Phillip Wilson

Amazingly, I survived my Life
2011-09-30 00:06:37 (UTC)

2005 REVIEW (PART THIRTY-SEVEN)

October- Childersburg/Sylacauga, AL (continues)

I was sitting by the north door to the book room when I announced my intentions to transplant a dying ‘mum from the nursing building to the north end of the administration building. Hazel, on the computer by the south end of the counter, was “shocked” that I contemplated such boldness.
Burt Yarbrough, on his way out of the book store, stated that I should tell Eric, “___!” Then he declared that Eric is not doing it, so why not me?
I had lied to Hazel when she asked me if I have cleared the transfer with Eric. I have no choice but to “work around” Eric’s so-called “leadership.”
The Bush administration lied to the American people about weapons of mass destruction as a pretext to invading Iraq.
Maybe that’s o’kay, if it was actually thought that the United States and the world would be safer. The Bush administration was only “working around” the non-war mindset of the American Congress.
But don’t call this country a “democracy”! A democracy must be transparent.
Milt may have been right: As soon as I dug up the ‘mum from the nursing school garden, I could smell gasoline or some oil-base substance!
Maybe I wasn’t too late! Maybe new soil will provide new life for the ‘mum!
I am as “shocked” by Hazel’s reaction as she is to my announcement! No wonder the book store is an unwanted step-child: Hazel won’t “fight” for anything else!
Burt Yarbrough, at the north end of the counter (in front), claimed that C.S.I.: MIAMI (9-10:00 P.M., C.B.S.) - the episode yesterday evening - is based on the Natalee Holloway disappearance in Aruba. Beth Twitty, Natalee’s mother, was interviewed by WIAT NEWS after the program.
I doubt if the episode is a re-creation of the “scandal” in Aruba! Many young females visit Miami and are raped and murdered! The Twitty woman just wants to believe the blonde in the show represented her daughter!
I hope Burt Yarbrough knows biology better than he treats the English language! This morning he said “knowed” for “known”!
It makes sense that April articulates such bad grammer: Proper grammer should - nay, must! - be “across the disciplines”!
It smells and feels as if Rain will be here shortly: The Wind is gaining in strength, and seems to be a bus for Damp. This is why I told Marvin down at the shop, that “Boots’” plant should be out side!
The lower-90⁰’s (F) and sunny. Rain would be great!

(acerca de 3:0_ P.M.) Yesterday Hazel told me to not announced the arrival of “Nursing Diagnosis” yet. I continued talking - I was standing a little north of the working side of the counter - and she asked me if I had heard her. I replied yes, and then inquired were she transferring the hand-written inventory tally to digital?
She was.
I asked her why she just didn’t scan in the inventory. She had no idea what I was referring to. I told her that I need to scan my hand-written journal, in the event of a New Orleans in this area.
She still was ignorant of scanning.
Am I wrong about scanning? Or more-to-date than Hazel?
Yesterday Hazel stated that Eric had just made an excuse when he told me that someone had poured a beverage, from the reception, onto the ‘mum, killing it. So why, then, was she upholding Eric’s claim today?
Very rarely have I watched channel 21 (72 on my television), which carries WB. But yesterday evening, I just happen to pass Don Johnson: It is a series known as JUST LEGAL (8-9:00 P.M.).
The star of MIAMI VICE and NASH BRIDGES appearing on WB? It’s a job!

(acerca de 4:10 P.M.) The fact that “elected” officials take the oath of office by placing their left hand on a bible does not prove the existence of “God.”
Doing so doesn’t prove that “God” created Man. It only proves that Man created “God”!
I made the mistake today of “retracing my steps” in the shop to share with Marvin the news that Roy Moore is “running” for governor.
I feel certain that his (Moore’s) candidacy will virtually guarantee the “election” of Lucy Baxley. It should come as no surprise that Marvin feels strongly that Roy Moore should be governor and that Alabama should be a theocracy!
Asking Marvin what version of the Ten Commandments should be allowed - the King James version, the Standardized version, etc - he replied whatever version Roy Moore chooses (or dictates).
Do I believe in “Jesus Christ”? What’s to believe: He was a man! What I didn’t say then was “He wiped his ass like we all do!”
Then Marvin - facing east-north-east - pointed out that “elected” officials don’t “swear” to the devil!
When Marvin started in on the bible as true, I walked away, declaring I’m not going there!
Later, an inmate and I discussed the fact that Milt and Marvin tries to “save” people, that it is best to let it come in one ear and out the other without registering what either saids.
I went as long as I could! I’ll be damned if I allow Eric to neglect the campus!
I am in the process of trimming the shubbery, regardless of Eric’s leadership!
It was while searching for a container for the waste that an inmate, supposively a small-engine mechanic who was south of me and had heard Marvin’s “preaching,” asked me, “Is Marvin trying to ‘save’ you?”
It’s scary how accepting people like Marvin are!
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) informed me of the nomination of Harriet M___(?) to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the United States Supreme Court. Other things as well.

(5th, About 5:45 A.M.) I thought it was a good gesture! I told Judy Howell, the landlady, as I was paying my rent Monday that I am willing to check up on the elderly people around me when the weather went down to 18⁰. But all Judy said was that it didn’t get down to 18⁰, and that the tennents are to leave the water dripping on extremely cold nights.
Will there be a Halloween party in the Recreation Room? Judy told me that the room contained only a single table and some chairs.
Everyone is entitled to an “off” day! But I sensed resentment in Judy’s behavior! It was as if she felt degraded working with the disabled and elderly!
When April isn’t presence, Hazel is very critical of her. But then when April is “pulling” service in the book store, Hazel “fauns” all over her! Am I subject to the same treatment?
Some advertisement for Christianity is Hazel! And Milt! And Marvin! And Joyce! And Leslie (stop me when you had enough)!
Hazel’s comment yesterday that I “need” to “ask” Eric before I move the flower is an example of a person that cannot even do her/his own business trying to control grounds, an area that the person has no business interfering in!
The conflict (or clash) of realities: People manipulate reality to serve their purposes.
Society must decide upon one!
For me, the question, “What is reality?” is not an issue.
People must be willing to accept other realities, or they must adhere to one only that everyone “honors”!

(acerca de 6:38 A.M.) C.A.C.C. has a student worker - I think she does things in financial and or student services - that is well-developed. Males think she is 19 or 20, but she is only 16 years of age.
Burt Yarbrough made the comment that females are now more developed than when he was in high school. I told him that when he was in high school, he was 18, but now that he is older, his perception has changed. The “semi-joke” was lost on him, and Hazel didn’t help matters.
Burt is correct, to an extent: Better diet has increased the size of people, notably a___s. Proteins are more abundant in food. But the way Burt declared that “girls are getting bigger,” it was as if he is lusting after one of his students!
Tallness is no longer six feet: One has to be 6’3” at least to be tall.
It’s as Fob James stated when I met him in Magnolia Springs, AL, in 1994 or 1995 during a location “shoot” with The Center for Public Television: Former governor James is a heavy-set man that played in the Canadian Football League. But he declared that he is no longer considered “big,”due to the increase in corporeal size!
Intentional? As with the ancient Greeks, physical size and beauty carry the day. Was dietary supplements only created as performance-enhancing drugs, the same result that steroids offer? Are the fortified additives in food any safer than steroids?

(acerca de 1:04 P.M.) A Pygmy Date Palm (Phoenix roebeleinii) will be moving in either today or tomorrow: The feathery plants had been abandoned just as one turns the corner, damn near blocking the women’s restroom across from Room 103, in the administration building. I moved it to the wall (back), out of the way of traffic.
It isn’t Marvin’s, for the lobby. It doesn’t belong to Joyce Giddens of Upward Bound Rm. 103). So I “walked” it outside and stored the plant northwest of Cosmetology.
The plant is supposively an indoor plant. But it may take to outdoors.
I moved another ‘mum from the nursing school garden: Michael supports his uncle in claiming too much fertilizer was poured on it. I have no doubt such was the case, but that’s not what is threatening the plant’s health: Michael admitted to the ant-killing method, being gasoline.
That’s like long ago, before modern forensics, shooting a person, then someone else stabbing the victim with a knife: Which killed the victim?
More plants are dying. How long before the soil comes back to life?
Yesterday I cut my left thumb with the bow saw, while trimming the shubbery up in the “islands” of the nursing building parking lot. So I rushed into the nursing school office for a band-aid, after washing the thumb in water in the men’s room.
Well, I got my band-aid - 2 in fact - but it wasn’t applied to my thumb.
As I was hurrying to the nursing school office, blood gushing from my thumb, a female on my right, facing east, was aseated on a bench. She commented that I had a “boo-boo.”
Covering a wound with a band-aid with only one available hand proved too much! So I had asked the same female for her help.
The wound was only superficial, as I stated to the female: But superficial cuts, she said, hurt the most!
How fortunate! Otherwise a person would continue injuring her/himself!
Three cheers for pain! Where would we be without “you”!
I only saw about twenty-five minutes of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) before laundry.
Marvin told me yesterday that he would bring the bicycle to work so that I could examine it. He didn’t, so I am wondering if he ever even had access to one!

(acerca de 1:53 P.M.) After many months of Hazel not having it done or Eric not bothering with it, the two half-inch 4’ X 10’ sheets of sheet rock, plus what is now a 4’ X 12’ sheet, is no longer blocking the “emergency” door of the book store: An inmate and I moved them to the loading dock, stacking them flat to prevent warping.
I had “whined” to Milt in the office of the shop, and finally the inmate known as Big Boy assisted me.
Was there some reason why it took so long?
Hazel attended the funeral of her first cousin once-removed (her cousin’s son) today, so the book store wasn’t open for business.
Welcome to the neighborhood, Palm! I do hope “you” find everything to your need!
This may be the last “warm” day for a while! And even that . . .well, judge for yourself: The low-80⁰’s (F), the occasional burst of sun, a brisk breeze.
While watching COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF (8-9:00 P.M., A.B.C.), I thought to myself: Is this fictional civic lesson ___ less “real” than FRONTLINE, which purports the truth? Is FRONTLINE the fiction and COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF (and THE WEST WING) the real thing?

(acerca de 3:11 P.M.) An inmate and I discussed circus life: He is interested in joining a circus when he is released from prison.
In examining a vacuum cleaner that I will bring home soon, the belt is missing, and the same inmate as above told me my “old lady” could supply a panty hose for the . . .

(acerca de 3:17 P.M.) (The knock at the back door was a first! It was the lady whose back door faces my back door: Her window vase had been knocked to the ground in a too chaotic fashion for the wind to have done it, even if there had been hurricane-strength wind!
It was like that when I arrived home around 1:00. A human or another animal had to have done it!) . . . belt. I was silent and Milt, with the vacuum cleaner in his hand, grinned.
A $2.15 pack of cigarettes from Allen’s Food Mart added to my “expensive” life style.
BOSTON LEGAL (9-10:00 P.M., A.B.C.) is an interesting and enjoyable show, but it is too “tongue-in-cheek” to pervert it with analysis! Which is why it’s a hit!

(acerca de 8:04 P.M.) A good visit with the “family”: Joyce, Kayla, and granny.
Joyce had called yesterday evening to invite me over when Kayla came after school. A “badminton” game was a late afternoon/early evening delight.
It was around 4:00 when I was “picked up” by Joyce and Kayla: Around 7:15, Bill and Kayla brought me home.
The wieners for the Fall Festival last Thursday were frozen: They weren’t purchased until that morning. Burt Yarbrough was telling Hazel and me yesterday that Doug Stearns was thrawing them in a microwave. But can’t “you” thaw wieners while “you” grill them?
My neighbor Alice telephone me yesterday evening, as I may have told you, requesting crab apples. So I asked Milt this morning, being that he lives in the country. But the only crab apples he knew about were at the curb market.
Before I enterred the house after Bill got me here, I went to see Alice to discuss the crab apples and the old crab that lives to my east.
The woman is a known bitch, agreed Alice. Then she (Alice) told me the old crab’s history as a neighbor.
The point is, Bill should have realized I was socializing, and went on home with Kayla! As it was, he remained (the car) in the parking “lot”!
Although he may have been waiting for Alice’s son (? daughter?) and grand children to clear out: They were concerned that Alice was being “hazzled” by a strange man. But Alice told them otherwise.
The old crab has yet to re-arrange her up-turned flower vases. Whatever!

(6th, About 6:42 A.M.) It has rained, and water drops are still filling the area.
I doubt if this day has seen the last of Rain!
So what difference does it make if I slept late this morning? Except for the plants and flowers on the west porch of the nursing building, I won’t be watering! In fact I will probably not be doing much of anything outside!

(acerca de 1:38 P.M.) Instead of “It’s about time!” or “Thank you” - or even “What the fuck you do that for!?” - when I informed Hazel that I, with the help of an inmate, had moved the sheet rock that had been blocking the “fire” door, she wanted to know if I had cleared it with Eric! I half-way lied and told her that I had discussed the project with Milt.
Which I did, although I really didn’t “ask” his permission, as Hazel expects me to do with Eric before I do anything in- or outside!
This is the year 2005, right? So how come Hazel still doesn’t think a woman can pay on a ___? A young male came into the bookstore and was telling Hazel about a $100 text-messaging bill as the reason he’s “broke.” His girlfriend “foots the bill” on all other social events.
Rosh Hashanah tegan Tuesday evening. When I suggested that the CUO should be commerating it due to its cultural importance, Hazel emitted a half-laugh.
Anti-semitism, pure and simple!
Ramadan also started Tuesday evening. “You” can imagine the reaction from Hazel if I had suggested the Cultural Unity Organization celebrate that muslin holy day!
“Sprinkle irrigation” is great for the plants and flowers, but I retreated to the bookstore early. Though I came outside later!
Gasoline is between $2.90 and $2.95 a gallon. As I told Bill yesterday evening, people don’t seem to care anymore!
I said that to Hazel and April this morning.
Is it because people realize the price won’t be going down ever, and that they are too dependent on their cars to seek an alternate transportation?
Wind is sure strong! What Katrina and Rita didn’t do to us, Timmy apparently will!
My one show yesterday evening: LAW & ORDER (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.).

(acerca de 2:20 P.M.) As I was going west-to-east through the lobby this morning - a young lady provided a ride about half-way from my apartment to C.A.C.C. - Milt, at the east entrance/exit with Eric, told me that he had brought a vacuum cleaner for me to have.
I later “blew” out the clogging material.
A Eureka “The Boss” Bagless Wide Track, undoubtedly a $70-plus vacuum cleaner.
I have yet to use it, but since Rain prevents me from going to Winn-Dixie, I should do so more!
For $25, the “plastic” sweat pants that I had in reserve in the book store.
The mid-70⁰’s (F), Rain being the deciding factor! Summer would stay on and on if not for Rain chasing It (Summer) away!
The disarrayed flower pots remain in place on the back porch of the female to my east. What give?
If Rain continues pounding the area tomorrow, I will probably not water next week, except for the plants on the west porch of the nursing building!

(acerca de 3:46 P.M.) Power with condition: Is there such a thing?
Of course there is! That’s what the president and all elected officials have!
Surely “you” don’t think George W. Bush actually cared about the victims of Hurricane Rita! He was only trying to salvage his slowly-decreasing approval rating, a result of his neglect of the victims of Katrina!
For all his talk that he doesn’t “govern” by polls, George W. Bush adjusts his “policies” accordingly, as do all politicians!
That’s what I will give Eric: Power with condition. Especially after yesterday: It was Eric’s job to move the sheet rock! But he didn’t, so I did!
Damn it felt good to continue my pre-campus campaign in spite of Eric!
The transfer of the poisoned flowers at the nursing building to the north end of the administration building!
$24.41, including two Minimum Kalanchoe Combos for six dollars: My “cupboard” was bare, and so is my garden. But I keep buying and appropriating, and next Spring will be beautiful!
Johnny Jones was in the book store this morning telling Hazel how important his sister, Lesia, is to the school, that she “runs” the business office. Well, no wonder she thinks she does: If the rest of the business office staff is like Hazel and Joyce - Joyce came into the book store later, and she and Hazel discussed what Johnny had said - of course Lesia is going to harbor such a delusion!l
While juggling I listen to public radio: Classical Music, FRESH AIR, ALL THINGS CONSiDERED, whatever is on!

(acerca de 7:02 P.M.) I don’t know from where Milt got the vacuum, but it is a dream! What a relief to have clean carpetting!
The body - the sucking in - has headlights!
The vacuum kept around $80 in my checking account, money that can go for food and bills!
I brought the vacuum home via hand truck, which gave me an opportunity to move a box of supplies to my storage room.
The two plants should just about conclude my floral decorating of the south side of my house! But I have become addicted to buying flowers, and it will be hard not to bring anymore home!
I’m working out the details, but I feel certain Hazel wants me for my gender! A man doesn’t suppose to be as organized and efficient as I am!
And Marvin resents me for being a non-theist: A non-theist should be a “loser,” a person with no initiative or discipline!

(7th, About 6:00 A.M.) Rain continues, currently hitting the area as Mist.
My “moves-in” are being welcomed by the Welcome Wagon.
Both Hazel and Burt Yarbrough agree that Ms. Salotto “loves” to eat. But I wonder if Burt is aware of the insulting connotation of that statement?
It must have been Wednesday- maybe Tuesday - that Burt told Hazel and me about “brown-nosing,” something, he claims, he is adamantly opposed to! One of his biology students had her house burn down. The class gave her a sort of “party,” in which the burnee was provided with beddings, food, etc.
According to Burt, Ms. Salotto summons him out of class to ask the occasion. Burt explained and, taking Ms. Salotto’s hint, invited her to return for the lunch. Burt had told Ms. Salotto he knew she loved to eat.
Ms. Salotto is on the “heavy” side.
As April and I were inventorying the “hall” supply room (student supplies), I
declared that a plastic “box” supporting a box of scantrons contained large bags. I knew this as a fact: For I had stored them there.
April apparently didn’t believe me: She went to the trouble of confirming my claim.
That’s o’kay: Everyone does it! I don’t even take offense any more!

(acerca de 12:22 P.M.) My “neighbor” has finally cleaned up the dis-arrayed flowers! Why in the rain? Did she choose my arrival from work in hopes of seeing my deshibility? I will damn well model for her, in spite of her advanced age!
Hazel told me that April spells “success” as “sizess” or some purile othogaphy.
Joyce told me Wednesday evening that upon April’s request, she (Joyce) read over a report that April had written. And it was composed as a sixth grader writes!
50 X .40 is $20.00, not $2.00: There is a box of report covers in the student supply room. At 40¢ each, the box contains fifty report covers.
Hazel informed me that April cried one afternoon due to her (April’s) inability to understand Physics. She (April) blames bad instruction, which could be the case: C.A.C.C. has a bad record for attracking high-quality teachers. But most likely it’s April: I imagine she isn’t organized and/or discipline, and expects an “A” to be given to her!
Yesterday she showed Hazel a website, rate your professor.com, or something, on
which a student can whine about a teacher.
An “easy” teacher? What the hell is that? All teachers are “easy” if the students are well-organized learners!
About half of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.): And even that was more than I needed to watch! Can one really believe the “truth” Or what the “truth” is given out to people?

(acerca de 2:10 P.M.) I had stopped to tell Milt about the vacuum cleaner: He was in a state pick-up truck parked in the southeast “quadrant” of the parking lot east of the library.
Soon Eric drove by and stopped in the state which he drives: Eric was headed south, Milt north, and I was in between them.
Fertilizer for the azaleas that kills the grass but the acid in the azaleas neutralizes: Neither Milt nor I have ever heard of such!
Though it became a moot point: Someone in the Business Office wouldn’t let him purchase a bag, or use the fertilizer Eric may have had in stock.
I suppose that there is Azalea-D.N.A-specific fertilizer, though I’m sure C.A.C.C. is not willing to pay such a price!
The reason that the azalea bushes along the wall across from the courtyard appear unhealthy is because they were put in the ground way too close together!
Hell, azaleas should never have been put in that, what is essentially a “planter”!
The lantanas have strangled the azalea bush in the southeast “apron.” Lantanas hibernate during the winter: Azaleas carry evergreen leaves that stay in place in spite of the coldness of the air. So I wonder if the azaleas will come back alive as soon as the lantanas leave for their (lantanas) annual vacation, or if they (the azaleas) have suffered a “deathblow”?
The rain would have washed the fertilizer away: So why does the management allow someone that knows nothing about plants and flowers to have charge of the plants and flowers?
Probably because Eric makes the grossly-ignorant Andy Jordan appear “smart”! Eric wouldn’t and can’t think on his own!
I had to lie to Eric and tell him that, yes, I applied iron oxide to the “trees” on the north west wall (by it) of the nursing building.
I hate to admit that I remember the original NIGHT STALKER! Although I can’t recall the original enough to compare the remake (8-9:00 P.M., A.B.C.) to it!
The upper-60⁰’s (F): Fall is here, though it took Rain to set it up! Heat wasn’t leaving voluntarily!

(acerca de 3:02 P.M.) “Whoever said ‘To err is human!’ must have been a car owner!”
There is a car insurance commercial on television that states the above. Only “err” is pronounced “air “! So I would say “Whoever said ‘To air is human . . .!” is a stupid son of a bitch!
“Err” is properly articulated as the sound of an engine reving up!
Hazel wanted to know who approved my work schedule. When I told her Andy she seem fine!
WITHOUT A TRACE (9-10:00 P.M., C.B.S.) has been A.W.O.L. from this house ever since I moved in! Well, no more, since I have access to the U.H.F. band!
Hazel pathologically needs people for support, but she then resents that need! It is a common trait, and not only among women!
One knows that one has arrived when one can exist without friends!
Is Human really a social animal? Was gathering in societies really what distinguishes Modern Human from what came before?

(acerca de 3:43 P.M.) Water may be able to “flush” out the gasoline that had been combined with the soil at the nursing building flower garden: I discussed such a cure for Eric’s stupidy with Milt, who would have done the same if he got there first.
Did the gods hear me? Water keeps falling, as if on that area specifically!
My garden is set! The gods are adding the final “touches”: Lots and lots of water, to soften up the ground for my only welcomed neighbors!
Sometimes I think that Hazel was only making the best of a bad situation during inventory: She realized that Andy had insisted on assigning me to the book store. Was she only patronizing me and submitting to authority when she “allowed” me to partner her during inventory? Sheila didn’t want my help.
It was like high school when I was reluctantly “chosen” by a team to play soft ball!

(acerca de 8:14 P.M.) Resentment toward Hazel: That’s “eating” me up, because she isn’t worth it!
I’m wondering how James, her husband, tolerates living with her! Apparently he “needs” marriage and family so much, that he let what Hazel said “go in one ear and out the other”!
He probably has no choice but to “give in” to Hazel, who refuses to see the whole “picture” and will not compromise!
Lesia McGaha’s official title is “administrative assistant to the college,” not to Andy Jordan. Lesia, then, has more authority than Eric. She it is that is my ultimate authority, or superior, not Eric McCain!
Trying to “block” the resentment led me to make the walk to the convenient store on the highway for a $2.04 pack of cigarettes.
Which is closer: Allen’s Food Mart, or the convenient store? Probably the former, but for now it’s a moot point!
Hazel subtly commented on the adverse effect that C.A.C.C. is having on me: I am more cynical, especially as to the virtue of a Master’s degree.
I can’t allow C.A.C.C. to wear me down! Not to its level, surely!

(8th, About 7:48 A.M.) Milt was telling me as he was sitting behind the wheel of the state truck, that “we” had to cut space between the boxwood growing along the outer wall of the administration building, due to the plants being set so close together.
That fig tree that belongs to”Boots,” and was being neglected by Milt in the shop: The act of moving it outside has given it new life! I am thrilled to have been the savior!
The window flower box that hadn’t been disturbed: The lady picked it up too easily to be anything but plastic, as Joyce suggested Wednesday! So then the likelihood of the wind having been the “vandal” increases!
The azaleas each contain acid that can handle a fertilizer that kills grass, as Eric stated to Milt and me yesterday morning in the library parking lot: Maybe all evergreen plants contain acid in their bodies as protection against the cold.
Or maybe Eric is so gullible that he believes any “sales pitch” told to him by a flower-setter!
Hey Eric, I have some ocean-front in Kansas for sale!

(acerca de 10:43 A.M.) I first withdrew via A.T.M., ten dollars from my checking account at The Bank. Then I bought a 37¢ stamp to send off my telephone bill: At over $60, each call I make or receive __ worth around ten dollars!
At the library, I cancelled my policy with AFLAC, or tried to: At $15.90 a month, it’s something I can do without!
Then I submitted my water, sewerage, and gas bill - $21.40 - via the “after-hours” slot.
$14.20 at Dollar General, including a 3-pack of ladies’ thong underwear: I currently wear the blue “pair.” It’s cotton, and all three - a white and purple “pair” in addition to the one I have on - are size extra large.
Many men wear panties in their off-hours: It relieves the stress. Nothing wrong with that: For it will cover my ass with regular men’s underwear when at C.A.C.C.
Besides, wearing women’s panties to relieve stress . . .

(acerca de 11:11 A.M.) (I just extended my subscription to “National Geographic” via MAP.DI. I hoped I did o’kay!)
. . . is much better than abusing Iraqi prisoners!
Supposively, the Intelligence community learned of ten plots to bomb the subway system in New York City. As I told Hazel yesterday, I wouldn’t put it past the powers-that-be to create a hoax!
The federal Department of Homeland Security distance itself from the threat. At least that’s what the “rumor” is.
Can’t people realize that “mini-9/11’s” happen each time panic is encouraged?
A.B.C. WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (5:30-6:00 P.M.) and N.B.C. NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.) substituted for THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) at times during the first “half” of the show: THE NEWSHOUR didn’t always “hit the mark,” so to speak!
WASHINGTON WEEK (7-7:25 P.M., P.B.S.) covered many of THE NEWSHOUR’s hints in more detail.

(acerca de 1:30 P.M.) It is Burt Yarbrough’s opinion that Natalee Holloway is a “slut”! Last Tuesday (?) Burt, Hazel, and I were discussing the girl’s disappearance in Aruba, after Burt repeated the claim that the C.S.I.: MIAMI episode Monday evening is based on the Holloway case.
Burt declared that the United States government could solve the case if it had control of the island, a terrible and foolish thing to say!
I still think that Beth Twitty, the mother, is doing more harm than good to the daughter! I predict that Ms. Holloway is alive and well in Venezuela!
Just because the world and life are supposively so complex don’t mean that something other than science is responsible for it! Intelligence design? Don’t people realize how stupid that sounds? Whoever designed “Intelligence design” was not intelligent! That in itself proves that the “design” was far from “Intelligence.”
NUMBERS (9-10:00 P.M., C.B.S.), you would think, would “drive” such nonsense out of people’s heads! NUMBERS is only a television program! Of course, but it is a lot more real than “Intelligence Design”!

(acerca de 2:56 P.M.) Natalee Holloway has waiting for her return a scholarship to the University of Alabama. But as Burt Yarbrough stated as he was leaving the book store, a scholarship means nothing nowadays!
I exclaimed to Hazel yesterday that if April wasn’t a good-looking blonde, she would never be in the PTK/Honor Society!
Hazel hinted that April’s grammer is as bad as it is because of her mother. It probably is, but April suppose to be smart enough to overcome the “syntaxical handicap.”
A gloomy, cold Saturday, no where near the 80⁰’s Milt told me it would be! Or sunny!
The upper-60⁰’s (F), a nice, cool day for Coosa Fest, if Rain doesn’t make a camero appearance.
I swore to Milt Thursday in the book store that Anna, Milt’s sister, never allowed “slacking” - wearing trousers below the waist - by inmates, when she had charge of Housekeeping! Anna was quasi-military in her supervision of the inmates assigned to her!
If it meant pulling the trouser to the proper place, Anna would have done it! Milt can be facetious as he wants to!
Both Hazel and I agree that Milt does not supervise the inmates as they should be!
If grounds was organized - mowing on one day, weed-eating on another, etc - inmates wouldn’t be needed! But Eric and Michael will never work! April thought that funny when I stated that!
Milt accused me of speaking without knowing what the reality is! The reality is that Eric and Michael would never mow grass or weed-eat!
I was able to watch about forty-five minutes of THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (10:35-11:35 P.M., C.B.S.), thanks to the pre-cable technology of UHF!
I still am amazed that the young male at Radio Shack tried to sell me a V.H.F./U.H.F. combiner that had no access to the television set! Even worse, he declared, “This is exactly what you need!”
It was I that had to explain the correct U.H.F. “addedum,” and then he said again, “This is exactly what you need!”
He must have attended Radio Shack “University”!
I saw a little of AUSTIN CITY LIMITS (10-11:00 P.M., P.B.S.) and THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO (10:35-11:35 P.M., N.B.C.) yesterday evening.

(acerca de 7:53 P.M.) Something went pathically wrong!
It should have happened long before I was forty-three! And anyone but him!
How pathetic!
NUMBERS features “paparazzis” in the episode of yesterday evening. Before 1993, I was unfamiliar with this slang for a photographer seeking sensational photographs of “famous people”!
Damn, I hate to admit this, but it was Richard Pereles that had “explained” to me that I could be only (?) an ___ “paparazzi,” due to my physique!
Laundry, again! I suppose it’s a price I must pay for my semi-reclusiveness! And it’s a price that I’ll gladly pay if it will keep people away!

(9th, About 8:16 A.M.) The young female that was operating the cash register at Dollar General yesterday had a “amazed” look on her face as she scanned the women’s panties! Although I don’t care, I wonder if she suspected the truth?
One late afternoon when I was about to enter Winn Dixie for shopping - within the last two weeks - I saw Michael McCain and a female (on his left) walking to the parking lot. Was it his wife? What kind of goofy woman would marry and, what’s worse, remain Michael’s wife?
Joyce told me that the woman is pregnant!
If there is a “god,” what a cruel joke she is playing on humankind! It is as if she is angry or resentful of humankind!
On the 6th of October, Hazel causally mentioned to somebody that people should be paid according to responsibility. Well, that’s what “compartable worth” was all about: A truck driver and, I have forgotten what women’s lib used as a comparison, but “compartable worth” didn’t “fly”! It is against the basic principle of Capitalism, which is one is paid whatever the market value of the labor is!
I think it was the same day that Milt was telling me that C.A.C.C. will probably expect the grounds crew to travel to Talladega and care for the One Stop Center there, at the expense of the campus here! Overtime will not be allowed.
As far as I know, the non-overtime rule didn’t make it “through” Congress.
Would I take command of the Talladega campus? If I hadn’t committed myself to a year at Wood Arms, and set out flowers!
Of course, I don’t think the one-stop center will “make it” for more than four semesters!
Besides, I am more interested in a future connection with Barnes & Nobles than a possible career advancement with C.A.C.C.!

(acerca de 10:17 A.M.) When Michael McCain was in the book store Friday, he spitted twice in two separate trash cans.
Michael McCain dips snuff or chews tobacco, you see!
What Michael did was a most repulsive thing to do! Not to say unhealthy!
Medically, the use of tobacco - either smoking or chewing - is an addiction that the victim can’t control, just like a disease. This is why smokers (Claude Baxley, for one) are entitled to disability insurance if the effects of tobacco-usage has resulted in some corporeal damage.
How, then, can PEEHIP discriminate towards tobacco-users by making them - us - pay a higher payroll deduction?
It’s no shame not to know something: It’s a shame when a person won’t admit that s/he doesn’t know something!
Or at least I thought, in my naiveté, it should be that way at C.A.C.C.! But a large part of my reputional-challenge at C.A.C.C. is because I am not afraid to acknowledge my ignorance concerning something, whereas a person like Milt or Eric is considered “superior”because he convinces people he knows it all!
N.B.C. NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.): Then I did laundry. Why I waited I don’t know: One would be foolish to take the news seriously!
I dug up some wildflowers - purple - that were growing in the wooded area at the “front” of the apartment complex, lining each side of a creek. I transplanted the plants to my garden. They may or may not like the new neighborhood!
Some weeds and wildflowers should remain in place: They add so much to floral displays! That is what I have done at C.A.C.C.!

(acerca de 11:36 A.M.) Apparently, this was a reaction to something I heard on public radio, or saw on NOVA or TRAVIS SMILEY SHOW: No matter what your passion. “Be all that you can be!”, as a promo for the army state.
I tried to be “. . . all that” I could be as a clown! But others dictate ambition to “you,” in spite of what “they” claim!
And it is continuing! I am not able to “be all that” I “can be” on grounds because I am expected to only do what Eric dictates.
A small sign in a clear plastic holder directs students to remember their “ICL Authorization Card.” It was placed on the book store counter.
When I asked about the “ICL Authorization Card,” Hazel told me to “think!”, as if I am mentally deficient.
The “ICL Authorization Card” is the math card, the students buy for over $130.00. The “ICL,” which I didn’t know, is “I can learn,” the division of the college which handles math on-line!
I assume “you” all realize that the bookstore is no longer my number one priority!
If there was another situation on campus where I could get in some extra hours, I would leave the book store, and let Hazel do more to gentrify it! Although she won’t or can’t! She or April!
No wonder the book store is not “taken” seriously!
Beginning at 8:00, yesterday evening, I sampled P.B.S. and INVASION (A.B.C.). But it wasn’t until LAW & ORDER: SVU (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.) that I became “serious” with television!
What a pathetic abuse of the term “serious”!

(acerca de 3:37 P.M.) My 2-hour nap was ended, in addition to a television program, but by a “nagging” by some household chore! But now that I am fully awake, I can’t seem to remember what the chore is!
“Just a dream, just a dream/All my plans and all my schemes!
What was I thinking!
Although the sun was able to air lift some shine to us a few minutes ago, nothing like what had been organized by the weather predictors!
Of course, Phoebus could make up for Its dilatory visit: Yellow surrounds the area at this writing.
Dreariness above brought jubilation from the mid-70⁰’s(F).
Autumn, it appears, is on the m_nd!
If George W. Bush is hoping to “push” women’s equality with the nomination of Harriet Meur for the Supreme Court, so soon after John Roberts, who was impressive for his intelligence, Bush only confirmed what many men-are-smarter-than-women mindset!
The 15-20 minutes of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE that I managed to sit “through” was: Well, let’s just say that I outgrew LIVE, for the comedy seems to become more puerile each change of cast!
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: 10:30 to midnight on N.B.C.

(acerca de 6:04 P.M.) I was in the back yard juggling clubs, my first time at this apartment, when Marvin drove up in his black pick-up.
For $50.00, I have a bike: 3-speed, handbrakes, racing (thin) tire.
It was an expense I really wasn’t expecting! But it’s a great bike! The one in storage at Joyce’s shed will be cannabalized if need be.
Concerning my club-juggling, the manipulation points to the fact - the blaring fact - that I haven’t juggled clubs in quite a long time! Clubs, as we all know, require more wrist than balls.
I have no reason to want club-juggling back, except for my own peace of mind. So I can practice every day, now that the weather is cooling.

(10th, About 5:40 A.M.) Can “you’ really expect proper treatment and respect for evolution and Charles Darwin by the “Intelligence Design” folks when a prominent person such as Hubbert Spencer twisted the Darwinian theory of “survival of the fittest” to be applied to social misfits!
Proper grammer must be “across the discipline”! If a teacher lectures, s/he must be able to influence the student not only in the discipline, but in the correct way of communicating it!
Even lecturing with a power point presentation must be “controlled” by proper grammer.
In addition, if the teacher doesn’t pay enough attention to detail in speaking, can s/he be counted on to properly present the discipline?
Plants and flowers don’t “die” in the winter, only to resurrect in the spring, no more than a bear does! The “hibernation” is the plant or flower “retrac_ing” its blooms in order to decrease the amount of surface area the Cold has access to!
The roots are still very much alive! As I said ___ and again, the plant or flower isn’t existing for humankind’s benefit! The instinct for survival kicks in when cold air is on the rampage!

(acerca de 2:11 P.M.) That check I exchanged late afternoon yesterday for the bicycle: I had a feeling that Marvin would be unable to deal with it! He has no checking account!
And I was right! I withdrew $50 from the A.T.M., and tore up the check!
Marvin should have told me! Although it doesn’t matter any more!
Phoebus is recalling the water It let fall last week! I just may have to water tomorrow!
The low-70⁰’s (F) with lots of rain! But it wasn’t like that until mid-morning: Rain was all ready to defy the television weather forecast!
Burger King has done to its shubbery what I would like done to C.A.C.C.’s: The top surface is essentially flat, each ___ circular. I - my second day - have been attempting to “tidy up” the shubbery in the “island” of the nursing building parking lot, but I may be slow: By the time I reach the “finish line,” the number one shubbery may need grooming again!
Of course, the cold air should slow the growth of the shubbery, allowing me the entire semester!
THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP (3-3:25 P.M., P.B.S.) suggested approaches to contempary history, as always!
In preparation, I happen to see the final minutes of TONY BROWN’S JOURNAL (2:30-3:00 P.M.,P.B.S.).
This happened before: Bicycle-riding is exhausting the first two or three ride, after the over-a-year stoppage! It’s a question of “re-wiring” my muscles. I will be o’kay by the week end!
$2.15 for a pack of cigarettes at Allen’s Food Mart: In addition to the exercise, riding a bicycle should eliminate 2-3 cigarettes a day.
Today is the observance of Columbus Day, Wednesday being the “real” anniversary. Therefore, the inmates weren’t released.
As I told Milt this morning, I hope there are no Indian inmates: The country can’t really tell Indians that Columbus discovered America!

(acerca de 3:12 P.M.) The LAW & ORDER: SVU that I watch Saturday evening (?), used “Bill and Monica” as a metaphor for engaging in oral sex. I wonder if Hillary Clinton will forever be denied the presidency due to the sexual peccadilloes of her husband?
The “title” of a porn film is “Wendy Does The White House”: Even though John Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt, among other presidents, “introduced” kinky sex into their time in the White House, Bill Clinton is the president given credit for it!
All three named, by the way, were and are Democrats! That’s not good!
When I turned on television to FOX 6 around 8:25 yesterday evening in hopes of watching AMERICAN DAD, the baseball play-offs confronted me instead! So what did I do: I “caught” the second “half,” of the NAKED PLANET SPECIAL on public television, a showcase of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River.
“P.D. James” on MYSTERY! (9-10 or 10:30 P.M., P.B.S.) did not provide proper captioning. As a protest, I gave my time to CROSSING JORDAN (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.), which allowed me to follow along, reading the dialogue as it is spoken!
And public television expects my money? Not in this lifetime!

(acerca de 6:25 P.M.) I had no intention of buying as much as I did! I was only after a few items! But Winn-Dixie ended up taking $_7.31 from me!
Of course, many of the food items will not have to be re-supplied for several weeks! But still . . .!
It had started when I visited Gerty for information about scupperdine (?) cuisine: Pies, jellos, juices, etc. She referred me to Alice, which, being that Gerty use to cook for the pre-C.A.C.C. trade school, is surprising!
Gerty told me that the woman that lives in “C,” or whatever the building is that is southwest of my front door, is in her early-50’s.
As you may recall, I stated - or did I? - an interest in the female before I was a resident of Wood Arms. And, to think, now I am less than fifty yards from her door!
I was back in the house by 5:15, which I was amazed to find out!

(11th, About 8:35 A.M.) Leslie called me early yesterday afternoon offering to vacuum for me: She thought today was monthly inspection. She was surprised when I told her Milt had given me a used one.
Gerty mentioned the time I clowned for one of her tupperware parties long ago. What could I do: I wanted to “throw up,” but Gerty would have gotten the wrong idea, I’m sure!
Whatever led up to it, I concluded with the “pledge” to myself that I would work a half-hour longer four days a week, sneaking two hours on my work schedule. The regular schedule, mind you!
For some reason, I failed to document the boxes of no-longer-used books in the corner of the student supply room! April just copied what I had written on “labels.”
I had to go back and recount, designating “used” and “new” books, and the prices (“used” and “new”). “Man-handling” the boxes of books resulted in much of my corporeal soreness yesterday, more so than bicycle-riding!

(acerca de 1:27 P.M.) What a shock it was to see the Thanksgiving display - bales of hay, pumpkins, potted flowers - on the front lawn of C.A.C.C.! A larger “cousin” to the display on the west porch of the nursing building!
Eric and the inmates will be setting out eleven planters with flowers “around” campus at various places (tautology?).
I don’t have to worry about getting some extra hours in: Eric “asked” me to water on the week ends. I was removing weeds from between the sidewalk sections west of the administration building: I had been examining the display, inmate “Big Boy” on my right, while Eric was in “conference” with Ms. Salotto, who was in a car heading south.
As I have been known to do, I was sitting on a mechanic caddy while pulling weeds. Eric squatted and told me I could work extra, being that I lived close to the campus.
I shouldn’t have become so “uptight” with Andy’s speech: I knew something like this would happen! I had a “gut” feeling!
There are flowers growing on the hill/bank! No telling where the yard waste came from that I scattered on it!
Most of the morning, the area was enclosed in fog. It made for good watering, even though I gave some of the plants and flowers something to munch on, especially those on the porch!
For $3, I allowed a cosmetology student to cut my hair. A female’s body rubbed against my back as she de-piliated me. That in _nself was worth the expense!
Some but by no means all of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) “sandwiched” my dinner yesterday evening.

(acerca de 3:22 P.M.) A “diet” too tilted towards tea has “inspired” two bumps to appear on either side of my face.
That’s what the monthly inspections are: A way to convince residents to clean house! Gerty isn’t too “serious” about them, knowing them for what they are!
It was I that suggestd the real purpose of the inspections, when I was visiting Gerty yesterday!
Nearly a 2-hour nap! It isn’t as if I had all the time in the world! Though the unconsciousness felt, oh so good!
The upper-70⁰’s (F): Once Phoebus arrived mid-morning,I realized just what It was “hinting”!
I may not have time for the book store any more! Hell, I may not have enough work day to service all the plants and flowers, at the rate Eric “brown-noses”!
I remembered it was Monday at almost the last Moment: P.B.S. presented a program on the day-to-day handling of the Palentinian-Israeli issue by two administrations, yesterday evening from 8:00 to 10:25.
Which may have been the reason for the nap this afternoon! That and pulling weeds!

(acerca de 7:33 P.M.) There was a reason that I stressed to David the importance of having more than one can opener! It wasn’t the ravings of a madman!
The can opener that I bought on the shopping spree at Wal-Mart or Dollar General week I moved in, has not function. In fact, it is inoperable! I cursed it, called it a “mother fucker” and “son of a bitch,” to no avail.
Peace of mind demanded that I buy another one, which I did at Winn Dixie yesterday.
One must look after the simple things! One must de-construct at times!
Seven years from today will be 10-11-12!
If I thought that I am the only one the landlady is a bitch to: Gerty expressed dis-satisfaction with Judy yesterday. I was commenting on the dryers in the laundry room, and Gerty stated that most likely the dryers operate on low temperature in order that the “holding company” of this and Childersburg Estates Apartment Complex will make more money!
I tried the dryers this evening when I did laundry that is the furtherest north of the three. It became a little hotter, resulting in less damp clothes. Notice I said “less damp”: They still came home with a hint of dampness. Though 50¢ instead of a quarter would probably fix that!
I needed worry about my al fresco displays or open-blind nudity: A lot of apartments provide a view. Are
they inviting a closer scrutiny? I will sure take them up on it!
I applied WD-40 to the kick stand of my bicycle: It helped! Milt assisted me in covering part of my chain with grease via a grease “gun.” And that was a great thing for the motive power!

(12th, About 5:35 A.M.) I was in a car or van, Marty Brasher, the secretary of the nursing school, behind the wheel.
Marty’s driving was scaring me “shitless”! For example: In making a counter-clockwise turn, the wheels on the right side almost “ran” out of ground, on a cliff!
Damn if I can figure the dream out! Marty Basher? For heaven’s sake grow up!
Late last week, Annette Hatch informed me that there was pizza in Student Support. It was 12:30 or so.
I washed my hands, and headed for the library (which shares Building “I” with Student Support).
I really wasn’t invited to take some slices of pizza, but I did nonetheless! I think the pizza was for the staff and students.
A female voice on my left stated, “Only two pieces!”
Annette (Hatch) was wrong to have sent me over there!

(acerca de 6:30 A.M.) In “checking” the academic qualifications and job titles of the C.A.C.C. employees last week in the latest edition of the C.A.C.C. catalogue (which I provided her, Hazel commented on the fact that Nan Motley, the cosmetology instructor, has no degree: Dee Hamn, the previous instructor, holds a Master’s.
Though how hard can cutting hair be, stated Hazel, which is exactly what I was thinking.
Hazel thought it unfair that the evening instructor hadn’t been “elevated.” Though maybe the evening instructor - vastly more qualified than Nan - has a day job of cutting hair professionally!
My contention is that the dry, cold air of winter makes it necessary to water at least every two weeks, if not every week! I told Milt this in the shop yesterday. He, in turn, told me that non-dew, non-rain water contains chemicals that are left behind when the sun evaporates the water, potentially “burning” the leaves.
Milt also “explained” to me that the soil will suck up water when a potted plant or flower is placed in a bowl of water.
So was he the one that placed two bowls under two of the flowers on the west porch of the nursing building to avoid daily watering?

(acerca de 1:19 P.M.) “Loyally to yourself.”
I would call it something else - at the moment I can’t think what I would use - but that describes Eric McCain!
Marvin and I discussed this “brown nosing” in the office of the shop (Marvin was in the desk chair facing north, I sat against the north wall).
The kind of person that would ordinarily do a certain, but to earn “brownie points,” does exactly what a “superior” orders, even if ___ is ordered isn’t appropriate to the situation.
We were discussing the placing of planters with flowers at various entrances/exits of the administration building, the library building, etc.
Even Hazel expressed her dismay! The business office whines about money, only to spend hundreds on a “pie in the sky”!
Every time I “destroy” an ant mound with the water hose, I am reminded of the flooding in Central America: Entire villages were covered and buried, just like the ant mounds!
Bushes or flowers spelling out “C.A.C.C.” on the hill/bank? Now where have I heard that before?
Ah yes, I “suggested” that to Milt several months ago! Milt admitted he may have told Eric: Eric is not creative to have thought of it!
The azaleas don’t need watering? Not every day, but Eric is far from a plant/flower expert! Why, one only has to examine his work!
Marvin hinted at it: I trimmed the lantanas at the southwest entrance/exit of the administration building. Eric should have been the one to have “suggested” the project, not Marvin!
As I told Marvin in the shop office later, he, Milt, and I could discuss what needs done on grounds, and have a much nicer campus than with Eric in “charge”!
A.B.C. WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (5:30-6:00 P.M.), N.B.C. NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.), and THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) provided me with an overview of the world’s goings-on for about twenty-five minutes. But as I told Sloan Limbaugh - he and I were near the top of the southern-most lantana “field,” northeast of the entrance/exit of the north end of the administration building - the “news” is as fictional as any television drama!

(acerca de 3:23 P.M.) How pathetic that I can’t do a hard day’s work without having to revive myself with a nap! Does this happen to others? Not to Milt and/or Eric, I guarante: They/he has never worked at something so intensely!
As I reported before, BOSTON LEGAL (9-10:00 P.M., A.B.C.) is so tongue-in-cheek, I don’t even try to analyze the show! But I will say this: The episode presented yesterday evening has cast member William Shatner making a reference to STAR TREK, the cult series of which he stars as “Captain Kirk”: “ Alan Shore” announces that lice attacking La_men are known as “Cling on”: Willian Shatner exclaims, “Did you say Klingons?”, the nemesis of the “Enterprise” crew on STAR TREK!
It was my idea to use the “edger” on the lantana “beds”! But an inmate (“Big Boy”) had to demonstrate an edging method: Always keep the single guide wheel on the sidewalk, even if it means backing while edging!
Is this ignorance due to a rarity of using weed-eaters, edgers, etc? I like to think so!
The mid-70⁰’s (F) enticed Fog to stick around all morning! Or was it Fog that held the mid-70⁰’s so tight that They couldn’t get away?
My reputation as an “expert” on growing things must be the gossip of the campus”: Sloan Limbaugh asked me how I had come about my knowledge. He and I were by the lantanas on the northern end of the administration building, Sloan facing east to my west.
”Einstein’s Big Idea”: About forty-five minutes of this NOVA SCIENCE NOW (P.B.S.) yesterday evening.
Did the “lecture” begin at 7:00? Although the final 40-45 minutes went a long way in helping me understand E= MC², an equation formuted 100 years ago!
I sure would be nice to have a second “shot” at this program!

(acerca de 5:55 P.M.) I needed bread; so I went to Winn-Dixie and bought a loaf for $1.07.
I needed - well, wanted - cigarettes - no one needs cigarettes; so I went to Allen’s Food Mart, on the way home, and paid $2.15 for a pack.
I needed - or could use - a brown-ink pen: the book store had one for 54¢.
“In Washington, Ambassador John Miller, a senior adviser to Rice, who heads the State Department’s Trafficking in Persons section . . .”
I could have sworn Condoleezza Rice is the secretary of state! But one couldn’t believe it by this sentence on page 67, of the September 2005 issue of “Smithsonian” magazine!
The “who” should be replaced by “and head of”! Why wasn’t it?
The article, “Born Into Bondage,” details slavery. It is like reading an article in an early-19 century American magazine!
The government of Niger refuses to acknowledge the existence of slavery in Niger due to the fact that the government is desperate for the support of the warlords, the major slaveholders.
If that sounds familiar it’s because it is: J. Philip Randolph attempted to persuade F.D.R. to outlaw lynching, but F.D.R. chose politics over human lives! Roosevelt claims that he would have lost the South and its politicians with an anti-lynching bill!

(13th, About 5:30 A.M.) Could it be that my body requires a nap due to the fact that I awake early most morning? I must have my “8’s,” and a nap is only seeing that I do.
Bicycle-riding, juggling, work: All three, no doubt, play a part in my corporeal fatigue every afternoon, but it’s the late-to-bed-early-to-rise policy that gives Nap hegemony of my day!
How dare Andy prevent me from increasing my work load, stating monetary concerns, when here you have Eric spending money on planters and flowers! Marvin and I decided that every clay pot cost $30-$40, if not more, and there are at least ten scattered “across” campus!
And no telling how much was “invested” in the Thanksgiving display on the front lawn!
“Big Boy” told me, in the shop, that he is trying to “get me a raise,” which is the reason that he showed me the proper usage of the edger when the single wheel is on the “wrong side!
Eric told me I am watering the azaleas too much. Yet he is quick to satuate them with chemicals! Well, if “you” water azaleas “too much,” “you” don’t need chemicals, although Andy has given Eric essentially “carte blanche” in doing whatever Eric wants to do with the plants and flowers! Even though Eric knows nothing about plants and flowers! (continued)




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