Phillip Wilson

Amazingly, I survived my Life
2011-09-30 00:05:02 (UTC)

2004 REVIEW (PART TWO)

January'- Childersburg/Talladega, AL (continues)

Then it was time for Parts 5 and 6 (the concluding) episodes of “Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided” from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (8-9:53 P.M., P.B.S.).
My session with sleep was not what it should have been! I can always tell: If I can recall my “dream,” then things didn't go well in bed!

(acerca de 2:44 P.M.) It was cold early this morning! The day got worse as morning weakened into afternoon: A freezing rain drizzled while I was “hidden away” in the bookstore.
Mid-30⁰'s (F) torture us at the moment, Rain having taken a mandated “break.
I paid $1.93 for a pack of cigarettes from Allen's Food Mart. As long as I limit myself to Ole Kentucky, I can stay under two dollars!
I can swear that I read or heard about a bunch of students who partied while a F.S.U. professor was tied up, a plastic bag over his head! The professor, needless to say, died.
Florida State University was ranked as the number one party school in the country, after all! Based on the above? Surely not!
Women that deny women as “human” can never be married! I will explain that later: As soon as somebody explains it to me!

(acerca de 4:26 P.M.) As I told Leslie as she was driving me home shortly after 1:00: There is no such thing as a boring subject! There are, however, boring teachers!
I believe this with all my heart and soul: Everything is important!
Well, not everything! Tractor-pull, for instant!
David had told his mother via telephone yesterday evening (?) that the class he had yesterday was boring. He's making it boring, somehow!
How will he ever teach the same subject year in and year out? David must - and quickly - learn how to conquer boredom!
Isn't it as wrong to proselytize humanism and non-theism as it is a religion? The former two may be claimed the “right and true way”! But so does the latter! “God” is “God”: Humanism, non-theism, or religion!

(acerca de 6:46 P.M.) How can “race” be used for Affirmative Action and yet be an indeterminate on the census?
In other words, how can “you” be an African American at one time, for gain, but then turn around and be something other than African American if so doing is beneficial?
How ironic: When I had the chance I had the opportunities, although I didn't take advantage of them. But now I wish I could get the “opportunity”!

(9th, About 8:52 A.M.) We had just made the right turn onto Highway 76 from Forest HIlls Drive, yesterday morning. N.B.C. 13 Chief Meteorologist was articulating a weather report on some radio station. I commented to Joyce that I doubted if Channel 13 paid Mr. Tracy (Jerry Tracy) any thing for the extra use of his voice. He probably had to do the “freebie” as public relations
If Jerry Tracy was union, N.B.C. 13 wouldn't be able to get away with what it is doing!
Joyce stated that such radio “give aways” can be done from home: David use to do them (in Witchita Falls, TX?).
A good telephone or a special remote microphone?
NAFTA -North America Free Trade Agreement - was established during the administration of Bill Clinton, not George W. Bush! Why are the Democratic presidential candidates criticizing NAFTA?
I remember having fears when NAFTA was signed into law that it was a horror for labor. And I'll be damn if my fears weren't realized!
Did the Bush administration worsen the impact of NAFTA? I have no doubt it did! The Bush administration went from bad to worse, common with it!
Wednesday morning, just as we arrived at CACC, Joyce told me that Ronnie Harkins was too tempermental for trial “lawyering.” Would be be corporate or what? The money's in corporate law, and Ronnie, if he is anything, is venal!

(acerca de 9:37 A.M.) As I told Joyce yesterday morning as we were about to get on the sidewalk in front of the administration building (Joyce was getting her books or something from the back seat of her car), Leisa (McGaha) should be pitied more than scorned.
As I was looking for supplies to shelf in the small supply room of the bookstore, yesterday, I came upon a box of Spanish in-house texts from 2001. The “texts” are no longer being used, although maybe they should be.
Although I wouldn't reccomend their use as English grammer: The instructor/author employed “whom” in a sentence, incorrectly. As far as I have been able to figure out, “whom” is not the subject of a sentence!
Maybe he was correct, and I don't know what I'm talking about! It won't be the first time!

(acerca de 10:1_ A.M.) I had no idea that there were more than nine Democratic presidential candidates!
And George W. Bush does, too, have competition, as does Dick Cheney!
C-Span 2 presented a Lesser-Known Candidate Debate yesterday evening from New Hampshire (although the event took place earlier in the week). I only “caught” the final 25 minutes or so - from 8:55 until about 9:20 - but I understand that the event included seventeen candidates, most appearing before I got to it.
For I was busy watching DNA (8-8:55 P.M. P.B.S.), even though I dozed off during several minutes of it.

(acerca de 1:33 P.M.) Two dollars for a round-trip on the city bus! City bus? In Childersburg, AL? Why not?h
Leslie “hinted” that I turn to mass transportation, Wednesday when she brought me home: Joyce ha_ a “heavy” class schedule this semester.
Leslie mare telephone calls. She even drove me to the “bus station” (Senior Center, by the Limbaugh Community/Recreation Center on Highway 76) this morning, and accompanied me as I mare arrangements for the bus transportation.
As a legal disabled person, I am only required to pay half of the regular $2 one-way fare. And the bus will pick me up and bring me back to my front door!
Who would have thought that something like this would ever happen to me in this town?
The bus will “service” me Monday through Friday (unless otherwise notified; sometimes I may have to go to work on Friday). Until I get use to the bus trip, I will board it at 10:00 in the morning when it comes for me. It will make the final trip of the day around 3 :30 in the afternoon.
Once a pattern is established, I can adjust my riding time accordingly: There may be several physically challenged riders that may protract the trip. For I will be a rider on the bus for the disabled.
As I told Leslie, maybe the afternoons will allow me to get things done! If I am still unlucky enough to be at CACC when the weather becomes warmer, I can always go in with Joyce in the morning and use mass transportation to get home!
I wonder if the bus driver (a female) is named “James”? You know, as in “Home, James!”!
Leslie took me to The Bank, where I got out bus fare and six dollars more ($15). Then I went to the library and edited an on-line résumé that I had posted on the National Business for Disability Council, or some employment agency for the disabled. I had forgotten that I had a résumé posted, though it needed editing badly! The first edit I lost by clicking on “Reset.” So I did the editing again. Of course the computer practice was helpful: For maybe the “independence” of mass transportation will transform me to another job outside Childersburg. Television? That's what my posting asked for!
It is Cold - the upper-30⁰'s - and dreary, but the calm wind made the foot trip home pleasant.
I saw about thirty-five minutes of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M.,P.B.S.) yesterday: I needed to squeeze reading, writing, and piano into my evening before DNA was due to convened!
As I was walking from The Bank to the library on 9th Avenue, I saw where someone had written in paint “FUCK” on the south-bound lane, not far from The Bank. What can I say: Shit happens!

(acerca de 3:07 P.M.) I get the idea that Joyce and/or Leslie feel(s) that she/they think(s) that I think that she/they have abandoned me, that she/they doesn't/don't have time for me! To the contrary, what I think is that she/they did me a favor, most likely: It's about time that I live “on my own” if I must live in Childersburg! “Independence” is the only way I can “face” life here!
But is it Childersburg, or “stagnation”? Most likely, the latter! Bussing opens up an entirely new phase in my life! I am thrilled that it will be happening, even if a next step isn't forthcoming!

It is Cold - the upper-30⁰'s - and dreary, but the calm wind made the foot trip home pleasant.
I saw about thirty-five minutes of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M.,P.B.S.) yesterday: I needed to squeeze reading, writing, and piano into my evening before DNA was due to convened!
As I was walking from The Bank to the library on 9th Avenue, I saw where someone had written in paint “FUCK” on the south-bound lane, not far from The Bank. What can I say: Shit happens!

(acerca de 3:07 P.M.) I get the idea that Joyce and/or Leslie feel(s) that she/they think(s) that I think that she/they have abandoned me, that she/they doesn't/don't have time for me! To the contrary, what I think is that she/they did me a favor, most likely: It's about time that I live “on my own” if I must live in Childersburg! “Independence” is the only way I can “face” life here!
But is it Childersburg, or “stagnation”? Most likely, the latter! Bussing opens up an entirely new phase in my life! I am thrilled that it will be happening, even if a next step isn't forthcoming!
I no longer need “God.” “He” is like all the other acquaintan_es of my past that I can live without now, but that was helpful when I needed such succor.
Joyce, like a typical woman, denies that women have faults, but insist that African American have them!

(10th, About _:04 A.M.) I rather not have an “up” period if I must pay with it with an “equal and opposite reaction,” as if some mathematical balance must be satisfied! Yesterday evening was a horror!
“You” might think that the heigth I had reached when I subscribed to the the local bus service may it necessary for the subsequent “slide.” But the “up” surrounding the newly-established independence has nothing to do with it! No, it's when I realize what Leslie has become, or how she has related to me the last fifteen years at least! Bill must really want to be married to put up with a woman like Leslie!
Leslie is much more like Jane than she is her mother, which is really not saying much!
Leslie brought Kayla over around 3:30, yesterday afternoon (Kayla continues her residency as I write). It's something about her refusal to “let” me right! Such has been going on for years, so I don't know why I was so affected by her yesterday!
And to think that I didn't want to leave this area because of Leslie! I wasted my life for the kid!
Although that's the nature of sacrifice: Others don't see it, and critcize it as laziness, non-ambitious, etc.
Organized religion hasn't destroyed Leslie: People with an unrecognized resentment of the human race such as Leslie destroy organized religion!

(acerca de 9:44 A.M.) Remember when I joked that David was “Aunt David” instead of “Uncle David”? Well, I met nothing by it! I was not suggesting anything! But Leslie, whom I inter-rupted, giggled (this happened over here one day several months ago). Bill and Leslie, it goes without saying, are extremely homophobic. Undoubtedly, both are enslaved by the pre-conception of a man over twenty-five years of age and not married must be homosexual.
In my case, not only am I a bachelor at fifty-three, I am also an “atheist,” as Leslie and Bill see it!
I understand from an article written by Jennifer Chien in the current issue of “Freethought Today” that “Newsweek” magazine recently dedicated an entire issue to George W. Bush's “New VIsion for the World Under the Guidance of Christianity.” All I have to say is that people shouldn't be surprised at the next “9/11”! It is as if Mr. Bush is telling the terrorists: “I dare you to knock this block off my shoulders!”
There will be no doubt whatsoever that George W. Busy is responsible, even if only indirectly, for the next “9/11”!

(acerca de 10:20 A.M.) George W. Bush is part of a quasi-history which just happens to be the most undemocratic regime ever experienced by the United States! Imagine if it was a complete theocracy!
Was I really “up” due to the bus service, or was the “down” only luring me with a short-term false “up”?
Do all “downs” put people in “up” stages, knowing full well that the higher the “up,” the more intense the “down”!
Deah and I have a lot in common: We both like “pussy”! Deah, of course, likes her “pussy” in the form of cats that are chasable. And me? I'll take my “pussy” in human form, if you please!
“Jane Fairfax” is a character in Jane Austen's “Emma.” Maybe I have been influenced by the film's “Jane Fairfax,” but I can't help associate “Jane Fairfax” with a brown stain down the center of the back of her panties.
I don't think Jane Austen meant “Emma” to be pornographic!

(acerca de 10 :49 A.M.) Leslie is much more patronizing than Joyce! In fact, she is almost as bad as Leisa McGaha!
The new version: “Meet George Jetson!/James his wife . . .”. The old version: “. . .Jane his wife . . .”.
MCCLOUD (7-9:00, P.M., Superstation WGN) was one of several shows seen in the Family Room. And I am amazed at the advancement in film stock! The definition of television and film of 2004 will be the same in the future as definifilm of television and film from the mid-1970's is to 2004!

(acerca de 11:45 A.M.) Given the way Leslie dealt with my camera after I got back from Europe - I had asked her to take it to a shop for repair, and she neglected and ignored the camera instead, just throwing in storage - I will not rely on her to keep my journal alive after I am dead!
Leslie Reeves is more than my niece: she is a human being. And not a human being that I would ever associate with if not for the niece relationship!
McCloud's partner and the partner's wife were in the process of preparing for - well, you know, that! But then McCloud inter-rupted them via the telephone.
To make a long story short, McCloud, injured, was eventually placed in the bed that his partner was to have used. A modern analysis would call the MCCLOUD episode a suggestion of homosexuality. Though was that the intention in the 1970's?
There was a reason Louise (Bargain Store manager in 2001) didn't tell me to follow her to the bank at night: She was stealing and didn't want me to catch her at it!

(acerca de 12:45 P.M.) In response to a news item concerning Saddam Hussein, Joyce said that the United States ought to turn him over to the Iraqi people, not realizing that such is the announced plan.
Keep in mind that Joyce, like so many other people, doesn't like democracy. Establishing democracy in Iraq? I don't think so!
Well, I told Joyce that the United States swears that it will, indeed, turn Saddam over to the Iraqi people for trial. But I added that Saddam knows too much about this country to ever let him be “tried” any where else!
Joyce said that an email joke is making the rounds: Saddam Hussein is “quoted” as saying “I'm captured and my two sons are dead, but I'm saved money with Geico!” (auto insurance), a reference to the Geico advertisement campaign on television.
Bill came for Kayla around 12:23 P.M., and off the child went!
Ironically, I find the most cigarette butts outside the weight room!

(acerca de 1:43 P.M.) A major side-effect of the “down” status I was in yesterday evening was the walking nightmare that may have been “ left over” from Thursday evening: The urge to poke pens or needles in Deah's eyes! I had to go as far as removing, Thursday evening, the pens that were on my dresser!
The sun may be with us now! But it wasn't always like this today: The morning presented a “snowy” appearance!
The Cold is at the upper-30⁰'s (F). But let's not be too hard on Month I! It's only doing what It was conditioned to do!
Remember the “scene” in “Gulliver's Travels” in which Gulliver is in Brobdingnag and comments on seeing the skin of a young girl that is caring for him? He describes the grossness of the reality of skin. This is the essence of de-construction, I believe.
The body is much more than the sum of its parts! And thank god it is! If judged by the parts, as Gulliver finds out, even the most gorgeous beauty among us is “pitiful”!

(acerca de 8:0_ P.M.) The Cold may be at fault, but public radio is not getting through to my room. If I don't have a commercial FM station backing my juggling, I usually turn to C-Span. Yesterday afternoon, an interview by Iowa Public Television with Democratic presidential candidate Carol Moseley-Brown was aired.
Maybe I will think differently about granny when I am away from her, but as the judge told Anita Matlow and I in April 1999 in Tallahassee, FL, we shouldn't be under the same roof!
Kayla was back over here from about _:00 until around 7:25.
It is as if granny is an unwanted mother-in-law, instead of my mother!
There were something about the car scene of the bad guys in yesterday evening's MCCLOUD - the motion of the vehicle, the street action, other cars, etc, are keyed behind the occupants of the car - that appeared out-of-date film/television technique! The rhythum, timing, or some element of the exterior didn't quite match the interior!

(11th, About 8:11 A.M.) Here is my dream, or whatever it was, from earlier this morning: I was lying on my back, my head “camera” right, holding Mary Holt in my arms. Steve was there watching, either not caring, or realizing that there were nothing he could do.
Mary was wearing a dress. At one point she sat in a chair while Steve was on the floor, (Mary, “camera” right) and spread her knees for him.
There was something about me not being able to locate my money in their car: I was in panic search so that I could pay my restaurant bill.
Only one thing on the tape recording: The former Soviet Union had more separation of church and state than the United States does. Propaganda is rampant in this country that Cuba violates human/civil rights. Probably no more than the United States does, especially with its prisoners in - Cuba!
I have no doubt that church-state separation exist in Cuba, Communism is labelled “secular” as if being known as such is a bad thing! But no where does it say that just because the government is “secular” that organized religion doesn't abound! As they should do, Communist nations won't tolerate organized religion trying to be the fourth branch of government!
The United States suppose to be “secular.” However, apparently the United States is spitting on the constitution rather than have anything in common with communism!
If a person is an independent thinker and does things like s/he feels comfortable with, others will call “you” mentally inbalance (as Leslie called me paranoid more than a year ago) and if they had their way, as did the former Soviet Union, “you” would be committed to a mental hospital! For re-education, you understand!

(acerca de 9:00 A.M.) The European Space Agency sent up “Beagle 2” to look for life on Mars.
The United States are sponsoring “Spirit” and “Opportunity” in a search for liquid water on Mars.
The three hunters have two totally different raison d'etre.
“Spirit” has successful made the trip, whereas “Beagle 2” didn't.
Was “God” pissed at “Beagle 2” for having the audacity to “put its nose” where it doesn't belong? Maybe if “Beagle 2” had done as “Spirit” is doing, it would have been allowed on Mars!
When I “discussed” my new work schedule with Leslie Friday morning which ___ put me over 14 hours a week, Leslie told me to be careful that I don't loose my job. I am trying to figure out if Leslie was only being helpful or bossy and patronizing! Most likely that which follows the “or”!

(acerca de 9:45 A.M.) Not only do television shows such as MCCLOUD reveal the progress of technology and film making, but they are also historical records of cars, clothes, communication, and all things relating to “cultural anthropology”!
The first half of NBC NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.) reviewed the Current Affairs of the day, in a sort of “living history” demonstration.
While supplementing my diet with a bag of popcorn, I set through LAW & ORDER: SVU (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.). A gentleman that uses the name “Ice T” is a featured player in the program. Several evenings ago I was half-joking to Joyce in the Family Room that “Ice T” was ones of the all-time great actors (I was being cynical, of course). In response, Joyce stated that she liked “Ice T.”
During one of my two juggling sessions yesterday afternoon, a speech by Secretary of State Colin Powell, broadcast by C-Span, played in the background. And I couldn't believe my ears: General Powell actually think that the United States should be allowed to take over Iraq without any armed resistance! As if the United States has made Manifest Destiny its foreign policy!
No wonder “they” hate us!
Something was said during one of ABC 33/40's newscasts Friday evening that “inspired” Joyce to articulate of the lifelong emotional damage. I believe there was a “package” concerning a father or mother that tried to kill a child.

(11 :46 A.M.) You want to hear something infantile? When Leslie brought Kayla over Friday, the lamp on her “work” desk (the desk on which rested David's computer) “blew” a bulb. Leslie disconnected it from the lamp and trashed it. She and I, then, each worried about Kayla being near an “exposed” lamp. So I suggested that the “blown” bulb be put back in to block the exposed electricity.
See, Leslie, I “ain't” as dumb as I sound!
The basic definition of “Existentialism” is that one is responsible for one's present condition of life (within reason). “We” are what our past is (within limits). This is why biography is worthwhile to watch and/or read. Although a lot of biography has more to do with the fictional writing desire of the biographer than about the reporting of the subject's past.
In other words, biography may not contribute to Existentialism one bit!
A parent may exert a horrible influence on a child, and not be aware of it! So why take the chance: Support reproductive cloning!

(acerca de 1:14 P.M.) During her visits here Friday and yesterday, Kayla crawled up in my lap, lovingly. Although I had to be extra careful as to the placement of my arms!
It will be hard to leave that! After all, I am human!
Am I to believe that the Iceman was seen by no one for over 5300 years?
Why is private collecting at archaeological sites wrong?
(The latter two: What's the deal? What was I thinking when I wrote the notes? And when did I write them down?)

(acerca de 2:15 P.M.) Phoebus is outstanding, the air is not as saturated with Cold as it has been: The lower-50⁰'s (F). But Deah is “stoved” up: She is not herself. Let it not be her 8 ½ years of life:e I don't think I could make it without her!
You are what you use for a journal notebook!
Birmingham is such a pretensious city, so wanting to be something else, it is only natural that it “gave” a lot of money to re-elect George W. Bush! In reality, the United States could be itself, but the Bush administration is taking it back to the days of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798!

(12th, About 7:24 A.M.) I don't know why I have waited to now to tell you this, but the Catholic Church discussed tracks of the bible, and the Protestant Church is benefitting.
I have also been authorized to report that “Holding back in juggling is benefitting my mood!”
Both Friday and Saturday, Kayla crawled into my lap, lovingly. If ever I get the opportunity to leave, it will be hard to!
Did I ever relate to you what “The Daily Home” said about a photo, several weeks ago? The photo of the examination of the just-captured Saddam Hussein or somehow connected to the “war” in Iraq: The picture was probably “doctored,” altered. I felt all along that it had been, but I was still surprised that “no bones” were being made about the charge!

(acerca de 7:44 A.M.) The day is being changed, as you well know: I began bus-riding today, and the afternoon “shift” at work.
To this end, I will proceed to tell you about my television from the evening and afternoon of yesterday: I didn't pay close attention to it, but “Irene” is carrying a tray with two glasses (crystal) and a beverage from the main house at Rob[n Hill to the back yard. She had been in conversation with “Uncle Jolyon.”
As she is coming out of the house, a dog howls. She apparently expects the worse, for she hurrily sets down the tray, and the camera, in a medium close-up, makes a point of showing a glass falling off the tray.
“Uncle Jolyon” is dead.
Whenever an inanimate object is made a major “character” by the camera, “you” can bet on it that it is somehow related to the action!
The overture to the Opera “Carman” plays in the background, and “Dartie” is seen with another woman (not his wife). The connection is easy to make if one is familiar with “Carman.” But it is more difficult to acertain the attendance by “Irene” and “Uncle Jolyon” at Gluck's opera “Orpheus and Eurydice.” It is obvious that Irene made him feel alive and young again. Uncle Jolyon/Cinderella had, at last, found “his” Prince(ss)!

(acerca de 8:35 A.M.) The fourth episode of “The Forsythe Saga” (9-10:00 P.M., P.B.S.) presented by EXXON MOBIL MASTERPIECE THEATRE has many other dramatic metaphors, including: At the theatre where the Gluck Opera is being performed, the camera register a close-up from the rear of either “Irene” or “Uncle Jolyon,” and the stage action is seen, out of focus, in the background, as if the image is the mental activity of the close-up subject.
“Soames” is in bed after being rejected by “Irene.” Soames' mother, “Emily,” cares for him and tells about a puppy he smothered when he was a boy, after being so ___ to it. “Emily” is saying that he feels things too much “as a reason for his behavior towards Irene.”
“Holly,” the daughter of “Young Jolyon,” plays “Fan Else”(?) on the piano.
I'm sure episodes 1, 2, 3 of “The Forsythe Saga” is full of semiotics, but they will have to wait for a third evening.
THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP (3-3:30 P.M., P.B.S.) didn't present anything out of the ordinary, nothing that I have yet figured out how to tell you.
The Industrial Revolution was like the technological advancement of the Renaissance: Technology appears long before people are ready for it! It really wasn't until the early Baroque or Mannerism that the technology of the Renaissance was handled properly . For years and years, English society wasn't able to cope with the Industrial Revolution. The novels of Charles Dickens hints at the social “dis-connect” caused by technology to society.
Eventually, however, society benefitted tremendously from what the Industrial Revolution had brought forth.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S EMPIRE (4-5:00 P.M., P.B.S.) introduced me to the “neo-Renaissance” of the Industrial Revolution.
There were suppose to be a second episode of QUEEN VICTORIA'S EMPIRE following the first one, but the Alabama Public Television never could get the Audio to work.

(acerca de 9:30 A.M.) John Kerry has the best speech-pattern of the nine, as well as the best stage presence! Senator Kerry is the most likely to upstage George W. Bush.
MSNBC presented a two-hour Democratic presidential debate yesterday evening from 7:00 to 9:00.


For years and years, English society wasn't able to cope with the Industrial Revolution. The novels of Charles Dickens hints at the social “dis-connect” caused by technology to society.
Eventually, however, society benefitted tremendously from what the Industrial Revolution had brought forth.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S EMPIRE (4-5:00 P.M., P.B.S.) introduced me to the “neo-Renaissance” of the Industrial Revolution.
There were suppose to be a second episode of QUEEN VICTORIA'S EMPIRE following the first one, but the Alabama Public Television never could get the Audio to work.

(acerca de 9:30 A.M.) John Kerry has the best speech-pattern of the nine, as well as the best stage presence! Senator Kerry is the most likely to upstage George W. Bush.
MSNBC presented a two-hour Democratic presidential debate yesterday evening from 7:00 to 9:00.
I should, by all rights, support Howard Dean! After all, he “stands” for all that I do about the war in Iraq, the capture of Saddam Hussein, etc. But Dr. Dean, in spite of the many endorsements, may not be able to beat Bush.
I am not alone in my indecision: There are more of us than there are of them (the decided)!

(acerca de 4:03 P.M.) I am the sole rider on the bus! At least I was today. If that changes, I'll let you know.
Two different drivers, each middle age female, the morning driver white, the afternoon one African American.
I had no intention of working in the book store over two hours this morning! I made the mistake of going by and “seeing” if there was a large contingent of books that had arrived. By all rights, I should have been “in and out” in less than thirty minutes. But I ended up “pulling books”: There was still many students purchasing books, and Hazel was all by herself.
Leisa McGaha came down around 11:50, so I resumed my outdoor work, awaiting my attention on this beautiful day: No Cloud, a gentle breeze, and top-heavy with sunshine. The air carries the upper-60⁰'s (F). Just right for flower-watering, even though most of the flowers have been traumatized by the Cold.
Maybe David was right: Several weeks ago he declared to me that morning work allows for the rest of the day for important stuff. For I seem to be able to get more done in the afternoon (writing, reading, juggling)! Although afternoons such as this is good for what should be done at CACC!
Something about riding the bus make me forget that what I am seeing out the window is Childersburg, AL! I suppose it's due to my circus travels: You wouldn't believe the small town with the same set-up as this one, that I visited all over the country! Not that I would ever do circus again: After much consideration, I decided circus would be going backward in life! Probably television work is not recommended!
Journal, You have me heart and soul! And I wouldn't have it any other way!

(13th, About 7:25 A.M.) The “big” disadvantage to bussing it to work: I don't get the chance to “discuss” issues with Joyce!
Of course I'm being tongue-in-cheek! I have such an immense back log of notes, I can now get to them.
For instance: The Circus Vargas “Clown” Alley (1983) didn't “feel” right to me. There is much more to “professional” clowning than goofy behavior!
I had a conversation with Ralph Cline, outside the administration building at CACC (the “secondary” rear door) one afternoon of the second week of December 2003, which revealed Ralph for what he is! If “you” ask me for specifics, I couldn't supply them. But there was something in his mannerism!
Unfortunately, Joyce laid the preliminary work by telling me to be leary of Ralph and don't tell him anything that I don't want repeated, especially to the top brass!
Joyce was correct about Leisa McGaha! I suppose I must thank her for warning me about Ralph Cline!
I am not able to forgive Leisa McGaha for all the patronizing she did (and do!) me! I seldom speak to her, even in the book store! Isn't it about time that somebody “de-powers” Leisa? What makes me think that I can do it?

(acerca de 7:53 A.M.) Whether there's a “God” or not, I don't know and I don't care! It's organized religion that is the problem with me! It's not so much what organized religion does to people! It's what people do to organized religion! Too many people - and Steve and Mary Holt are just two examples, as are Bill and Leslie Reeves - attached themselves to organized religion who are infested with a resentment to the human race!
While watching THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:30 P.M., P.B.S.) yesterday, a “piece concerning Sandra Day O'Connor and the United States Supreme Court made me wonder why “religion” must be a public concern and policy. Why must “religion”even be an issue that the Supreme Court must be confronted with?
It is said that the distinguishing feature of homo sapien, what makes her/him unique from previous hominids, is “religion.” But I don't think humankind is able to handle organized religion correctly! Maybe in a future incarnation, but Homo Sapien make a mockery of organized religion!
Did I ever tell you what happened on December 23, 2003? Kayla was “shouting” - or was it Joyce in play? - “Dr. Bombay, Dr. Bombay/Emergency!/Come right away!” (from the television program BEWITCHED). But “Dr. Bombay” just shows up like Jesus, doesn't he? (Now, where did that come from?).

(acerca de 8:41 A.M.) Snake and Alligator handler Steve Irwin of Australia used his months-old son as a “prop” during one of his shows. It goes without saying that he has received world-wide condemnation for so doing.
Mr. Irwin's excuse or rational? He was raised among reptiles and he was only exposing his son to an alligator at an early age.
There is a difference between introducing a young child to wild animals to accustom her/him to them, and quite another to exploit the child as a prop! People will get the idea that snakes and “crocs” are gentle enough to approach with caution and respect!
What was Steve Irwin thinking? Or was he thinking?
Is organized religion such a major part of society because clergy are furthering it's career? Is “power” the true deity of organized religion?
For the past two years or so, President Fox of Mexico has not been friendly to George W. Bush, especially over the war in Iraq, which Fox and Mexico opposed. But all of a sudden, President Fox is a great supporter and admirer of Bush's immigration “reform”! It makes “you” wonder how much the Bush administration is paying the Fox administration!
By the way, the immigration “reform” is an insult to Hispanics! It more or less saids that Hispanics are only welcomed to this country to work at menial jobs that “regular” Americans citizens don't want to do!

(acerca de 4:08 P.M.) The Average American - the Little Person - complains about Big Business and how It controls the United States. Yet it is these same Average Americans that cling to organized religion, the ultimate Big Business! Please explain that one!
If I didn't know better, I would think that I am the Pied Piper: It seems that the bookstore is never busy until I go there to shelf books! This morning I found myself “pulling books” for students. I voiced such to Milt, who happened to be in the bookstore. He laughed, but I don't think he was sincere: I “felt” patronization in the response!
The air circulates the mid-60⁰'s (F) at this writing, so you can imagine what it was like two hours ago! It wouldn't bother me one bit if the days copied this one!
Phoebus was so generous this afternoon: and the morning. And right now.
“Reconstruction: The Second Civil War” 8-9:30 P.M., P.B.S.) was AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's “editorial” on the war in Iraq! Well, it could have been: It is and will be similar!
George W. Bush is now claiming that the Clinton administration was planning regime change in Iraq! Probably so, but not with war. There are many other way that Iraq could have been brought in line!
Fired Treasury secretary Paul O'Neil stated in some magazine and television program that the war on Iraq was planned long before 9/11, and had nothing to do with it! Howard Dean is correct: The Bush administration has a lot of explaining to do!

(acerca de 4:56 P.M.) The main reason that I am not a “regular” in the bookstore is because I can't hear students most of the time (that staff members with “normal” hearing have a hard time understanding students is another story)!
Lavetta (?) Wheeler, an instructor of some computer course, was in the book store yesterday morning visiting Hazel.

(acerca de 9:25 P.M.) Well, I was standing not far from Lavetta (?): To her right, in the “middle” of the room, a direct line to the entrance/exit. Lavetta (?) was leaning against the counter.
I stated to Lavetta (?) that it should wear a sign that reads “Please speak up: I am a hard-of-hearing person!” (or something like that). Lavetta (?) thought what I said funny, but mis-understood me nonetheless: She shouted to the female student at the door (Lavetta [?] made the exclamation over her left shoulder) that I was ready to help her.
But Lavetta (?), at least, made the attempt to be friendly. She is not as soft-spoken and “bitchy” as Joyce and I had discussed several weeks ago (Joyce had taken Laverra [?]'s side)!
The textbooks for United States History (HIS 201-202) were depleted late last week! I expected they would sooner or later! This is something else that Joyce and I had “discussed” several months back! It was (and is) my contention that the text would make a good reference for those not pursuing history further. Joyce said that Doug Stern (the instructor) had said that more advanced books would make better references.
Earlier this evening, Joyce told me - we were at the table; Kayla was here; spaghetti was the course of the meal - that Mr.Stern's doesn't want to go to a later edition, which would cost the student more.
Speaking of Doug Sterns, his vocal pattern is not that much better than mind! So why am I not teaching at CACC?
Kayla left with her mother around 7:46 P.M., having come “home with Joyce” around 4:50 P.M.

(acerca de 7:23 A.M.) There was a letter in the mailbox for “James Veazy, 120 Princeton Drive.” Well, that's next door.
I was told the letter had come to this house yesterday.
To be a friendly neighbor, I hand-delivered the letter to Jim. I announced my presence at the “side” door with knocking. Twice I had to do this.
Jim came to the door wearing shorts. Her hid himself partially behind the “opened” door. He only opened the glass outer door enough for me to slip the letter to him.
No matter what Jim Veazy may mistakenly have delivered at this address, I will never again be the friendly neighbor! I have no idea what was at play, but it was obvious that I shouldn't have over there!
Voters complain about election financing and term limitations. But isn't the real problem “machine” politics? The latter is what makes elections in the United States so undemocratic!

(acerca 7:48 A.M.) One can “s_irt” around the problem all he or she wants to, but until overpopulation is “solved,” nothing else will cure society's trouble!
While watching the presidential debate Sunday evening, it “struck” me with horror that decreasing the size of the government would greatly increase unemployment: The government is the employer of last resort in most cases!
In spite of the criticism, China may well have the “solution” by “limiting” each couple in the country to two or three children (whatever the number is).
Although a candidate for public office can't encourage a husband and wife to “fuck”: The people would consider this the ultimate intrusion by the government!
Of course, a person like Rick Santorium (?), the senator from PA, claims that privacy is no where guaranteed in the constitution! His homophobia is behind this startling declaration: He doesn't think two people should be having sex in their own bedroom!
Commentators of Sandra Day O'Connor's role on the United States Supreme Court, as discussed on Monday's NEWSHOUR, stated that she should have a judicial philosophy and not waver so much. In spite of not being a lawyer (or even playing one on television), I disagree: Each case appearing before the Supreme Court is unique. Right or wrong has nothing to do with the issue: Whether or not the constitution is violated by the effects of the action is of paramount concern.
I have heard for most of my life that Hugo Black of Ashland, AL, was a prominent member of the Ku Klux Klan, an illegal terrorist organization. But when the lawyer and senator made it all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, he was a strict constructionist of the constitution, making sure an issue followed the constitution point by point!
That reminds me of the discussion of Hugo Black that was held in the 1920-1945 history (United States) course at F.S.U. in the spring of 1999: Dr. Conner stated several times that when Hugo Black was an attorney in Birmingham, that he defended the KKK. The implication being that, by so doing, Mr. Black was automatically a K.K.K.'er! As I stated above, he was, but just because he defended the KKK doesn't or shouldn't necessarily mean he was one of them: Everyone is entitled to a defense! Maybe the KKK'er was innocent!
The Supreme Court is accused of “Judicial activism”! But then so-called “legal experts”expect O'Conner to pre-judge every case! What a horrible judge she would then be!

(acerca de 9:20 A.M.) The first time I saw AMERICAN EXPERIENCE was in March or April 1999, in my motel temporary shelter in Tallahassee, FL. As far as I can tell, a documentary of the Great Depression was shown.
What took me so long to finally watch the program? Mainly it was the “American” in the title: Until recently, I refused to study American History! It wasn't until I realized the similarities between Ancient Athens and the United States that I decided that maybe I need to find out more of this country. It sure wasn't out of patriotic means!
If a situation is repeated enough in the past, chances are good that the situation will occur in the future! That is what I realized from “Reconstruction: The Second Civil War” (8-9:30 P.M., P.B.S.). It wasn't the first time that one “culture” occupied another! And it wasn't the last time: Why, the United States is as the north to Iraq “South”! One has only to study that part of American History to know how things will play out in Iraq!

(acerca de 4:19 P.M.) Yesterday evening in the Family Room - Kayla was here, so I was in my regular sitting place with Skinny the Cat on my lap - granny related to me something about the "Is lam nation" and Jackson. What she was referring to, I found out later, was an article in yesterday's "The Daily Home" concerning the Nation of Islam and Michael Jackson, the alleged child molester.
The Nation of Islam is predominately an organized religion of African Americans that converted to Islam due to the way Christianity treated them, in the same way that many Untouchables turned to Buddhism because Hinduism wouldn't accept them.
When I arrived home from work yesterday, granny's oxygen machine was "whistling." Even unplugged the noise continued.
The wall socket apparently is not providing the "strength" that the air-maker needs, at times! I was asked to talk with the "service-provider": Granny couldn't make out his voice over the telephone,
The "whistling"ceased, however: Granny re-plugged the cord, turning the "male" over.
As I told Joyce later, the service provider isn't too b-r-i-g-h-t (Kayla was at the table, so I spelled “bright”)! Although one can’t blame the man for not wanting to make a special trip from Birmingham!
Via telephone, the service provider told me to find another source of power if the “whistling” recurs!
A slight drizzle was all that the area received from Rain! The scrim-covered sky didn't let the upper-50⁰'s (F) go anyplace: And additional warmth was prevented from seeping through!
Most people were like Thomas Jefferson: Slavery was an economic necessity, even though “they” knew it to be wrong. (It - Slavery - was also a source of free, available sex!). Plantations, including Monticello, couldn't operate without the unpaid labor. Thomas Jefferson hinted as much.
Racism for the sake of profit is worse than racism out of mis-guilded “morality”! The former is what people such as George Wallace did: A career-move!
Such is what the immigration “reform” of the Bush administration!

(15th, About 7:31 A.M.) “Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me!”
Yesterday evening I thought maybe my pre-50's life had been “taken” from me, and I should resent many people. But then I realized that by resenting to the degree that I think I could, I would destroy what little life I have left!
On the other hand, it is not unusual for those that are “Born Again” (that should not be just a religious term) to feel cheated out of life that led to being “Born Again” in the first place! One couldn't be “Born Again” without that troublesome past!
From Allen's Food Mart yesterday, a pack of cigarettes for $1.93.
It became 10:20 yesterday morning, and I was still in the Kitchen! I called the “bus station.” The “director” soon arrived in her personal car, excusing the no-show of the bus by stating it was busy.
I may revamp my work schedule, going in with Joyce early and relying on the bus around 11:45 four mornings of every week (4.75 x 4 = 19). Cold seems to have calmed somewhat, “opening” the mornings. I can get more things done besides! No, not at work, which may be the case! I'm refering to my career of writing, juggling, and reading. Who cares about the campus?!

(acerca de 8:03 A.M.) Another epiphany from yesterday evening: I remember seeing in some magazine or book what was labelled as John Kennedy's autopsy photograph. J.F.K.'s eyes were opened, however. It wasn't until yesterday evening that I realized that the doctors at Parkland Hospital, where Kennedy was sent after being shot, would have closed his eyes. The photograph could only have been altered! But why?
LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER (7-8:30 P.M., P.B.S.) featured Joshua Bell in the Penthouse of Lincoln Center, along with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
“The Daily Home” on Tuesday had for the main front page story “Councilman indicted on sex charges.” However, the Pell City councilman, Reggie Swin__ll, was only “indicted” by a grand jury (which is not what a grand jury technically does: in Mr. Swin__ll's case, he turned himself in, and the grand jury automatically gave him a chance to prove himself).
However, I don't think what “The Daily Home” did is fair: Smearing the reputation of a potentially innocent man! Freedom of the press is one thing: Pre-judging for money is something else!
I am concerned when it happens on television: Can't people see how anti-democratic it is? Or do people care? Is turning a profit more important than democracy?

(acerca de 4:04 P.M.) A youngish female drove me home this afternoon. She is married: Which doesn't necessarily mean anything.
The woman was on the “homely”looking side. But that's way “God” gave man the paper sack! (To hide the face)
There was a “new” driver this morning, although an elderly woman.
Yesterday evening P.B.S. took me back twenty years: Thanks a lot, P.B.S.!!
AMERICAN MASTERS revamped “Balanchine” (8:30-10:30 P.M., P.B.S.), a history of dance and the influence that George Balanchine has on it.
Why didn't I see the show in 1983? I was more close to my dance years than I am now! Although I was then too busy (yeah,right!) doing dance-like mime to tolerate too much history! And now that I am “retired,” I can afford to see what exactly I was doing, and how what I was doing “fit in.”
Two of the dancers profillled via video - Patricia McBride and I_or Y___ - I had the honor and privilege of taking their Master Class when they came to the Alabama State Ballet in 1970. It was the only good thing about James Hatcher's association with the company.
Sure I'm old and see my active period as superior to the present! But I can't help compare Jacques D'ambois to Mikial (?) Baryshnihow (?)! And believe me, the former was greatly superior!
Today was chillier than it has been: The low-50⁰'s (F) had been delivered by Drizzle early this morning (or late yesterday evening). No even Phoebus could convince more warmth!
Most of my work day was devoted to clearing out the book “depository”: Not only nursing texts, but trade “manuals” as well.
Doug Sterns's “refusal” to go to a “newer” edition of history book may have merit: The “newer” edition is not necessarily better!
Environmental activism is also “God”! What atheists balk at is not “God” as such, but the wide-spread interpretation of “God”! There's plenty of “God” to go around!

(acerca de 7 :45 P.M.) While juggling yesterday, I happened to look over my left shoulder shortly after dropping a ball. Deah was lying on my coat (the inside)! Not that I care, but I thought she was cold and/or desirous of my stench. However, the real reason was because the pillow case on her bedding was terribly smelly and soiled! She was hinting to me, in the only way she knew to, that I should change her pillow case!


Most of my work day was devoted to clearing out the book “depository”: Not only nursing texts, but trade “manuals” as well.
Doug Sterns's “refusal” to go to a “newer” edition of history book may have merit: The “newer” edition is not necessarily better!
Environmental activism is also “God”! What atheists balk at is not “God” as such, but the wide-spread interpretation of “God”! There's plenty of “God” to go around!

(acerca de 7 :45 P.M.) While juggling yesterday, I happened to look over my left shoulder shortly after dropping a ball. Deah was lying on my coat (the inside)! Not that I care, but I thought she was cold and/or desirous of my stench. However, the real reason was because the pillow case on her bedding was terribly smelly and soiled! She was hinting to me, in the only way she knew to, that I should change her pillow case!


Tell me again that “lower” animals don’t have the intelligence of humankind! Actually, they don’t: They have more!
There is a male student at C.A.C.C. that dresses in black, wear boots, has long hair and a slight “goatee.” For protection against the cold he he relies on a trench coat (dark grey) with a quarter-__p__ on the back. He reminds me of a rock musician from the 1960’s! Or a “hippie” from the counter-culture!

(acerca de 9:41 P.M) I have de-ciphered my writing once: Please don’t make me do it again! “No telling (andI I added, for whatever reason, as I said in parenthesis), what Joyce told Ronnie about me! If Milt is in “charge” of me, it is as as if I am one of the inmates! Where would I be without Family support?! God bless the Family!
Maybe there’s a reason that de-ciphering some of my notes is next to impossible!
Kayla was here from around 4:54 to around 7:44 today (this evening, of course).
Why is cloning “playing God” but invading a person’s privacy via a camera phone isn’t? (The connection being ___)

(16th, About 7:52 A.M.) In my dream, some male, famous in mid- and late-19th century American History - I am unable to make out the name on the tape recorder, which I made in order to remember the dream - was an outspoken spokesperson for guns. I was told by an older man, “What do you expect: He was a colonel in the army!” Although being a retired army officier doesn’t necessarily make one an advocate of guns, this is what I was told.
The man that had told me about the spokesperson’s military career was seated, his back to the “viewer,” and I was standing, facing the dreamer (me).
As I said, I don’t even attempt to figure out the dreams I have: It is bad enough that my mind create such!
Yesterday I had this fantasy that the weather would turn warm and I could start going in with Joyce, saving me four dollars a week. But what was I thinking? Cold chased Sleep away from my bed early this morning.
So, no, the post-50⁰’s (F) afternoon that this week brought don’t mean that Spring is here! As I told my driver yesterday morning, this is, after all, January!
“A Guide to MLA Documentation” (3rd edition); “Biology 202 Notes,” an in-house study guide written by Shelly Wood; “Student Study Guide For ‘Biology: Complete & Connection” by Richard M. Liebaerd; and a “Student’s Study Guide for ‘H_le’s Essential of Human Anatomy and Physiology’” (6th edition) were my take-home “library” yesterday. As if I needed more reading material!

(acerca de 8:37 A.M.) In what was essentially a “semi-private” inauguration, Bernard Kincaid was officially sworn in as the mayor of Birmingham for four more years yesterday at some baptist church. A prayer opened the event.
I do believe the church-state separation was violated, just as much as Roy Moore did when he had the Ten Commandments moved into the lobby of the Judicial Building!
The African American community in Birmingham has every right to be the dominant power in city government, considering how it was treated in the early- and mid-’60’s! But African Americans all over must not turn “white”: In its eagerness to get “even” for slavery, it must not engage in discriminatory practice!
The African American community must also confront its own racism, just as has been “ordered” done in the white community!
If a white person complains about an occurrance that just so happens to be mainly an African American event, such as the Kincaid inauguration, and is accused of racism, remind the accuser that African Americans are “people,” and to expect to have the ‘human failings” overlooked is racism!

(acerca de 1:11 P.M.) I can’t help myself! I have an addiction!
I went to Dollar General for the express purpose of re-stocking my “AA”-battery supply that my cordless razor uses. I purchase four for $3.24, but I also bought two ‘Harry Potter” journal notebooks for $1.08 a piece! The paper is too good to pass up.
Now I find out that each book is originally $8.99! I will most likely purchase more, even though I really don’t need any more journal-vehicles!
When the bus was taking me home Wednesday afternoon, I passed under the railroad tressle on First Street, just before Highway 76 “begins.” As the bus approached the overhead track, the older African American female that was behind the wheel stated that she was reminded of New York. A train was southbound.
I also withdrew, via the A.T.M., ten dollars from my checking account. I only wish the A.T.M.was correct: It states on the transaction receipt that I have $569.23! If only I did!
An e-mail letter-to-the-editor of “Freethought Today,” and a résumé to N.B.C. 13 for the position of Associate for Producer: My computer business.
According to the local news (ABC 33/40) yesterday, Jacksonville State University is among four or five other universities in Alabama that is trying to appeal the “50-mile radius” rule, so that residents of Georgia (in the case of JSU) will be forced to pay out-of-state tuition (50-mile radius crosses the Georgia state line).
So much for higher education having students in mind, as Joyce and I “discussed” in the Family Room: If the state really wanted to save money, it would consolidate Troy State University in Montgomery, Auburn University in Montgomery, and Alabama State University (Montgomery)! But no! Then jobs would be eliminated!

(acerca de 2:29 P.M.) I found out from Joyce at the dinner table yesterday evening that the tall African American male that delivers for U.P.S. - here and sometimes at the book store - is the son of Wayne Hall, a
tallish white man. But I didn’t asked whether Wayne Hall had entered into miscegenation - extremely rare in this area then - thirty-five or more years ago (the age of th UPS “carrier”) or if it was a “Thomas Jefferson” relationship, sex only!
Leslie use to (still does?) be a “fan” of roses. Roses are cross-bred to create unusual colors, shapes, etc. It is “playing God.” So you have to wonder why she is opposed to gene-splicing/genetic engineering in humans! To a rose, it is just as important as a human. Both a rose and a human are “God’s” creatures!
“Playing God” (8-9:00 P.M., P.B.S.) was the title of the DNA episode yesterday evening.
Every technological advance has a down-side! Take”fire” for instance: It hurts to make contact with it. And it can burn “your” house down!
I was wondering why it felt so good while walking to and from town: The low-60⁰’s (F) were either already stationed around the area, or They were on Their way!
No Clouds in the rich blue sky! A sun that refuses to stop at anything! It this keeps up, I may re-arrange my work schedule, after all!
One of the questions on WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? on the Game Show Network yesterday evening dealt with Linda Tripp, a Clinton-era government worker (what an oxymoron! Not the Clinton-era, but what follows!) and the tape she made of a conversation or something of Monica Lewensky (?), the female that had the affair with Bill Clinton. I was reminded of the “discussion” I had with Steve and Mary Holt (here?): Ms. Tripp took legal action to keep her job when Bill Clinton left office. Steve explained to Mary that high-level government workers resigned when an administration left power. Mary should have known that!

(acerca de 3:38 P.M.) “What an air of probability sometimes runs through a dream! And at others, what a heap of absurdities!”
My thought exactly, “Mr. Wilson”! Jane Austen was speaking for my dreams in Chapter 41 of “Emma”!
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen/and waste its fragrance on the desert air.”
Also quoted in ‘Emma”? If it is or not, it is proof that there are artists aplenty among us! “You”’ll be amazed where genius and talent can be found!
An old note from my short “full-time’ book store work: Don’t forget the cash register or receipts journal (Keep in sequence). At the time (July and August 2002) this made sense, but now?

(17th, About 9:12 A.M.) While waiting on the bus last Wednesday afternoon - I was sitting on the raised stone platform of the porch before the main entrance to Building “A” - around 3:35, a male African American student - a young person that I have “serviced” in the book store; I think he is a drafting student - commented about seeing me working in the rear of the campus. At first he didn’t know the name of the “boss.” Not Milt, but Eric, “head” of maintenance
The student was saying that Eric was in to a lot, the implication that Eric does a lot around campus.
I thought to myself, “Are we talking about the same Eric?”
I told Joyce about this conversation, Thursday evening. She agreed with me that Eric more or less uses CACC for a “base” for non-campus work, which, indeed, he is very busy! But as for campus maintenance? Well, come to campus one day and then tell me how “busy” Eric is!
One of the challenges of commercial work for an actor is that s/he only has a very few seconds to “create” a “character.” One must work quickly: Seldom does one have another “character” to build on.
Such is the film version of “Emma.” If one compares the movie to the novel, it becomes obvious that each actor is only ‘summarizing” her/his “character,” as in a sur-realistic or avante garde film! (continued)




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