Thanks billytea, now I'm picturing a dorky-ass troll with a really bad haircut.

To make matters worse, this is the Palin name I got for Wallybee. I haven't told her yet, I'm waiting for a special occasion.

The only thing that happened to my accent from four years in America is that I now sound more Australian.

My NY/NJ accent got much stronger when I was in Louisiana. To the point where I even caught myself saying "all o' youse" a few times, which I'd never said before I went to New Orleans. I think that my brain was trying to resist "y'all," and none of my female friends would answer to "you guys."

{{Nora}}

And bonny, you're wonderful for helping that woman.

As for accents... Yeah, can't say much. But it's a lot better than Ehud Barak's accent.

After sleep, I'm feeling better about being fired. Doesn't help much with the war, but it's something. I just hope that uber-boss won't feel the need to do any official "talk", because in my 3 years there he talked directly at me for maybe 15 minutes, so really. I spent at least 10 hours straight, easy, by throwing Kinder eggs toys at my colleague every time he said something I didn't like, so unless the toys want to say goodbye to me, I don't see he has to.

I'm gonna miss my team.

Wait, so she named the kid Tripp, when she's got a brother named Trig who's only a few months older than the kid? Sure, and that's not going to sound confusing at ALL....eesh.

I'm SOOOO bad with the accents. I KNOW I am, but I didn't realize HOW bad until I heard a video I'd taken while hanging out with Fay and her friends and roomies when I was in Egypt--they were all UK-ers of some sort (British, Welsh, Scottish). I am NOT. And when I got home and was playing the video, I was like "wait, whose voice is THAT?" ...and then realized it was ME. And that my accent was all KINDS of crazy, to the point where I didn't even recognize my own voice. That's how bad it was.

Oh Shir, I am sorry to hear you were fired. Badness.

Phooey. A key just fell off my keyboard. I hope it goes back on again.

{{{{Nora}}}} Sanity~ma for you.

I absorb accents, too, depending on what I hear a lot of. If I watch a lot of PBS, I start sounding like Hyacinth more British than usual. Currently I have yet to absorb enough Scandihoovian to cancel out the rural Arizona, and I have to concentrate a bit to actually stay in Standard Spoken American English, which is my birthright as a Clevelander.

One thing about the Who fic archive, A Teaspoon and An Open Mind - a shortcut to some good authors would be to look for my page there, under Wind Sparrow, and check out my favorites [link] They are definitely skewed to Doctor/Rose shippers, but I believe that several of them do gen. as well as other ships.

Oh, that reminds me: that fic Kristin linked to, how spoilery is it for someone who didn't see yet the 4th season but knows that Donna is there? Also, thank you for white fonting your post for that, Kristin.

Update: a solider was killed last night in one of the bases of the south. I hope it wasn't someone my sis knew, or in her base. A "special situation" declared in every town/city 30 km from Gaza Strip. My country's still killing way too much, saying it wants to wipe off Hamas. Idiots. I think they try to create a new balance of terror power. Still doesn't answer the question why now, and not 8 years ago/two years and a half ago, when Israel evacuated the settlements in the Strip.

Shir, the first silly fic isn't spoilery at all, but I think you'll enjoy it more once you've seen Donna and the Doctor together in season four. The other fic is all spoilery since it picks up at the end of season four.

Also, I'm continuing to keep you and the whole Middle East in my thoughts.

Thanks, Kristin.