Phillip Wilson

Amazingly, I survived my Life
2011-09-30 00:06:25 (UTC)

2005 REVIEW (PART TWENTY-FIVE)

June- Childersburg, AL (continues)

Appearing on THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (10-10:30 P.M., Comedy Central) yesterday evening, Howard Dean, the chair of the Democratic National Committee stated as a criticism of the Republicans, “Love thy neighbor, but we don’t get to pick who the neighbor is!” That remark was in reference to homophobia. Although homophobia is just as rampant in the Democratic Party as it is in the Republican Party!
An exceedingly torturous day: The low-90⁰’s (F)! There was no way a person could do even the gentlest physical labor al fresco for more than thirty minutes!
And Phoebus was’t - isn’t - much of a help! Well, It was - is - to Heat!
WITHOUT A TRACE (9-10:00 P.M., C.B.S.): I saw it for no other reason than that I enjoy the program! And it went well with popcorn!

(acerca de 6:25 P.M.) As I stated to Hazel this afternoon, C.A.C.C. whines about not being able to gain access to qualified teachers, when it ignores one that is ready and willing!
Glenda Bland said it right Wednesday when she declared her love for her job, but she doesn’t feel as if C.A.C.C. deserves her loyalty because of the way C.A.C.C. treats its employees.
What was going on was that Glenda was reluctantly inquiring about an article of clothing with “C.A.C.C.” on it, declaring that she hadn’t supported C.A.C.C with “letterhead” items in all her years at C.A.C.C.
Discussing with Marvin Wednesday down at the shop, he told me that Lesia supposively contacted the suppliers of toliet paper, paper towels, etc, several days earlier. I agreed with Marvin: It is doubtful she did!
The inmates were forced to re-use as many trash can liners as they could!
Hazel agreed with me: Marvin should be allowed to order his own supplies.
The supply truck came yesterday, but there were no liners delivered.
As I told Milt and Marvin Wednesday at the shop, Ronnie did many things wrong, but he always made sure janitorial supplies were on hand!

(acerca de _:21 P.M.) I can never remember if I wrote a reminder note, or if the note has already been included in this journal, only I forgot to cross the note off the list! But here it is, again maybe: I was “explaining” to “Charles” yesterday morning while enroute to work that Washington, D.C., is home to many prostitutes because the “Family values” Conservatives, the Christian Co-alition, and like seldom practice what they preach.
A third of the yard, if not more, has been mowed for the week. I was hoping that the evening would keep Heat out of the day, but not really!

(25th, About 7:33 A.M.) What more do I need to convince them? Although it is only Hazel: Yesterday, wondering allowed why I don’t teach Humanities, an honors course, Hazel asked me, “You want to teach?”, as if I was fantasizing about a thing I am not intellectually capable of!
Local dance Judy Rochell is scheduled to teach a course in dance styles at C.A.C.C. in the fall. I told Hazel I should audit the course. She asked “Why audit?”: I told her I didn’t need the credit.
The former found me on a chair behind the northern end of the counter. The latter, which came first, had me in a chair on the east side of the south end of the counter.
I will wait until the Fall semester begins before I initiate legal action: I may not need to! For what is Hazel Jackson in all of this?
Joyce doesn’t “hang” around the book store as she use to: Has Hazel finally realized Joyce’s hypocriti_y, or is Joyce avoiding me?
In discussing the C.A.C.C. wearing apparel, I mentioned to Hazel yesterday that the shirts I got from C.A.C.C. (one of the problems; Joyce insisted that I wear the polo shirts, even though the dress code during book buy-back and/or registration doesn’t demand such attire; it is an example of spending money on Joyce’s order, whereas hearing aids are wasting money; there’s something here, ladies and gentlemen!) are hot and don’t breathe. Milt was wearing a navy blue C.A.C.C. pole shirt yesterday, but, aft__ ___, I finally stated to Hazel that Milt doesn’t work. When Hazel suggested that Milt cuts grass, I gave credit for that duty to Marvin.
When Glenda Bland was writing a check at the bookstore for some “C.A.C.C.”-labelled items, she reminded herself to include the “r” when she designated “shirt” on the check!

(acerca de 8:22 A.M.) Lunch from KFC, left-over cake from F.I.T. graduation: A penny saved is a penny earned,
How hypocritical of me to condemn Joyce Giddens for a personal use of Upward Bound - a provider of transportation for her family - when I rely on the program for filling my stomach!
When I later announced to Hazel that I was hungry, she corrected me: I want to eat but am not “hungry”! She relates to her kids at home when they whine about being “hungry” of the two children of a drug addict mother that were reduced to eating trapped insects in spider webs, for food.
“Jay Jay,” having attended F.I.T. graduation with his students, was in the book store at the time - the customer-side - and told of Hazel over-cooking every day for the children still at home, and the food that is thrown out.
Though knowing Hazel, I’m sure she “cooks” for herself rather than prepares meals for her children! I have no doubt that “you” are aware of what I refer to when I say Hazel cooks for herself: “Cooking” convinces herself that she is needed, and the wasted food is of no importance!
Hazel was seated on a chair at the southern end of the counter, and I at the north end.
“Jay Jay” insisted that, as a college graduate, he well understood what missing meals w__ all about.
During the humiliating “explanation” of Janie Giddens to Doug Stearns, Burt Yarbrough, Levetta Wheeler, and Hazel in the bok store yesterday morning, I exclaimed that Dr. “B” (Botticello, who teaches music) would react horribly to Janie Giddens’ musical output. Burt and Doug agreed that it may be worth it to trick Dr. “B” into coming one morning.
A young male African American is a “mentor” with Upward Bound. He is also a music major: He is offended by what Janie is doing to music!
Which is preferably: Government-run co-oporations, or government run by co-oporations? In reality, it’s either one or the other!

(acerca de 9:26 A.M.) On my insistence, Hazel “explained” the book keeping system used (or created) by C.A.C.C., and made it clear that accounting at an educational institution is different than accounting at, say, a grocery store. Which is the reason Tara had to be taught the system, even though she holds a Master’s degree in accounting!
I know nothing about accounting, but it seems to me that Hazel is somehow excusing the “strange” book keeping system that C.A.C.C. created for itself! Maybe Hazel helped developed the redundancy of the system!
Could it be that I was getting to close in figuring out why C.A.C.C. is managed so inefficiently?
Again Hazel was seated behind the southern computer, and kept looking away from me as she talked.
I was sitting north of her, to her right.
My contemporary events independent studies “class” began with THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) and continued with WASHINGTON WEEK (7-7:25 P.M., P.B.S.).
In spite of losing the Civil war, or possibly because of losing it, the South kept re-fighting the war, and pumping life back into the long-dead Confederacy, until recently! In many places, the Civil War still plays out!
The United States “lost” on September 11, 2001. And ever since, 9/11 has become a rallying point for everything from a return of payer in school to anti-flag burning.
Explain to me again how the United States is winning the post-9/11 battles!

(acerca de 10:07 A.M.) It doesn’t “say” much for the educational system in Alabama when Humanities is for every student a two-year college in Florida, but only for the academic elite in Alabama!
I ride the bus, I have no car! So naturally I can’t have a degree and be more qualified than those that own 2-3 cars, a “fancy” house! Knowledge wouldn’t dare do something like that!
I am pleasantly pleased that LAW & ORDER: TRIAL BY JURY (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.) has improved in its rhythum and editing! How embarrassing if that latest incarnation of LAW & ORDER is cancelled!
Why would Geography require a lab, I asked only partially meaningfully, yesterday, Danny Coleman. Danny answered that Geography is a science. That depends on how the discipline is taught!
Hazel received a tentative listing of academic classes that might be offered in the fall (actually, the list is more than academic) from Nathan Brackeen the same day the buyer from MBS was visiting (Wednesday? Thursday?). Danny wants a copy, along with the addedum (?) of additional technical courses from Ralph Cline.
I watched about fifteen minutes of AUSTIN CITY LIMITS (10-11:00 P.M., P.B.S.) yesterday evening.
Incidentally, Congress has restored funding for public television due to protest by the middle-class, who will ensure to profit by public television. Upward Bound may well be saved by the same method!

(acerca de 12:06 P.M.) Tuesday: I told Danny Coleman what I had overheard Burt Yarbrough telling Hazel, that a person must have a Master’s degree a year before s/he can officially use it. Hazel never believed this to be true, even though I explained about post-graduate studies.
Danny agreed that a Master’s degree can be used anytime.
But wasn’t Burt referring to Andy studying for a master’s degree while holding down the acting administrator’s position?
The day before, Hazel had told about the college being left unlocked over the weekend and a homeless man taking advantage of the situation.
A student was homeless, 2-3 years ago: He would bathe in the library’s men’s room, and live in his jeep. That is, until arrangements were made for him to temporarily live at the Lamplighter motel!
I should remember that, but I don’t!
I think I told you about Milt taking the flowers, that Eric stated were for me, home and planting them. They are not “dead,” as Eric believed.

(acerca de 3:32 P.M.) Two-three weeks after the start of classes, students still expect to be able to buy books and supplies with financial aid! The official policy is that a grant, loan, or scholarship is there to use ten days, at the most, after First Day: Then, the student, in most cases, will receive a check for any unused portion of a Pell Grant or/and loan, and _fter time scholarships.
Why don’t “they” inform the student in Orientation that this is the way things are? What, must Hazel personally attend Orientation to set the record straight? She doesn’t have time!
Between you and me, Hazel is not nearly as busy as she would have people believe! If she was, she weren’t have the leisure to “play” on the computer, reading the news!
THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (10:35-11:35 P.M., C.B.S.) and THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO (10:35-11:35 P.M., N.B.C.): As usual, I saw more of the former than the latter! Especially yesterday evening: There was a dog race (against time).
No doubt the winner received a “cake” of liver dog food, not the sweet stuff I inherited from C.A.C.C. yesterday!
Speaking of dog, I shampooed and conditioned mine this morning, in the back yard. It wasn’t then the upper-80⁰’s (F) as it is now, though too warm for much yard work.
From the 14th of June: According to Hazel, her daughter Tanya, eats raw okra. How yuppie, I exclaimed.
Hazel herself partates of steamed broccoli.

(acerca de 9:00 P.M.) One of the neighborhood kids, or several of the neighborhood kids, is/are setting off fireworks. The sound frightens Deah.
Oh how I wish I could stick the firework up the kid’s or kids’ ass and light it!
The plants and flowers are being taken care of: Rain fell upon the area briefly this afternoon. But I wasn’t detered from my yard work: The grass has been shortened, and two buckets of sand/mud from the gutter were moved to “holes.”
I also relocated two bucket-ful__ of sand while Deah was drying late this morning.
Is there really such a thing as “dry heat”? The humidity of a place like Tuscan, AZ, results because there isn’t much moisture in the air, and, as opposed to, say, Minnesota, where there are “10,000” lakes (if I count one more than that, someone’s in trouble!).
“Charles” and I conversed about such Thursday afternoon, as the bus took me “homeward.”

(26th, About 8:10 A.M.) Ancient Athens, after having been “king of the hill” for more than a century and bullying others in the known world, was finally put in its place by Sparta or, some Sicilian city.
The Civil and the race issue damn near tore this country apart! I doubt if the United States can take another hit!
September 11, 2001, no doubt, ended America’s hegemony in the world. And the terrorists will never know what a big favor they did!
The warehousing of pre-judged terror suspects in Guantanomo (?) is more akin to the detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II then it is the Nazi concentration camps or the Soviet Union gulag. It is incredible that no one has ever made the comparison!
Was it Ronald Reagan that offered an apology to the Japanese-Americans for the deterrment? Whoever the president was that issued the “sorry about that,” he blamed the detention on poor leadership!
And now Arab-Americans are the ne_ Japanese-Americans! Boy, is there bad leadership in Washington!
Even before Saddam Hussein goes on trial, he is guilty. What kind of democracy is that to showcase to the world?
Even if Saddam Hussein happens to be found innocent, the United States will never accept that acquittal. What kind of democracy is that to force on others?
Minimum wage is only indirectly related to democracy: Minimum wage must counter the harm capitalism would do to democracy!
A minimum wage, in theory, establishes equality.
Capitalism and democracy are mostly at odds with each other. Sometimes the two co-incide.
Democracy is an antedote for the economic system, etc, that permeates a country. Democracy is not a “thing” that can be adopted to another country as “one size fits all.” Democracy depends on the forces at work in a country.
Democracy has to be adapted to local conditions, made especially for each country.

(acerca de 9:0_ A.M.) You have heard it said, “They will get theirs!” But let’s examine that “Everybody will get theirs.” It’s only a question of odds. There is no divine intervention.
A person’s action that makes others exclaim “She or he will get hers or his!” will increase the odds because of the nature of the action.
A person may escape life, no matter how “bad” s/he is, by simply beating the odds! And conversely a “good” person may “get hers/his” because of the odds “winning”!
I had hope to use the attachments of the vacuum cleaning, after I had vacuumed the rear storage rooms of the book store Tuesday or Wednesday, but an inmate informed me, after I had “struggled” with them, that they didn’t function.
Marvin replied the same down at the shop, after I had asked him about the attachments.
Fireworks are still the audio hegemony in the neighborhood. But what’s __n a man do? “Boys will be boys!” Should one say that about terrorists?

(acerca de 10:_1 A.M.) I have no doubt that the Bush administration was “asleep at the wheel,” as has been alleged by many in reference to 9/11. Though it was also the Clinton administration, the older Bush administration, the Reagan administration, the Carter administration, etc.
No one at C.A.C.C. thinks I really earned a Master’s degree, judging from my hearing and speech, in spite of the fact that I have ___ circulated my transcript from graduate school!
Assuming that Al Qaeda and bin Laden are responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001, each let it be known that such would happened but no one really believed that a “barbians” could defeat a technologically superior country!
9/11 is a classical example of the dangers of pre-conceptions and mis-conceptions! All the external defenses won’t do any good as long as the American government defeats itself with a prejudicial mind set!
INTO THE WEST (7-9:00 P.M., T.N.T.) got me thinking yesterday evening: If Saddam Hussein is held accountable for “crimes” committed by his regine, shouldn’t Andrew Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt be condemned, not honored, for not having stopped genocide? Andrew Jackson sacrificed American Indians for the White Person. J. Philip Randolph did his best to have F.D.R. stop lynching of African Americans, but he (FDR) didn’t want to incur the wrath of Southern Democrats, who threatened to do damage to F.D.R.’s legacy! Apparently that legacy meant more than human lives.
It’s one thing to sacrificed one’s life willingly, in order to help someone! It’s quite another thing to be a victim of another group of people, involuntarily!
Steve Holt is pretensious enough to think of himself as “liberal”; but when I mentioned J. Philip Randolph’s appeal for democracy during one of his visits (with Mary) he thought Roosevelt did right to be more concern about the rights of whites than of African Americans!

(acerca de 11:39 A.M.) I accept life on its own terms! I seldom, if ever, attempt to manipulate life so it conforms to what I demand or am capable of handling!
I live my life defensively, dealing with what comes. I “go with the flow,” as some would say!
I am not afraid of surprises, which is a good thing, because life is full of surprises!
“God” was invented to instill order into the world, a world where that is impossible!
The “Devil” was created to bear responsibility for the “sins” of Man. Theists are somehow convinced that reality is the fault of the “Devil”!
What a pathetic mindset!
Even though a repeat, I watched 33-34 minutes of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (10:30-midnight, N.B.C.) yesterday evening.
Have I told you that I hinted to Hazel Friday that Milt wears a hot “C.A.C.C.” polo shirt because he doesn’t work? Of course, Hazel was defensive of Milt!

(acerca de 4:46 P.M.) “Out of the blue,” Hazel asked me Friday if I have ever seen the television program BEWITCHED.
It was one day last week that Glenda Bland was in the book store, mentioning travel to some meeting, and that the milage C.A.C.C. pays doesn’t come close to covering the $2-plus per gallon!
Lesia McGaha was in the book store, coming out of Hazel’s office. Defending C.A.C.C., she announced that a lot of organizations have eliminated their fleets.
I had joked that Glenda could drive one of the C.A.C.C. pick-up trucks. As always, Hazel failed to understand the joking tone, stating that the trucks are Maintenance (Now I ask “you”: is that not C.A.C.C.?).
Glenda said that she would rather drive the truck than the Mercury: The latter is dangerous to operate, which even Lesia didn’t dispute!
Rain looks as if It could show up at any time: The low-80⁰’s (F), I don’t know what Rain is waiting for! Phoebus hasn’t been too powerful of a “block” to Rain!
Maybe Sprinkle was here already, I really can’t tell!

(acerca de _:23 P.M.) Isn’t it about time that I take over control of my life insurance? Granny has been paying the premiums all these years!
The latest one, which was due the first of May, is $73.78. I am paying it, but I may cash in the policy! Why would I care about benefiting others after I am gone?
Life insurance is a luxury I don’t feel I need. I don’t know why there was a policy arranged for me in the first place!
Nor why the premium-neglect!
Kayla was in the Family Room when I happened out there around 1:50, after a juggling session. I don’t know how long she had been out there, or why no one told me.
It was around 7:31 that Kayla went home with her father.
I couldn’t allow Kayla to keep me from yard work! Besides she was watching Disney!
Four - maybe five - buckets of dirt/sand were evicted from the gutter to “holy” ground.
Rain did show up! But only briefly and with not much water!

(27th, About 6:25 A.M.) Leslie was very critical of the fact that I smoke, during our talk Wednesday or Thursday evening at the motel, commenting that smoking was bad for my health!
No doubt it is, but so is fingernail-biting! No telling what kind of germs are picked up by the hands! Germs that are transferred to the mouth via fingernail-biting!
Les suggested that her mother had stopped biting her fingernails, having long fingernails!
But Joyce hasn’t stopped biting her fingernails: She had her fingertips in her mouth during Kayla’s visit yesterday!
I really don’t think I want to use “Rap is to this era as ‘Bubblegun’ was to the 1960’s!” Or maybe I should!
In Blackwell’s Li’l Red Riding Hood,” Sheepskin is, what, anti-racism?
It doesn’t happen any longer, but for several days, the male bus driver urged me to seek a ride to work with Milt or Marvin when he came for the inmates - I could meet the van some place close by - and another one in the afternoon when the inmates were taken back.

(acerca de 3:58 P.M.) Humans eat shark meat. I don’t, Hazel doesn’t, but some people do. So it’s only fair the sharks eat human meat!
This is what I told Hazel in the book store this afternoon, in reference to the many shark attacks of late!
As cold-hearted as it may sound, since when is the human not a part of nature?
Humans fish for sharks: Turn around fair play, I say!
I was sitting at a table in the Cafeteria eating my lunch of Rice-a-Roni, Brussel Sprouts, and lima beans when one of the helpers with Upward Bound - a young male African American - handed me a Thickburger. Then Greg gave me one.
Soon Joyce Giddens passed to my left, going northwest, and told me that there were extra thick burgers on the table.
I grabbed all three. Plus a Strawberry ro__.
Of the five burgers, four are in the freezer: As gross as it may be, one of the burgers was partially eaten when I transferred the thick burgers to freezer bags. I can live with four!
I emptied most of the bug traps that had been put out at various places across campus, in a panicky effort to stop the Japanese (pine)” beetles” infestation.
The dead bugs looked like black beans. I joked with Milt and Marvin in the office of the shop . . .

(acerca de 5:21 P.M.) (I had to buy groceries, do you mind?) . . . that a million dollars awaits him that eats a handful of the insects.
Actually, I was directing my remarks to Milt, satirizing the television show Fear Factor, where supposively real insects and worms are eaten!
But Milt stated that it would be a “sin” to eat bugs for a million dollars: To do so would show one’s love of money!
Earlier in the day, Milt and I were discussing watering: If Eric has any ambition to be “boss” of grounds, then he should water the plants and flowers on the weekends, or arrange for somebody to be paid for watering service!

(acerca de 7:02 P.M.) Leslie, Kayla, and Bill just left after about a twenty-minute visit.
The point I was trying to make above is that, once again, Milt’s so-called religiousity has been found out for what it is: If he really thought do something solely for money, is a “sin,” then he should water on the weekends without renimeration !
The decaying insect bodies have coated my hands with a stench that I don’t know how to counter! Water is not enough! Cologne fails to conquer!
Don’t tell me time is the only antidote to the smell of death! There’s got to be a better way!
The bug corpses were scattered on the hill/bank. As Milt “confirmed” in the office of the shop - he was sitting backed to the north wall, Marvin southwest of him - birds will eat the bodies. This is what I am hoping, and that bird droppings will get the grass from the ground.
For a two-shot in “Inspector Lynley” (9-10:30 P.M., P.B.S.) of MYSTERY! fame is captured by an extended back-and-forth panning, as “Lynley” talks to a “Vie”: “Lynley” is to “Vie’s” left, on a couch.
“Nan” also hints to “Lynley” that every marriage is unique, and requires unique arrangements to work. I have always stated that a person marries marriage rather than a person!
If I am not mistaken, I overheard Thunder and the Early Evening in a b_d debate: It seems as if Rain has been not showing up for work lately! The waterfall this weekend had to be brought in, to the embarrassment of Saturday and Sunday!
For a while, the mid-80⁰’s (F) and hard-hitting Phoebus were challenged by Wind and Overcast, but with no support from Rain, the D__ won the day.
$16: That was my grocery bill. Are you happy, Leslie? Isn’t that what you wanted?

(acerca de 7:53 P.M.) Hazel will be hosting the Jackson family reunion, this weekend. She is so looking forward to the annual event.
A get-together of Hazel’s husband’s family? Hell, most of the Jackson family lives in town, anyway! In fact, the majority live within a small cluster! I told Hazel that she could block off a street and have a Block Party!
Blueberry Cobbler:

(acerca de 9:02 P.M.) There are at least three bags of blueberries in the freezer I use: Joyce drove down to get a load of blueberries from a “near-by” neighbor, however near-by “near-by” is.
I discussed with Hazel blueberry cobbler: Of course the internet has recipes for cobblers, quick, quicker, and quickest.
Hazel handed me a recipe for Fast Blueberry Cobbler from somebody’s great-aunt Mamie, and a recipe for Superfast Blueberry Cobbler.
But what I suggested was pancake mix, baked with blueberries, and ice cream as the sweetener.
I asked Hazel if she saw the movie JAWS: For several years after the release in the 1970’s, people were leary of sharks. Apparently people of the “main” generation should see the film!
Nature is not cruel and needs to be tamed! Nature should be partnered.

(acerca de 9:38 P.M.) So that’s what all the noise was about: Thunder was pleading with Phoebus to let Lightning take Her place this evening!
Lightning is, therefore, providing the nocturnal illumination! Will what-Its-name be here in the morning?
Hazel and a female student were discussing the difficulty of working - even part-time - and attending school! Hazel told me later that she explained to her son Justin such a combination would present hardships, but, until he experienced it first-hand, he remained an unbeliever!
In reference to Justin’s broken right hand that is in a cast: Justin works for his uncle, so the position is actually a sinecure, in essence free money.
Joyce made a point of articulating to granny, as we travelled to Winn Dixie for groceries, “I don’t know what to do about Skinny!”, claiming that the cat waits for Joyce to clean out the litter box before using the bathroom. Though who can blame him?
I re-cleaned the box this morning. Or did I clean it for the first time today?

(28th, About 6:10 A.M.) Strange, my soreness is the same!
I know first-hand what an increased work load can do to extra-job activities: Grocery shopping and the brief by the three Reeves only made possible a 14-minute juggling session, instead of twenty minutes. That is, if I wanted four and a-half pages in the journal!
What suffered was reading. But there will never be enough time for one’s true profession: Time jealously prevents that!
Supposively James, Hazel’s husband, enjoys all the Family Reunion nonsense! That’s what Hazel told me yesterday. Although Hazel wants, or even demands that he enjoy Family Reunions!
James’ sister Eunice that works for Dr. Sligh and before that Dr. Smith (dentist), has never been married.
I overheard Hazel talking on the telephone yesterday morning: She stated the name “Wilson.” Now, there could have been many reason for giving out that name, although I can’t think of many.

(acerca de 3:48 P.M.) Maybe I never heard the questioner before, but the pre-screening for blood donation asked me if I had been to Europe since 1980, and when I told the female 1991 and the countries I visited, she had to do quick research on Belgium and Luxembourg!
My blood pressure, around 1:50, was 136/86. Even though who’s to say that the woman was good as a blood pressure-taker, I believe that the woman that registered my diastolic as “60” on a previous bloodletting was way off!
Pulse: 80. I am my old self again!
Storm is dropping a lot of water on the area, and making a big noise in so doing! Rain is hitting so hard, in fact, that Storm must use Lightning in order to see!
The day turned around 11:00; I wasn’t long back from Allen’s Food Mart, where I bought a pack of cigarettes for $2.15.
I had debated about hauling water up to the “peninsulars” for the plants and flowers there. But Black-bottomed Clouds were taken over the sky, and I figured that Rain would water later that day.
It did, and some! There should be a “back-up” of water for many days!
The Bank informed via telephone that I have a balance of 29¢ in my account. 29¢: Basically it has been a break-even month!
But back to the weather: The mid-70⁰’s (F) confronts the Storm, though I’ve no doubt Heat and Humidity were presenting “shock and awe” this morning!
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) reported that Iran’s new president told the United States to, in essence, kiss its (Iran’s) ass, something a country should have said to the United States years ago!
The NEWSHOUR also “explained” the United States Supreme Court’s decision on displaying the Ten Commandments: Only as history, not to acknowledge “God”!
It’s a good compromise. I have no problem with it!

(acerca de 4:36 P.M.) April told of Pizza Hut delivering a pizza to Taco Bell, slowing the service at the Drive-in window at Taco Bell.
Doug Stearns encouraged her to write an e-mail to Taco Bell, complaining of the situation.
Doug “explained” his many complaints and that they usually bring coupons for free food.
Where did April just get back from? A PTK convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, right? “You” would think that an honor student could spell “restaurant,” wouldn ‘t you? Then why couldn’t April? For that matter, what prevented Doug Stearns from knowing the correct orthography of “restaurant”?
THE CLOSER (8-9:00 P.M., TNT): Maybe it’s on Cable television, and I need to feel “special”! For not everyone is a subscriber to Cable television! And since I don’t own a computer, or a cell phone, or a P.D.A., or an I Pad, or an etc, shouldn’t I have some connection to modern technology?
I was standing nearer to Hazel then I was to April: Hazel on my left, April on my right. I stated to Hazel that I don’t waste my “fighting” on fast-food restaurants: Once a cheeseburger is gone, it is gone!
No, my battles are meaningful and for a long-term advantage!
Doug Stearns was in front of the Counter when I told him that the management of Taco Bell and that of Pizza Hut may have a quid pro quo. I’m not sure that he knew the meaning of that term!

(acerca de 6:26 P.M.) Stanford University? Why, it’s in California, Palo Alto (?) to be exact, not Washington!
Of course, neither Hazel nor Aprilbelieved me!
Suppoively, Jade, who was vacationing with Hillory Hughes, Elmer Hughes (Hillory’s father), Hillory’s step-sister, and Hillory’s step-sister’s boyfriend in Panama City, FL, met a guy that claimed he played football for Stanford. Jade, according to Hazel, called her (Hazel) from Florida, asking Hazel to “check-out” the man on the internet.
Hazel said she described the kid to Hazel: If so, why didn’t Hazel know where Stanford was?
Remember, I was mistaken for a member of the “Grateful Dead” (rock band) in Las Vegas!
No doubt the man had a similar appearance to a Stanford University football player! That is, if this case even happened!
Why would a Stanford University, in California, kid be in Florida, even if he did live in Georgia?
If Jade is so popular with the boys, why did she vacation with Hillory?
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (10-10:00 P.M., Comedy Central) may be “too young” for me, but I find the program a great “read” on the youth culture!

(acerca de 7:36 P.M.) Nathan Brackeen has discouraged Judy Rochelle from including dance history in the Introduction to Dance Styles course she will direct in the fall.
I just don’t see how dance styles can be introduced without any history!
Nathan stated that dance history is boring. I countered - I was standing in the doorway to the small Center room, my left side (shoulder) leaning on the south sill of the doorway - that dance history is not boring.
Nathan hastily added that dance history would be boring if one is expecting technique!
Nathan also doesn’t want ballet in the course. That’s like studying 19th century English literature and ignoring Charles Dickens! Or anatomy, leaving out the heart!
Judy Rochelle will also teach Slimnestics: Nathan knows that only four people have signed up for the course, but when I asked about the matriculation in dance, both Nathan and Hazel were quick to “humiliate” me by saying that only registration will tell.
Does Judy Rochelle have a Master’s degree in dance? How is she qualified to teach Slimnestics?
Nathan is a theist and a Conservation Republican, so can he really be at fault? He is “disabled”!
I still find it hard to believe that Hazel had no idea how to call up the Stanford University football team! Speaking of someone that can talk the talk but can’t walk the walk!
My watering replacement and I discussed out by the plants of the southern “apron,” that the flowers and plants appear wilted and “lifeless” at times. They do on Mondays, after two days of fasting. But feed them, and they perk up!
Erin killed or harmed the flowers that he thought dos___ing with would restore to life! I “explained” this to Milt and Marvin at the shop yesterday!
It’s funny to me that Milt didn’t have the inmates continue the war against the pine borers (as I told the bus driver yesterday, the insects are not ___ b_tt__) until I dealt with the traps yesterday! I am indeed the tail that wags the dog, as I told Hazel!
In a sense, George W. Bush is, also. He and his cohorts were going to war, no matter what the United Nations did or said!
Is a skunk related to a cat?

(27th, About 6:12 A.M.) Richard Scrusky was found innocent on all forty-four counts against him.
Incredible! Odds that on one count, he would have been found guilty!
Although it really wouldn’t have been fair to make Mr. Scrusky pay for what is all too common! Hell, the questionable business practices are hegemony at C.A.C.C.!
But I don’t know if I would go as far as Joyce when she stated to Hazel that the jury won’t have to work anymore, meaning that Scrusky paid the jury off!
Everybody makes a big deal of the fact that Richard Scrusky is active in organized religion, preaches on occasion, and is a member of a mostly-Black church.
In the first place, it is as though African Americans can’t have a church without Richard Scrusky! It is an insult to Black people as people!
It is as if all the philanthropic works makes it o’kay to engage in potentially illegal deals! Aren’t members of organized crime active in the church?
Organized religion nurtures scandals and crooks!
Hazel was amazed that anyone is important at C.A.C.C.! Yesterday afternoon Doug Stearns had suggested that someone is of such value to C.A.C.C. that s/he can’t get promoted.
Morning, I was on my knees cleaning the “inside” of the north door to the book store (By “inside” I mean the side of the door entered by the book store).
The door is all glass.
In getting up, I stated to Hazel that I would like to know why I was having such a hard time getting up, not counting my age. This is not a quote, but the essence of what I jokingly told Hazel.

(acerca de 6:41 A.M.) Society claims women “overqualified” by educating them, when, on the whole, women are only made for housewifery and child-rearing! And it continues to be this way, and not only in “Islamic” Countries!
To blame China for the high price of oil - the increased dependency on the automobile in China - is hiding the true cause: I don’t know what that is, but blaming China won’t help!

(acerca de 7:40 A.M.) I just now realized what may have been the mindset more than thirty-seven years ago: When I was interviewed by the draft board in Talladega in 1968, the woman automatically assumed that I was going into the ministry, which was a common cause for a deferment from military duty. But could it had been that I am white, and military service was (and is?) for the Black man, in the age of non-state sponsored racism?
So much for democratizing the military in a draft!
Racial hatred in the name of religion? Now that’s doing “God’s” work!

(acerca de 3:47 P.M.) No sooner had I walked in the door then granny started bitching about washing dishes: “Are you going to wash dishes? You didn’t wash them yesterday!”
When there is only 2-3 plastic ware in the sink, I am reluctant to waste water. I rather wait for more dishes. But granny’s nagging is something I rather not be subjected to, and if it takes wasting water to do so, then I will waste water!
If you remember, that - dish-washing - was something that Anita Matlow used against me before the judge! Of all things that go dejá vu . . .
54¢ for a replacement to the brown pen, the one I’m using almost empty of ink.
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.): But enough about that. I had best get to the dishes before my mommy gets on to me!

(acerca de 4:10 P.M.) I did the dishes, mommy! Now can I go out and play?
It’s my own fault if I am subjected to the offensive treatment: I don’t have to live here!
I tried being a part of this family, but, in spite of what Leslie told me at the motel, Joyce is giving very little, if at all!
Sleep left me too early this morning! As a result, my work day was out of “focus”!
As Deah gets older, she takes longer and longer to locate a spot to piss! It wears my patiences! She took her usual long walk “around” the house to piss but I was in a hurry to watch the presidential speech on television (why?) at 7:00!
C.N.N. provided the venue for my visual pick-up.
Believe it or not, there are many people that probably “bought” the importance of the Iraqi “war” to terrorism! Damn if I’m one of them!
It makes me wonder why did I jerk on Deah’s harness twice in rapid succession! That is a signal that danger is ahead!
Michael McLain told Hazel and me this morning that his and Eric’s solution to the “running” toilet near Ms. Sollato’s office is to shut the door, instead of fixing the problem! And he was bragging about this method of maintenance!
Such is par for the course! That is the usual way Eric and/or Michael handles/handle plumbing!
In spite of a constant threat of Rain, Phoebus made the day carry around the upper-80⁰’s (F) this afternoon. How great would it be if Drizzle would come to the area!

(acerca de 8:51 P.M.) Pizza today, from Upward Bound! I had three slices at Joyce Giddens’ invitation (to have pizza, but not three slices).
As lunch was winding down, I asked Greg if I could have the leftovers, then I saw 5-6 slices in a box. Greg told me to go ahead and take the box.
Janice Stephens, Lesia McGaha were among the C.A.C.C. staff that appropriated boxes of pizza.
The pizza was (is, for there are three slices for my breakfast) from Toosomes!
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (10-10:00 P.M., Comedy
Central) presents good commentary on many of the things discussed on the NEWSHOUR.
I remember the first time I saw an advertisement for THE DAILY SHOW on Comedy Central: I interpreted THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART as a pun on the name of the program, as if it is a satire on a talk show that normally would be THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON DAILY. But “Daily” means: Well, once a day!
Several weeks ago Doug Stearns told Hazel and me that he would like an inmate to help him with copying, etc. I warned him from so desiring that!

(acerca de 7:24 P.M.) A chance of rain? Isn’t all rain forecast for rain “a chance of . . . ‘?
The lady at Allen’s Food Mart, and Marvin, down at the shop, each told me a “chance” when I made conversation referring to rain.
I think “a chance of rain” is rain that probably won’t come, but may! But isn’t that how it always is?
Skunks and cats were also discussed at the shop yesterday, with Milt and Marvin: I told Milt that just because a cat has been “fixed” doesn’t mean s/he no longer enjoys sex! Only that she can’t become pregnant!
I closed by demonstrating the “slang” body language for sex (pelvic thrust).

(acerca de 8:05 P.M.) It asked Mil in jest yesterday at the shop if he has ever watched the cartoon “Pepé La Pew.”: The character is a skunk that tries for a romantic liaison with a cat.
I emptied a pine borer trap this morning: The trap was _ang the plants of the walking track park (nearest the nursing school).
Milt had stated to me that there is a trap “behind” the library but, upon “checking,” I found out that Milt was wrong.
A live spider was on the floor under the eastern shelf against the south wall of the main room of the bookstore, this morning. If I hadn’t swept, would it still be there?
What made sleep go so wrong this morning: The Cold air or a lumpy, “hard” pillow? I remember being disturbed and kept awake by Cold. In June?

(30th, About 6:15 A.M.) Apparently, Sleep had been chased off by Cold yesterday morning: The heavy quilt was on guard all night in case Cold returned.
It did, and Thick Blanket kept it from harassing Sleep.
I had begun juggling at 4:33 yesterday. At 4:46, I heard the high-pitched voice of Kayla.
The thirteen minutes were later joined by fourteen minutes. If there is any doubt that 27 minutes weren’t long enough, the muscular soreness of my upper body should clear up the point!
It was around 9:30 when Kayla left with Leslie, excited (Kayla) about packing for a trip! Even to Calloway Gardens in Georgia!
A ___ made me suicidal yesterday evening: One day several months ago I called Kayla “Baby Huey,” the name of an extra-large cartoon character baby. Now that I think about it, Joyce was right in “getting on to me” as if she had the right!
It must have been Tuesday that Hazel, me, and someone else (April?) of a newborn baby that weighed more than twelve pounds. The woman’s previously children were “hefties” also and they are now “normal.”
The woman didn’t appear adversely affected by the heavy weight. The woman was nicely groomed and articulate for an interview.
The point is that Leslie convinced her mother that my atavistic display of “Go fuck youself!” and “Fucking bitch!” were the ravings of a madman, not to be taken as normal behavior.
It could very well be!
The frogs and crickets yesterday evening were having a choral competition. They were rehearsing “The Messiah”! Whatever was the cause of the noisy evening, it was a much better sound than Janie Giddens and Upward Bound!
When the person or group sings off key, the only thing to do is let the tempo camouflage the singing.

(acerca de 7:19 A.M.) The theme of this year’s Upward Bound recital, ladies and gentlemen, is military and p___, an obvious choice if one is desperate to save Upward Bound! As is a field trip to Washington, D.C.
Anyway, some of the students were singing the navy theme, “Anchors Aweigh.” I stated my impression to Doug Stearns: The singing reminded me of the stereotypical group of drunken sailors enjoying shore leave!
Doug thought that impression funny.
I had offered April a slice of pizza yesterday afternoon: She reluctantly declined, stating that she will be drinking water the rest of the week.
ABE received four boxes of mouse pads. With Levon presence in the hall examining the shipment, Marvin stated that, with a Master’s degree, I needed a computer for research purposes.
I had just explained to Marvin what a mouse pad is for: To prevent “rings” on a table, as Marvin summerized it.
Hiding in the mindset of all the technological trappings of modern society is not an indication of intelligence: Unless “you” won’t to call Uniformity intelligent!
I take it that intelligence is created by society, the “artificial intelligence” of science fiction.

(acerca de 3:43 P.M.) Six cheeseburgers to add to my collection! I’ll eat two later on, and still have six (if not more)!
Fast service use to mean just that! The idea behind computers is to speed up the pace of things.
But “fast” is relative to “slow: And computers have only allowed dumb asses to do “brain” work!
Satisfying yet another “stipulation” of Joyce’s, I opened a second checking account with fifty dollars, and will have $50 automatically transferred from my main checking account. As soon as I gather $500, I will change the second checking account to a savings account.
Otherwise I will have to pay a service fee on a sub-$500 savings account each month!
The older female banker thought this best when she and I discussed the matter two weeks ago at The bank.
Today is payday. With an increase of ten hours and more, I should be able to reach the $500-mark real soon: For I plan on making unannounced monetary transfers to the second account.
Do you know that it was in the low-90⁰’s (F) today? Hell, the low-90⁰ are still hanging around!
Phoebus is, oh, so threatening! I doubt if the low-90⁰ could survive without Phoebus!
Is there such a thing as an intelligent technophobe? According to the current popular definition, a “smart” person has to be fluent on a computer.
Does the criterium for intelligent evolve, or do computer geeks label themselves “intelligent” as a rationale for having no life outside of technology?
I only watched the first fifteen minutes or so of THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (10-10:30 P.M., Comedy Central): The show is in the midst of a studio change, so reruns are “filling in”!

(acerca de 4:47 P.M.) As I told “Charles” this afternoon, the patients, sometimes, to the Cheaha Mental Health Clinic may not realize that they are noisy and bad, especially Joy! I don’t think they are being malicious: They, particularly Joy, may have tourette’s (sp?) syndrome.
“Charles” went by and got two before I was taken to C.A.C.C., one of which was Joy.
I wonder how much I don’t realize that I do!
The people that believe what George W. Bush said in the speech Tuesday evening believe__ that FEAR FACTOR is real! Or that professional wrestling is “legit”!
I have encircled the stump and the entire garden with large rocks from the former rock garden that book ends the sidewalk coming from the “back” of the lobby. An inmate and I discussed this: Should I “frame” the garden with a rock wall? The partial rock “blanket” improves the appearance of the area. Will a rock wall be too much?
Landscape architect is oftentimes a matter of taking more than adding more and more!

(acerca de 6:26 P.M.) If terrorists are criminals, then why in the hell is the military taking care of this, and not law enforcement?
Technically, organized crime doesn’t represent the government of a country. Organized crime is, therefore, dealt with on a police-level, not militarily.
The Bush administration insist that the nature of war has changed with 9/11: The enemy is no longer a country (in theory), but a group of people independent of countries.
Terrorist without borders!
The Bush administration uses this excuse to justify a violation of the rules of war!
But the administration is wrong: American history is full of stories about nation-less people attacking an established country! Hell, the Indian “wars” of 19th century United States were fought against “free agents”!
If the war on terrorism is against homeless criminals, then the “war” is a matter for law enforcement, not the military!
Couldn’t a terrorist just as easily steal nuclear material from the United States as from Iran? I find it hypocritical that the United States will be advancing its nuclear technology for power, while at the same time the United States is concerned about Iran and North Korea with nuclear power!

(acerca de 7:09 P.M.) Yesterday morning Doug Stearns came into the book store and told Hazel and me that there was a box for Hazel in the mail room. As I was going out the door, I stated that the box must be for the other Hazel Jackson!
I have joked many times with Hazel about an evil twin that she has!
Monday, the shop: I was seated with my back facing the office. I discussed mo-pads with “Boots” and Marvin. I had previously talked with “Charles” about a mo-pad.
“Charles” had suggested Vista or Avista, a company (?) or outlet located in Birmingham. Wal-Mart and Sears are other possibilities.
Milt had, on a different occasion, that a Class “D” driver’s license is good enough for operating a mo-pad. This was in the office.
A golf cart isn’t suppose to be on the highway: Such a mode of transportation was presented to me.
Nor can an A.T.V. (All-Terrain Vehicle) be on the highway!
Milt wears glasses to drive, I found out from his license.
An apartment; a car or mo-pad; hearing aids: What will my savings go for first?

July- Childersburg, AL

(1st, About 6:15 A.M.) It must have been Wednesday that Doug Stearns confirmed what I had stated to Milt, Marvin, and others: That Ronnie Harkins, although much of the business and logistical troubles originated with him, would regularly come by his office to “see” if all was o’kay.
Doug came into the book store yesterday, exclaiming that there will only be forty-nine more paychecks in his working life. Even if made president of the college, as Hazel “suggested” or chancellor, as I suggested, he claims he won’t stick around. Though anything can happen in four years!
If there is any doubt of my association with the book store, Ms. Solatto can “set the world straight”!
I was walking behind the loading dock, Wednesday, headed towards the hill/bank with a “___” load of dead pine beetles, as Ms. Solatto was arriving. We greeted each other, and she asked me if everything is o’kay in the book store. Although Ms. Solatto would have been shocked if I had articulated some complaint!
But it wasn’t “no madam” or “yes madam”: It was “er!”!
While at The Bank yesterday, I e ten dollars via the A.T.M.
The bus will not be “running” Tuesday. Leslie has business in Clanton or Columbiana that day: I made the inquiry as she was leaving the primary (north) entrance/exit of the administration building.
So how will I get to work Tuesday?

(acerca de 7:18 A.M.) In a discussion of the upcoming Jackson family reunion, some point almost triggered me to claim that such was the ways of an African American. I mean, I thought it, but respect for Hazel, decorum, or something was able to counter the impulse!
The above was including in the events of Monday. That same day Hazel and I discussed humans and sharks: Hazel had expressed “concern,’ after viewing a news item on the computer, about the numerous shark attacks.

(acerca de 2:17 P.M.) It would be nice if I could count on $884.67 every month. Though I may not be able to get pauper discounts if I earn $1130.07 twelve times a year!
Isn’t that a lot to have taken out? But earning four figures: That has never happened before!
Milt may have told the inmates that the rain of earlier in the week was still feeding the plants and flowers! If so, he’s a god-damn liar!
The flowers surrounding the marquee sign are on their last throes: Sure, the afternoon sun has done damage, but I have a feeling the inmates have neglected them!
Two chicken biscuits, two tubs of mashed potatoes, a piece of cake, two biscuits, a soft drink: Upward Bound will be in Washington, D.C., next week. I may starve!
A pack of cigarettes from Allen’s Food Mart for $2.15.
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.): The final news source of the first half of 2005!
Half of 2005 already!? What is going on?!

(acerca de 2:46 P.M.) The Weather Channel can’t be right: 84⁰? I think not! It is 94⁰ (F) if not hotter!
Let someone with The Weather Channel water the plants and flowers on the C.A.C.C. and tell me 84⁰!
The brief crying spell by the gods earlier this afternoon - Sprinkle - didn’t do much to suppress the Heat, even though it was terrific to have the tears fall on me!
Hazel is on vacation, as of 1:00 today until 7:30 July 11. April will “cover” for her. My presense in the book store is “semi-critical”! I let Marvin know, so maybe the inmates will return to watering!
SOUTH PARK (8:30-9:00 P.M., Comedy Central) has been away from this room for a while! It was nice to have it back!
While waiting on SOUTH PARK, and enjoying a home-made milk shake, I watched about fifteen minutes of the debate on CAFTA by the United States Senate, via C-Span 2. Although I can appreciate all sides, I am mostly opposed to this Central American Free Trade Agreement! NAFTA is bad enough!

(acerca de 5:17 P.M.) “Charles” tried to tell her, as did Vicki Moody, the director of the bus “company”: The college will be closing early today due to the upcoming holiday.
But the wheelchair-bound female insisted that she could go to CACC at noon and get in three hours in the computer lab!
But C.A.C.C. closed at noon today! Hazel had informed me of a one o’clock closing, but I found out from La Sheila at the front desk that 12:00 was closing time.
Around 12:15, “Charles” arrived with the female. Even though I told “Charles” rather badly that C.A.C.C. had ceased operation temporarily at noon, and a sign on the door stated such, the woman still went ahead as if it was a regular day!

(acerca de 6:42 P.M.) I have no doubt that the female in the wheelchair was told “3:00” when she contacted C.A.C.C. by telephone: As “Charles” and I decided, maybe the voice representing the college was under leg__ obligation!
Well, anyway, “Charles” wasn’t able to take me home until around 1:30: he had to bus some of the Upward Bound students to their homes first.
Meanwhile, the wheelchair woman contacted the bus “dispatcher” (Vicki) concerning the reality of C.A.C.C.’s early closing. When I went to the shop to await “Charles” after my chicken lunch (around 12:40), the female was in the lobby, attempting to locate “Charles”: Apparently she discovered the error of her ways!
I met “Charles” as he transferred from Upward Bound driver to city driver (the city bus had been “garaged” in the parking lot east of the shop) around 1:40. He drove to the primary entrance/exit of the administration building to load the wheelchair female (Glenda Bland, or somebody had remained with the woman).
The wheelchair-bound female has a car: “Charles” carried her to a building about a mile south of C.A.C.C., and, when she de-bussed, went straight to the car.
One can only guess at the reason for bus-reliance!

(acerca de 8:15 P.M.) It’s bad enough that George W. Bush is in the White House! The Democrats are making the situation worse: The Bush administration is the kind of thing that seems to become more “powerful” (that’s not the word, but it will have to do for now) the more people complain about it!
It’s true: Individuals such as Bill Maher and Michael Moore put Bush back in the White House!
If the anti-Bush people ignored Bush the way Afghans outside Kabul ignored Kazai, the man would just fade away!
Morning: I’m Hot at it! The front and two-thirds of the back!

(2nd, About 8:25 A.M.) It has happened several times before, but on this particular occasion Bill came for Kayla, and he was driving the red car!
This was within two weeks.
Leslie travels to and from C.A.C.C, and here, in the red car, establishing the casual link.
On this evening (early) in question, I was joking with Bill that he was driving Leslie’s car. When he replied that it was also his car, I stated, “Does Leslie know that?” He then explained that his name is listed first as owners. He was very defensive.
When I was forced to leave this house and seek temporary refuge in the Lamplighter motel, I made a point of including the juggling clubs when Leslie moved me. It was as if I was making a statement: Nothing could hurt me as long as I had clubs by my side!
Independence? Juggling is a metaphor, the only stable element in my life! That as long as I have juggling, I’m o’kay!
Joyce realized that I didn’t need her! Damn Anita Matlow all over again!
Speaking of which, there was a female, earlier in the week, that reminded me of Anita Matlow! All I can say is that the Anita Matlow-look is very common, that I must learn to see these “ringers” without reacting negatively!
These women can’t help how they look! Besides it isn’t the outward appearance that makes Anita Matlow like she is! Don’t assume that all women with the Anita Matlow-look is Anita Matlowish!
The students of Upward Bound accompanies their “singing” with hand movement and body language. I have yet to “see” the final product, but I’m sure that the kids are not interpreting with American Sign Language! Maybe signed English, worlds apart from ASL!
Let’s hope that the signing is not as “sickening” as the singing!

(acerca de 9:14 A.M.) As peurile as the reporting may be, I must tell “you” that Deah ate a Brussel Sprout yesterday evening: I ___ my lunch for dinner, since I “pigged” on chicken and mashed potatoes yesterday afternoon, and brussel sprouts were among the “extras!
One rolled on the table as I was dinnering on the microwaved food plate.
I was really tricking Deah, but she appeared to have liked the “sprout”!
Students were able to gain access to loan checks last Wednesday. Doug Stearns declared that a student is foolish to borrow for schooling. There was nothing else to do but agree with him.
It was after I had mowed the front yard that I watched THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.); so don’t worry about using television as a means of shirking my duties!
I was in the shop yesterday waiting on the bus. I was seated in a chair that was against the “office”: One of the inmates - the sometimes waterer - that was sitting about fifteen feet on my right asked me if I was going to have bar-be-que on or for the 4th?
Due to a noisy fan, I was forced to walk near him in order to hear!

(acerca de 10:0_ A.M.) Several years ago - I can’t seem to remember when, but David was in college, I think - B.B. Comer School in Sylacauga burned. I joked with David that B.B. Comer has a bar-be-que, or something to do with a bar-be-que.
David thought the “comparison” hilarious! So hilarious, in fact, that he incorporated the joke into a class video project!
It was the day that Richard Scrushy was found innocent on all counts: I stated to Danny Coleman as he was approaching the counter in the book store, that crime does pay. Danny agreed, and when he had reached the counter, told me about Scrushy being a patron of Jefferson State Community College.
If “you” aspire to the criminal life, “you” had better include organized religion in “your” game plan! (continued)




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