Yenta

Finished reading: AD15

Still hard at work, looking over a spreadsheet with 10,000 lines it in that I have to fill with data. Most of this data is redundant, so that saves some of the work, but that makes it no less monotonous.

Which actually means work is a good time for blogging -- I can at least gain respite from this part of the drudgework through some creative activity. Now, I just need to stop feeling so creaky....

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Daria and Jane plan to leave their pleasant encampment and head back on the road -- stocking up on supplies. Daria asks the important question of what if they are stopped as looters. Jane answers that as long as they don't have a ridiculous or suspicious amount of supplies -- say, six television sets -- everything should be okay.

Upon leaving the garage, the two find fresh animal stool. They quickly learn what kind of stool it is...dog stool, as Daria is set upon by a pack of wild dogs. Daria manages to shoot one of them; Jane the rest.

However, Daria doesn't emerge unscathed. There is a scratch on her back about three inches long. It doesn't need sutures, but Daria needs to be cleaned up at the minimum. Jane washes Daria's back and puts alcohol over the open area. We leave with Jane planning to get Daria some replacement clothes.

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Statistics:

Uncomfortable lesbian references by Jane: 1
Gratuituous skin: a lot

Oddly enough, Jane has reverted into one of her older incarnations -- "Yenta Jane". Yenta Jane was a creature found in early fan fiction who was committed to and obsessed with Daria hooking up with Trent. Instead of Jane implying that she and Daria should be rolling in the sack, she has now taken up the cudgel of making Daria/Trent jokes. After all the Jane/lesbian commentary, it's a welcome change...although, unfortunately, no less annoying.

As for the dog attack, two comments:

1) Yes, it will happen when the apocalypse comes -- bands of feral dogs, from that group of people who failed to control the pet population and have their dogs spayed or neutered. With dogs either abandoned or their owners dead, dogs will team up as dogs do and get into a lot of trouble. Dogs, like many pack animals, prefer to attack targets larger than they are. It means that the fallen target provides enough beef to feed the pack. (Whereas a mouse will only feed one housecat.)

However, the life of a dog in the wild is nasty, brutish, and short. Dogs survive from a lot of loving care from humans; without humans in the population the life of a feral dogs is about one to two years. Dogs will plague stragglers for about one to two years and then their numbers will dwindle to that of existing feral dogs, a rare sight these days.

2) How come the dogs only attacked Daria? Heh. Maybe no one likes Daria, not even dogs. If the dogs had attacked both Daria and Jane, this would have been the final chapter of "Apocalyptic Daria". The only assumption we can make is that Jane is some distance away from Daria; the story does not make this clear.

Other than that, it's a "Daria gets attacked by dogs" tale. Not much going on here as the author prepares for AD16.

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Tomorrow: We take a week-long break from "Apocalyptic Daria" and read another on-going fan fiction tale instead...the amazing tale of Quinngali! See you there!