I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

Ha-ha! Fooled ya', didn't I? Okay, I'm a baaad girl.

A - Available: Old Maid (aka, permanently single)
A - Age: 46
A - Annoyance: parents who are too thick teach their kids how to do a simple basic thing like answer a telephone properly (bad phone manners).

B - Best Friends: a couple--whom I've never met
B - Beer: Don't drink--but when I was about 19/20, I drank Genesse Cream Ale/
B - Birthday: October

C - Crush: None. (No, for the last time, I'm NOT a DT fangirl! )
C - Car: (can't afford one, but if I could, it'd be a Ford Ranger pick-up truck)
C - Candy: Nestle's Coffee Creme

D - Day or night: both--I work spilt shifts
D - Dream Car: 1965 Chevy pick-up
D - Dog or cat: have 3 cats--but have had both, and like both.

E - Easiest person to talk to: my friend, G____.
E - Eggs: From wherever I can get them cheapest.
E - Email: Yup.

F - Favorite Month: October (Hey, Sketchweasel, we have something in common!)
F - Favorite colour: Cobalt blue
F - Favorite Memory: Tough call. Seeing my mum's face on my college graduation day, 2003.

G - Gummy Bears or Worms: neither--jelly babies
G - Giver or taker: prefer giver, but suppose a bit of both.
G - Gum: Birch bark

H - Hair Color: Dk. Brown w/a little gray
H - Height: 5'6"
H - Hand: Righty

I - Ice Cream: chocolate peanut butter cup
I - Instrument: none
I - Idol: Ralph Waldo Emerson

J - Jewellery: A unique, antique broach my late mum gave me for my 44th birthday, made from a turn of the century (horse)bridle decorative rosette. It was the last birthday prezzie she ever gave me, so it's doubly my favourite.
J - Job: Hell (telemarketer)
J - Jail: Refuses to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate her

K - Kids: Nope. Cats.
K - Kickboxing or karate: Magnum 357. Hey, it worked for Dirty Harry...
K - Kindergarten: Yup, 1965.

L - Longest Journey: Distance-wise - From Lake Luzerne (NY Adk. mtns.) to Cairo, Egypt-nearly 24 hours-- a taxi, 2 buses and two planes. Time-wise, it was the the three and a half days it took me to travel, in June of 1980, via 4 buses, from Albany, NY to Mammoth Hot Springs, inside Yellowstone National Park, Montana/Wyoming.
L - Love?: Not yet, not likely to.
L - Last kiss: The day my mum died. Opposite sex: never.

M - Milkshake flavor: coffee.
M - Most missed person(s): Mum, my dog, Shamrock (she was like a person, to me), and sometimes, my dad, as well, and my Aunt Ann ("nana").
M - Movie Last Watched At The cinema: Glen Drive-in theater, forget 1st feature, 2nd was that awful 40 year old virgin guy flick thing--worst movie I ever watched. That was in August of 2005.

N - Number of Siblings: one sister.
N - Number of Tattoos: Not on your life, I'm not!
N - Name: playwrite27

O - One wish: to be valued and/or needed.
O - One Phobia: Homelessness
O - One regret: Never getting to say goodbye to my dad for the last time.

P - Pet Peeves: Mean people.
P - Part of your appearance you like best: none.
P - Part of your Personality you like best: My sense of humour?

Q - Quick or Slow: Usually slow, unless my pants are on fire (don't ask).

R - Reasons to smile: My internet friends, Dr Who, my cats, a nice sunset.
R - Reality TV Show: Don't get telly, and even if I did, not much into reality TV... but I used to like the American version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and watched both versions of Antiques Roadshow (US and UK).
R - Reasons to cry: Don't get me started.

S - Song Last Heard: Letter from America.
S - Season: Autumn
S - Shoes: hiking boots or cowboy (riding) boots. Though I've taken to wearing cheap Wal-Mart trainers, of late. Sometimes loafers, as well.

T - Time for bed: Used to be 11pm, now, with my work schedule, it's..whenever.

U - U luv someone: Not living (tho I do have feelings for someone, but that person is oblivious, and that's okay).
U - Unpredictable: Sometimes, yeah.

V - Vegetable you hate: mushrooms!
V - Vegetable you love: cauliflower
V - Vacation spot: Iceland

W - Worst Habits: Not enough space to list them here.
W - Where are you going to travel next: No where. I'm crazy-glued to Glens Falls, NY
W - Weather right now: Humid and and partly cloudy

X - X-Rays: about 3 months ago

Y - Year you were born: 1960
Y - Year it is now: 2007

Z - Zoo Animal: Beats me, haven't been to a zoo in over 30 years.

I'm afraid that I'm hopelessly disillusioned and disgusted with my country. I'd been looking at this young Mr. Obama, as a potential Presidential contender--but now the jerk opens his mouth and starts spouting about terrorism... Ugh!!!! I'm so sick of hearing the mindless twaddle about terrorism! I mean, yes, it's important--but my country for the past 6 years, has been utterly consumed by it. I mean, now I know how the Nazi's got so much power--people do get caught up in stuff, and can't think of anything else--to the point where the whole of their civilization starts falling apart...not that they can see, because hey, they gotta' look for those terrorists, ya'know...

I'm here to tell you, from life experience, that I'm in a hundred times more danger from my fellow mean, nasty, impatient, violent, mentally lazy, Americans--just ordinary "normal" citizens, than I ever will be, from some foreign terrorist. If I do ever get killed, chances are it will be by an American--getting hit while legally crossing the street, because some arse can't wait the less than 10 seconds it takes me to cross, or some guy shooting me for the 5 dollars in my wallet, or getting stabbed because I might say or do something to the wrong person, at the wrong time. Screw the bombs and biological weapons--someone take these "normal" people out and give 'em a lesson in being human, for pity's sake!

I want out of this country so bad--but, I suppose people are rubbish, no matter where you go, these days, aren't they?

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DAY 11

STORY 11

Dalek Roundup