flight wound up being half an hour late to London, which left me with an hour and a half to switch airports from Hethrow to Gatwick... Wasn't gonna happen... So I went around Hethrow asking people where Qatar Airways' desk was, took a train, etc etc. all the while feeling pretty guilty about being excited that the next flight may be A LOT later in the day, thus opening up the possibility of my getting to spend a few hours in one of my two favorite cities. After a little while, I found the desk, and they actually managed to hook me up with a flight leaving the exact same time from the airport I was in... Lucky?? Yes, definitely... But I was sort of sad I wasn't going into London, but oh well... Ran to my gate, checked in, got on the flight and passed out, for all six hours of the flight. Good stuff?? Not really, my flight arrived here in Doha at 7... pm. It's now around 1:30 in the morning and I'm only just now beginning to feel a bit tired... Some of that has been jetlag... Some of it.. Okay, the majority of it, has been because I've been watching football online... My fantasy team is in the Semi's, so I'm keeping up with that over here....

Oh yeah... Fantasy football....

Another reason I have been up late, I had the chance to catch up with an old friend on facebook, something I always ALWAYS suggest doing, it really was a good time!! Finally, I am now writing the first of many Christmas break posts, so with a few hours of sleep we'll see what happens tomorrow...

Now I know usually I have some kind of politically charged statement to make, but I don't tonight and I'm gonna blame it on on the je je je je je jetlag this time... But also, these next few posts will be more on my break, and if I have something to say about a going on, then that'll be included too...

Oh and p.s., it was brought up in the chatting session with my friend that China blocks facebook... So I'm not sure if they block this too... But I suppose we'll find out when I get there the 27th... Do you smell a possible political theme for next time?? Maybe children... Maybe...

But in the meantime, take care!! Stay safe! And continue to have a good break... every last one of y'all!!

Double p.s. : My new camera takes HD video too supposedly... I'm excited about that... So videos will be uploaded to my youtube site... When it happens, I'll let y'all know where you can find them...