Phillip Wilson

Amazingly, I survived my Life
2011-09-30 00:07:10 (UTC)

2006 REVIEW (PART TEN)

March- Childersburg/Sylacauga, AL (continues)

The same principle is at work with my head rest: In combination with the extra-soft pillow that I purchased from Dollar General Friday, a thin, firm pillow seems to offer the best rest for my head, allowing sufficient sleep. Although it’s only been one day, and things can happen!
Gerty and the dental hygienist with Dr. Sligh may both speak in glowing terms of the “C.A.C.C.” sign at the front of the campus, but I wonder if such admiration will continue when they see the azalea “grove”?
As I told Joyce, there will be no C.A.C.C. in, say, four years! Most likely another two-year college will absorb it - Southern Union or Jefferson State - and then close down the campus.

(acerca de 6:14 A.M.) When insular, religiously-conservative, homophobic people represented by Gerty Greer turns against the Iraq “war,” you know something is wrong and that the Bush administration is in serious trouble! It was way longer than three years for a comparable dis-satisfaction with the Viet Nam war to set in!
Rusty Hughes, Gerty’s son (and a high school class mate of mine) served in the Viet nam War. But Gerdy didn’t know what year(s). I explained to her that the Vietnam War was actually two “wars”: 1964-1968 (the Tet Offensive), and 1968-1973.
Jesse told me that the drug culture didn’t exist in Iraq, unlike in Vietnam. Though Jesse was in Iraq in 2004 or 2005: Give it time! Everything else about Iraq is paralling Viet nam!
The “draft,” a nuclear strike: Gerty and I discussed these possible events, especially the former.
Chapter XV of “Claudius the God”: “. . . one cannot have liberty without self-respect . . “ So now you know why there will never be true “liberty” in the United States!
The definition of “race” - what determines it - is ever evolving. At one time “French” was a race, as Barbara Camillo, a Circus Fan, insultingly corrected me in the late-1980’s (or 1984) when I stated that “French” isn’t a race. It was Carson and Barnes Circus.
Religion has surpassed skin color of the determination of “race.”
By the way, I now “see” a similarity between Barbara Camillo and Anita Matlow. Remember, it was “Bobbie” and her son Seth that challenged me disrespectfully on the reality of the White Sea, in the late-1980’s or 1984!

(acerca de 11:45 A.M.) Can “you” believe it?
Silly me, of course you can!
The border of rocks that I put “around” the two “aprons” has been removed. We all know why: It was my idea, not Eric!
Well, I “ain’t” going to do it again! As I told Milt and Marvin in the shop office, in 2-3 weeks, Eric will most likely “come up” with idea of a border, and I won’t be around to put one there, even if I would do it! If not sick leave, I plan on a vacation, the full extent of my accumulated days!
Marvin told me that Ronnie Harkins, upon seeing the campus, exclaimed that it looked like a funeral home, given all the flowers!
One of the “termites” told me that he will complain to Marge Stanford, a local member of the county board of education, or Ron Johnson, the state representative for the area, or Jim Pruitt (?), the senator for this district, about the lack of water fountains on the walking track: He has to use the restroom and drink water in the former housing of the Carpentry (south end of Building “F”) before walking!
The elderly man was by a parked vehicle on the east side of the former Wood working shop.
Joyce was right: The “termites” didn’t have a grant, but paid their own way. The former band room of the old high school will be leased to the city by the county for one dollar a year for a new Carpentry shop.
The man was also certain that Southern Union Community College will assume management of C.A.C.C. I don’t, and neither does Marvin, think it will ever happen. It won’t if I can stop it!

(acerca de 12:2_ P.M.) C.A.C.C. owes me! So I take the “extra pay” in toliet paper! What the hell, my position at C.A.C.C. is “shit,” anyway!
N.B.C. NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.) and A.B.C. WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (5:30-6:00 P.M.): Each, for a few minutes, became a guide to the present state of the world, as created by the United States!
It’s bad when this country is managed as poorly as C.A.C.C. is!

(acerca de 3:37 P.M.) So much for counting on sick leave to rescue me from C.A.C.C.! Dr. Blackstone - I was amazed at the difference between Dr. Bowers and Dr. Blackstone! - expressed no concern about my cataracts, whereas Dr. Bowers hinted that I would go blind if I didn’t have them removed this year! Although I have always suspected Dr. Bowers of “agreeing” to a visual handicap so that I could move into Wood Arms: His office was sent a form to confirm my “disability.”
I really don’t need PEEHIP anymore! And as soon as I use up my vacation days, benefits will no longer be of benefit to me.
A co-pay of $25; four dollars to ride the bus to Sylacauga and back. Just to hear Dr. Blackstone tell me that I’m healthy!
I do have something “wrong” with my cornea that would make cataract-removal more difficult, but I could go another ten years with cataracts in my eyes!
Any book company should re-consider Sylacauga, rather than Childersburg! The former city would be more likely to financially support a book store than the latter would!
In fact, I foresee a day in the not-so-distance future when Sylacauga will host what is now Central Alabama Community College!
Milt and I discussed, this morning outside (east) the shop, the fact that C.A.C.C. would eventually (4-5 years) revert to a vocational training center in conjunction with the high school, which is not but a half-mile or so from campus!
Marvin told me that the Talladega center is not being maintained as it should be! According to Janice Stephens, the restrooms are toliet paper-less.
A nice-looking female African American brought me home, a driver that I am not familiar with.
I was not asked to come back to Dr. Blackstone’s office until next year on this date! Was Dr. Bowers “milking” the insurance, knowing that he would soon retire and after all the money he could get?
Lightning, Thunder, Rain: What a celebration 2006 has given Spring! Apparently, the year was glad to see Winter go: Winter was a “hand-off” from 2005, Spring the first transition for 2006!
The mid-50⁰’s (F)? I don’t think I’m too far off!
I watched FAMILY GUY (8-8:30 P.M., Fox) yesterday evening. The series is another of those “news” shows from a non-traditional perspective.
Most people my age would do anything to be healthy. I, however, feel that there is an advantage to being sick!

(acerca de 6:34 P.M.) I would have liked to vacuumed once a week, as well as clean the house, but the weeks are going by so quickly, it’s as if Time is daring me to catch Her, as if She is my lover!
Well, I am guaranteed a house-cleaning evening once a month: Inspection, although Rain may detour any inspector from my apartment.
Granny knew about inspection: It seems her friend Sarah calls her (granny) nearly every day.
A Storm is in progress as I write, and has been for some time. The gods must be house-cleaning, also.
It was time to watch GREY’S ANATOMY (9-10:00 P.M., A.B.C.) yesterday evening. Nothing special.
Chapter XV of “Claudius the God” also has “Messalina,” Claudius’ wife, instructing on the value of monopolies and trade, whereas Chapter XVI is a “history” of the Druids.
I have a feeling that I will soon be dismissed from C.A.C.C. But I told Milt and Marvin, in the shop office, that courtroom legal action is all that is left. Of course C.A.C.C. would win: It has the money and lawyers behind it! But I can sure make it “bleed” financially!
Marvin warned me that Milt reports to Eric what I say: Milt “accidentally” leaks information about me whenever Eric does things for him (Milt) and/or allows Milt to play “boss”!
I thanked Marvin, but stated that I am well aware of Milt’s “back-stabbing,” but intentionally “play” Milt, and many other people at C.A.C.C.!

(acerca de 7:3_ P.M.) It’s not the rainy day that is “bringing me down.” Nor is it Monday. It is C.A.C.C., and I can’t let that place do that to me!
It is easy for Marvin to declare “not to let ‘them’ run me off”! But “they” (meaning Andy and Eric) are!
Joyce was “hurt” that I was getting E.I.C. on my own, without going “through” her department! But the more I can embarrass C.A.C.C., the better!

(21st, About 5:37 A.M.) Deah, I suppose, can be excused for what she did on the carpet: Far from “scaring the shit out of her,” the lightning and thunder, when I had her out for her “potty trick” late yesterday evening, she was un-nerved and rushed back into the apartment.

(acerca de 1:10 P.M.) Doing nothing is more of a challenge for me than over-extending myself! I didn’t touch a weed, a shovel handle, or anything today at “work”! When I wasn’t in conversation with Marvin and/or Milt, I mainly read in the shop office!
Although I did walk clockwise “around” the walking track, as well as get a leave form from payroll (Joyce).
Maybe a work stoppage will change things at C.A.C.C.! Nothing else seems to work!
Marvin suggested that some of the people on campus are not students, but “plants”by the F.B.I.! I corrected him: Not the F.B.I., but government undercover agents! That very well could be the case, although Marvin may only have been finding out what I know!

(acerca de 4:04 P.M.) It’s a shame that the “staff” of grounds can’t work together instead of at cross purposes! This may have been the reason George Terral - Joyce, Saturday, as she was bringing me home (?), told me the first name of Dr. Terral, the former vice-president of the college - kept Eric from the directorship of grounds, as well as Milt from the top post of grounds!
I asked Milt “point blank,” in the shop office, the reason he gives in to Eric as he does: It makes me angry! Milt stated he seemingly “brown noses” Eric, so that when the days come that C.A.C.C. comes to its senses, he (Milt) will be ready to assume command. It’s also why he (Milt) doesn’t contribute but minimal work.
Milt at least pretends to be resentful, after all these years, of being passed over!
Sometimes I surprise myself with what I utter without pre-thinking! Both Milt and I agree that legalizing marijuana would cut down on crime. There wouldn’t be the inmates there are.
And that’s why marijuana is not legal: Free labor. Plus all the jobs lost if the prison population was cut even by a half!
Inmate Jeff is an inmate for selling marijuana. But I trust him much more than I would anyone in the business office, excepting Joyce, and maybe not excepting her!
As you probably know, Milt and Marvin are homophobic. I analyzed BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN for them: The truth is, there were Black cowboys, gay cowboys, etc. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is a film for homophobes such as Milt, a challenge to the stereotypical image of the “macho” cowboy!
I am a victim of stereotyping, which I think Milt and Marvin understand to be the problem in grounds!
I saw how it will be when I am no longer at C.A.C.C.! Now, if only I can keep up the “protest”!
Wind is stirring up all the trouble! Spring could be Spring if not for Wind. Phoebus is behaving normally, why can’t Wind?
The upper-50⁰’s (F) are still not free of Winter. Of course, this is only the first full day of the “administration,” so let the “honey moon” play itself out!
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.), although for only about thirty-five minutes, was my “companion” early yesterday evening!
If Joyce thinks she is my “employment counselor” because I seek business “records” from her, she is more of the problem than I thought! Doesn’t she realize that I am using her to spread the “campaign” of my discontent?

(acerca de 5:21 P.M.) Milt, too, “feels” that Al Gore will emerge and try for president in 2008! Although Milt became “confussed” and said “governor of Alabama”: Marvin and I discussed the candidacy of Roy Moore for governor of Alabama.
Marvin was sitting to my right. He and I were both against the western wall of the shop office. Milt was aseated in the desk chair (?) facing south at the television.
Milt “explained” the difference between electricity and electronics: The former is wiring a house or office for power, the latter being appliances that use the power.
So “Flip” Bayless could have studied electricity after having a certificate in electronics!

(acerca de 8:22 P.M.) When I enterred the laundry room, the young female that is a part of the family that includes the male with some form autism (?) and a child, was in the process of doing laundry.
I crammed a lot of clothes in a machine, but she advised me to use the big front-loader. I had already put laundry soap in the machine, but I went with the female’s advise. She even gave me three quarters, which I never used, and she eventually retrieved them from the top of the middle coin “box” where she had placed them originally.
The female stood with her back leaning against the middle dryer, watching me. Something told me . . .
I removed my socks and put them in the washer. The female continued to look at me. So I put on my coat and removed my pants. But whenever I would lean forward to press the correct button and “check” the machine for operation, the back of my coat would “ride up,” revealing a good portion of underwear-covered ass.
I made the point of sitting against the north wall - the female was on the west - with my knees apart.
The female giggled silently: From humor or success?
I soon removed my Coat, and paraded around the laundry room wearing only underwear and a long-sleeve shirt.
The female seem to have enjoyed the display. Or am I mis-interpreting her “looks”?
The female wears no ring on her left hand. And the baby may not be biologically hers. But do the above facts really matter?
I wonder if I can remove my underwear the next time? She is bound to enjoy that!
Milt and I discussed his two children fathered “out-of-wedlock.” I told him - in the shop office - that it made no difference to me.
I watched MEDIUM (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.) yesterday evening. I also caught the last of THE APPRENTICE (8-9:00 P.M., N.B.C.): Donald Trump is no television performer, but I doubt if anyone else could make the show a “hit”! Mr. Trump is a “special” character and provide great comic and editorial cartoon material!
The reason Milt is so anti-prostitution is because of the potential for disease from engaging in endless sex! As for selling one’s body for money, isn’t that what we do on grounds?
The “Flip” Bayless I wrote about earlier? If you recall, she was a “clown” with Carson and Barnes Circus part of the time I was with the show.
This morning Marvin “warned” me of the “special” sign erected on a 4” x 4” (?) pole, the cross piece across the top holding hanging baskets on either end. As Marvin stated, it must be horrible to only keep a job by “brown-nosing” so much!
Incidentally, the pole (a cube, maybe 4 feet high from the ground) would not be there had it not been for my rescue (the north end of the loading dock)! I knew that re-cycling is needed by grounds!

(22nd, About 5:23 A.M.) It has been many, many months since I have last gone twenty-four hours without juggling! But my underwear modelling pre-emptied several things!
What the hell, it isn’t everyday that a female allows me to undress within her sight, and of course I took advantage of it!
Milt and Marvin do not go by Eric’s shop for their “assignment” each morning! Why should I?
Eric knew well that I was lining the eastern “apron” with rocks: He sat in the state C.A.C.C. truck, for a while, and watched me, asking me where I got the rocks. The fact that he ordered them removed Friday afternoon when I wasn’t on campus could very well mean that h__ mental process went something like this: “I let Phillip play, now it’s time for us Big Boys to do real work!”
Page 94 of the February 2006 “Smithsonian” Magazine, in an article on Mozart (“In Search of the Real Genius: Mozart”): “. . . he also witnessed the Emperor of Austria ___ his son.” “He” is Leopold Mozart, the father of Wolfgang. But is it clear that “his son” is a reference to Wolfgang or to the Emperor of Austria’s son? If the clause was separated from the article, would we be able to swear to the reference?
An esoteric magazine such as “Smithsonian” should know better!

(acerca de 6:27 A.M.) In the shop office, Milt and I discussed that overtime puts one in a higher tax bracket. Even one dollar, which then cancels out any benefit of overtime! Nay, that $1 may cost one!
Milt also agreed with me that each employee should ___ every other employee, as is “commanded” by the official handbook of employment. SACS use to do that, but in October of 2004, it was diverted from its duty too early!
As I sat in my underwear “reading,” yesterday evening, in the laundry room as a female looked on, I “___” on the printed page: My distracted min_ allowed the words to “get through” uninspected!

(acerca de 1:30 P.M.) Yesterday in the shop office, Milt and I discussed the wearing of boxer underwear: I stated that my penis is too big.

(acerca de 1:50 P.M.) One would think Milt and I are “gay” lovers, talking about underwear and our penises!
I have a feeling this is what Eric wanted all along: For me to stay away from “his” campus! I’m sure he is well-aware that I wait in the shop office for an “order”: No doubt Milt and/or Marvin has/have told __ such!
Well, I will continue to wait, and let the grass take over the sidewalks and sides of the building! May the weeds assume hegemony of the plant and flower “beds”!
Monday, while at Annette’s receptionist counter waiting for her to search for a toll-free number for Voc Rehab, I commented to her and La Sheila Townsend that organizations “demand” computer literacy, yet create web sites that is next to impossible to navigate!
I attempted to explain to Milt and Marvin, yesterday in the shop office, the subtle social comments of television drama: Prostitutes are usually “scums” and “low-life,” as a way of discouraging prostitution, and drug dealers are “losers.” When the reality is quite different!
I watched about forty-two minutes of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:26 P.M., P.B.S.) yesterday evening before my underwear-modelling “work.”
I never have taken Marvin for an anti-Bush, given his homophobia and conservative thinking! But his (Marvin’s) rhetoric seems to lean that way!

(acerca de 4:33 P.M.) Yesterday, in her office, Joyce suggested that I take off Thursday and Monday: The staff and faculty have a one-day Spring Break on Friday - as if my situation is my inability to cope, and that all I need is a temporary “break.”
I suggested to Marvin in the shop office that my sister is part of the problem, not the solution! He agreed, or at least pretended to agree, declaring that Joyce has the wrong mind set to be of assistance.
Now that Joyce has been re-located to the business office proper, she is more with them than with me.
The upper-40⁰’s (F): Not even Phoebus could unbalance the wind! It was, and is, March Wind, and, as Marvin or Milt said yesterday, April will probably sponsor more March Wind!
The government is blaming Moses ___ (?), a confessed Al Qaeda supporter, with with-holding information that would have prevented “9/11.” But what wouldn’t the Bush administration do to escape responsibility for its failure?
In a press conference yesterday, George W. Bush was harshly critical of insurgents for killing unarmed civilians. But how about the recent massacre by the United States?
It makes one wonder about the bodies discovered, whether the United States are directly or indirectly to blame!

(acerca de 8:05 P.M.) “God” must be laughing “his” ass off! I had no doubt that “he” talked to George W. Bush! But look at the status of the Bush presidency!
“God” is a trickster god. Why would anybody automatically assume that “speaking to God” is a guarantee of success?
Steve Holt came by this evening. The warning telephone call came around 4:20.
Deah “told” me of the doorbell. My own hearing aid dog! Of course, this is Deah’s apartment: I just live here!
I heated weiners, and there was a dinner of hot dogs. Then conversation, mainly about the destruction of the country by the Bush administration.
Anyway, I will use my vacation and/or sick days when the heat makes watering critical. With only one inmate assigned to Milt, it, I am hoping, will create a work load problem.
Why wasn’t I a full-grown, out-of-the-closet agnostic in graduate school? Or 25-30 years for that matter? Life would have been so much happier! I have always leaned towards non-theism, but, for whatever reason, I never took the trouble to tell myself!

(23rd, About 5:50 A.M.) Yesterday in the shop office, Marvin reminded me that I have only myself to blame for my predictament: I have no business being at a place like C.A.C.C.!
I attempted to rationize my presence at C.A.C.C. by explaining that my Master’s is for the environment of a two-year college. And it is, but Marvin was absolutely correct: My reaction is as it is because of frustration and because I “hate” myself for remaining at C.A.C.C. due to forces that I claim are beyond my control.
But are those external forces beyond my control?
As Steve was leaving I explained to him that I keep my books, magnifying glass, and initiative in the bedroom: Too many people want to destroy the initiative.
Steve and I were gazing at the evening sky, specifically Orion, which will no longer be a celestial cynosure in the late spring and summer. On my own, I went to the “trouble” (really a privilege) to familiarize myself with the lay-out of the evening sky. I need to re-visit such a self-study!

(acerca de 1:43 P.M.) What a slow, boring work week this has been! With the exception of Monday, I haven’t touched a blade of grass or the handle of any garden tool!
And it is exhausting! I told Milt, in the shop office, that doing nothing, for me, is harder than doing something!
I discussed the possibility of a nursing “career” with Milt and Marvin, at different times this morning, the latter first.

(acerca de 2:09 P.M.) A person with an advanced degree: What would it require to be a registered nurse? The second year program? A six-month course? Surely there are many “professionals” that have “de-articulated” into nursing training!
I came up with nursing because I turned my thoughts this morning to the Baptist Coosa Valley Medical Center in Sylacauga as a possible place of employment.
If I continue on staff at C.A.C.C. - yes, even as only a “glorified inmate,” as I now am - I could go to school tuition-free, assuming that I could win acceptance into the nursing program!
Just a thought, mind you, but one that I should investigate more in detail.
Monday, I may inquire formerly into the C.A.C.C. nursing school. No doubt I may have to remediate biology, which a placement test will reveal, but a nursing shortage may very well “counter” my hearing/speech disability, and my transportation-challengeness!
I only watched about ten minutes of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) before Steve came by for a visit.
I stated to Steve that I wished that I had been an agnostic twenty years ago. His “response” was that it didn’t matter.

(acerca de 3:20 P.M.) I think I failed to mention that Dr. Blackstone commented me, while I was in the examining chair, on my umbrella. You know, the one I “borrowed” from the shop, the reproduction of the “funny” pages from the “Birmingham News” and the “Birmingham Post-Herald.”
I informed Dr. Blackstone that I got the umbrella from work, and that I saw a female student with a “funny” pages umbrella from “The Daily Home.”
Steve told me yesterday evening that he and Mary have a dog. In fact, Mary was back in Birmingham “baby sitting” the puppy.
Public television continues its fund-raising: From about 8:45 until about 10:15 yesterday evening, I “witnessed” a concert by Andres Bo___(?), and the ‘60’s EXPERIENCE, the latter program of which I have seen most of before.
EVIDENCE (9-10:00 P.M., A.B.C.) kept me company during the frequent pledge-drive.

(acerca de 4:4_ P.M.) Let Capitalism do what the Department of Agriculture won’t or can’t! Only if the consumer refuses to buy beef, their decreasing, or even eliminating the profit of the beef industry will “Mad Cow” disease be activity pursued by the Department of Agriculture!
I explained to Steve that the policies of F.D.R. was to soften the blow of “run-away” Capitalism, which, in many cases, is anathema to democracy. F.D.R. wasn’t, in theory, attempting an “endrun” around democracy (unlike the Court-packing scheme)!
Democracy is not the only, or necessarily the best, political partner for Capitalism! If democracy equals “freedom,” one only has to look at China!
Wind didn’t allow the mid-50⁰’s (F) their full effect! One wouldn’t think that temperature-range would be suitable for a heavy coat, but Wind wrapped me, at least, in one! Plus a “ski” cap and gloves!
As far as I’m concern, it’s way to late for a personal “shake up” in the Bush administration to do any good! No matter if Donald Rumsfeld did leave the defense department, the Iraq “war” is mis-manage!
The United States will most likely “win,” but it will be at least another five years!
Yesterday in the shop office, Marvin stated that vice-president Dick Cheney almost resigned over a dispute with George W. Bush. I don’t know if that’s so or not, but a Bush without Cheney is like a, well, day without sunshine!

(acerca de 6:27 P.M.) I believe I know what telemarketers are doing to increase their hourly pay: Assuming the callers are paid by the completed telephone ___, s/he lets the computer dial the number, the callee answers, and the telemarketer doesn’t worry about responding.
Or so it seems! I have, especially within the last week, received many “summons” in which I had to state “Hell” several times. Eventually I said “Hell” once and “hung up” if the caller didn’t begin a conversation!
Yesterday evening, such happened. In two or three seconds, the telephone “rang” again.
It was Steve. Both times. I explained why I had “hung up” the first time!
God and Satan are “drunk as skunks.” As often happens with drunks, the two enterred a friendly wager: Satan told God that Faust was easily persuaded to join his (Satan’s) “ranks.” God exclaimed, “Yea right, you stupid son of a bitch!” Satan declared that he would bet him (God).
God searched his garment for money, and “found” none. At last he (God) removed one of his shoes. He would wager the “soul” of the shoe that Faust would remain faithful. When Satan was about to reject such a betting piece, God told him (Satan) that the shoe was used in the garden of Eden, and was therefore valuable. Satan “held” his nose - P.U.! - and said that God had changed the shoe since the garden of Eden!
What better way to introduce readers to “Faust”? Though no doubt some students would be offended! About what?
I told Milt, in the shop office, that not all fat women have big breasts. He agreed. And not all big men have large penises. He recorded my declaration.
A musical “period” is not necessarily an indicator of p___ancy!
Milt analyzed women’s feet resulting from wearing “spiked” high heels shoes, and the way women walked in high heels.
Discussing detailed esoteric material with Milt is next to impossible, so what better way to converse with him then about low-level, “street” talk? Such doesn’t confuse him!

(24th, About 7:54 A.M.) As I told Milt in the shop office - I was still standing from only recently enterring - that the ___ - Spring Break, the campus being free of students - could have been the time to get so much done! And I don’t mean “cutting “ the door between Andy’s office and the suite where Sheila and Joyce once had offices! But Eric’s not able to walk and chew gum at the same time! Real leadership would develop plans of action against chaos on both “fronts,” inside and outside.
Joyce had never been one to count on. Now that she has been bribed by a re-location, she is forever lost from the realities of the situation!

(acerca de 10:33 A.M.) If “you” just “gotta” smoke, it may as well be $1.___ a pack of Ten Twenty’s cigarettes as anything! That price is not that much more than what I paid for a pack when I was in Louisville, KY, in the late 1980’s!
The convenient store of the highway still has the two-for-one special on cigarettes. So for $2.15, I, once again, bought into the limited sale.
It may be time to submit my state income tax! I really shouldn’t put it off! Although I do have three weeks left!
However, I went by the post office and purchased a stamp (37¢) for whenever I decide to “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s . . .” Damn I can’t be doing that: I am anti-religion!
Glory be to whomever! I saved $11.04! But it cost me $43.68 to do it!
Such was my food bill at Winn-Dixie. My cashier was D___.
Milt, earlier in the week, told me, in the shop office, that his niece or grand-niece (one of them) is a cashier at Winn-Dixie.
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) provides “fodder” for my “lectures” to Milt and/or Marvin the next day, or in this case, Monday. Milt and/or Marvin is/are either anti-Bush or is/are doing a damn good job at pretending!
In reading about John Howard, the prime minister of Australia, it is “said” that he represents the Conservative Liberal Party. How can a liberal party be conservative? That doesn’t seem possible!

(acerca de 11:20 A.M.) The marquee in front of the Church of God or some church south and on the other side of the highway from Winn-Dixie (the church is north of the cemetery) saids “The path [?] to happiness is the steps to church” or some such balony.
To the contrary, true happiness is as far from organized religion as one can get! I am 80% sure that the concept of “God” is more of a problem that a solution - as I told Steve, religion is the most divisive force on earth - but since “God” and the church are not one and the same, I am not ready to condemn “God” for what the church is doing to Her/Him!
Is Lesia McGaha calling the shots, still, at C.A.C.C.? Her mother “sports” plants in her yard that soon appear on campus! I don’t know if Eric provides Betty Jones with the plants or if Lesia is Eric’s “consultant”!
The position that Leisa occupied at C.A.C.C. is administrative secretary. It should never have been as “powerful” as Ronnie Harkins made it!
Hazel will assume the position shortly. Her office will be in the suite that formerly housed the closet of files, adjacent to Joyce’s former office.
If Lesia really does, indeed, “hate” Ms.Salotto and Andy as I have been told (by Joyce), it’s no doubt due to the fact that Ms. Salotto and Andy are “de-powering” the administrative secretary position to what it sure be! And Lesia, like Eric, cannot survive without “feeding” on power! Neither cares about the campus!

(acerca de 2:22 P.M.) As soon as he saw the table napkins. Steve knew where they had come from!
___ of MY MUSIC, the public television fund-raiser, or should I say another watching: For I am losing my interest in commercial television, even when P.B.S. is “shit”!
A man in Afghanistan has converted to Christianity, which is illegal under Shia law:. The man could be executed. But he is being deemed “mentally unstable.” Christians - and many Muslims - are of course upset.
But the fact that I am agnostic is considered “proof” of my unfitness for anything beyond grounds at C.A.C.C.! Democracy is independent thought, but not when it comes to “religion”!
I whined to Milt and Marvin in the shop office yesterday morning, after I had discovered that the hospital in Sylacauga is associated with the Baptist religion, that I would have to reply to a question about my religious affliation. Milt and Marvin each reassured me that the “Baptist” in the name of the hospital designated only that a Baptist medical group controls the Coosa Valley Medical Center, the implication being that non-theists are welcomed as employees.

(acerca de 3:55 P.M.) Most likely, I am, once again, a victim of Vocational Rehabilitation!
If “you” recall, I asked Annette Hatch to research for the toll-free for Voc Rehab. This was Monday or Tuesday at the receptionist counter in the lobby of the administration building.
Annette finally located the toll-free telephone number for the state headquarters of Voc Rehab in Montgomery (1-800-441-7607) via the internet. It is the office of Voc Rehab in Talladega that I desire.
I contacted the state headquarters this morning, requesting the toll-free number of the Talladega Voc Rehab office. The female answering told me 1-800-441-7592.
I tried the Talladega number several times this morning and early afternoon: Each time I received no response . So I contacted via telephone the state headquarters again.
The female, after placing my call on “hold” a couple of times, informed me that the toll-free telephone line to the Talladega office is being repaired, that I should keep trying.
Well, I did try again, and still no response! I think it is another example of a disability management agency rejecting to serve the intended subjects!
If Voc Rehab deals with the disabled like this, “you” can imagine how an educational institution, which, in theory, suppose to treat everyone fairly and equally, deals with me!
This is why I don't think Upward Bound will be shut down: There is too many jobs involved! As with any other “help” organization, the students or intended recipients are of no concern!

(acerca de 4:29 P.M.) $86.00 for Dr. Chista Sligh: That’s what Southland National Insurance Corporation paid to have my teeth cleaned recently.
With the removal of cataracts from my eyes postponed indefinitely and a long wait between colonoscopies, I must find some other way to benefit from my benefits! My health insurance premiums won’t be as expensive as in the past, since I “___” below the poverty level, but still I need to come out ahead and have some advantage for remaining at C.A.C.C. until at least September!
Sick days, vacation days: I must rely on them next! I have all the medical malfunctions under control.
The low-50⁰’s (F): You wouldn’t think I would need a heavy coat and ski cap! But that March Wind blows the coat back on me, no matter how hard I try to remove it!
Phoebus seems to be unaware of what Wind is doing!
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO (10:35-11:35 P.M., N.B.C.) and JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE (11:05 P.M.-12:05 A.M., A.B.C.): C.B.S. continues with the craziness of March Madness, and is making me angry! One has to be crazy to watch the basketball tournament!
About two months or more ago, Steve agreed with me that votes don’t elect the president: Business and special interest do. But Wednesday evening he revisited the election theory!
To borrow from theists: Don’t trust your salvation to organized religion!

(25th, About 7:35 A.M.) Should the unborn have more rights than the child already here? That’s what Steve and I discussed Wednesday evening.
If one insist on all children being borned, it is only logical that there be “womb-to-tomb” coverage of the person forced into life, maybe against her or his will!
The usual custom is to ignore and neglect the forced entry after the child is no longer in the womb.
This is just one “side” of the abortion issue that has to be explored. It’s not all about women’s health, although I supposed that should be at the top of the list. Paternal rights, civil rights for the fetus, etc.: It must be nice to have everything figured out!
My “second career” got on to a bad start. But is it too late to begin again? I need a “career” where Joyce isn’t! It’s a classic case of family doing more harm than good!

(acerca de 8:21 A.M.) You “betcha” Andy and Tara have created a damn good administration at C.A.C.C.! And it's the best it will be under their “leadership”!
Unfortunately, that “best” isn’t good enough!
As “you” undoubtedly know by now, Marvin is extremely homophobic! Tuesday in the shop office - he was sitting to my left, sharing the western wall with me - he spoke of someone never having been married, and to his “1920’s” way of thinking, that person is homosexual. I tried to interrupt him and state that I have never been married, but “you” know Marvin: He will never accept reality!
Grounds should be the concern of the grounds crew, only! That’s why there’s such a dysfunction at C.A.C.C.: The vast majority of the staff and faculty feel that grounds is their purview!
As I told Marvin in the shop office, my grounds position is a “___” from the circus! I had no idea it would be so: Is it t__ late to rectify my mistake and return to the circus?
Not only can family be destructive, but the wrong choice of friends! I realize that now when it too late!

(acerca de 11:17 A.M.) Milt, in the shop office, sitting in the desk chair (I think), explained that Mike Curtis, a former employee at C.A.C.C., was hirsuite (although Milt, of course, didn’t use that term for “hairy”) on his arms. He and I were discussing the effects of the weather on people: My contention is that the cold affects everyone the same, although some people are to stupid to admit it, and go about in short sleeves even on the coldest days. The example I used was Johnny Jones, the welding instructor.
It is possible, however, that some people’s threshold of pain is more “numb” than others, usually as a result of degrading the body with pain-killers. Which is why I welcome pain: To an extent! Dr. Hakim prescribed a pain-killer after my “plumbing” job, although that was more to “cover his ass” than concern for my post-operative status!
A computer at the library this morning wasn’t as helpful as I was hoping the internet would be! I don’t have a “passion” for nursing yet: It is a “protest” against my failure at a “second career” at C.A.C.C.
Nursing is an “escape”: My speech pattern, in theory, should not be a limiting external force, given the announced shortage of nurses. However, in reality, will I be held back because of the general mis-conception that a speech impediment brings to bear on a person?
Although I do have six months before my lease expires, seven before the 2007 fiscal year begins!
The Magna Carta: Trickle-down “democracy,” or at least that’s the theory or general opinion. But we all know that the document was only a jealous attempt by “Big Business” to wiggle power away from the “executive branch,” and is going on as I write!
You see, I am a firm believer in historical symmetry, and the feudal lords were nothing but the Ken Lays of the era.
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) and its Friday evening “sequel,” WASHINGTON WEEK (7-7:25 P.M., P.B.S.): I have no regrets that such is my social life! The programs are not ersatz “dates”: They are the best thing for me!
Well, it doesn’t, so I have to cover the grooming cost!
$35 for depilation, which was needed, sure, but $35? There has to be an easier way!
Maybe I should learn the craft of shearing!
As I “feared,” Joyce forgot about the appointment this afternoon: I called a reminder around 1:30 for the 2:00 session.
I was a guest at Joyce’s house for over two hours while Deah was at the “beauty salon.”
I must watch my caloric intake: With only minimal physical work on grounds, the only exercise I now get is walking and juggling. I can already feel the results!
THE LATE SHOW WITH JAY LENO (10:35-11:35 P.M., N.B.C.) and JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE (11:05 P.M.-12:05 A.M.): I am introduced to new events that I somehow “overlook,” and can mediate to bring myself back into balance.
The mid-50⁰’s (F), though March Wind is trying awfully hard to suppress Spring. Phoebus is Wind’s main obstacle.
I understand that C.A.C.C. has been publically - in “The Daily Homes” - criticized for chasing away the “termites,” the older folks that are matriculated into Carpentry/Woodworking. I welcomed the embarrassment that such an announcement may bring to C.A.C.C. I only hoped that I played any part in the scathing comments!
The more I whine to Joyce about Eric, the worse my status becomes at C.A.C.C.! As I said, grounds should be endogamous: The problems of grounds should be handled by grounds, with no “remedy” offered by the business office! It’s bad enough that Andy Jordan is directly involved!
Why is it that David is getting a refund on his state income tax, and I am paying? No doubt David makes many times my salary!
Something wrong with this state (as if the income tax code is the only thing)!

(acerca de 7:52 P.M.) Wednesday evening, in the “living room,” I explained to Steve - he was sitting on the settee, I in the chair - that I was doing laundry in Tallahassee - it was a Sunday morning - when I first heard that former wrestler Jesse Ventura had been elected governor of Minnesota. The laundromat was a “door” or two from Albertson’s, a grocery store. This was 1998, and my “home” was on Dellview Drive, not far from the laundry.
Then I “analyzed” Minnesota and its neighbor Wisconsin: That area of the country sees itself as an “independent nation.” I’m sure voters chose Ventura, 1. as a protest vote against being taken for granted by the major political parties; and 2. because the citizens of Minnesota probably consider the entire political system in the state a “joke”!
I once again cleaned my clothes and other stuff. And I did it while wearing all my clothes! But that, or course, is always subject to change, contingent on the weather and who, if anybody, is my laundry partner!
I realized, after seeing a scene on CONVICTION (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.), that I would most likely resort to physical retribution against a spitting maybe criminal, if I was a cop! I bet anyone would!
It’s easy to be anti-police brutality if one has odds against ever coming face to face with “crim_”! But if it’s a normal part of one’s job the odds are that you, too, will use the benefits bestowed upon “you” by society!
The lighting is such on Steph___ March, one of the “stars” of CONVICTION, in the opening credits, that she resembles Anita McHaffey, David’s former teacher, Joyce’s former neighbor, and a current staff member of C.A.C.C.’s Talent Search.
The McHaffey “pig” - the pot-bellied pig that Anita’s husband David keeps in the dog run behind his former house - has been traumatized, according to Joyce, and will no longer respond to commands. At least that’s what David told Joyce. Though it could be that “Charlotte” (the pig’s name) experiences good days and bad days like any other mammal!
Joyce hinted that somebody threw things at the pig.

(26th, About 7:4_ A.M.) I have decided to clean my toliet with chlorine bleach. As is usually the case, bleach is allowed to remain in the toliet bowl for an extended period, in order to dissolve the piss stains.
I informed Joyce yesterday - the car was still on Esther Williams Lane, headed “east” - that I had purchased the Winn-Dixie brand of chlorine bleach, because it is less expensive than chlorox. But the generic chlorine bleach requires more chlorine bleach, so is there really a monetary savings?
It was as if I was doing something for the first time that I could have been doing years ago! And actually that is so: It is the first time that I have relied on chlorine bleach to clean my toliet!
The way I carry on about cooking, one would think that I have never had my own apartment! To an extent, I don’t suppose I have! And that’s pitiful, to be 56 and only now becoming domesticated!
Should I count the “apartment” I rented when I returned to the University of Alabama in 1994-1995? Or the room in the boarding house in Louisville, KY, in the winter, spring, and early summer 1994? Each place provided me with a stove and oven, and cooking could have been done! Hell, for that matter, my stay in the Dellview Drive house in Tallahassee, FL, in 1998-1999 gave me access to a kitchen!
I only have myself to blame for my dilatory “cooking-phobia”!

(acerca de 9:41 A.M.) Nothing is free! My underwear modelling came at a price: I forgot to extract a sheet of paper with notes written on it, before I put my “taken-off” trousers in the washer.
Now, I may have already transferred the notes to this journal, but to be on the safe side: There was and is much criticism of John Kerry for enlarging on his Viet nam War service. But Theodore Roosevelt probably “made up” much of his San Juan Hill image. And no doubt there are other American presidents and/or presidential candidates that have mis-represented their military contributions!
If indeed I have inherited granny’s genetic influence, I am facing more than thirty years of life yet to come: These years will be treated as the previous fifty-five weren’t!
As it has turned out, my teacher training had been in preparation for the best of all students: Myself!
Yes, all that hard work . . . But wait! It has been more than worth it! What better reason for going to all the expense in time and money than for self-aggrandizement?
As Steve stated Wednesday evening, since my Cataracts are fine where they are, I ought to “focus” on Deah’s Cataracts!
N.B.C. NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.) and A.B.C. WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (5:30-6:00 P.M.): Is Bob Woodward, the co-anchor of the week evening news, worse off than what we have been led to believe? He was wounded in Iraq and is the Bush administration controlling the truth once again?
Steve and I discussed the government’s censor of the earliest photographs of military personnel killed in Iraq: The flag-drapped coffins, photographed by Oregon photographers, were officially with-held from the public.

(acerca de 11:36 A.M.) Thirty dollars to the state! Joyce will be doing David’s tax return: Can that be the reason David is getting nine dollars back from the Alabama I.R.S.? Not that my sister is any better than me at business, only that she knows how to “C.A.C.C.” when filing taxes!
I don’t know what’s happening to me! I consider refilling the p___ from the extraction of coal sufficient! Nature will turn mining waste back into soil!
The two articles in the March 2006 “National Geographic” (“The High Cost of Cheap Coal”), instead of ___ing me to the anti-mining force, only made me acknowledge the many sides of the issue!
If the anti-mining side wouldn’t use computers, television, drive cars, etc, it would be easier to sympathize with it!
I also wrote the note, on the launded sheet, referring to the hindrance that the boot shoes does to my feet articulation.
I have seen the episode of LAW & ORDER: S.V.U. (8-9:00 P.M., N.B.C.) which I watched the final 20-25 minutes of yesterday evening.

(acerca de 2:36 P.M.) I must accept the fact that for now, I am behind with my reading. I see no way of “catching up”: Resting and relaxing is just as important for my emotional well-being.
One thing I can look forward to in the future: Many of the magazines to which I subscribe will no longer come to me! The only “visitor” I will have is “National Geographic,” leaving me more time for novels and non-fiction.
I look forward to that day.
One of the “stars” of EVIDENCE (9-10:00 P.M., A.B.C.) favors the young Paul Newman. That may save the show: I don’t think anything else can.
I doubt if Martin Landau cares, at his age, if the series is “cancelled!”

(acerca de 4:56 P.M.) “Boots” asked me Friday about my bicycle tire: I told him that I would have to travel to Wal-Mart in Sylacauga in order to buy a wheel, tube, and tire.
“Boots” told me that he could have it repaired or replaced at Coast-to-Coast in Sylacauga. So I borrowed an ersatz pair of pliers - “needle-nose” - from Gerty and separated the front wheel from my bike, which wasn’t all that simple with only “needle-nose! In fact, I sustained an injury: A blood-blister on the “outside” of the palm of my left hand.
Gerty gave me a jar of pickled squash, a jar of pickled sliced green tomatos, and some flour, all in answer to hints! The squash is a part of a casserole that is currently in the oven.
The low-60⁰’s (F): There is a damp, chilly “tint” to the day, as if Fall is ravishing Spring! But wait until Spring come of age! Fall had better watch Itself!
What a gorgeous sun! Too bad the day hasn’t quite lived up to it!

(27th, About 5:52 A.M.) It’s not as bad this morning, but the “shooting pain” on the left side of my chest yesterday evening, was most prominent! This always happens when I juggle “Circles” (right-to-left)!
So why do I do that type of juggling, you ask? Good question! The only thing I know is that I must be into “S & M”!
Deanna “shouted”: Deah’s damn near to her (Deah’s) bare skin!” The stated reason was that there were an overabundance of “snarls” in her hair. But only that morning (Saturday) had I tidied up Deah with her brush.
It makes no difference, hair will return quicker than I would like, but I’m wondering is Deah was full of “snarls”or is Deanna made an awful mistake in the depilation? Copying a page out of a vaudeville comic’s playbook, did Deanna cut the opposite side, and then had to keep alternating to cover the mistake until finally there was no more hair?

(acerca de 2:26 P.M.) I’m sure “you” know by now that the campus was in a terrible shape when I started working at C.A.C.C.! As bad as Ronnie Harkins was/is, at least he kept the campus from a complete “break-down”! Once I leave, it will be up to Andy Jordan to prevent total destruction! And Andy can’t or won’t!
If Eric has his way . . . Hell, we already know what happens when Eric “has his way”!
There is way too much to do for Eric not to “supervise”! It’s painful to even walk across campus and see the weeds out of control!
As Marvin stated, the insects that “damages” the trees arrive via uncontrolled weeds!
If C.A.C.C. doesn’t think I can be happy sitting on my ass, reading most of my work day, and getting paid, then that only shows “you” how bad off C.A.C.C. is!
I explained to Marvin that welcoming immigrants to do the cheap labor and then forcing them out of the country is not the way to treat people! Many, including Thomas Jefferson, understood the moral evils of slavery, but as long as slavery provided low-cost or free labor, then slavery had to be!
A.B.C. WORLD NEWS TONIGHT (5:30-6:00 P.M.) provided around twenty minutes of “reality” yesterday evening.
The welding shop is, what, less than seventy-five yards from the shop? Yet Johnni Jones, the welding instructor, came by truck to the shop from welding! When I asked him about th__, in the shop office, his excuse was that he was hauling some things.
He wasn’t. No wonder he is so out of shape!
Casey Holt is living in an assisted living “center” near Talladega, not Birmingham as I assumed.

(acerca de 4:11 P.M.) I thought so! It’s not “straight jacket”: The correct spelling of the first word is “strait”!
An episode of MATCH GAME ‘73 (Game Show Network), which I saw Saturday at Joyce’s, presented “___ Jacket” to a contestant. I had declared “yellow,” but the top prize is, indeed, “strait.” I explained to Joyce that “Straight” is not the correct spelling.
Lose the “gh” for “Jacket”!
The lower-60⁰’s (F), what would have been a “perfect” day for service to the campus! That is, if things were different with the management and business office (including Joyce), at C.A.C.C.! I told Marvin that only a complete “face-lift” of the business office staff will bring C.A.C.C. up to “par”!
Phoebus has been active, but, then again, so has a “damp” wind!
A note “states” that “Straight Jacket” is featured on an episode of FAMILY FEUD, but I still think it is MATCH GAME ‘73!
At one time, the Bush administration had an “exit strategy” for the Iraqi “war”: The former just knew the United States military could just go into Iraq, get rid of Saddam Hussein, and leave in 3-4 weeks!
Actually, the Bush administration has an “exit strategy” at present: “When the Iraqis are ready.” Now I ask “you,” what kind of “exit strategy” is that?
I seriously doubt if anyone, not even the Democrats, can get us out of the mess in Iraq! The best the country can expect is a “draw”!
Richard Nixon was advised to declare victory in Vietnam, and pull American troops out. It wasn’t done then, so why not do it now? It’s never too late to learn from history!
I recommended FAMILY GUY (8-8:00 P.M., Fox) to Steve. The cartoon is much better than SOUTH PARK!
FAMILY GUY is a satire on “Family values,” right? I lean to that belief, anyway!

(acerca de 6:36 P.M.) If Deah hadn’t pissed on the living room carpet this morning, requiring a baking-soda cover I doubt if I would have remembered to vacuum this evening!
My drippy bathroom sink won’t be fixed until Lloyd gets back Thursday. Upon Gerty’s advise, I telephoned the office and recorded a message for Lloyd, but was informed by the “assistant ___ger” (A-1) as I was leaving, with Deah, the mail “center,” that I will have to wait until Thursday.
It’s the cold water that leaks. Marvin in the shop office told me that it’s probably the “seat.”
I have stopped the water flow to the sink, via the knob below the sink. As I told Gerty, the drops of water add up when they escape 24/7!
Joyce insist that a chipmunk and a squirrel are differentiated by the latter (or does Joyce believe the former?) not sporting a tail. Those furry rodents in the park and elsewhere are Eastern gray squirrels, tree squirrels. Both chipmunks and squirrels have tails. Chipmunks live in ground burrows and “wear”stripes.
This is what the enclycopedia declares! Though I’m sure there are exceptions: Not everyone from Norway has blue eyes and blonde hair, and pale skin!
GREY’’s ANATOMY (9-10:00 P.M., A.B.C.) is addictive. The producer or producers knew that, but didn’t tell anyone. Should A.B.C. be sued?
Marvin told me of a circus or carnival that played Sylacauga this past week end.
Am I any better off than when I was with the circus? The jury is still out on that question.
I was practicing club juggling in the rear of the Center for Public Television at the University of Alabama one afternoon in the Fall of 1994 or the Spring of 1995. Mack, a videographer, asked me if I was better off financially with the circus. I’m not referring to utility bills: My “job” is a demotion!

(28th, About 5:43 A.M.) The chances are so low for rain, don’t even consider it a possibility! Thus said the weather report yesterday.
Well, guess what? The area beat the odds!
Which is really good! Marvin and I discussed this in the shop office yesterday: Being that Eric doesn’t follow through on flowering, it would have better for all if he had decorated Ms. Salotto’s parking post with artificial flowers! Maybe not the plastic kind, but artificial flowers don’t have to look cheap and insulting: The “canvas-like” leaves and flowers are awful close to the real thing.
And, of course, the reality-based artificial flowers last all year long!
This is what Eric should have “planted” in the hanging baskets and vases on the west porch of the nursing building!
I told Marvin that artificial flowering would be ideal for the lobby of the administration building, since Eric is so “concerned” about water warping the floor as it may have done in the hall by Ms. Sallotto’s office. As it is, the lobby is barren and “impersonal”!
Rain came just at the right time: Sleep wasn’t listening to my pleads for a tryst! Bur Rain made some type of deal with Her! As long as Sleep bonded with me, who cares about the details of the deal!
As I was photocopying my federal and state income tax returns yesterday morning in Student Services, Eric passed me and asked me what I was doing. I didn’t answer.
Marvin is of the opinion that the C.A.C.C. staff are only “humoring” Eric, that no one considers his “position” seriously. I wish that was the case, but I don’t think it is!

(acerca de 1:26 P.M.) Actually, the status of an “inmate” would be a promotion!
I inter-rupted my sit-down protest when Eric came in the shop office - “Boots” was in the north chair and I was in conversation with him - and “ordered” me to weed the pansies lining the marquee sign at the front of the campus.
Eric was surprised that the pansies are reviving. Michael and his “shadow” (Brent) came to see what I was doing. Checking up on me? Or am I paranoid?
I explained to Michael that if pansies are “taken care of,” they will “stay around.” This was in response to his comment that the pansies will soon “leave.” That’s up to Phoebus: The hot sun will force them to retreat as a survival technique.
The pansies were weeded on the south side of the marquee: Neglect had convinced the weeds that they had the “run of the place”!
Tomorrow, the north side.
It may only have been co-incidental, but Andy was standing in front of the business office-end of the administration building. Checking up on me?
Now that I have finally realized my status at C.A.C.C., it’s time to move on. I have learned a lot about plants and flowers, but the supposived educational institution is no place for a person of my educational standing.
I explained to Marvin yesterday in the shop office that bankruptcy is not always for economic “failure”: The news told of the Mecedez-Benz automotive plant in Vance, AL, filing for bank ruptcy. Most likely, the factory - brought to Alabama to provide jobs and no doubt given a “sweetheart deal” - is trying to decrease the wages of the workers and/or enlarging the profits for the management. Marvin compared what Mecedez-Benz is attempting to do, to Richard Scrusky and Health South.
I was visiting Steve and Mary when I watched the MASTERPIECE THEATRE’s adaption of “I Claudius” and “Claudius the God.” This was more than twenty-five years ago. I don’t remember much of the program, but I do remember the “fucking” contest between “Cladius’s” wife and a prostitute, in which the wife - I now realize is “Messalina” - won.
Well, yesterday evening I came upon the literary foundation of the scene: Chapter XXVIII of “Claudius the God.”
I may have to rent the video of the adaptation! Although first I must gain access to a VCR player, even if it means purchasing one!

(acerca de 2:41 P.M.) Wouldn’t “you,” if “you” were in my “shoes,” make a special trip - three-quarters mile or so - to save $2.15?
A pack of The Brave cigarettes for $1.__, of which I bought two (packs) from the convenient store on the highway.
I can’t count on Rain providing a soporific environment every morning. So maybe if I tire myself out, Sleep will take advantage of me, my body too exhausted to fight Her off!
I began the final work week of Month III with an evening viewing of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.).
“Boots,” in the shop office, explained that azaleas are “ugly,” except for the time they bare redish flowers, which they (azaleas) are doing, or about to display, now. (continued)




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