Sandra de Bruin

            On Sunday morning I finished posting my translation of "Daisy Temple" and then I memorized his seven line song "Eau et gaz à tous les étages" (Gas and Water on All the Floors). It's a little joke lyric about how the sign on the building said "Gas and Water on All the Floor" and so on his way to his girlfriend's place he stops on every floor to piss and fart. Out of habit I searched for the chords but of course no one posted them. I worked out the first few chords of the intro. 

            I think the bite of my new crown is a little off. It grinded a couple of times while I was singing this morning. 

            I weighed 88.7 kilos before breakfast. 

            I spent a couple of hours around midday researching what courses I need to enrol in tomorrow and settled on Introduction to American Literature, Introduction to Indigenous Literature and Introduction to Shakespeare. These three are necessary for my English Specialist requirements. After that there might only be 2.5 specific credits needed and then I can finish my degree by picking courses that I absolutely want to take, like the one on psychoanalysis in literature. 

            I weighed 89 kilos before lunch. I had the rest of my Ritz crackers with five year old cheddar and a glass of lemonade. 

            I was late posting my blog and so I didn't leave for my bike ride until around 17:00. I rode to Yonge and Bloor. At Yonge and Dundas there was a small "Free Cuba" rally and someone was also standing in the sun roof of a car waving a Cuban flag. On Queen before University there was a bigger "Free Palestine" march. There were crowds cheering and clapping at almost every patio along Queen as the restaurants or bars had big screen TVs set up in their windows showing the big football match between England and Italy. 

            I worked on my poem series "My Blood In A Bug." 

            I finished sewing together the top and bottom leather pieces that are covering the right side of the front of my Roland amp towards its role in the video I'm making for my song "Instructions For Electroshock Therapy." Next I will fold the right sides of the two pieces around to sew them to the leather that's already covering part of the right side of the amp. 

            I worked on my cover letter to Exile Editions. I finished my short bio but I still have to come up with something nice to say about the publisher although I've never read anything they've put out. I like the name "Exile" because I feel like I am an exile and I like the fact that they publish writers from outside of the mainstream. I'll run that part by Albert Moritz and see if it's enough. 

            For dinner I had spiral macaroni topped by Basilicata sauce and old cheddar. I ate it with a beer while watching two episodes of Mayberry RFD involving Sam, Mike, Bee, Millie, Goober and Howard's visit to Palm Springs, California. 

            The first story begins on the plane and with Goober interrupting while Howard is tring to flirt with the flight attendant. The tension between Goober and Howard does not let off as they lose the coin toss with Emmett over which two people have to share the fifth bedroom. As the bickering builds, Sam tries to get Goober and Howard together by combining the main thing each one wants to do. Goober wants to drive a dune buggy and Howard wants to look for desert rocks. The buggy runs out of gas in the desert and Sam and Millie get a lift back to town to get gas leaving Goober and Howard to deal with one another in the desert heat. At first they keep arguing but as the heat gets worse they begin to think that it's the end and so they make up. 

            The flight attendant was played by Sandra de Bruin, who was a member of The Mighty Carson Art Players that would perform skits with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. She is also the creator of the bestselling "Actor's Audition Log." Her logs are now available as apps. She's appeared in more than a hundred TV series. 

            In the second story Sam runs into an old army buddy named Charlie who is working in Palm Springs as a golf pro. He invites Sam and Millie to the course for some lessons. Sam has to go but Millie is really taking to golf and wants to stay a little longer. Charlie says he'll bring Millie home but when he does he kisses her. She slaps his face and goes inside but is afraid at first to tell Sam because she thinks he might get violent with Charlie. The next day when she tells Sam that Charlie kissed her he begins to laugh and says, "Same old Charlie!" Now Millie is upset with Sam for taking her so much for granted that he's not even jealous. She goes back to flirt with Charlie to teach Sam a lesson but Charlie says he shoudn't have kissed her because she's Sam's "property." Millie decides to get dressed up for a date and make a show of it to Sam before leaving. She spends the night at a malt shop drinking malts telling her troubles to the woman behind the counter. On the way home she runs into Sam who confesses he was jealous and went out to look for her. She is happy to hear that. He suggests they go for a malt to celebrate.