Writing contest!

...at The Penslayer and Scribbles and Ink Stains, Jan 1 - 31.  The theme is "First Impressions", and you can read the rest of the rules at their blogs. :)  Count me in!  I love analyzing people and comparing first impressions with my ultimate opinion.  It's interesting to see which first impressions are accurate and which aren't. 

And a little advice from Nathaniel Hawthorne:

This is the secret of all entertaining travellers. If you meet with any distinguished characters, give personal sketches of them. Begin to write always before the impression of novelty has worn off from your mind, else you will be apt to think that the peculiarities which at first attracted you are not worth recording; yet those slight peculiarities are the very things that make the most vivid impression upon the reader. Think nothing too trifling to write down, so it be in the smallest degree characteristic. You will be surprised to find on re-perusing your journal what an importance and graphic power these little particulars assume.