26 March 2013

Notes - "old agnostic" / 13, 14, 15 summary work


         0950 hours. Breakfast and the paper earlier. Sitting in the bedroom with the window shade open full; we still have snow flurries, they haven't stopped. It is a wintery scene but not so much as yesterday. Carol just went to the basement, I suppose for exercises. I better get with it.

         Late morning and your exercises are completed. Almost time for a hot bath then preparation for the dentist mid-afternoon. Last night Rob F. joined your Link In and when you saw the last name you thought of a brother and sister at Whitehall-Yearling High School back in 1967-1969. You did not have the brother, Rob, but you did have the sister, Carol, for Freshman Honors English. You also taught junior American literature classes your second and third year of teaching. This morning, after a note to Rob (who teaches hydraulics systems to businesses) last night, you received a kind note from Carol who is a professional writer. You also received another note from Rob mentioning that he is a year older than his sister. You told them that their contacts made your day, which they have. They are the only two names of students that you remember from Whitehall-Yearling. You feel good and as you say, 'contact with former students keeps you young'. Also, as you have been prone to say, "I loved the literature, the grammar and the writing (my classes) and I loved my students, I can't say which I loved better." Perhaps you will never be able to say which or who you love(d) more, boy because they are so intertwined. As an old friend (now diseased) might say, "Consider it a blessing you old agnostic." As this leaves you speechless, so to speak, post. - Amorella


        You are home from the dentist. He declared the tooth fine for a cap after the X-rays and you will have this done on 25 April after your trip West. Carol is thinking about getting out of the house (she has been working on going through and cleaning up old basement stored elementary school lessons and the like she has been saving for Jen in Florida.
         1508 hours. I must have been thinking of Bob earlier, he would have said, "Consider it a blessing you old bastard."  So the "old" was the giveaway.
         Shows you he's still around down there in heartansoulanmind. - Amorella
         Good. That helps make my day even better. I will begin with setting up the four folders to place the chapter segments in summary.
         Nearing suppertime and you are sitting at McD's on Tylersville after each earlier having a Graeter's kid's dip cup. Carol is on page 495 of The Innocent. You finished the chapter segment summaries and now have just the three chapter short summaries to do. - Amorella
         1731 hours. I need to dress these summaries for consistency with the other summaries. This gets easier each time I do them. By sometime tomorrow I should have chapters 13, 14 and 15 online and be ready to begin the next three chapters. I have audio drafts to work on also.
         Looks like Carol is beginning to read Chapter 99. Time to head home, boy. - Amorella
         2127 hours. I have completed the chapter summaries as well as the shorter segment summaries.
         You had Papa John's usual pizza for supper as you watched "Bones", NBC News, and "Red Widow". During lunch (meatloaf sandwiches and chips) you watched last night's "Castle". You want to be in bed for sleep by ten rather than the usual eleven to eleven-thirty. Tomorrow we put together chapter drafts thirteen, fourteen and fifteen for whoever wants to read them from the blog or from download. Post. - Amorella

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