I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

So, our local weekly paper, the Glens Falls Chronicle, had a snippet where they asked 2 to 4th grade children where they envisioned themselves 30 years from now. Here's some of my favourite responses:

"Thirty years from now, I will be in a wheelchair. I will be in a wheelchair, because I will be old and cranky. I will also be mean and wrinkly. That is what I will be thirty years from now." KT Grade 4.

In 30 years I will be old and I will be eating hard candy. My skin will have wrinkles. I will have a walker and a motorized scooter. I will have no teeth. I will be doing crossword puzzles. I don't want to be 37." DM Grade 3

"In 30 years I will be napping because I will be old and tired. I will work at a snowboard shop because I love snowboarding." KL Grade 1

HERE'S SOME MORE OF MY FAVOURTIES:

"I will be driving a convertable with the wind blowing in my hair, being a mom and working as a teacher.I will take my kids to McDonalds in my convertible and will will all eat Happy Meals!!" ML Grade 2

"In 30 years I will have a job, and I will be a saleswoman or a ballerina. I think I would rather be a saleswoman instead of a ballerina. I would be a saleswoman because my dad used to be a salesman a long time ago. He was 38 I think. I would like to have kids and get married. I will live in a castle with my husband and my cat. I will make raviloi's every night. Maybe we will be rich! We could get anything we want. I would be like a queen!." GZ Grade 2

"Thirty years from now I will be 39 years old. I see myself being married to a wonderful husband with two great kids. We will have a big beautiful house with a front porch and a pool in the backyard. I will have two dogs. One is a Yorkshire Terrier, and her name will be Shelly, and the other dog will be a Pomeranian, and his name will be Petey. My job is to be mayor of South Glens Falls so I can go to all the parades and the parks and have a good seat so I can see." EJ Grade 4

"In 30 years I will be a mom and have a husband. I will have a house that is pink. I will be a nurse. My husband will be a doctor. My life will be happy." C-L W Grade 1

"In 30 years I will be a comedy show host. I will be 39. I will look like a comedian with a suit and tie. I will be thin with brown long hair and money in my pocket. The show will be in Boston. The show will be called Comedy Man, with D____R__. It will be in a glass building in front of Fenway Park." (The stadium home of the Boston Red Sox pro baseball team.) "The floor will be blue marble with black seats, a stage with green curtains, and the stage will be ten yards long. The stage is there if I get a band to play. The show broadcasts every week. The time when it broadcasts is 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The day it will broadcast is Saturuday. I will have a great life in 30 years." DR Grade 4

AND SOME MORE FAVOURITES:

"In 30 years, I will be a farmer. When I am a farmer I am going to chase cows in the barn. You have to chase cows in to milk them. I will also make food for the cows. You have to have special machinery to make the cows' foods. Another chore I will do is spread the poop on the fields. The poop makes the crops grow, and they they cut the grass again. I would love to be a farmer." WT Grade 3. (Same dream I had at that age, oddly enough).

"Thirty years from now, I will be 38 years old. I will be a famous scientist. I love science! It's my favorite subject. My new name will be Albert Einstein. It's a real name. That's how I got my name. My mom named me." AP Grade 3

"Thirty years from now I will be spying and inventing new gadgets, because I like sneaking around and making new stuff. I also want to be a spy because of all the spy books I read, and I also want to be a person that invents new gadgets, because I want it to be not as hard to spy for the CIA." KS Grade 3

This photo brings back a nice memory. I used to love it when Harry, the Episocpal Bishops gardener, used to give us rides on his big ol' red Massey Ferguson tractor...what fun!

I haven't checked my chapter stats on the fan fiction website recently, and got a bit of a shock. I've been getting over 450 reads for my first chapter! Of course, less than 25 for the most recent chapter, added Sunday, still...hmmm--people are reading this rubbish? I am a bit surprised--delighted actually, but mostly a bit gobsmacked.

Why? Because this isn't one of my better stories. I mean, I've written rubbish before, mind. But this is just stuff that I'm making up as I go, and not taking seriously at all. I guess I'd better do a writing session tommorrow, ey? Write another short chapter, maybe two, if I'm really feeling ambitious. Guess I'll have to start seriously considering an acutal plot, ey? I really am...astounded. Last time I looked, sure some people had read Chapter One, but hardly any of the other chapters were getting any serious reading...odd. Just overnight, people are reading it. Which is a bit daunting now, as when I thought no one was bothering with it, quality and plot weren't really an issue--I was just having fun with it, and letting the story go wherever it may...now...gosh, gotta start making notes and stuff. Geez...love getting read--but when I know I'm getting read (unlike my blog--which I honesty don't care about, when it comes to perfect writing, as it's just my journal and not a formal work of creativity or anything remotely like that)--when I know that people are taking the time to read one of my creative works-- a story, poem or play...that's serious stuff, and I have to write accordingly.

Of course, when writing journalistic articles, essays and the like, I always fuss over perfect writing. Creative writing--eh, not so much. I didn't take hardly any creative writing in college, so I haven't learned to be quite as paranoid about perfect copy as I have with the non-fiction.

I nearly fell tonight, coming up the stairs of my apartment building. My retinitis pigmentosa sometimes trips me up--can see better in the dark than the dim light...sometimes, if the light's really dim, I literally can see hardly anything at all. It's getting slightly worse, my periphial vision's pretty much toast..but I don't have tunnel vision or anything like that, yet, which is good. What little blindness I've got so far, is pretty much limited to one small corner of my right eye. My left eye's pretty good, it's mostly my right that bothers me.

I was always hitting kerbs with my car tires, because I couldn't make the adjustmet with my eye..but not a problem anymore--don't have a car. But I do need to remember to stop and let my eyes adjust, when I do enter a low light situation...such as coming in from a sunny place, a low wattage bulb, deep shadows and late dusk situations.