I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

Growing in in the suburb/country, one of our spring to autumn past-times was berry, flower and apple picking. Wildflowers, wild berries, wild onions and thyme, even snitching apples from the ancient trees in the field next to our house, we were kept busy at times.

WILD BLACKBERRIES

WILD RASPBERRIES

THE TINY BUT EVER-SO-SWEETER THAN SWEET WILD STRAWBERRY

WILD ONIONS

EDIBLE WILD VIOLETS

SPRINGTIME FIDDLE HEAD (YOUNG) FERNS--MUCH SOUGHT AFTER BY LOCAL GOURMETS FOR SALADS

WILD THYME

YOUNG DANDELION GREENS (SPRING), ALSO EDIBLE AND USED IN SALADS

WILD CARROT (AKA: QUEEN ANNE'S LACE)

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Me, around age 12

I've not been to see a film in exactly 3 years...do I go tonight?

Will they even let me walk in to a drive-in theater?

http://glendriveintheater.com/index.html

Will it be worth spending $15 dollars (the buses stop running at 11pm, so I'll have to ring up a cab to come home) to sit in a lawn chair to see a couple of films?

The film choices changed from Thursday, as well, when I had my eye on "Dark Knight" and "Clone Wars." Now, the choices are, for this weekend, SCREEN 1: "Tropic Thunder" and "Mirrors" and on SCREEN 2: "Babylon A.D." and "The Rocker." Never heard of either one of them--worth sitting outside for 4 hours for? Or give it a pass?

Not even half-past eight in the morning over here, and already my hillbilly neighbours are at it again! Sister loud-mouth is yelling about something and slamming doors. Well, really, she doesn't actually talk ya'know...yell is the only volume her voice has, apparently.

And in the "ewwwww!" department, last night when I went to take the bin bags out to the skip out in the rear car-park, I heard erm---"sexual" noises coming from their apartment...from dear old sis, actually. As I was coming back upstairs, one of their friends had apparently let himself in (against the new building rules), and was banging away on their door...brother opened their door, yelling he was "busy," and who was it, so he opens the door and is standing there...in his underpants, and when he saw me, he ducked away from the door with an embarassed look.

Okay, I REAAAALLLLY don't want to know, if the guy was embarrassed 'cos he was in his pants, or if he was caught with his sister...ewwwwwwww!!!! Doesn't bear thinking about...and it you could see dear ol' sis, you'd probably lose your breakfast, too.

Anyway, I don't want to go to work today, but must, I fear. Nearly 5 hours of telemarketing hell, I must face, damn it. I hate my job. I've had a lot worse jobs, so I do try to keep that in mind, but I can't tell you how much I hate sales! I wish I was posh-looking, or thin, or had a 4-year degree--or all of the above... then I could get a proper job, but, I am what I am, and there's no running away from that.

And, after I get done there, I have to bus myself out to the laundromat--that's gonna' hurt, carting all that laundry around--my bad foot is hurting so bad, I can barely stand on it. (Last year I got a type III foot sprain/fracture--literally the worst one can get, which basically demolished my foot), it really hurts horribly, and I've no idea why. I mean, it hurts 24/7, but usually it's low-grade pain, and completely tolerable. This ache kept me awake part of the night. Nothing I or anyone else can do about it, so I just have to take some Advil and deal with it.

I'm weary of life, some days, but what can you do? Just keep my head down and keep going, I guess. Maybe tomorrow will be different...perhaps not better--but, different.

Bedtime for me, nearly a 5 hour shift tommorrow, then laundry. Yuck.

Must be a change in the weather coming, my right hand is stiff and sore--arthritis? My right foot has been more swollen and painful than usual, as well, and my limp more pronounced these day. It's no old wive's tale about one's joints and the changing weather, mine are better than a National Weather Service forecast!

I just found a $10 bill crumpled up in a pair of jeans that I've put into the laundry hamper...maybe I'll take a lawn chair and some insect repellent and go to the drive-in theater....Screen 2 is a double feature of "Dark Knight," and "Clone Wars." Are they any good? I've not been to see a film in exactly 3 years this weekend. Though I wonder what the ticket booth attendant would think of someone "walking' into a drive-in! Is it even allowied? I reckon I will be the first "walk-in" patron of a "drive-in" theater, ha--ha. That is, outside of people who used to sneak in under the fence (like my sister admitted she once did, at our local "Tri-City Twin" Drive-in Theater in our hometown. She was about 13 at the time, I think).

Gimme' some bug spray, couple cans of Coke, a bag of microwave popcorn and a comfy lawn chair, and I'm good--as long as it doesn't rain, that is.

ONE OF THE in-class group projects I had to undertake in one of my theatre classes, was playing "Polonius" in the "15-minute Hamlet."

Most people haven't heard about his short version of the Bard's greatest of all plays...probably for a reason.

Here it is on youtube--without sound any longer, I don't know how the quality is, but...you be the judge.

PART II

Guess who's Polonius in this pic: