Julia Foster

            On Tuesday morning I found the lyrics for "On n'est pas là pour se faire engueuler" (We Didn’t Come Here to be Shouted At) by Boris Vian and copied them into a document to begin translating them.

            I memorized the lyrics for “Les beaux lolos de Lola” by Serge Gainsbourg and almost worked out all the chords. That was quick.

            I continued to type my lecture notes.

            I washed another section of the kitchen hallway floor so that now all that’s left to clean there is a patch in the northeast corner by the door.

            I had tuna with green salsa and salt and vinegar chips for lunch.

            In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. In this story Kingfish's brother-in-law Leroy says he is going to go away for two years to work in South America. He leaves a hundred shares of nearly worthless oil stock for Kingfish to hold onto for him. But after Leroy leaves Kingfish decides to convince Andy that the stock is worth a dollar a share. Andy gives Kingfish $100. Later however Kingfish intercepts a letter addressed to Leroy and it’s from someone is offering to buy the shares for $1500. Kingfish tries to steal the shares back from Andy but when that fails they decide to go halves on it. But then Leroy doesn’t go to South America after all and asks for his shares back. Kingfish goes to Stonewall the lawyer who advises him to convince Leroy that the oil stock is worthless because the wells have dried up and to get someone to pose as an oil tycoon offering him $100 for his shares. Kingfish tells Stonewall he’ll go far as a lawyer but Stonewall says he’s gone about as far as he can go without a license. Andy poses as a Texas tycoon and Leroy takes the $100 for the stock. Then Kingfish tries to rub it in and tells Leroy that he just gypped him. Leroy informs Kingfish that he was the one that sent the letter to himself saying the stock was worth a lot. In reality the stock is worthless.

            I continued to type my lecture notes.

            For dinner I had three small potatoes, a sautéed orange pepper, two chicken drumsticks and some gravy while watching the third episode of the current season of Doctor Who.

            Spoiler alert!

            In this story the Doctor and her team are teleported to Tranquility Spa and things start going wrong right away. A virus that can affect both computers and people infects Ryan, but the Doctor catches it in time and gets it out of him. While he’s recuperating he meets Bella. There is a breach from outside of the spa and the Doctor infiltrates security to find there are only two security personnel, the leader being a woman named Kane. She also discovers that the spa is on an orphan planet, meaning it’s a world that has died. This specific world is called Orphan 55. But uncharacteristic of an orphan planet there are actually creatures called Dregs living on carbon dioxide in the outer world. The Doctor fixes the force field to keep the Dregs out but Bennie, one of the guests is shut outside and Vilma, his partner insists that they have to go out and rescue him. When Kane finds Bennie he has already been tortured by the Dregs and so she kills him out of mercy. They escape to the tunnels where they find Russian writing and it is revealed that Orphan 55 is actually a future Earth. Bella turns out to be Kane’s daughter and plans to sabotage the spa for revenge but they reconcile. They get back to the spa through a Dreg nest. The hopper virus had disabled the transporters but a genius boy mechanic uses the virus to fix them and they all teleport out to their points of origin.

            Vilma was played by Julia Foster, who was in Hard Days Night.