Well, it is always up for debate Evil J but I'm not sure what it does for my own reputation!
For the record, my two pennies worth on a very good post. As you know my r/t used to be the worst of the worst (I'm better now that I know that those thoroughly decent chaps and chapesses across the radio waves are just that, thoroughly decent. crawl.) I always found that it was helpful to me to declare that I was a student if I was having a bit of a bad day. Somehow it eased a little bit of the pressure knowing that atc were aware. If I was having a particularly good and confident day I didn't bother.
We're hoping to come and visit sometime within the next 3 weeks, whilst my 30-day rule is still valid. And that'll be it for a while, no more money. Perhaps you can take Commander Halo up sometime soon?