Only just read this thread, this is the first time I've been able to get to a computer since I left the country on the 27th! Anyway, thanks very much for the birthday wishes, everybody! It's great to be eighteen at long last.

I'm writing on a psychosis-inducingly slow internet connection in Hoi An in central Vietnam. I'm having a great time here; I''ll post some pics from the trip when I get back!