Phillip Wilson

Amazingly, I survived my Life
2011-09-30 00:07:27 (UTC)

2006 REVIEW (PART TWENTY-SEVEN)

August- Childersburg, AL (continues)

Instead of sealing off their rooms from my gaze, the women reported to the campus police, a “peeking Tom.”
A police man soon arrived to “check” for a male lurking beneath the windows. A voyeur on the balcony of the neighboring building didn’t count, especially if the occupant of a room refused to ensure privacy!

(acerca de 9:15 A.M.) I am “working” on theories of acting, as Charles Darwin published only an abstract of evolution in his “Origin of Species,” after more than twenty years thinking about and ___ing his findings, the following are only “___” ideas: One must make the dialogue a part of one’s psychical expression, instead of allowing the “character” to “take over” the play.
On the other hand, written language oftentimes has a rhythum that cannot transfer to the spoken, especially phrases such as “hark!,” “has,” “h___,” etc. In these cases, there is no other alternative than to adapt the dialogue to spoken language.
A play in a written form is literature. Only when a play is given “life” does it become “drama.”
N.B.C. NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.) and A.B.C. WORLD NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.): My only news sources on Saturday.

(acerca de 12:1_ P.M.) The dialogue of a play is more general to the character than when it comes from the mouth of the actor portraying the character.
What do I mean by that statement? But no! You tell me!
Organized religion - the church - Big Business. In theory, the government should be unaffected by business, although we all know better!
Big Business “runs” the government. So it is only natural that the church wins out in the church-state debate.
A president such as Theodore Roosevelt is known for “bursting” monopolies. Yet his “economic advisor” was J.P. Morgan or one of those “robber barons” of the early-20th century!
The episode of ARE YOU BEING SERVED? (9-9:30 P.M., P.B.S.) yesterday evening feature “Captain Peacock” blocking the vision of “Mrs. Slocombe” during “loves scenes” of an off-camera “porn” movie. That reminds me of the time (1977?) when Wanda, the female I dated on a double-date, held her hand over my eyes at the Sylacauga Drive-in movie when a nude scene was on the screen.
Wanda and I were in the back-seat of a car, Wanda to the left of me.Wanda’s sister and a male were in the front.

(acerca de 2:__ P.M.) For some reason, the television program M.A.S.H. came up for discussion between Richard Pereles and me (1993. We were apparently talking about the individual actors: Richard stated that McLean Stevenson (“General Blake”) plays himself, the “hint” being that Stevenson didn’t act.
Richard’s observations shouldn’t be responded to: He seldom knew what he was referring to.
However, if I may comment on a point that has a “bearing” on my nascent dramatic theory: Such a statement, even by Richard Pereles, is a complement to McLean Stevenson’s portrayal of “General Blake.” If an actor appears so “united” with her/his dialogue that s/he is criticized by not acting but just being her/himself, then the actor is doing a great job!
Can a person really “act her/himself”? Such a declaration of m___ may have “inspired” the criticism of M.A.S.H.
Everyone has a “Hamlet” within her/him. The secret is not to act, but to emphasize that “Hamlet” part of oneself!
Besides, there is historical symmetry: There are “Hamlet’s” in Iraq, victims of the Israeli-Hezbollah “war.” After all, “Hamlet, Prince of Whales” is a war story, nothing more. The play examines only one group of people.
I watched the final 10-11 minutes of AS TIME GOES BY (8:30-9:00 P.M., P.B.S.) and a second episode of ARE YOU BEING SERVED? (9:30-10:00 P.M., P.B.S.).
Heat drew a line in the sand and Thunder is taking the challenge by crossing it!
Who will win? The upper-90⁰’s (F) may be too powerful for Thunder! I know they are too powerful for much al fresco activity!
Phoebus has been, and continue to be, strong and forceful. Thunder is eager to change that, though!
In theory, my vacation days will be bought by C.A.C.C. There’s a chance that this won’t happen, but if it does, most likely I won’t “see” the money until October or the last of September, after the start of the 2007 fiscal year.
Spread my income over several months? That’s fine with me! It will mean that I will have funds the rest of the year!
YES, MINISTER (10-10:30 P.M., P.B.S.) is probably not far from the truth of British politics! Civil servants of all countries, in fact, most likely are responsible for governance more than politicians!

(acerca de 6:00 P.M.) The first chancellor of the two-year college system is named appropriately: Roy Johnson.
In other words, Roy “Dick-head”!
About ten minutes of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (10:30-midnight, N.B.C.) is all I could tolerate yesterday evening.
Classic comedy should be for all ages, not just for “stoned” and/or drunk young people!

(acerca de 7:19 P.M.) “. . . /and the rockets red glare/The bombs bursting in air/. . . “
It a meteorological Israeli-Hezbolloh “war”!
Lightning invades the apartment, as if it is doing a house-to-house search for insurgents!
Deah wouldn’t go out to pee: Can “you” blame her?
Storm is definitely the victor in the “war” with Heat! It was - is - hot today, but no where near the intensity of Storm!
Rain has joined forces with Storm. Or is it only the sweat from the intenecine fighting?
Although Storms such as the one outside are common, daily weather patterns on many of the other planets!

(21st, About 11:01 A.M.) The important thing is that it circulate my name and qualification.
More importantly, it’s practice on technological dependency.
I have no idea what company I posted my resume with, though I am aware that I apply for an adjunct position with a community college in Florida: I was trying to apply with Lawson State in Birmingham, but “1___.edu” took me to “Lake Santos” or “Lake” something in Lakeland, FL.
Believe it or not, the library carries novels by P.D. James: MYSTERY! (P.B.S.) is presenting “The Murder Room” (9-10:30 P.M.), an adaptation of an Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. I “borrowed” the copy, even though I already am overloaded with reading!
A fifty-dollar transfer from my checking account to my savings account at Superior Bank: I now have $400.00 (and 24¢) that, if it remains in savings, will “earn” a little over _% interest. That won’t mean much, but, given my financial status, even ten dollars helps!
A $2.15 pack of cigarettes from the convenient store on the highway.
Lloyd must have repaired my leaky faucet that services my bath tub: An end of the shower curtain was “drawn back” when I arrived home.
Of course Joyce “approved” my unemployment: Linda McQuirt, the “acting president of C.A.C.C., has “washed her hands” of my case, allowing Joyce and the other people to resolve it!
What will Social Security find in its investigation?

(acerca de 12:12 P.M.) “Nature herself gave women ___/___ learn from books a little bit.”
And that,my friends, is from Act IV of “The Little Clay Cart,” an Indian (Asian) comedy written between 400 C.E. and _00 C.E. Though I bet “you” that most women in 2006 C.E. would adopt the lyrics (?) as a mantra.
The challenge facing me: To complete the “Clay Cart” and “The Murder Room” in 2-3 weeks! But there are other things to get to, and I won’t sacrifice them!
I get to what I can get to!
The pain in my left lower leg is intensifying! Now that I may not have health insurance, many corporeal things will malfunction!
$103.00: I have over $2150 of unemployment that will be “___ed” out to me in $103-weekly installments. That’s about five months, so a job better reach me soon!
As Deah is with a dried-up wading pool, I was disappointed yesterday afternoon when THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP was pre-emptied by AMERICAN SOUNDTRACK, the anthropology of 1950’s and early-1960’s music th__ Alabama Public Television is using as a fund-raiser (and that I mistakenly called AMERICAN MUSIC 2-3 entries back), although I did watch 2-3 acts, as I “tasted” the cobbler that I had made, the recipe of which I got from Gerty!
The cobbler turned out just fine!

(acerca de 2:__ P.M.) Why is it that the majority of post-1995 novels are printed with “medium” type? Is it for the convenience of the visually-impaired? It is to compensate for the briefness of the novel?
“The Murder Room,” published in 2003, is given “25” or so “font.”
Ironically: When paper was less expensive, printers created books with tiny print. Thus, less paper was used for each book. But now that the cost of paper is almost “over the top,” more sheets are required for less novel!
N.B.C. NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.) and A.B.C. WORLD NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.): They were the only sources available to me yesterday for current history!

(acerca de 3:41 P.M.) P.D. James includes a rationale for the “artistic, easily read” print: A modern adaptation of type designed by the the first William C___ (1692-1766), “The Murder Room” is supposively printed on the same typeface as the first copies of the Declaration of Independence.
I take her word for it!
As with many novels, most of the story includes descriptions of people, buildings, rooms, etc. The camera can do what a writer spent pages on, in less than a second!
Steve Kilbury told me that the G.I. Bill - Steve is a former sailor - requires a percentage of one’s salary, while on active duty. I agree, for no other reason than reluctance to believe that the government would ever be liberal with money, even to military.
But I have yet to find proof of a “matching grant” G.I. Bill.
Does the service personnel receive more weekly or monthly pay if s/he forgoes a G.l. Bill contribution?
The reason why I am “stuck” on the G.I. Bill is because the G.I. Bill of Rights was directly inspired by the “Bonus” Army of 1932, a documentary of which I watched on P.B.S. yesterday evening from 10:30 to 11:00.
I first heard of the march in the Winter/Spring of 1999, during the United States History: 1920-1945 course at F.S.U.

(acerca de 6:27 P.M.) It was during my academic career during the early-1970’s: I think the summer of 1972 or 1973.
I was in a store (record store?) in Tuscaloosa, AL, near campus, if I remember correctly.
Smoking was permitted in stores back then. I had a lit cigarette in my hand. I recall that I accidentally touched a female’s ass with the cigarette. What happened next, I will never know: I walked away.
Even though only the lower-90⁰’s (F), Humidity convinced Deah that an extended walk in the park was not a good idea! The wading pool didn’t counter the arboreal “wading pool”!
The morning was pleasant: Who would have suspected the afternoon to be “cruel”?
Phoebus only added to the suffering!
I am amazed when I watched the five-minute show late yesterday (11:30) evening on P.B.S. - STARGAZER - to discover that Jack Horheimer (?), the host of the program and the director of a planetarium in Miami, FL, has the same appearance of the Jack Horheimer (?) who hosted STARGAZER when I regularly saw the show about twenty years ago! Although I only think he hasn’t aged: For that would mean that I have aged if Dr. Horheimer (?) has!
If I compare yesterday evening’s STARGAZER to an episode of 1986, what would I find?
I need to return to stargazing. Why? Simply because the stars deserve looking at!
I juggle because I can! Surely “you” don’t think I seriously believe that this journal is anything but a type of therapy! Will future readers even “lay eyes” on it? No, most likely!

(22nd, About 8:07 A.M.) Lightning encircled Heat yesterday evening much as sharks or dolphins corral fish into a ball. Did Lightning feast on any of the Heat? I suppose It had to: By definition, Heat Lightning must feast on Heat!
The pain in my left leg: It’s the same sensation that I experience whenever I bend “forward” from the hips without “unlocking” my knees. So I wonder to which physical activity do I owe the honor?

(acerca de 8:52 A.M.) Until 22 July 2006, obviously I was not an “official” employee of C.A.C.C., and wasn’t eligible for the appeal process. But on the above date, I became “official” when I signed the job description. Even though I was on a legitimate worker for only two work days, I was legally entitled to an appeal of my termination.
Maybe Social Security will be able to do what the E.E.O.C. couldn’t or wouldn’t!
It doesn’t really help to combat Heat, but it allows fresh air to circulate, and smoke from cigarettes to relocate outside!
I “opened” the windows in the living room and the kitchen. I later “closed” them, acknowledging that only the air conditioning could successfully counter Heat, but the window in the kitchen has been re-opened.
Don’t worry: The porches shelter each “opened” window from the rain!
I heard on the Alabama report during ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (WBHM-public radio), while juggling from about 4:05 to 4:25, that it was discovered that former chancellor Roy Johnson bought an expensive house while the head of the two-year college system in this state. How did he pay for the house, that’s the legal question!

(acerca de 10:43 A.M.) What can “you” expect from C.A.C.C.?
The “www.cacc.edu” web site is embarrassing! It is not updated! The Fall registration is not yet included!
The web site looks like a grammer school! So why would anybody buy into the “computer science” program?
I don’t “follow-up” on the transcripts and resumés: I e-mail to “places.” As, for example, Jackson State Community College in Tennessee, my latest job search. I am hoping the JSCC will send me a reminder e-mail, but I can’t count on this happening, so I will forward additional material - a resumé and a job application - at a later date. I just wanted to introduce myself and “build” interest.
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.): The United States has a “democracy with conditions,” which is why there is an unofficial discriminatory policy against homosexuals.
But can there be “democracy with conditions”? I think not! How can “you” limit freedom to be free?

(acerca de 12:48 P.M.) Every once in a while, it becomes necessary to supplement the food items that I have in the apartment: The $24.7_ from Winn-Dixie “hurts,” but it’s probably the best I can do.
Lisa was my cashier. And I saved $3.91.
Although I had seen the C.S.I.: MIAMI (9-10:00 P.M., C.B.S.) episode presented yesterday evening, before, I noticed something: Something as common as peanut butter killed a serial killer. The male serial killer isn’t an aberration if a common substance such as peanut butter can be vindictive: A lot of people, “good” and “bad,” have allergies to peanut butter.
The allergy made the serial killer equal to a king!

(acerca de 3:43 P.M.) I was determined that I would ignore the bill from “Time” magazine, at least until I received the first copy of my subscription.
Well, that first copy came! So now I suppose I will pay the $20: Although I could continue to ignore the bill.
It’s not as if I need something to read! I may have to restructure my quotidian lifestyle to accomodate the temporary addition to my family!
There is so much humidity packed into this day, the late-comers could only associate with the day by becoming visible and falling as rain. Not much, but obviously an overloaded “room”!
Thunder yelled to the late-comers Their only way into the day! And the late-comers seem to moan when They hear the solution to the over-crowding!
Phoebus has been p___lly checking of the status of the crowd in order to compy with the “fire marshals.”
THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (10:35-11:35 P.M., C.B.S.), THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO (10:35-11:35 P.M., N.B.C.), and JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE (11:06 P.M.-12:05 A.M., A.B.C.): The same as last week and the week before, and the week before that, and the . . .!

(acerca de 6:34 P.M.) I forgot to tell “you” that the upper-90⁰’s (F) were squeezing and “fleecing” the Clouds of Their water.
Another reason for reading the original “The Murder Room”: It isn’t as easy as it looks to keep track of the captioning while absorbing the visual adaptation of the literary foundation! Though researching a film adaptation has its rewards, even if the “base” is Agatha Christie or P.D. James!

(23rd, About 8:00 A.M.) Cool air - relative to the afternoon’s air - arrived yesterday evening, displaced Heat, and Darkness made Heat reveal It true self as Heat Lightning.
As soon as I heard a “clinking” sound coming from the vent over the oven in the kitchen yesterday evening, I knew what was outside: Rain. Lots of It!
Jade Cardwell went on vacation to Florida (Panama City?) with Hillory Hughes and Hillory’s father, step-mother, and step-sister. Supposively, Jade met a football player from Stanford University. Or at least the male supposivey told Jade that.
Jade is a former C.A.C.C. student and student worker. She was an “ambassador.”
If a Stanford football player “hitted” on Jade, why did she not know where Stanford University is? At least, April Barber and Hazel Jackson didn’t: I had to tell them, and one of them “confirmed” it on a computer.
It was during registration (or maybe book buy-back), most likely for the Fall 2005 (or maybe the Winter/Spring 2006).
I made the casual comment to Jade that I enjoyed Weight Watchers Cheese Cake. And from then on, Jade repeated the comment to me as if I am a mentally-disabled person!
Jade claims nursing as a career. Though no one believes that! At least, we all hope our physical well-being is ever dependent on Jade Cardwell!

(acerca de 9:54 A.M.) I was wondering why the butter wasn’t melting! I cursed the “eye” of the stove (the right, “outer”)!
Come to find out, I had turned on the wrong eye (right, “inner”)! The slick surface for pancakes would never materialize as long as I cross my “eyes”!
The way I see it, blood flowing in the veins and arteries is like water flow in a hose: The more rapid the flow of water, the cleaner the inside of the hose becomes, and the more pressure the water exerts when it exits the hose. And increased pressure means more cleaning power.
Physical activity - even walking - quickens the flow of blood. That, in turn, clears the vessels of plaque, etc.
At least I think it does! Doesn’t the increased blood flow cancel the harmful effects of smoking? I tell myself this, but is it self-delusion?
Only about forty minutes of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.), though long enough to realize again the hypocrisy of George W. Bush when he criticizes Iran for endangering the integrity of the United Nations Security Council by ignoring a “warning” to “Cease and desist” with nuclear fuel enrichment: George W. Bush and the Bush administration rejected the Security Council’s “no-Iraqi invasion” order in 2003!
That disregard by the United States was said by numerous experts to be a dangerous precedent. And, by “God,” it is!
Liberty National in Sylacauga? When did I ever apply for a position with Liberty National? The male that contacted me by telephone stated that he had read my resumé.
7:00 tomorrow. Or is is a sales scam?

(acerca de 11:27 A.M.) Out of “semi-desperation,” I have been posting my resumé of the web sites of commercial employment agencies.
“National Liberty” is a life insurance company.
Most of the commercial employment agencies I “visit”don’t charge a fee for posting resumés and seeking work. But they do make money: They sell names, addresses, and telephone numbers.
This is why I don’t feel too “depressed” about being “semi-literate” on a computer: I do what I have to, and then “get off”!
Ironically, a tool - the World Wide Web - that was designed to make “us” safer, has become the world’s “Achilles’ Heel”!
The way I have it figured, it’s only a ploy by National Liberty to co___ me to buy insurance! Employment is only a ruse! National Liberty isn’t “expanding, as the man told me via telephone!
If it’s all right with “you,” I will stay at home tomorrow afternoon!
I wonder how many people are scheduled for an “interview” tomorrow? I wonder how many will actually “fall” for the ploy?
Why did Jim McGreevy resign as governor of New Jersey after publically declaring his homophilia? In fact, why did he make such a big deal out of it?
If “gays” and “lesbians” didn’t make a clamor over their sexuality, maybe no one else would either!
The final 5-6 minutes of LAW & ORDER: C.I. (8-9:00 P.M., N.B.C.) ___ th__ by “accident”! For I was waiting for another family member: LAW & ORDER: SVU (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.).

(acerca de 2:01 P.M.) The telephone “rang” around 1:09: I was ready for it.
My long-awaited interview with Social Security, a further “clearing house” for disability.
The interview lasted a little over fifty minutes.
I declared the official reason for no longer working at C.A.C.C. was “downsizing”: A funding shortage. Maybe Disability Determination will be able to get to the truth!
A reminder “call” via telephone reached me yesterday: “Some one at this number . . .”. So I asked Deah if she was expecting a call!
And, of course, she didn’t answer! Not to where I could hear her, anyway!
Rain struck while I was “on” the telephone. There will be no problem finding a wading pool, Deah!

(acerca de 3:51 P.M.) Apparently, C.A.C.C. has yet to inform PEEHIP of my termination: The latter “demands” that I apply my signature, dated, to the 2005 Income tax form that it had sent last week (?), along with a copy of my 2005 “W-2,” in order to qualify for Federal Poverty Level Assistance.
I may have to report to Social Security that, contrary to the answer I “gave” during the interview, I do have health insurance.
The rain only served to put back the humidity that Phoebus took away this morning!
The mid-80⁰’s (F), but the humidity is “whorish”!
A pack of cigarettes for $2.15 from the convenient store on the highway.
THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (10:35-11:35 P.M., C.B.S.) received most of my “scopiphilia” yesterday evening: Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi is a guest.
I only gave investigatory “looks” at THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO (10:35-11:35 P.M., N.B.C.) and JIMMY LIVE (11:06 P.M.-12:05 A.M., A.B.C.).

(24th, About 8:52) Physical appearance?! Just what did she mean by that?
The lady that was interviewing me for disability asked me about my physical appearance, stating that I had listed that as one of my disabilities.
Where? Not on the disability report! Which, by the way, she apparently isn’t use to a disability report/reference from an applicant, at least her vocal tone expressed a sort of “amazement” when she discovered that I had prepared one!
Physical disfigurement and deformity? Standard for a speech defect?
The lady confussed me when she stated that I had “done a great job” with the disability report! Was she sincere or was she only patronizing me?
Was it a compliment on my writing and organizational skills?
What I am afraid of is that I may be penalized for a “good” disability report!
What Social Security doesn’t understand is that my handicaps have been the reason for my limited lifetime earnings!
Disability insurance seems to be based more on accumulated tax credit than disability.
Phoebus resumed control of the day around 3:30 yesterday afternoon.
I may have had a dream involving Joyce, early this morning!

(acerca de 11:42 A.M.) I forwarded a transcript to Talladega College. Maybe if I circulate my graduate school record and/or resumé, someone - not Liberty National Life Insurance Company - will “invite” me to make application. The only problem: Since I was never “official” at C.A.C.C., there is no employee file on me, except from June 22 to June 26.
C.A.C.C. may have “won” in this respect.
I can’t rely on commercial employment agencies: Scam artists such as Liberty National have access to my personal information.
That life insurance policy (#_8132970 AM) that granny purchased from Met Life (Metropolitan) years ago: The face value is only $1,000! Maybe $1000 was a lot forty years ago, but in today’s economic climate, a “grand” is nothing!
It wasn’t until the telephone interview with Social Security yesterday that I “discovered” what my life is worth.
$13.78 a year: At age 70, one breaks even on the premiums payments! However, there is something about “Endowment __ age 65,” though the “Amount paid, Date paid” has been left blank.
Th__ there is some sort of caveat about a dividend of $2_.31 on 1 May 2006.
The policy is in a safe deposit box at some bank. But I will lauch an investigation of my own: There’s no reason for the policy to remain, after all these years, in a state of “suspended animation”!
Only about twenty minutes of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) was “new”: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (4-6:00 P.M., WBHM-public radio) provided about twenty minutes of news during a juggling session.

(acerca de 1:23 P.M.) Yesterday, as I was mounting my bicycle after restocking my cigarette supply at the convenient store, I saw a young female with big breasts. She was wearing a gray tee shirt with the words “Alabama football” on the front.
If those are footballs, sign me up!
The Bell South telephone directory arrived via post yesterday. My name, address, and telephone number is listed. It is my first inclusion in the Childersburg telephone listing! It just might be my first listing, ever! At 56 years of age! Don’t “you” just love it?
“None Without Sin” (?), an AMERICAN MASTERS (8-10:00 P.M.), presented by P.B.S., dealing with Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, and the Black list/McCarthy hearings of the late-1940’s and early-1950’s, reached this room yesterday evening. I’m pretty sure that I have seen the program before, but given all the data and analysis of Miller’s plays, I have no objections if P.B.S., airs the show 2-3 more times!

(acerca de 2:23 P.M.) That “home-made” chili I prepared, using the generic tomato shop that Gerty gave me: Two of the clear-plastic bowls that I stored the chili in, have been strained. I tried 3-4 times to return the bowls to normal.
Did the chili stain my stomach? Even worse: Did the chili eat away at my stomach lining, the way it may have eaten into the “sides” (one is circular) of the bowls?
It’s time for “new” bowls, anyway!
I watched a second AMERICAN MASTERS (P.B.S.) yesterday evening, this one (10-11:00 P.M.) concerning Albert Einstein.
Sometimes P.B.S. has programs that I “must” watch, and then there are those evenings when I am forced to visit commercial television!

(acerca de 3:55 P.M.) The male at the regional or national office of the Social Security Administration scheduled my telephone interview with the Talladega office of SSA. At that time, he informed me that my birth certificate would be necessary (the male told me when I called the toll-free number of Social Security).
I sent a $12-check to the Bureau (or Office) in Montgomery. I even made a long-distance call (toll) to hint at a rush job!
But, lo and behold, nothing was even mentioned about a birth certificate during the interview yesterday! I may need it later, but following the rules may work against me! It did at C.A.C.C.!
The low-90⁰’s (F) but damn the humidity! I never remember from summer to summer, but, from the Tallahassee entries of this journal, it was also bad then!
Phoebus is a nuisance! It makes one’s skin dry so that Humidity can stick, as a magnet attacks iron!

(acerca de 6:27 P.M.) $804.48: I will receive that much, if not more, from Teachers’ Retirement. Out of a total of $994.36, 20% goes to the I.R.S.
Joyce brought by a form that I must have notarized.
Joyce came by? Yes: As I figured, things are returning to “normal.” There is no longer a C.A.C.C. to get in the way!
Two months? That’s not an uncommon “estrangement” period!

(25th, About 8:45) And once again, my food supplier came “through”: A half-pint carton of milk, an orange, a small carton of orange juice, a small “tub” of cole slaw, a piece of cake.
Deah and I were returning from an evening outing (around 7:10) when Mary Mathis summons. When we arrived - she was sitting on her porch - Mary asked me why I didn’t have my hearing aids in my ears.
How do “you” tell someone that s/he is the reason that “you” don’t “wear” hearing aids?
I made the mistake of asking Mary the “raw” area on her right leg (“inside,” near the ankle). She then informed me that she fell in the bath tub and, using her wrist “alarm,” alerted the paramedics that “she’s fallen and can’t get up”!
Speaking of “Mary”: Another Mary - Mary Holt - made the statement, when she visited with Steve several weeks ago, that water never goes bad. I laughingly corrected her: The chemicals in the water go bad!
During the 1950’s and late-1940’s - as well as other times - J. Edger Hoover and the F.B.I. “eaves dropped” on domestic telephone calls, particularly during the McCarthy “hearings” and the anti-war movement. So I hope the Bush administration doesn’t think it is doing something new! The difference is that the majority of the public felt the anti-war movement deserving of domestic spying! It’s just like the terrorism faced by African Americans with lynching: Now that the white “race” is threatened, terrorism becomes a matter of national security!
“Do this to the least of them, you do it to me”: If terrorism is allowed to exist in even the “smallest” form, it is inevitable that it will “grow,” the same way cancer does!

(acerca de 10:11 A.M.) Unless I work for pay within the next 3-4 months, which is highly unlikely, my $10-a week allowance will terminate in December.
Technically, I could begin receiving a “stipend” from disability in December!
“Perfect timing,” although disability is far from a sure thing! Chances are, I will be penalized for following the rules, since neither Talladega or Disability Determination does!
I am still “shocked” that the female that interviewed me Wednesday via telephone, with Social Security, assumed that I hadn’t submitted a disability report!
Another instance when those handling the disabled harbor misconceptions toward the disabled!
Why even offer the pre-application if it’s not expected of the applicant?
A public health worker with the F.D.A., speaking on THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.), uttered a solecism: In discussing the over-the-counter sale of “Plan B,” the morning after pill, he said “person,” then, in a few words later, corrupted it with “them” (or “their”).
“Person” requires a singular, third person modifier: He, she, or it. Since the topic is the morning after pill - an abortion aid - the “she” is to be used, not “them,” “their,” or they”!
A note, excusing my “poor” showing in graduate school: There was a major shift in technology from the early-1970, the mid-19_0’s,and the late-1980’s! Especially if one didn’t use technology on a daily basis!

(acerca de 11:27 A.M.) I have always known, “deep down,” that my chances of being “recalled” by C.A.C.C. was “slim and none.” But to see it on paper: A permanent termination is the only way the Retirement System will refund my contribution to Teachers’ Retirement!
The official reason for my termination, as C.A.C.C. tells people, is a funding shortage. Fine with me if C.A.C.C. wants to go that route! But technically, C.A.C.C. cannot hire a person for grounds for several years! Probably five, for I have five years to reclaim my Teachers’ Retirement fund!
Of course, I have no doubt that C.A.C.C. will ignore the “correct procedure”: Why should it start now? Nothing else about my termination has been handled according to the rules!
Many Israeli reserve soldiers are “pissed” because Israel didn’t overwhelmingly defeat Hazbollah in the Israeli-Hezbollah “war.” The soldiers are blaming politicians, etc, for the “stalemate.”
This is a replay of post-Viet Nam: The media, the anti-war movement, politicians, etc, were (and are) blamed for the United States’ “defeat” in the Vietnam War.
Why is it so hard to credit the Hezbollah and “Viet Cong” with “victory”? Not necessarily superior forces, but superior war-waging!
Was the Isaeli-Hezbollah “War” Israel’s Viet Nam in miniature? The “war” only lasted a little over a month.
Maybe Israel would have fared better in a protracted war, since it may could have “won” by attrition: Israel, I’m sure, has access to many more “troops” than Hezbollah!
Which could have been the reason the United States opposed a cease-fire: Unlike the Iraqi “war,” Israel’s military chances would have improved with time.
WITH A TRACE (9-10:00 P.M., C.B.S.) is moving to Sunday evening. THE WEST WING also “relocated” to Sunday before it moved off the “air”!

(acerca de 3:23 P.M.) I going to “miss” the “free” dental care! For two years I haven’t had to pay whenever I got my teeth cleaned - as I did early this afternoon - and/or X-rayed.
Of course, it was never “free: Nearly forty dollars came out of my pay check each month. With dental check-ups every six months, each visit was about $240.00! I will, therefore, save by not having dental insurance. Each cleaning and/or X-raying will be more than half of that $240.00!
The A.T.M. was out of commission when I went to withdraw ten dollars from Superior Bank, before I went for my dental appointment at 1:00. So I made the A.T.M. withdrawal with one of the live female tellers.
Damn this humidity! It is giving Heat a “bum rap”!
Or maybe Heat is giving Itself a “bum rap”!
The mid-90⁰’s (F): Though I’m sure the heat index is beyond that!
Deah was out in the “salad bar” (garden), and I was sitting in a chair, watching her. Mary Mathis, traveling down the street on her scooter, summoned me, and, when I responded, handed me a sack as soon as I got near. In the bag, I . . .

(acerca de 7:37 P.M.) . . . found, as soon as I looked within, at the kitchen table, was a half-pint of milk, a small carton of apple juice, an orange, a cookie treat.
From Joyce’s - that’s right, I visited with Joyce, Kayla, and granny, after, what, ten weeks? I was a “student,” along with granny, to Kayla’s “teacher,” in Kayla’s room; I had dinner; Leslie and Bill came by, both acted civil to me; never once was the situation between C.A.C.C. and me discussed, not even when Joyce brought me home; Kayla, granny, and I played in Joyce’s front yard, for 15-20 minutes - I brought, in addition to mail, some thick slices of bread, several chicken “strips,” three portions of brownies, french fries, creamed corn, tomatoes.
Whatever was the “family” problem, it seems to be “over.” Unless Joyce and Leslie feel as I do: That C.A.C.C. “ain’t” worth “bickering” over!
THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (10:35-11:35 P.M., C.B.S.), a few minutes of THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO (10:35-11:35 P.M., N.B.C.), and JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE (11:06 P.M.-12:05 A.M., A.B.C.): Actually I’m only guessing that JIMMY KIMMEL ends at 12:05. I have never watched more than twenty-five minutes of the show!

(26th, About 9:36 A.M.) It is as if a student, desperate to cheat, bought the answers to a quiz, and memorized the answers in order, only to have the instructor, aware of what the student has plan, re-arranged the lay-out of the test, so that correct answers are applied to ___ questions!
I received the “transcript” of the telephone interview with Social Security, in the mail yesterday.
My disability began on July 26, 2006? I ___ the question: When was my final day of work? I must have answered “July” for “June.”
But regardless of the month, maybe my claim ___ blame C.A.C.C. for “disabling” me! After all, it was only after filing a discrimination report that I was terminated!
Even though I have proof in the form of audiograms and reports of speech evaluations long before June 26, 2006, maybe Disability Determination is the investigating agency I have been looking for! For if it is “suspected” that C.A.C.C. somehow ___ my disabled, there will sure to be an inquiry!
“I was not disabled prior to age 22”? Where did this come from? A 1968 audiogram and speech evaluation from the speech clinic at the University of Alabama declares my disability at 18 years of age!
Should I report the incorrect statements Monday, or just leave the transcript the way it is? I may have a better chance of being rewarded the “grant” if the transcript ___ the two ___ in question!

(acerca de 11:08 A.M.) Yesterday, Joyce was “checking out” some information about a diabet__ “clinic” that will be conducted in Sylacauga next month.
I “explained” to Joyce that diabet__ management is unique for each individual.
I am sure I detected a “subtle” amazement when I informed Joyce that I have been posting my resumé “on-line” with commerical employment agencies, as a prologue to telling her about what I felt was a scam by Liberty National Life Insurance in Sylacauga! It is as though she had no idea that I could operate technology!
As she was bringing me home - the car was making that left turn onto the highway (280) at the traffic light on First Street - around 7:10, Joyce issued a “fiat”: Since I am only paying forty or so each month for rent, I should get a minimum-wage job.
Whatever!

(acerca de 12:55 P.M.) “The Iliad,” Euiipedes’ “Iphigenia in Tauris,” “Helena,” “Iphigenia in Aulis,” Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex.”
Then there is Kalidasa’s “Shakuntala and The Ring Of Recognition.”
All have more in common th__ the experts would have “you” believe!
The former literary works are products of the Greeks, whereas the latter is from India.
All are “religious” literature: The gods are main characters, and curses and spells influence the plots.
“You” really can’t blame a scholar with a concentrated “focus” for de-constructing literature, and “splitting hairs” when comparing: It’s her/his job to ease a student into pursuing advance, esoteric study. The differences are never meant for general circulation.
But that’s easier said than done! It’s the difference, not the commonality, that becomes hegemonic!
It’s the same with people, events, etc, and religion, itself!
As for “The Little Clay Cart,” there are Shakespeare plays that present an “evil” villain falsely accusing another person, out of jealousy and spite! And the almost-killed forgives the accuser!
So much for “Christianity” changing the tone of drama!
Non-theists are asked, either directly or indirectly, what made them (non-theists) turn away from “God,” as if “God” is the natural order of things. But do non-theists ever inquire as to why a grown person continue to hold allegiance to a legend, a “Santa Claus” figure?
LAW & ORDER (9-10:00 P.M., N.B.C.): “Alex Borgia” is still a walking dead woman. Why aren’t the episodes better arranged? The episode of “Alex’s” death should be the final summer “repeat”!

(acerca de 2:30 P.M.) The picture post card from Steve makes me long for travel, even if it means a return to the circus!
Steve and Mary took Martin back to his school in New Mexico (Sante Fe). They (including Martin) spent a “few days” in Colorado.
The post card is of the Continental Divide.
And why not the Circus? “Settled” life doesn’t seem willing to absorb me!
Although is it a question whether C.A.C.C. is actually an example of “settled” life? I was more at home while with the circus!
C.A.C.C. must not “sour” me on “settled” life! It all can’t be like that!
$7.95 from Winn-Dixie: With all the “free” food I receive, I just need the essentials (bread, salad dressing, etc)!
I should have told “you” this earlier: $2.15 for a pack of cigarettes from the convenient store on the highway, shortly after noon today.

(acerca de 4:12 P.M.) Both PEEHIP and AFLAC are part of C.A.C.C.’s “cafeteria plan,” and can only be removed, except for extreme cases, until the end of a fiscal year (30 September). So I will receive some kind of stipend next Thursday, C.A.C.C.’s payday. And an remuneration on 30 September.
Which begs the question: Why didn’t C.A.C.C. wait for ten weeks and not renew my contract instead of terminating me in “mid-stream”?
Although as long as I have health coverage at least until 10 October, who cares?
Another “sticky” day! The dampness glues Heat to everything!
The lower-90⁰’s (F), but the day “feels” worse!
Phoebus has been busy all day, although there has been several times at low intensity as Phoebus recharges Itself!
It was only a sack lunch today! Which doesn’t mean that I had a “light” lunch! No: I never depend on what the church lady provides. I only accept the lunch because giving give her her only sense of importance and self-worth!
THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (10:35-11:35 P.M., C.B.S.), THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO (10:35-11:35 P.M., N.B.C.), and JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE (11:06 P.M.-12:05 A.M., A.B.C.): Jimmy Kimmel is the co-host of the “old” THE MAN SHOW on Comedy Central, a past which Kimmel, I’m sure, regrets. No, not that the show is semi-pornographic, but that it is “stupid” and amateurish!

(acerca de 8:13 P.M.) And that’s final! I must do laundry more than once a week: Clothes are piling up and clamoring for attention too much!
Is cool air on the way? Yes, but it will take It several weeks to get here: 5-6 if not more!
Kayla must not be corrected by granny (a stupid question; of course Kayla is not corrected by granny: We weren’t! We, granny’s four children!): Kayla had “family” misspelled on her day ___ board, in “teaching” granny and me yesterday evening, in Kayla’s room (“C-family” for consonants, “V-family” for vowels). When I corrected the misspelling, granny stated, “Don’t start correcting her”!
What, and have Kayla end up like me? There’s nothing wrong with me mentally or emotionally! It’s only that, somehow, I was intellectually stifled! Kayla won’t be if I can stop granny before it’s too late!
Joyce is no better than granny: Kayla is not even encouraged to wash her hands before a meal!
I couldn’t even spell “Consonant”! It’s not “Constenent,” is it? “Constant” has no part in the “non-a, e, i, o, u” letters!
Although I really don’t think granny should be faulted for that spelling-ignorance!

(27th, About 8:16 A.M.) Initially, when Joyce informed me via telephone, about two weeks ago, that I had five years to “withdraw” my account with the Retirement System, I wanted to get the cash out as soon as I can: I don’t want the RSA and David Bonner, the “head” of the Retirement System to benefit from the $99_.36.
The interest will be invested.
But, upon reconsideration, I decided otherwise: Signing the form Joyce brought by the apartment Thursday would mean I separate myself permanently for any state agency that is “related” to the Retirement System of Alabama, and I must keep my options open in regards to other two-year colleges in the state.
Although I’m sure word has got around as to who “blew” the “whistle” on the state management in Montgomery!
As long as my termination is officially only a temporary lay-off due to funding restrictions, C.A.C.C. technically can’t hire a replacement for me for five years. Though since when does C.A.C.C. limit itself to “technically”?
There’s also a matter of the money earning interest or dividends. And only using the money if I need it, which may be early next year!

(acerca de 9:00 A.M.) Maybe there is a good reason for Bill Clinton not having a wedding band on his finger in the official presidential portrait: The left hand, akimbo on Mr. Clinton’s left hip, may have upstaged the face if the band had been on the finger. Wedding bands somehow automatically become a cynosure!
All this speculation as to the marital integrity of Bill Clinton! It needs to be stopped!
I had no idea that Tommy (D-4) is moving until she told me as I was in conversation with her in her back yard this morning. Tommy’s son-in-law, a sailor or former sailor, and daughter are re-locating to Athens, GA.
Tommy will be moving the last of October.
I should let “you” know that I saw the “final” 10-11 minutes of THE OFFICE (8:30-9:00 P.M., N.B.C.) Thursday evening.

(acerca de 10:06 A.M.) One of my fellow Wood Arms/Childersburg Estates residents are out $2.00: I found a “pill box” containing quarters, in the laundry yesterday evening.
Owners, but not necessarily the “rightful,” always come forward to claim money! So why try? I adopted the quarters.
A “___ bush” (“-plant __ _ tree”)? This is what Tommy told me I could call the planting that may become a gardenia bush: The root was taken from the ground by a full-grown plant directly behind Tommy’s apartment.
N.B.C. NIGHTLY NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.), A.B.C. WORLD NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.), and C.B.S. EVENING NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.): Who can go wrong with this news triumvriate?

(acerca de 11:55 A.M.) Joyce and granny have started back the Sunday “rescue mission”: A dozen eggs, a box of chocolate “pop tarts,” a bottle of chocolate syrup. Are they, too, feeling sorry for my unemployment state?
Deah was with me as I was talking with Tommy: I was out for the first outing of the day.
Nikki (?), Tommy’s dog, escaped from the back door. She and Deah physically fought.
I stated to Tommy, after the dogs were separated, that neither Deah or Nikki would “tangle” if either one of us wasn’t in sight!
Possessiveness. We belong to our dogs, not the other way around!

(acerca de 1:47 P.M.) Does Joyce know something that I don’t? She is “privy” to my C.A.C.C. employment-related material that I have yet been able to gain access to.
Disability Determination may be my last chance. A cursory investigation won’t uncover anything! It will require someone that can devote full-time to what C.A.C.C. did to me!
I must accept the fact that only a hired private attorney, and maybe a personal, private detective, will be able to uncover the truth. And what happened isn’t worth the expense!
Joyce wondered why Judy, the site manager, contacted both she (Joyce) and April Hunter for confirmation of my termination. Apparently, Joyce had sole charge of my “position” with C.A.C.C., and any “outside” information is too threatening!
I hope I can arrange a discussion with Disability Determination before it investigates my last place of employment!
I saw the final 5-6 minutes of LAW & ORDER: C.I. (8-9:00 P.M., N.B.C.) yesterday evening.

(acerca de 3:47 P.M.) I was all ready to bath Deah in the backyard. However, Rain called for a change of plans: The tub became the bath venue!
Hurricane Ernesto (?) is inspiring Rain. Prepare yourself for 4-5 days of Wetness this week!
Maybe five minutes of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (10:30-midnight, N.B.C.): I wasn’t “fond” of the episode the first time around, I sure didn’t want to suffer many minutes of the second showing!
I forgot what day it was last week, but I happened upon the final 5-6 minutes of ACCORDING TO JIM (A.B.C.). It wasn’t the first time I had faced a sampling of the sit-com! And “you” needn’t worry: I would never be an audience for the entire episode, no matter how “above average” the show may be!
I made another peach cobbler earlier. If “you” wonder why someone in my dire financial straits can afford to cook so often, it’s because I have food that would go “bad” if left to its own. By cooking, I actually save money, believe it or not: I have only to “dole” out meals during the week!
Prior to the Water Fall, the Heat was on extreme high: The mid-90⁰’s (F). Phoebus was the star of the day.
But Rain changed all of that around 3:00!

(28th, About 8:04 A.M.) Alright: The United States constitution “saids” nothing about the separation of church and state. Maybe liberals have no legal “standing” in claiming that it does! But how does the “omission” automatically give the Christian Conservative the right to combine church and state?
If the constitution doesn’t prohibit church-state partnership, neither does it “encourage” church-state partnership!
The evening sky was inf__ed with Heat Lightning yesterday evening. Or was Nature trying to impress Phoebe?

(acerca de 11:04 A.M.) I e-mailed Stephanie W. Bell, the district “co-ordinator” of the two-year college system, concerning my lack of appeal. However, the “simple” e-mail wasn’t so “simple” to send, it turned out: The computer I initially relied upon kept flashing caveats, not allowing the message to be sent, at first. The assistant “librarian” was no help. Neither was a “civilian,” a mother (mid-40’s?) who used her daughter’s computer skills as proxy.
I was forced to start over again on a different computer, including re-writing my complaint.
No, C.A.C.C., I “ain’t” done with “you” yet! Stephanie W. Bell isn’t the end, I’m afraid!
The female voice at Social Security - I contacted the administration via telephone this morning - didn’t seem to think that the “26 July” mistake is critical: I wanted to make the correction to “26 June” as my final day of work.
I refuse to call the Talladega office of Social Security: The number is toll! I’ll just wait until Disability Determination contacts me!
My lease renewal was rolled up and waiting for me in the handle of the front storm door as I prepared for my “computer” morning.
My rent will be $41 each month untiI I increased my income from $103 a week. I hope I do soon: It’s not that I mind the rent of $41 each month. I am too old and too accustomed to the ways of the world in regards to someone like me to let “pride” interfere with my life! It’s just that - I really don’t know “why” yet!
THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP (3-3:25 P.M., P.B.S.) was the event around which my afternoon was programmed yesterday.

(acerca de 1:21 P.M.) “I will be receiving that COBRA soon . . .”: That’s what a female voice told me via telephone when I called the Retirement System a few minutes ago.
My termination has been reported and recorded by PEEHIP.
My confusion is understandable: For whatever reason, my termination is not subject to appeal, probably because I was still on probation at C.A.C.C. (Steve was incredulous that the two-year College system requires a three-year probationary period, whereas the majority of other places of employment demand 6 months or a year. I suppose the system uses a lot of people just for two years and eleven months, and doesn’t have to worry about follow-up questions).
Most likely, C.A.C.C. had every right to get rid of me as it did! But I have nothing else to do: Why not inconvenient C.A.C.C. with challenges while upgrading my computer skills?
N.B.C. NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.) and A.B.C. WORLD NEWS (5:30-6:00 P.M.): The best current history can do for me on a Sunday!

(acerca de 2:00 P.M.) My account with Unemployment is dwindling: There is only a little over $2000 after the $103 stipend for last week.
Even though I still have money from the hurtful experience from C.A.C.C., if disability rejects me, I definitely will be “flipping burgers,” at least for a while!
As long as Deah is alive, I will remain as “semi-settled” as I can, even if that means demeaning jobs that, supposively, only illegal immigrants will do!
I was “low” on dish detergent, and Dr. Sligh is “bullish” on “Listerine” mouthwash. So, for $5.51, I restocked the two items from Winn-Dixie!
P.D. James doesn’t rely on commas, and her sentences can get awfully confussing! To whom are the pronouns referring?
“Speaking” of P.D. James, the second part of the film adaptation of “The Murder Room” was presented by MYSTERY! (9-10:30 P.M., P.B.S.) yesterday evening. The “ending” should be the same in the book and in the movie: It’s the “getting there” that interest me.
I may as well accept the fact that my four years at C.A.C.C. can never be used as reference: I have no employment record to show to potential employers! A lot of good it will do me to get angry: C.A.C.C. would have “won” even more!

(acerca de 3:42 P.M.) A half-pint milk, a small carton of grape juice, a piece of bread: That’s what Mary delivered from Mary (the bus driver Mary; Mary Mathis).
A bag of uncooked beans, a can of “Manwich”: I was hot and tired, and Mary Mathis wanted me to fix the right arm rest on her scooter. It “pivots,” and it shouldn’t!
But far be it for me to stop it! Contact the dealer about the problem!
It’s natural to be anxious about the future. By definition, that’s what the future is! Uncertainty.
And who among us aren’t “floored” by uncertainty?
C.A.C.C. is the past: A person should never cling to the past! All the challenges are desperate holds on the past, an attempt to finally make use of my Master’s degree at C.A.C.C.!
I need to cut my losses and move on! Although that’s easier said than done!
Is it really so bad if C.A.C.C. “won”? As I slid down the bannister of life, C.A.C.C. is nothing more than a splinter up my ass! And it’s not the first, and only, splinter!
Damn this humidity! If it “ain’t” the high-90⁰’s (F), the aftereffects are the upper-90⁰’s!
Deah was reduced to a wallow in the mud: The water in the stream was captured by Phoebus!
Rain allowed me to watch about 45-46 minutes of FAITH AND REASON (4-5:00 P.M., P.B.S,) yesterday afternoon: Deah’s “hike” was in the early evening.

(acerca de 4:26 P.M.) There are those that believe that “God” made the hole in the ground “overnight” (the Grand Canyon).
“Intelligent Design” more or less ___ science.
Yet these same theists will “pray” that, to be consistent with “Intelligent Design,” a “God”-created storm, flood, earthquake won’t kill them! How can that be?
Aren’t “you” spitting in the face of “God” by praying for what “God” wrought?
FRESH AIR, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, classical music, etc: All these, and more, public radio programs have, at one time or another, backed my juggling!
A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL (8-9:00 P.M., P.B.S.) yesterday evening presented a documentary about the “Republic,” a ship of the civil war (?) era. The reason I know about the program is because I was in this chair facing an activated television for the “final” 10-11 minutes of the show!

(acerca de 6:23 P.M.) I must review the recorded history, but “right off the top of my head,” I seem to remember something about a 1954 or 1956 United Nations resolution concerning free elections in Viet Nam, that the United States, out of fear for what democracy could bring, criticized and rejected.
Like it or not, Hamas is a democratically elected power in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority, just as Hezbollah is in Lebanon. The United States may talk about democratizing the Middle East - or rather the Bush administration demands that order - but, as it did in Viet Nam, it expects the end result of democracy to be to its liking!
After “The Murder Room,” I turned over to Channel 21 -”72” on the remote - for a half-hour of KING OF QUEENS (10:30-11:00 P.M.).

(acerca de 7:39 P.M.) Basically, Joyce “sponsored” Leslie, and Leslie was able to “hold on” until she got a better position.
The way I figure, non-probationary C.A.C.C. employees can “sponsor” part-time employees until the new hires become non-probationary. Of course, C.A.C.C. - and I’m sure it’s the same way with other two-year colleges in Alabama - makes it hard for the “sponsored” employee to stay at C.A.C.C. for three years!
$2.15 for a pack of cigarettes from the convenient store on the highway. And it’s still ridiculously hot outside!
It hebdomadal: STAR GAZER (11:30-11:35 P.M., P.B.S.)! I wish I had known that all these years!

(29th, About 8:39 A.M.) Once again, Phoebe had charge of Heat Lightning. Maybe someone should reconsider such an arrangement!
Everyone suffers from a need for attention! It’s just more intense in some people!
Ocassionally, the need for attention will manifest itself dangerously, as a suicide bomber, etc. Then there are those like me that have yet to completely outgrow sexual display, a bad but not deadly incarnation of the need for attention.
I cannot accept the fact that I will never work at C.A.C.C. again, even though it is a strong possibility I never will!

(acerca de 9:21 A.M.) Just because Joyce “hinted” that I would be better off with a minimum wage job, given the small amount of rent that I will pay each month, doesn’t mean that I will not be rehired by C.A.C.C.!
It may be beneficial if Joyce tells Disability Determination that I am “b__ off”! Her mis-conception of my handicap may finally serve a purpose!
Now, if only C.A.C.C. will “hint” at my “status”!
Gerty stated to me during a visit several weeks ago that it oftentimes take 2-3 times before one is “accepted” by Disability. Could that be because Disability wants to “see” if the disability has “improved” in 4-5 years and/or that a person is not just seeking an easy income?
A male child - 14-15 years of age - does a P.S.A. on public television. He discusses his interest in civil engineering. At one point, he utters, “Me and my mom” in the nomitive position in a sentence.
It would be better if the kid learns proper grammer than focussing all his time on math and engineering!

(acerca de 11:26 A.M.) I “ran” my first-ever “C.D.” on a computer! Should I be excited? Well, I “ain’t”!
I’m more excited about the letter I sent to S.A.C.S., complaining about the way my termination from C.A.C.C. was handled!
A word processed letter to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, based in Decatur, GA: The accrediting agency for institutions of higher learning in the Southeast. It was for S.A.C.S. that C.A.C.C. made such a Big Deal, back in October of 2004, that made the “Employee’s Handbook and Policy Manual” available to the staff and faculty of C.A.C.C., in the first place! C.A.C.C. had no intention of ever following the rules, but it needed to convince S.A.C.S. that it (C.A.C.C.) did. Although I have no doubt that S.A.C.S. was aware that C.A.C.C. was only “kissing up,” and really don’t care if C.A.C.C. ignores proper procedures!
But at least S.A.C.S. is now - or will be - aware that I know the “game” being “played”!
My first impression was that the female with PEEHIP was not truthful; that PEEHIP probably doesn’t know of my termination; and that a post-C.A.C.C. connection to PEEHIP via COBRA will not be forthcoming!
The printing of the letter to S.A.C.S. was 15¢, the delivery by the United States Postal Service was 39¢.
The final 4-5 minutes of THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER (5:30-6:25 P.M., P.B.S.) were blocked from this room yesterday evening, but the other “minutes” were informative as always.




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