Friday I Hearby Declare -- That I Don't Want This Job!

At long last, your day has come. You've been put in charge. Now, everybody must do as you say. List ten changes you would make, if only people would do the sensible thing and appoint you to call the shots.

. . .Am I the only one who's terrified of this prospect? I'm not -- I've never been a leader. Sure, sometimes I've fantasized about having the upper hand over my parents, but -- over everyone? Who's everyone? Is it the country? The world? Oh God, not the world. . .

All right, I'm taking this far too seriously. Ten changes? Let me think. . .

1. Tell my parents to leave me alone and go back to Burtonsville -- I'll assign someone to take over the cannery
   
2. Ask people to stop judging Touched, Automatons, Fabricated, and Reanimated as all monsters and instead to judge case by case
   
3. Encourage young Touched away from the path of evil (pamphlets maybe?)
   
4. Encourage good Touched to work on problems such as pollution and world hunger
   
5. Shut down the laboratories of bad Touched and try to rehabilitate them (without pitchfork-wielding mobs or -- the Wulfenbach method)
   
6. Create parks and areas of protected wilderness so nature can grow and thrive
   
7. Remove anti-Touched bias from our schools and workplaces
   
8. Encourage the Everglots to accept Sir Christopher as a son-in-law (I don't want to force them, but -- offering to end their money woes would do the trick, right?)
   
9. Create a "science safety" class that everyone has to take (I've heard that many of the disasters Touched cause are the result of ignoring simple safety rules)
   
10. Have people stop calling an interest in butterflies (or in some places, music) a feminine thing
    

I think that covers just about everything. . .