21 April 2015

Notes - articulation woes / everyday reality / routine PM

         You are still looking for a word for spooky and awoke during the night with ‘Casper’ on your mind, like Casper the Friendly Ghost. This reminds you of the Holy Ghost from the lines of Jimmy Buffet’s song, “Vampires Mummies and the Holy Ghost”. – Amorella

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Vampires, Mummies & The Holy Ghost Lyrics

"Vampires, Mummies & The Holy Ghost" was written by Jimmy Buffett; Roger Guth; Jim Mayer; Peter Mayer.


Oh rock and roll is a scary business no hit records
No MTV videos, you'll never make it here, scary
Not, let's do it coral reefers

Looked in my laptop, what did I see?
A flashin' message said, "Today: Therapy"
Rather walk through fire than converse with my shrink
But I'm getting better that's what some people think

Talk about denial and dysfunctional things
Head's like a bell some days it dongs and it dings
Me brain's playin' tricks on me it likes to shift gears
Spend lots of money, but I'm tacklin' my fears

Now vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost
These are the things that terrify me the most
No aliens, psychopaths or MTV hosts scare me
Like vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost

Had a dream last night took a time travellin' ride
Back to my childhood where those monsters reside
They snack on innocence and dine on self-esteem
But I like to be in touch with what makes me scream

Vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost
These are the things that terrify me the most
No alien, psychopath or MTV host scares me
Like vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost

I was never ever frightened
By the murderer on our block
He nurtured orchids and raised hamsters
The neighborhood is still in shock

So many dragons lurking out in the fog
So many crazy people mumblin' monologues
It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read
I need protection from the things in my head

Like vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost
These are the things that terrify me the most
No alien, psychopath or MTV host scares me
Like vampires, mummies and the Holy Ghost

From -- http://wwwDOTmetrolyrics.com/vampires-mummies-the-holy-ghost-lyrics-jimmy-buffett.html

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         0901 hours. This is one of my favorite Jimmy Buffet songs.

         Why? – Amorella

         0902 hours. I cannot articulate this reasonably.

         “Dark Humor” will suffice, boy. – Amorella

         0905 hours. Simply put, thank you. I would have never thought of that.

         That’s because you sometimes make things in your head more complicated than they are. – Amorella

         0909 hours. Memories recollected and resurrected.

         Post. - Amorella

         0911 hours. Dark humor doesn’t always work. The wind has picked up and the trees are shaking. Blue skies and sunny weather now, but it is supposed to rain. It is time for a nap before I do my exercises.

         Enjoy your nap, boy. - Amorella


        You rested but then Carol suggested the community center so, she walked nine laps and you walked six, the last two without stopping. This shows you can do two laps at a time to build up your endurance. You also wore your CIA cap given to you by a friend to encourage the question of who you were to students and some faculty alike. Today however you were suddenly concerned that someone might think you were impersonating a CIA officer and if someone asked you were going to say, “It was given to me by an old friend with a sense of humor. I wear it in the darkest of humor.” I added the last part because that is what you are thinking. – Amorella

         1117 hours. My best friend at old Mason was/is Gary P. He helped me out by listening and talking. When he saw me wearing the hat for ‘hat day’ the first time he smiled and said, “You are the central intelligence agency, orndorff.” That was a joke too, but as a newcomer to the school people didn’t know what to think of me but assumed I was pretty smart. I suppose because I had been teaching at Indian Hill. Then the question, why did orndorff come to Mason from IH? There were always questions. Why were you in South America? Why are you so quiet and reserved? Why do you teach literature like it is a college course? You are the only teacher with a brand new VW.GTI. Why do you live in ‘little’ Mason? I was the new kid on the block and nothing much went on in the little farm town of Mason, Ohio. Kids wanted a story and some members of the faculty told them some. Rumors of CIA and the like. I was the new entertainment.

         Nothing wrong with telling the truth, boy. Post. – Amorella

         1129 hours. I probably should put the cap away and get something else distinctive, a cap that counterbalances my black beret.

         Look, and perhaps you will find something else that also fits your personality. Orndorff, the biggest joke is that no one in their right mind, after looking at you, would think you were ever in the CIA. – Amorella


         1134 hours. I forgot that. Gary and I used to joke about it because I told him those CIA fellows that were at our wedding in Alexandria, Virginia didn’t look kike CIA people either; they were just two normal looking forty-five to fifty year olds. We thought it was funny and even added to the rumors long before the cap made the scene. Such is our world, full of fantasy and intrigue – anything to blight out the everyday reality most people live. I’ll look for a new summer cap to cover my balding head.

         You watched last week’s “Grimm” while Carol was having her hair cut. Now, you are at the north lot of Pine Hill Lakes Park. The redbuds are really out and many tree leaves are uncurled and out. Carol is starting page one of a new book, The Target by David Baldacci. – Amorella

         You have some six hundred words on Dead Nine but as you think – you didn’t have your heart into it. – Amorella

         1607 hours. Or my mind either, Amorella; it doesn’t have a reason to it.

         Yes it does – but the thought is not expressing itself. Perhaps later. – Amorella

         1610 hours. We are at Kroger’s before heading home.

         You and Carol had left over turkey-veggie soup for supper and watched “Castle” and NCIS.LA” as well as NBC News. She is upstairs to read and you will go up after you take you pen-shot at nine. – Amorella

         2035 hours. I don’t mind taking the shot. Pricking the finger for blood hurts once in a while but the pen-shot has never hurt, at least not so far. Carol just turned on the television; she likes background noise I think it helps her concentrate on reading. I have nothing going on in my head. I am alive, I exist, that is about the extent of it at the moment. I did make up a new word today, unless someone else has the name coined already. There is an article online about a store in Japan that now has a ‘bot’ receptionist. Introducing the article on my FB page I call her a livebot. She can’t answer questions though. I figure that we will soon have ‘bots’ that look mostly human and will have a Suri like voice. I think men don’t like themselves all that much and would rather make the bots look feminine. I enjoy a feminine voice on my GPS. I like the English sounding lady better. I know some women give their cars a male name and some men give their cars a woman’s name. Does that make people sexist? I try to always thank Suri for responding with an answer or a reply. She responds to the thank you politely. Being polite is a part of being civilized. Bots should be programmed likewise. Why not?

         Not everyone would agree orndorff. Bots you are speaking of are machinery created to be humanoid-like. Isn’t making them appear and sound human dishonest? – Amorella

         2052 hours. No doubt a lot of being polite is dishonest also. Politeness is a bumper, a kind of armor plate each person has for the first line of self-protection. It is a camouflage of sound and behavior that helps keep people civil, like dressing for business or for pleasure, formal or informal. When in Rome as the old Latin saying goes, act like a Roman. Actually, the phrase is attributed to St. Ambrose – Medieval Latin: “si fueris Rōmae, Rōmānō vīvitō mōre; si fueris alibī, vīvitō sicut ibi.” The preceding translation comes from wiktionaryDOTorg so it is easier to imagine St. Ambrose actually using the words.

         Time to take your shot and retreat to the bedroom to listen to some music on the headphones before going to bed. -Amorella

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