Phillip Wilson

Amazingly, I survived my Life
2011-09-30 00:07:01 (UTC)

2006 REVIEW (PART ONE)

January- Childersburg, AL

(1st, About 8:17 A.M.) As always, a new 12-month period in history will mean nothing, and its introduction was vastly over-rated! Although I will admit that I personally met 2006!
The ham that survived the Christmas dinner: Joyce called yesterday evening to inquire if I wanted it. I told her that the ham could join its partner and turkey Coleague in the freezer.
Leslie, Kayla, and Bill special delived the half-ham, plus a sack of potatoes.
I remember telling Steve Friday evening, “Different people react to aging differently.” This was in response to Steve comparing his father’s mental health to that of granny’s mental health (Granny and Casey Holt are the same age, more or less).
I can’t get it out of my mind the way that George W. Bush stumbled, hesitated, and horribly mis-pronounced “Abu Ghraib,” the site of prison abuse by American forces. It is my firm belief that the reason for the philological dsyfunction is because Bush, as with all presidents, isn’t running the show, but is truly only the spokesperson for the administration!

(acerca de 9:47 A.M.) Why is “Moby Dick” “saddled” with the reputation of being only a “fish tale” (although a whale is not a fish), not to be considered worthwhile literature (Neil Jummonville stated similar comments in the Humor and the American Mind course at F.S.U., in the summer of 1998, when discussing late-19 century American literature)? Maybe it’s because chapter 9 is seldom, if ever, included in anthologized excerpts from the novel!
Chapter 9 has to be award-winning biblical inter-pretation and analysis! Obviously, the “Book of Jonah” is hegemonic to “Moby Dick.”
I remember exclaiming to Joyce one morning in the car as we went to work that Herman Melville is only a teller of fish tales, during a discussion of the literature Course at C.A.C.C. she was then enrolled in.

(acerca de 10:21 A.M.) In fact, chapters 8 and 9 of “Moby Dick” reminds me of “The Iliad”: In the latter, the Greeks, before they could sail for Troy, went through a “blessing of the fleet,” so to speak, as happens in Bayou La Batre (?) in southern Alabama. It seems that the only way a favorable wind would come to pass is by Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter Iphigenia: “Aggy” pissed off Artemis by killing a sacred stag.
A child for a deer! Does that seem fair to “you”?
I saw my final news sources of 2005 yesterday: N.B.C. NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.) and A.B.C. WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (5:30-6:00 P.M.). I have a feeling that 2006 will provide the producers with more material than did 2005!
I can’t wait to go back to work! Only because my non-working life isn’t able to produce enough material for Journal!

(acerca de 11:47 A.M.) Is “Ishmael” and “Queequeg” a homosexual couple? I bet you the people of New Bedford, the opening location of “Moby Dick,” thought so! As rampant as homophobia is now-adays, beyond a doubt it was even worse in the late-19th century! In a “macho” enterprise such as whaling especially!
A novel about openly “gay” whalers, similar fo a film (BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN) that reveals the truth about homophobic, macho jobs/lifestyles?
“Ishmael” and “Queequeg” sleeps in the same bed. “Queequeg’s” arm lays across “Ishmael.”
“Queequeg” rubs foreheads with “Ishmael,” “married” in “Queequeg” cultural back ground. Although there is no direct sex betweem them, “Peter Coffin,” the landlord of New Bedford’s Spouter-Inn, the New Bedford town folks, the other whalers: There are hints of homosexuality between “Ishmael” and “Queequeg”!
But there is also a suggestion that nobody really cared, that same-sex relationships were must more tolerated then they were in, say, the 1950’s.
A queer theory analysis of “Moby Dick”? To be crass, maybe there’s a reason Melville called the novel “Moby Dick”!
I thought I was thorough when I checked the schedule for Alabama Television on a computer at the down town library one day last week! But I was searching daily schedules, and I passed over yesterday for some reason! Hence the reason I was unaware of the LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER (7-9:00 P.M.) yesterday evening! I only managed the “final” twenty minutes or so, basically the encore by the New York Philamonic and the guest vocalist.
What are the chances that the broadcast will be repeated? Probably none: The concert was in celebration of New Year’s Eve.
However, life goes on! Though I must say that reading “Moby Dick” - technically this is a re-reading, but “you’ll” never know it by the “newness” of the novel! - far outweighed any benefits from classical music! And how often does that happen in a person’s life?

(acerca de 2:38 P.M.) 2006 is insulted by the futile attempt by fire-workers: It demonstrated - and is demonstrating - what It expected and expects!
Thunderstorm cleared the air of any lingering traces of 2005. Rain was audible even with my hearing!
Cold? The mid- 50⁰’s (F). And of course Phoebus is “down” with a post-New Year’s party hang-over.
Although most of the “rednecks” that double as fireworks honor Sunday and refrain from violating the “sacred” air!
The gods are offended that another “God” is treated better than They are! They don’t honor the “redneck’s” “God”!
I watched the “final” portion of some film dealing with Scotland, knights, jousting, etc. It ended, I think, around _:45, the movie about “the age of chivalry.”
I didn’t realize that THE VICAR OF DIBLEY (about 10:45-11:15 P.M., P.B.S.) was in production in 2005! But the episode yesterday is within eight months being first-run.
The vicar,”Geraldine,” played by Dawn French, is heavier than she has ever been! “Alice,” the goofball, reminds me so much of Goldie Hawn in her acting style and characterization!
The remaining minutes of 2005 were spent electronically at Times Square in New York City, waiting for the 2006 “ball” to drop.

(acerca de 6:21 P.M.) I remember watching the modern cinematic adaptation of MOBY DICK on television, three or four years ago. Gregory Peck plays the “minister,” Patrick Stewart is “Captain Ahab.” I am desperately trying to mentally replay the film and the interpretation of the novel presented by the movie.
I remember concluding that the sermon must never be separated from the rest of the book!
The obsession that “Captain Ahab” has for the killing of the whale that took his (“Captain Ahab’s”) leg: “Captain Ahab” ignores warnings that it is madness to challenge Moby Dick!
Leslie was telling me yesterday evening when she, Kayla, and Bill brought over food supplies, that MADAGASCAR has many layers, and the animated movie is not just for kids. I had asked - Leslie was standing by the passenger side - how Kayla had MADAGASCAR.
All good children’s entertainment has many layers, I told Leslie: “The Chronicles of Narnia” is more than a children’s book. C.S. Lewis, the author, intended “Narnia” that way.
I stand corrected: There is human-made “Boom!” of fireworks on this Sunday!

(2nd, About 7:54 A.M.) As I may have told you, I pulled the wagon carrying the four bushes in pots as passengers to the north wall of the car port, “underneath,” the final working day of 2005 (21 December): The hope is that Rain will be able to reach it while at the same time Wind won’t.
The way the sidewalk and road appear this morning, Rain was a visitor earlier. If not directly, I hope that the four received moisture via the air: All plants are epiphytic to a degree, and maybe the Four are able to grab Their share of water.
The nude walking and other deshibility that I committed in September and October: I must not allow it to get out of control! Not only is police action a likely possibility, there are too many whiners and complainers living in Wood Arms/Childersburg Estates that could have me evicted!
As I said, chapter 9 of “Moby Dick” is a great interpretation of the “Book of Jonah,” but have I also told “you” that the movie CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE THIRD KIND includes scenes that confirms the relationship of music and mathematics, and are terrific music theory examples?
Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens: These are the writers among many that agree with my theory that anyone can be a murderer.

(acerca de 8:36 A.M.) The Christian chauvinist “Captain Bidad,” in chapter 18 of “Moby Dick,” asks “Ishmael” if Queequeg” is a member of a church. “Ishmael” replies that “Queequeg” is a member of the First Congregational Church, explaining, in a round-about way, that all belief systems are one and the same, and part of the one Congregation, the Catholic Church, Catholic meaning “universal.”
“Think of Death and the Judgement then? No! no time to think about Death then! Life was what Captain Ahab and I were thinking of . . . “ Again, chapter 18, “Captain Peleg” explains to “Captain Bidad” that life before Death is more of a motivating factor than life after Death.
Chapter 19: “And like a sister of chastity did the charatilble around Charity . . .” What a nice way to introduce a sentence!
So much for “Moby Dick” being just a “fish tale”! And I’m not even a third into the novel!

(acerca de 9:52 A.M.) Also, “Ismael” compares Lent and Ramadan, and confessing the truth: That essential principle of the two fasts are really the same.
I managed to “catch” the intermission feature and the second half of the New York Philharmonic’s New Year’s Eve concert on LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER (3-5:00 P.M., P.B.S.): I hadn’t figured on the Concert being re-aired so early in the afternoon!
Among the arias presented by the guest vocalist was the well-known plea of “Cio-Cio San” from “Madama Butterfly” (by Puccini). Forgive me, but I have changed the lyrics to express what “Cio Cio San” most likely wants to say concerning “Pinkerton”: “Where is/that son of a bitch/that knocked me up!/That Pinkerton!”
“Pinkerton” is the father of “Cio Cio San’s” son. “Pinkerton,” the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” liaison with the United States Navy.
I’ve done this much damage to opera, I may as well continue: In “Turandot,” also by Puccini, “Turandot” enters dressed in a dress. She sits on her throne, her thighs wide apart.
The male lead is a step or two lower than “Turandot,” having a good view.
“Turandot” declares to the man: “You want some of this, mother fucker? Then guess my name!”
N.B.C. NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.) and A.B.C. WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (5:30-6:00 P.M.) got 2006 off to a good start yesterday evening. Did I say “good”? I mean . . . !

(acerca de 11:56 A.M.) What, the “New Testament” is only about sheep and shepherds? You said it, I didn’t!
The famous song from “Turandot” is “Nessum Dorman,” or something like that. I call the aria “Nasty Doorknob.” In fact, if “you” will allow me to provide “you” with an “update” translation of the lyrics: The “step-mother” sings this to “Cinderella” to the tune of “Nessum Dorman”, “There is a nasty doorknob there!/There’s also one over there, and there, and and there!/In fact the whole house is filthy!/So get off your ass/and clean the house/you lazy slut!”
Don’t tell me I don’t know about opera!
The pack of Marker cigarettes I earlier purchased from the convenient store on the highway is now $2.15, eleven cents more than before! But that’s o’kay: Gasoline is up two pennies!
GREAT PERFORMANCES (P.B.S.) presented the Vienna Philharmonic in the annual New Year’s concert (7-8:30 P.M.), yesterday evening. So, in answer to your question, I received a good dose of classical music to begin the year!

(acerca de 1:25 P.M.) I left circus clowning in 1992, we all know, just when my “musical conductor” was petering out.
But be that as it may: “Pepé” Calderon, a so-called trumpet player and audio “engineer” with Carson and Barnes, was critical that I would end with my hands held high above my head (the opening music to the performance). “A real conductor doesn’t do that; s/he always conducts the musical piece with the baton on the down swing!”
In the first place, the act was only that: An act. In the second place, as I pointed out to “Pepé” th__ - a real conductor led an orchestra on television - oftentimes a conductor will end a piece of music on an upbeat, baton eye level or above.
Lorain Mizel (?), the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, is the latest in a long line of conductors that concludes each piece of music with an upswing. Which is why I call “Pepé” a so-called musician!
I was dumb enough to watch the second “half” of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES (8-9:00 P.M., A.B.C.). The program is better than the title would have “you” believe: In essence, the series is a biography of a street (Westoria?) that ends in a cul-du-sac. The story line involves “dissecting” the street and examining the parasites that has infiltrated it. The show makes no pretensions of being anything but what it is.
No, I won’t be making a habit of watching the series on a regular bases! I have no plans to ever see DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES again, though that may change!

(acerca de 3:38 P.M.) Baking Soda probably do just as good as baking soda-laden carpet cleaner! The latter only is perfumed!
From Winn-Dixie, I finally found Baking Soda: Two boxes of Winn-Dixie brand baking soda for $1.0_including tax. For it’s time for vacuuming!
I had already cleaned Deah for the week. The lower-70⁰’s (F) weather created a wonderful solar dryer.
As my neighbor (E3) said as she was going to her apartment, Summer is here: 2006 must be desperate to be liked! Though after a year like 2005, ‘06 should have nothing to worry about!
WTTO/Channel 21, which is also the carrier locally for the WB network, airs THE KING OF QUEEN (10-10:30 P.M.) after the show has been used twice by C.B.S. Though there are many episodes of the sit-com that I haven’t seen: I use to watch the program semi-regularly.

(3rd, About 5:50 A.M.) Huh? I came upon a blatant mistake in “Moby Dick”! In Chapter 27, there is a gross syntaxical boo-boo: “They it was.” I don’t know if there was an incompetent editor or what, but “They was” was as wrong then as it is how!
There is also a noticable grammerical error on the children’s calender from “National Geographic” that I got Kayla for Christmas: The “by-line” about elephants, mud, and flies. I have forgotten the details, but I think the sentence is “dangling,” the second clause ___ __ to the reference.
Domestic spying: The danger is that it will lead to a resurgence of the McCarthy-era paranoia. And the entire threat to democracy posed by the 1950’s directly resulted in the 1960’s! Do we really want a neo-1960’s? That time could very well return when Kayla is a teen-ager, as I have always predicted! Leslie and Bill won’t be able to deal with it: The rebellion, the anti-authority, etc.
Bill suggested that he may not be able to retire from Southern Alloy as planned: Kayla’s college expense, etc, may keep him working. Bill declared this during the Christmas dinner at Joyce’s house on the 24th of December.
Remembering only a vocal “outline,” Leslie made an attempt at a joke when someone around the table has stated that Kayla (?) was a minor. The “joke” was a “play” on the word “minor.”

(acerca de 12:36 P.M.) There is a “God” in heaven!
Finally! At long last!
The four bushes were put back in the ground “around” the pump!
Although I assume “you” know who did it: Soon after I arrived at work, I pulled the wagon carrying the Four Horseman out from underneath the carport, where I had “stored” the wagon upon leaving work on the 21st of December. I had just parked the wagon south of the east entrance/exit to the shop when Eric “suggested” that I return them to the ground. I asked “where,” and he replied “the pump.”
If “you” recall, I had already chosen another place for the four bushes: The east end of the library building.
I hinted that I needed m__kings, that I didn’t trust my “eye-___ing.”
But I did incorporate the “eye-___ing” method, along with 4’ stick.
The ground had been softened by the vast amount of rain water.
Of the four, one was planted out of alignment with the neighbor on the south side of the pump.
If I had kept the bushes in hiding, Eric or nobody would have cared enough to ask for them!

(acerca de 1:11 P.M.) Milt left the state “C.A.C.C.” pick-up truck unlocked when he quitted C.A.C.C. for the year on 21 December. This morning, it was discovered that someone or something had burned or melted the inside of the cab. Everyone was blaming a vandalizing kid. But I suggested that the electrical system sparked.
A police officer investigated when I was at the shop. Milt told me later that the fire marshall had inspected the fire damage.
The ___ vandal: A lit cigarette butt had blown back into the truck, when an inmate had tossed the about-done cigarette out the passenger window! Supposively, the police and the fire marshall had discovered a cigarette butt.
Now we all know that plastic can smolder. However, none of the surrounding paper was damaged. And as Milt declared, the cigarette butt would have burned itself to oblivion!
Milt took up my mantra of a faulty electrical system as the culprit.
I may not be a mechanic, but I know the theory of automotives!
I watched THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) yesterday evening for the first time in 2006. Hell, who didn’t! It was, after all, the first NEWSHOUR of the year!

(acerca de 1:34 P.M.) My toliet is on the b___! Or maybe it’s my imagination that is dysfunctional! I will “keep an eye out” on each.
What the hell, I may as well go ahead and pay the remaining $103.5_ on my power bill! Why put the pain off? It has to be paid!
I will be calling on my “emergency” cash cache - my second checking account - to “cover” the indebtedness.
I would call this an emergency, wouldn’t you?

(acerca de 2:12 P.M.) “I was hoping beyond hope,” I told Milt and Marvin in the shop office around 11:40; Marvin was sitting in the desk chair. by the desk and Milt was against the west wall with me, but to my right, “that Andy Jordan wouldn’t be back this year!”
As does a lot of people at C.A.C.C., Milt doesn’t think that the campus in Talladega will bring an increased student population at C.A.C.C., but only shift people from the Childersburg campus to classes at the One-Stop Center. I tend to agree with that assetment.
I stated that Andy and Ms.Salotto’s future at C.A.C.C. probably is tied to the status of the Talladega campus.
Milt hinted that he may quit C.A.C.C. before he is eligible for retirement in 2-3 years.
Who is it that is happy with the current administration at C.A.C.C.?
Speaking of an administration: What other behavior can “you” expect from a man that bragged about the capital punishment in Texas during a 2000 debate with Al Gore? Yes, I am referring to George W. Bush and his belicose administration!
Of course, Ronald Reagan turned the United States into a militaristic, pro-war country! I attended the “lecture” AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presented yesterday from 8:00 to 10:00 on P.B.S. It was the second part.
One of the “photo-ops” of the second term with the ___ loved leader made Reagan similar in appearance to a mask anti-Reagan people carried around! It only goes to prove that Reagan was only playing president for eight years!

(acerca de 3:53 P.M.) My rent has managed to safely escape! My other bills may not be so lucky!
The wind cooled the mid-50⁰’s (F) to the mid-50⁰’s! Phoebus is hiding the plans of Winter, and my birthday anniversary will probably be amidst a cold “spell.”
I must somehow began earning on par with other Master’s degree holders! C.A.C.C. should be ashame of itself for what it is doing to me!
Granny contacted me via telephone earlier: The best I could make out is that she has bleeding from one of her eyes that will require a “shot” every 2-3 weeks (?) for 2-3 years (?). And that she has a hearing aid in one ear.
She was telling how expensive hearing aids are. As if I didn’t know!

(I found this notebook on the morning of Monday, The 12th of December 2005, in the bottom shelf of the East-West wooden desk in the “middle” of The shop (Building “G”) at Central Alabama Community College.)

(4th, About 5:36 A.M.) I know for a fact that, in spite of what the cover may “say,” there are, at the most, 148 sheets of paper in this notebook! I personally removed two sheets myself, and if any sheets were removed prior to my “take-over,” I have no idea!
This grade of paper is much better to write on than the ___ paper of the “Harry Potter” books! That’s the reason for the overabundance of “corrections”: The paper of “Harry Potter” doesn’t allow a smooth ink flow.

(acerca de 5:42 A.M.) Beginning today, I will be working eight hours and more, for the next few working days at least. The impregnated paycheck has always been a main factor for the extended hours. Although I have a feeling that “they” are continuing to allow me to work the book store if I am a “good boy”!

(acerca de 4:30 P.M.) I guess it makes me the head stock boy!
A young male is in the book store: He and Josh shelf. Although I don’t think they re-filled the display case in the front! Or clean, for that matter!
Hazel attended high school with the young man’s mother. His name is Thad, or something like that. I assume that he is a student, most likely at C.A.C.C.
I was shocked to discover that a pack of cigarettes from Allen’s Food Mart is $2.37! That’s 22¢ more than I use to pay at the store!

(acerca de 8:09 P.M.) Seth is the young man’s name. He is the son of Melanie Boltan, whose married name was Landers before divorce.
Seth Landers. My first impression of him was that he was a goofball. But I know how people at C.A.C.C. judge me, so I made myself reject such a verdict. But Joyce “confirmed” it, for what that is worth!
I had dinner with Kayla, Joyce, Leslie, and granny this evening. Joyce had an appointment to have the earwax removed from her - where else - ears. But she left the doctor with the knowledge that her blood pressure is “high,” and she was allowed a perscription for returning it (the blood pressure) to “normal.” Though I “explained” to Joyce and Leslie that everybody is “normal” in different ways. And that blood pressure can only be determined by collective readings: Different times of the day, standing and sitting, etc.
Leslie was only half-joking when she declared that all employees at C.A.C.C. are sufferers of high blood pressure!
The mid-60⁰’s (F), with lots of shine: That’s the best way I can describe the weather today.
I had hoped that U.P.S. would have delivered the large number of boxes of books yesterday, but my timing was a day late. Not only that but a 16-wheeler brought fifty-nine boxes of books this afternoon!
Josh and Seth shelved books before pricing them, then would have to handle the books in re-self. Josh also priced the BIO 103 texts, unstacking them - I had them on the floor for one-time-only pricing and shelfing - and then restacking them.
I suppose that a young person doesn’t have to ration her/his energy! But I do! I try never to move the books more than is absolutely necessary!
Chapter 32 of “Moby Dick”: A lecture on the anatomy and comparative features of what was then - the late- century and early-20th century - known about whales, even as far as investigating whether or not whales are fish or not
One of the reasons I sought residency in Wood Arms was the convenience of C.A.C.C. during registration, Book Buy-back, and inventory: I am able to work a schedule that doesn’t have to be tied to Joyce’s work schedule.
Only around forty minutes of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.). However, the time I saved was given to WHAT WENT RIGHT? (8-9:00 P. M., P.B.S.), a documentary about the extremely successful Mars Exploration Rovers (?).
I “adopted” a poinsettia from Joyce or granny: It is in my front (north) house-hugging “strip” garden, still in its original vase. And know how I feel about flowering plants enslaved in pots!
The poinsettia was about to be thrown in the trash. As a rescuer of plants, I can’t allow that to happen!

(acerca de 9:04 P.M.) Seth was the only employee staff, including Sheila Mitchell, that figured out the mistake on the back cover photograph of the Spring 2006 C.A.C.C. class schedule: I had asked Hazel, aseated at her desk in her office, this afternoon if she could spot the technical error. When I finally explained that, by definition, a “center” requires an odd number of people before one of them can be in the center, and Ms. Salotto is one of only eight. So, therefore, she can’t be the “center” as announced below the photograph.
Hazel played upset, joking that she was going home!
In a few minutes, Hazel promised Josh or Seth $5 if either could point out the mistake. Leaning against the south vertical of the south door way to the book room and hall, I told Josh and Seth that they should know the error.
So much for Seth being a goof-ball! April pretends to be so smart, yet was unable to see the mathematical dysfunction of the picture!

(5th, About _:34 A.M.) “You” really can’t blame Hazel for laughing: It was, after all, a ridiculous allegation!
I actually declared C.A.C.C. an educational institution and should, therefore, know better than to mis-use “center”!
Milt, in the book store - I was “behind” the counter and Milt was a “customer” - told me that he was having a hard time remembering it is 2006, no longer 2005, whenever he writes the date.
Seth wondered why yesterday, only a half-hour was allowed for lunch, whereas Wednesday Hazel allowed him sixty minutes. I “explained” the “specialness” of yesterday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday.
In fact. I had to remind Hazel of what the official schedule “said” about lunch “breaks”: That they are to be “staggered” and alternated. From Hazel’s reaction, I’m pretty sure that she was really aware of that fact, but had hoped to ignore it until Monday.
Not only that: Wednesday I had to refresh Milt’s memory as to the final week of work for 2005. He was by the southwest corner of the desk in the shop office assisting Marvin with his (Marvin’s) time sheet. Marvin was sitting in the desk chair, and I was against the western wall.
16 December: The “banquet” at Eric’s shop. This date is long-termed “set” in my mind because the 16th was the second day - a Friday - of Book Buy-back, and I was summoned by telephone to go to the shop.
19th December: Eric, Michael, the third man up there. Milt and several inmates went to Talladega - “ignoring” me - to set-up the Computers at the One-Stop Center.
The last working day: 21 December, 2005, a Wednesday. Milt was - or at least pretended to be - confused when I insisted that 22 December was the Holiday bon__ day, that I had been told the afternoon before that the shop wouldn’t be opened, that Milt and Marvin wouldn’t be at work, nor would the inmates. Before leaving - I was on my bicycle - Marvin advised me not to come in the next day.
Have Marvin and Milt been manipulating their timesheets each month, either knowingly or by accident?

(acerca de 6:4_ P.M.) How surprised, proud, jealous, angry, etc, I became when I saw Seth pricing books from boxes the way I do! I thought I was the only one that dumped books in that manner! Did April instruct him, or is it only a common sense way of getting the books out of the boxes?
David McHafy is keeping a pot-bellied pig in the pen behind the McHafy house: Leslie, after calling Anita, and Kayla fed the pig the cob from corn-on-the-cob, yesterday evening.
That brought up a discussion between Joyce and me about the pig troughs (?) Daddy Mack had made for Jane, Linda, Joyce, and me about fifty years ago, because we reminded him of pigs, the way we ate. Funny thing is, Daddy Mack’s “parenting” back-fired: We kids enjoyed eating from the troughs (?)! It wasn’t “punishment” to us!
A male student came into the book store yesterday afternoon, accompanied by a female (on the man’s left). His pink tee shirt declared that “Real Men Wear Pink!”
An e-mail from Nathan Brackeen concerning office supplies for the One-stop center in Talladega included “15 of the cheapest legal pads (not the long ones)”: A legal-size note pad is long by definition!
The e-mail, sent to Hazel, was also forwarded to Anita Pearson, the provost, and Melanie Bolton, the assistant provost. Therefore the e-mail is no longer a private communication between Nathan and Hazel. Although the odds are extremely small, the e-mail could be used officially against Nathan: He is the chair of the Liberal Arts, including the English department.
Besides the above, Nathan Brackeen also stated “This stuff” instead of “These items,” and he proceeded to tell the disposition of the items, which is of no concern of Hazel, although one could make a case that the conditional clause was put there for the benefit of Dr. Pearson and Dr. Bolton.
The mid-50⁰’s (F), maybe the upper-60⁰’s! However, Phoebus wasn’t able to interest the day in Spring.
Only “half” of LAW & ORDER (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.) - the second “half” - yesterday evening, just to have a “back ground” to the eating of pudding I had prepared earlier. However, I did see some of the local (Birmingham) news over at Joyce’s, as well as a little of the movie SKY HIGH, a Disney film. Kayla stayed close-by in case I became frightened!
WHEEL OF FORTUNE (6:30-7:00 P. M., A.B.C. 33/40) also played on Joyce’s television.
Remember me telling “you” about the ten spray cans of Board cleaner that I had placed on a table “outside” of the mail room? Well, as of today, not a single one remained! Not even the box!
Cindy Strange told me this morning that someone had used furniture polish to clean her board, several years ago, and that she had an “awful time” returning the board to writing shape! This is contrary to what Milt had told me after I had “confessed” to putting the . . .
(God-damn tele- marketers! Recorded ones at that!)
. . . board-cleaning out for free-of-charge: Milt told me that the board cleaner is oil-based and a “film” left behind after a board cleaning interferes with a good writing surface!
I don’t think so!
Cindy expressed shock and dismay that the board cleaner carried by the book store is over $12! I informed her of the give-away, though she may have been the instructor that carried off the spray!

(6th, About 5:35 A.M.) I “found” Milt driving the gray van - north on the “loop” road, just south of the shop - yesterday after I had smoked a cigarette, and asked him if he would drive me home so that I could walk my dog.
As did Leslie, Milt urged me to secure my bicycle on days like yesterday when I leave it at home.
After I ate lunch yesterday, I exited the rear door of the lobby, headed towards my smoking “lounge.” Marvin was just about to enter the lobby (the outer doors). He commented that I had risen and would no longer associate with the shop, or some such statement.
In essence, he wished me back on grounds. I told him Tuesday will be my final day in the book store, and, as of now, it will be. But that could change!
Burt was on the customer side of the counter (Burt Yarbrough, that is). He was giving a “lecture” to Hazel, April, and me (Sheil and Seth?) concerning C.A.C.C.’s “outreach” program at the Honda plant in Lincoln.
Honda doesn’t guarantee job-advancement upon completion of an academic program. Burt was critical of such a policy, but thought the policy one of sound mind: I have always been suspicious of a business that announces a guarantee job or job-advancement to anyone that finishes a degree program!
Besides, there’s no guarantee that an associate’s degree won’t be impressive on an application.
A guarantee job: More of a marketing strategy for the Big Business of education - especially post-secondary education - than a benefit for business or industry!
It’s not the responsibe of a business or industry to increase the profits of an institution of higher learning!
Maybe I am repeating myself, but I rather repeat myself than to forget a note from an accidental not crossing it out: Seth told me Wednesday that he had an hour lunch Tuesday, why the sudden change to a half-hour? I “explained” the exception of registration.
Seth and I were in the book room. He was north of me.

(acerca 4:37 P.M.) C.A.C.C. wouldn’t close at 3:00 today, as it does most Fridays: A 4:00 shut-down had been “announced,” and by law that is the time of closing. But Book Buy-back was scheduled, by the posters, to go until 5:00 on the 16th of December - a Friday - but the school closed at 3:00!
That only shows “you” now much C.A.C.C. cares about the book store! Student Services and Financial aid are the number one concern, although the book store is the “base” for all payments!
An awfully wintry day: The mid-40⁰’s (F)! Rain - even snow - threatened all day, and still does!
I only watched about ten minutes of C.S.I. (8-9:00 P.M., C.B.S.) yesterday evening, since I had “Moby Dick” bitching at me!
“Moby Dick”: Unfettered ambition is dangerous, the novel may well be warning against!
Speaking of ambition, everybody needs a restraint on their ambition, before it’s too late: Ambition is dangerous in and of itself!
Wednesday I joked with Sheila about cheating at Mah Jong, the video game she plays sometimes (although she told me that she didn’t have the time during registration), that many people probably cheat to win.
I really need an actual pillow, not the home-made head rest that I have been using, made from two folded pieces of foam rubber! Sleep insists!

(acerca de 6:25 P.M.) Seth told me about a woman that suffered a seizure yesterday evening: The woman has never gone into seizure format in the past.
Seth and I then “discussed” that anybody can experience a dysfunctional electrical system, just as a car can, for no apparent reason. That’s what may have happened to the C.A.C.C. pick-up truck, which, according to Milt yesterday - it was while he was driving me home to walk Deah during the day - is being repaired, sponsored by C.A.C.C.’s insurance.
I “explained” that most people have strokes and never know it.
An inmate came into the book store this morning and asked to borrow the parking tape: Eric wa_ted to ___ an item that was his, personally.
Sure, using state property for non-state needs is illegal! Hazel and I had discussed that several months ago, when Milt was present.
Though Hazel never expressed questions of the illegality of Joyce using the tape for David’s moving!
The One-Stop Center in Talladega is due to open Monday. But the computers are not powered. Or the telephones. The building hasn’t been cleaned: Milt told me in the book store that he, Marvin, Eric, Michael, and the new man will clean the One-Stop Center tomorrow. In turn I told Milt that he and Marvin will be doing all the work: Eric and company sure won’t!

(acerca de 7:35 P.M.) I-pod is a brand name for what is essentially a “gimm_y” Walk man! I think “you” are mistaken, my dear!
I was sitting in the stool chair north of the south door way to the book room/storage area, yesterday. Sheila was on my left and in front of me at the computer where she receives tuition. April was standing to my right, by the tables lining the back wall of the book store.
I ha_ asked about “M” something, which Sheila and April stated as “MP-3”player.
April stated then that I-pod is a brand name. Maybe the “I” is, but I don’t think the “pod” is a brand name!
Seth told me that he doesn’t want to learn the operation of one of the registers in the book store! How his mother - Melanie Bolton - advised him not to, for the same reason I refuse register training: I don’t want to put myself in the position of management holding me responsible for a financial “foul-up”!
Josh operates the register and attends to ___ ___, but his mother- Hazel Jackson - is sure to “cover” for him if anything out of the ordinary develops.
Wednesday evening, local news on television “ran” a story about possible price-gouging of gasoline/convenient stores: The attorney general of Alabama is launching an investigation into the Birmingham-area marketing policy.
Leslie’s comment of “They all do!” is correct to an extent: The gasoline distributors I’m sure gouge, not so much the retailers.
And Tony King (?), the attorney general: He was appointed to the office when Bill Pryor became a federal judge, and no doubt his seemingly ambitious pursuit of the oil industry at the local level is just an attempt to garner “votes” for a regular term!”
When Milt “dropped” me off before the southern entrance/exit to the administration building yesterday, after returning from walking Deah, I told him that I was late for work. Milt said to me that everyone is “late” every now and then!

(7th, About 8:10 A.M.) It required two boxes for the office supplies that I gathered together Thursday. Patsy came for them yesterday so she and Joyce could haul the supplies to Talladega.
While awaiting Hazel’s arrival, Patsy and I discussed the business at the One-stop center.
Patsy told me that she had done a little over $14 Thursday! And Joyce ended up with around a thousand dollars only!
Patsy and I were in the Cafetorium. The previous Tuesday I stated to Milt and Marvin in the shop office that Ms. Salotto’s and Andy’s future with C.A.C.C. is contingent upon the success or failure of the outreach programs at Honda and the One-Stop Center.
In addition to a C.A.C.C. campus, the One-Stop Center also houses the Employment and Unemployment offices.
C.A.C.C. owns the building, having paid millions of dollars for its construction. I didn’t think the state could make such a monetary outlay without taxpayers’ approval via an election!
“Our taxes at work!” What a “scam” someone “pulled” on the state! Although the state, when it allowed the project, had no idea that C.A.C.C. is too inefficient to carry through to a successful conclusion! The state had only needed to asked me!
Seth spent most of his work days on the northern computer in the book store. He examined Hip Hip via the MTV web page, an animated video of a tribute to “Notorious B.I.G. Big,” who was killed by a rival gang. Seth and I discussed Hip Hop; and an “R”-rated comedy starring Doris Roberts; HOTEL, hyped as the scariest movie in many years; Jack Black of KING KONG; and other “flicks” of his generation.
I didn’t understand the “Sandler” part of Adam Sandler, the actor: Was it the way Seth articulated “Sandler,” or was my hearing at fault?

(acerca de 10:16 A.M.) $44.60: My telephone service for the final month of 2005. I’m lucky if I receive ten calls in a four-week period! So we’re , speaking of more than four dollars a call!
A cell phone would be cheaper!
Seth, April, and Sheila inter-react with their cell phones most of the day. Yesterday Seth left ___ book store in order for a cell phone conversation to be private. I announced, “behind” the counter, that cell phones should be outlawed. My declaration didn’t go to well with Sheila (April wasn’t at work)!
On Thursday, Sheila complained about her daughter, Melissa, overdoing her cell phone talking and text messengering. Can “you” blame the teen-age child, being influenced by her mother’s undisciplined use of technology?
Sheila, with a Bachelor’s degree, is habitually uttering “me and ___” as the nomitive case in a sentence. My speech pattern, at least, can’t be controlled as Sheila’s, April’s, etc, can!
Doug Stearns called Seth, “Maynard,” until I corrected him (Doug). I asked Doug if Bob Denver had died: Bob Denver did die.
Bob Denver, before he was “Gilligan” on GILLIGAN’S ISLAND, played “Maynard G. Crebbs” on THE LOVER OF DOBIE GILLIS. Doug was amazed that I was aware of that fact.
A program such as DOBIE GILLIS can not be separated from the period that it “lived”: The late-1950’s-the early-1960’s. “Crebbs” is a “beatnik,” and the show reflects the times.
The Bank is now know as Superior Bank. Usually the A.T.M. didn’t carry money on the weekends, but, as luck would have it, today is an exception! Or at least was: I was able to withdraw ten dollars with no problem from the A.T.M.
I can’t “afford” to surround myself with non-real things! This is why I am an agnosticI had the urge, I must never allow a “drug” such as the irrational organized religion to ever divert my energy and focus from day-to-day living! It’s hard enough for me to function on a daily ba__: Non-real things only add to the problem!

(acerca de 11:11 A.M.) I remember inter-rupting Annette Hatch Wednesday, as she was talking with a female student, with a joking remark that I was craving a jellied (or jelly) doughnut.
Doug Stearns taped an announcement outside the book store of a “special” course on Vietnam, to be held on Friday morning. I told him I may audit the class, but he informed me - we were standing at the northwest “corner” of the outside book store area - that I could just show up without going “through” the formal registration process.
I tried to __ THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) and its Friday off-spring WASHINGTON WEEK (7-7:25 P.M., P.B.S.) to relax for a rough three days, but I still was being hassled by Time: Fireworks were creating noise in Grove Park, and Deah wouldn’t piss, around 7:27, trying to seek refuge in the house. I uttered “god-damn,” “fuck,” “bitch” and all sorts of inapprorpriate words, as well as yanking Deah’s leash and “throwing” the chain over her in the living room, as we re-entered the apartment!
Deah laid on the bed-room floor with her head pointing away from me. It was as if we were a married couple that had just had a “spat”!
A person can only temporarily “defeat” Time, and only if Time lets the challenger win. The secret is to find the moment that Time is relaxing, engaged elsewhere, or otherwise diverted from you.

(acerca de 6:01 P.M.) For the first time in over two weeks, for the first time in 2006, I am using the services of the Wood Arms/Childersburg Estate laundry room! I probably could have used Gerty’s wagon tomorrow, but, what the hell, who knows about tomorrow? It could rain!
Today is cold, reaching a peak of the low-50⁰’s (F). The sun bored down on us, leading to the probability that, without Phoebus looking out for us, Winter would Its way with us!
Deah was depilated this afternoon by Deanna Hopkins. I could have sworn that hair removal is “depiliation,” but the dictionary tells me differently!
I told Joyce Wednesday, in her office, that I was resuming grooming service with Deanna and that I had a 2:30 appointment Saturday, but at 2:10 this afternoon I issued a reminder via the telephone, which was good: Joyce had forgotten about the arrangement!
I remained the two hours-waiting period while Deah was “purtty up” at Joyce’s.
Patsy had $1400 in business Thursday, not $14!
Joyce and Kayla rented 4-5 POWER RANGERS videos this afternoon. While they were gone from the house, granny complained about Joyce’s bitchiness. Why granny is not use to Joyce’s moods, damn if I know!
The nurse that “bloodlet” Joyce Wednesday requested via a telephone contact that Joyce call Monday about the results of the blood test. Granny “fears” that Joyce may have dibetes.
Linda has Type II (or “B”) dibetes.
As I told “you,” Joyce’s blood pressure is “high.” Usually hypertension can be traced to a physical cause, and not stress. The latter is a convenient excuse for a mood swing!
Has granny ever considered that she may be the cause of Joyce’s bitchiness? After all, granny is not someone “you” want to live with!
Someone told Kayla that POWER RANGERS videos are for boys! Could that “someone” be Leslie and/or Bill? That’s what I stated to Joyce a couple of times!
I allowed myself to watch THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP (8:30-9:00 P.M., P.B.S) yesterday evening before I turned my attention to “Moby Dick.”
I don’t think that the people that criticize “Moby Dick” for being just a “fish tale” understand the novel, no matter how many Ph.D.’s in English they may have! Granted, Melville didn’t follow the literary rules of the mid-19 century not to take “Moby Dick” seriously! To the contrary, the novel should be lavished with praise for Herman Melville’s independence!
I thought I recognized Elvis Costello on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS (10-11:00 P.M., P.B.S.) the few minutes I watched the program! After I did, I punched “93” and watched THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (10:35-11:35 P.M., C.B.S.) for about twenty-five minutes.

(8th, About 8:02 A.M.) Normally I wouldn’t “drive” my bicycle after dark. But there was an emergency yesterday evening: My supply of cigarettes “ran out”!
It was a little before 7:30 that I peddaled to the convenient store on the highway and purchased a pack of cigarettes for $2.15. While I was out, I decided to go by Hardee’s for the 2-quarter pound cheeseburger for $3.00 special. I had “discussed” the “Burger War” with Joyce earlier , and she told me that Dairy Queen use to sell six hot dogs or hamburgers for $5. But when I “checked” the neon sign at the Dairy Queen yesterday evening, I saw no mention of such a “bargain.”
Hardee’s had sold out of the patties for the quarter pounder. But I had a patty for a third-of-a-pound! Does that make sense to “you”?
The rationale is that the third pounder is different meat from the quarter pounder: The former is angus beef. Probably not, but if I was foolish enough to have fallen for the marketing “play,” I deserve everything I get!
$2.90 for the snack: For I am “low” on “regular” food items that normally goes to an evening post-dinner snack!
I pointed out to Joyce - it was during the trip back to the apartment with Deah; the car was still on First Street, downtown. The marquee at the convenient store on our left, inspired the comment - that gasoline is increasing in price.
When I asked Joyce - we were approaching Princeton Drive - why David McHafy doesn’t keep the pot-bellied pig at his house, Joyce stated that Anita, his wife, probably won’t let him. I hope Joyce was only being Joyce: Surely Anita isn’t as bossy as that!
I am reminded of what an older man told me, at the fairgrounds in Louisville, KY: It was 1993. He and I were in the colliseum.
It may have been early morning or late evening. The man stated that when a wife tells “you” to do something, “you” obey! That’s what marriage is all about!
Marriage is not “One size fits all”: Each married couple define marriage as they go along.

(acerca de 9:10 A.M.) I got granny a lantern for Christmas: A lantern that operates with one of the “cylinder” batteries (10 volts). It should make searching even more illumination.
Upon my “insistence,” Joyce attempted to insert the accompanying battery into the instrument. However, the front part - the light bulb assembly - wouldn’t “screw down,” the threads of the inside of the light bulb assembly not able to merge into the external grooves of the battery housing.
Joyce tried several times, as did David. There was something blocking the union of the two thread areas.
The black “do-hickey” covering the “___” probrubing thing: That was the cause of the inability at closure! So I told Joyce to remove it. And by “God,” the marriage took place!
Joyce declared that the instructions didn’t state to do so. But apparently the “cover” is understood to be removed.
The question is, how did I figure this out? Although my first clue was that something had to give to decrease the distance between threads. And always start at the beginning! Just as “you” check out the switch when a light isn’t properly functioning.
N.B.C . NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.) reviewed the 7th of January 2006 for me, for about twenty-five minutes.
Check out Chapter 42 of “Moby Dick”: A fantastic job by Herman Melville of describing the effects of color and light!

(acerca de 9:56 A.M.) Surely I heard wrong! Why would Doug Stearns not “admit” that 40 is 10% of 400?
It was Thursday; Doug cam into the book store, and commenting that the hope for C.A.C.C.’s outreach project at the Honda plant in Lincoln was that 10% of the 400 employees would buy into the academic program. But that’s only forty students matriculated, which is only 1%. Maybe, though he (Doug) had said 4000 employees, which would make “40,” 1%!
While watching a Hip Hop video on the MTV web page with Seth Friday, I couldn’t help but not notice the crucifix around the neck of the main performer. I will not comment more than that. The juxaposition speaks for itself!
I decided to slow down and “smell the roses” via LAW & ORDER: SVU (9-10:00 P.M.) yesterday afternoon. Unlike the vast majority of the fare presented by network television, all three series of the LAW & ORDER franchise makes one think, since the shows seldom, if ever, ha__ a definite ending.
I explained to Seth - Wednesday? Thursday? - that the water pressure in my bones are affected by the air pressure in the atmosphere, which is why my joints “hurt,” telegraphing not-so-good weather. I was on my knees in the book room at the time.

(acerca de 11:37 A.M.) Maybe “you” can answer this: I have two academic degrees and I can’t figure it out!
Maybe there’s a mathematical and/or physical scientific reason that it happens!
Why is it that every time I go to Winn-Dixie to “pick up a few things,” I end up spending $30-$40, or more? Take this morning for instance: $49.64 was my “pick up a few things”!
Could it be that, in spite of a list I pre-grocery store compose, I wander the aisles and decide on the spur of the moment that I “need” this and this?
And let’s not forget that oftentimes - as I told Joyce yesterday; I believe it was while waiting for Deah at Joyce’s house - the registers at Winn-Dixie haven’t been programmed to correspond with the “specials” (2 for 1, 6 for $2, etc), that appear “throughout” the store.
But what is a person to do? S/he has to eat!
Both Gerty and Judy told me it would happen! I was returning from an outing with Deah when the elderly woman in D-1 summons me by voice: She asked me if I would move some furniture for her.
The warning system on a “fall and I can’t get up” machine was vocal. Not knowing how to de-noise the protection, I suggested that she contact Gerty: For I had no intentions of calling the police as she asked!
I watched about thirty minutes of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (10:30-midnight, N.B.C.) yesterday evening. There was no reason to see any more!
Why would a physically lame person purchase a bicycle? No: He undoubtedly stole it!
I am referring to the schwinn bicycle that a lame man in apartment “M-5” (?) gave to me several weeks ago!

(acerca de 3:03 P.M.) When granny moved to the south end of the couch Saturday to talk to me, when Joyce and Kayla had gone to the video store, granny told me that Joyce is concerned - she should be - that she should receive a raise in pay, being that she will be arranging pay for the instructors at the Talladega campus, on “top” of all her other work.
I don’t remember the details, but I was talking with Annette Hatch late last week, and I stated “its academic, no pun intended” in a discussion of some aspect of C.A.C.C. Annette laughed, if sincere or not, I couldn’t tell.
What a lovely Spring day, if windy! Though maybe the mid-60⁰’s (F) would be chased away by Month I if not for Wind fighting back!
As usual, Phoebus really doesn’t care what happens here on earth! It’s all the same to Phoebus!
April was complaining about math and physics one day last week in the book store: She doesn’t feel she needs them. I told her that the field she will be entering - radiation therapy - requires a high level of mathematics and physics. Although most likely April will consent to be a housewife to Nathan.
Of course, motherhood should make use of math and physics!

(9th, About 5:_4 A.M.) Did Euripides make Athenian society, or did Athenian society make Euripides?
You know what I mean: Athenian society changed dramatically (no pun intended ) between the time of Aeschylus and Euripides. Why?
Another theory I thought about either yesterday evening or as a bed fellow: “Moby Dick,” if written in the 1960’s or 1970’s, probably would have been titled, or at least subtitled, “Zen and the art of Whaling”! Although the novel is much more than a fish book, just as “Zen and the art of Motorcycle Repair” is more than a mechanical guide book!
Milt told me in the book store Thursday or Friday, after I had “popped the question,” that a formal request for a new United States flag were given to Andy. Of course, I doubt is such an order has been affected, but even if it has, it shouldn’t have been necessary: Ms. Salotto, Melanie Bolton, Andy, or somebody supposively in charge of the day-to-day operation of C.A.C.C. (as I told Joyce Saturday, I can’t articulate criticism of Melanie Bolton during my temporary service in the book store, even though it is she, as provost, that has the ultimate responsibility of quotidian operation of C.A.C.C.), should automatically replace the flag without having to be told!
This is why C.A.C.C. is like it is!
Affirmative Action was and is meant to “level the playing field.” Instead, it empowers one group over another! Although I don’t think that’s the law’s fault: Affirmative Action is only proving that people - red, yellow, black, or white; male or female - are people!
Ironically, real equality is allowing all groups to discriminate. Or to put it awkwardly, only if everyone is able to practice inequality can we all be equal!
You have heard it said that the Family is the basic unit of equality. That’s only if the family is unified can the society be unified.
But verily I say unto you: Bull shit! Only if the individual is unified with her/himself can there be a unified society! Family it is that is causing most of the dis-unity to society!
LAW & ORDER: SVU hinted at such Saturday evening!

(acerca de 6:54 P.M.) I am so tired! So bestially exhausted!
Literally!
“Mr. Hyde” assumed control at one point! I damn near said the “n” word! To Hazel!!
Hazel and I were discussing a nursing book, by the nursing section. A female African American bought a no-longer-used “Effective Leadership” or some such title, for her own personal use. When it happened again, this time by a caucasian female, Hazel and I were confused. It was at this point that the words “I sold one to the nigger!” almost escaped!
I never say the “n” word, under any circumstances! What’s wrong with me?
Two stacks of three: Six, right? Then why did the religion teacher insist on eight “Haley’s Bible Companion”(?)?
The text is the “bible,” “Haley’s being only an optional text. The younger male told Hazel and me of the policy!
I made a quick trip home for lunch, to walk Deah! And I also had lunch! The three bike trips and the walk home undoubtedly added trauma to this old body!
An estival aberration: No, no! “estival” is the summer! Although the 9th of January would not have stood out - been an aberration - in the summer! I bet “you” the low-70⁰’s (F) took over the afternoon! Wind threatened rain this morning, but soon Phoebus logged Wind out! Which was great: I didn’t fancy making the bike trip in the rain!
IN SEARCH OF SHAKESPEARE (4-6:00 P.M., P.B.S.): Although I was in the audience for the debut of the program, it can stand up to repetition, which I hope APT does again and again!
NAKED PLANET SPECIAL (8-8:56 P.M., P.B.S.): A “lecture” on Uluru or Ayers’ Rock. So what if I was on my second viewing? The more I watch the program, the more I may understand!

(10th, About 6:21 A.M.) Most likely Deah sense my frustration: I overslept and was hurrying her to do her business outside. But she wasn’t comfortable being rushed: She chose the ___ living room carpet to “shit” upon. I knew it would happen, and “deep down” I probably wanted her to!
Deah has a pet kitten in my dream. That’s all that managed to get across the bourndary between Dreamland and Wakefulness, although I did try to bring more with me when I regain consciousness. But I guess it all happened during the twenty-five minutes or so that I had planned to be up and out of bed.
The dream serves me right!
I am a bibliophile. But there’s a danger in bibliophilia.

(acerca de 6:56 P.M.) The reason bibliophilia can be so very dangerous is because commentators and critics - bibliophilie ___ry one - have a tendency to love a novel or author’s literary style so much that s/he consciously or sub-consciously rewrite the novel, supposively for the enlightenment of readers, but oftentimes as frustrated writers.
The author and the critic must be 50-50 partners! It’s when the latter insist on more than her/his “50” that bibliophilia becomes a danger!
“Tuition” is three syllabels, just as the town of Guin, AL, is two syllabels. “Tuition” is not “twee-shun,” no more than Guin is “Gwen.” The “u” is given the identical treatment in both words. And the “u” and “i” do not form a dipthong (sp?).
The instructor of APT’s “Integrated Science 6 (or “7”) that the Center for Public Television use to produce in the 1990’s was guiding a visiting class from Guin, AL, and articulated the name of the town as “Gwen.” That was in 1995 (or 1994) in Tuscaloosa, AL.
On the way home, I made a detour to Allen’s Food Mart for cigarettes: A pack of Virginia Slims, among other brands in a basket on the counter, was $2.16. It’s the most inexpensive pack available.
What the hell, all cigarettes will kill “you”! I might as well die cheaply!
I supplemented my dinner with a milk shake yesterday evening. I did so to the “strains” of LAS VEGAS (8-9:00 P.M., N.B.C.).
Another anti-Winter day: In the low-70⁰’s (F). Phoebus was under contract by Spring to make the day special.
A female came into the book store requesting the C.D. - Summit - for C.I.S.146 that is “taught” via internet. That course requires a “blue” Summit, which I brought from the book room. But Josh Jackson insisted that the Sonja Blackstone-led course requires a “red” Summit. So that’s what the woman was sold.
I told Josh - he was on my right - that the woman would be back.
Hazel confirmed that, indeed, the internet C.I.S. 146 requires a “blue” Summit. She asked me why I didn’t correct Josh and others.
Josh is Hazel’s son. Seth is the son of Melanie Bolton. April is an ambassador and a member of P.T.K./Honor Society. Surely Hazel doesn’t think that those young people will listen to me. Pollye and Sharon, on temporary “loan” for registration, may, but Josh, Seth, and April?
Yesterday Sharon, April, and Sheila were attempting to touch the floor with their fingers while keeping the knees “unbent.” Neither one of them could. Whereas I “palmed” the carpet! When April called me a show-off, I reminded her that I am fifty-six years old (What does three weeks matter when one is fifty-five?)!

(acerca de _:01 P.M.) Hazel made Josh to locate the woman’s card - she had used her Pell Grant to purchase the Simmet - and she (Hazel) contacted the student either via voice mail or directly.
Sharon, under the watchful eye of Cindy En___, director o_ Financial Aid, had sold a male student some books and electrical supplies, which went on a grant, loan, or scholarship.




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