My right arm still hurts a lot but my mobility is improving since my accident a week ago. I can raise both arms in front of me and spread them wider than yesterday. Also in the last few days I've been able to work the mouse with my right hand whereas before I had to use the left.
I finished memorizing "La p’tite Agathe" by Serge Gainsbourg and looked for the chords. None were posted and so I started working them out. So far it seems to be pretty much a one chord song. I'll probably have it finished tomorrow.
I weighed 89.6 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I went out to Vina Pharmacy to pick up my prescription for psoriasis cream. The last time they didn't charge me but this time the cost was $2.50. When I asked about it the counter guy explained that within any given year the Ontario government will pay for medications after I've spent $100, but since I've only paid about $12 this year I'm being charged after the deduction of my coverage by Green Shield. I guess last time when they didnt charge me it was just a mistake. My chances of spending $100 on medications in a year is pretty slim.
I went to No Frills where I bought a basket of nectarines, three mangoes, four bags of red grapes, a bag of potatoes, Sunlight dishwashing detergent, spoon size shredded wheat, lemonade, sea salted crackers and skyr.
I weighed 88.6 kilos before lunch. I had Breton crackers with five year old cheddar and a glass of lemonade.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride all the way to Yonge and Bloor for the first time since last Friday's accident. My confidence is diminished because of fear of falling while I'm still wounded, but I continue to pass other cyclists. I could have worn shorts but once I start wearing pants again it would have to be very hot out for me to change back. I weighed 89.3 kilos when I got home.
I re-read "On the Emigration to America" by Philip Freneau. It's in iambic tetrameter with an ababcc rhyme scheme like the sestet at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet. The first stanza refers to Palemon who escaped Rome and founded Lithuania. So Europe in that era is compared to the Roman Empire.
I downloaded The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass from Library Genesis for my US Literature course.
I read the poem "The Slave Mother" by Frances Harper a few times. It depicts a slave mother having her child taken from her arms. The iambic trimeter rhymes convey a sense of breathless urgency. The rhyming of only two lines in each stanza reflects that sense of disconnection conflicting with attachment.
I made pizza on a slice of Bavarian sandwich bread with Milanese sauce and extra old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching an episode of Gomer Pyle.
In the story Gomer is crossing the street absent mindedly in front of a car. He steps back and stumbles on the sidewalk as the car passes. He is approached by an ambulance chaser named Henshaw who insists that Gomer is injured. Gomer says he's not but Henshaw says Gomer doesn't know. Later Henshaw comes to see Sergeant Carter and is able to manipulate him into helping him make Gomer cooperate in sueing the driver. Whenever Henshaw is asked if he's an attorney he says, "I'm glad you asked me that." He takes Gomer to see a Dr. Purdy who is as much a doctor as Henshaw is a lawyer. Purdy is in league with Henshaw and does something to Gomer's back to make him feel worse. The day of the accident Henshaw had copied down the license plate and found that the driver's name is Clark. Henshaw's intention is to bring Gomer to confront Clark and to get an out of court settlement of $5000. Clark turns out to be a Marine major and when he asks Gomer if he was injured he finally has the chance to say he wasn't. Clark threatens Henshaw and Purdy with legal action and they leave.
Henshaw was played by Bernard West, who was once in a stand up comedy team with Michael Ross. The two men became writing and producing partners on shows such as All In The Family, The Jeffersons and Three's Company. They adapted All In The Family from the British sitcom "Till Death Do Us Part" and won an Emmy for writing one of the episodes. They created the character of Maude played by Bea Arthur for the show as well as the spin-off in which she starred. Three's Company was adapted from the British show "Man About the House." West played a songwriting dentist in both the Broadway and film versions of "The Bells Are Ringing."
Purdy was played by Jay Novello, who was the son of Italian immigrants. He grew up in a diverse neighbourhood in Chicago and in addition to speaking English and Italian he picked up a lot of German and Greek. His affinity for languages got him work as a dialect specialist in radio. He played Mayor Lugato on McCale’s Navy.
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