Sirry Steffen

            On Wednesday morning I worked out most of the chords for "J'envisage" (I Imagine) by Serge Gainsbourg. I should have the song done tomorrow. 

            I weighed 85.4 kilos before breakfast. As usual, I didn't have time to eat more than a bowl of grapes because I had to leave for English in the World class. I'll leave a little later next time because I had to wait outside the class until 11:00 anyway. 

            Professor Percy had computer problems because there was a new computer in the classroom and she couldn't get it to communicate with her laptop in order to make the projector show her slides. She started the lecture without slides for about half an hour before the technician came. 

            We looked at the story "The Wizard of Khao-I-Dang" by Sharon May. The longest-lived refugee camp was on the Thailand-Cambodia border. It was closed in 1993. It was a camp of people rejected by more than one country and had a lot of well-educated refugees. It was the camp most serviced. 

            I said all translation is wizardry, turning one thing into something else, sometimes more real. 

            I said the character Richard was very arrogant to correct the spelling of the bar the "Bambu Gardin". If he'd seen a bar with that spelling in Australia he would have considered it to be a creative choice rather than something he needed to educate the owner about. 

            Fanta is made by Coke and Miranda is made by Pepsi. 

            I had five-year-old cheddar on Bavarian sandwich bread for lunch with a glass of lemonade. 

            I weighed 84.8 kilos at 17:05. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 17:22. 

            I wrote today's Exit Slip survey for my English in the World class. 

            I emailed my Medieval Literature professor to ask her for the email address of Alex, our TA. Professor Walton is a good instructor so far but this is a very shoddily administrated class. So far all I've received has been the syllabus. In any other course I've had, the TA would have sent us her email address and links to any relevant sites. We are supposed to post sign-up dates for our presentations but there has been no link. She said last night that she'd created a multi-channel Discord page for us but there has been no invitation to it. I found Alex's U of T email based on her last name and sent her a message. Hopefully, I'll get some assistance from the Teaching Assistant. 

            I read The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, which gives a brief history of the battles that led up to the Norman Conquest and a bit on William the Conqueror's rule. Apparently, he based the law on the ten commandments. 

            We're supposed to read something by William of Malmesbury but the syllabus doesn't say what and he wrote a lot.

            I started reading Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, which is full of fiction and magic, including a presentation of King Arthur as if he was an actual historical figure. 

            I made pizza on naan with Basilica sauce and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching episode five of The Beverly Hillbillies. 

            This story takes place directly after the previous one. The Clampetts' neighbour Mrs. Drysdale's fox fur had been shot by Jethro and she fainted. But Jed and Granny still believe that Mrs. Drysdale is a heavy drinker and Granny plans to cure her with her "sobering up mash", which contains coon root, retch weed, sour dod, skunk oil, chimney soot, spider web, horse spit, snake wort, pepper leaves, chicken gizzards, stump worm, coal oil, slippery elm ooze, and turpentine. And the biggest toad you can find. The toad is just a guinea pig to test it on and see how high it jumps. Then Mrs. Drysdale will need goat's milk every half hour to stop the burning. 

            Drysdale's secretary Jane Hathaway comes and rings the doorbell but the family doesn't know what the music means or where it's coming from. Jethro just knows that after it plays for a while somebody always knocks on the door. 

            Jed decides that it's time to take Mr. Drysdale's advice and buy some stock. Jane tells Jethro that they can buy stock over the phone and so Jed picks it up and dials some random numbers. He gets through to the operator, who hands him over to her supervisor, and eventually, he gets to buy the stock he's looking for, which is a pair of goats, three pigs, four cows, a bull, a mule, and a dozen chickens. When they get them they put them all in the tennis court because it has a fence around it. Mr. Drysdale almost cries when he sees them and Jed assumes it's out of happiness. 

            Granny makes the mash but the butler won't let them in. Granny and Elly don't know what a butler is and think that Butler must be Mrs. Drysdale's maiden name. But the butler takes the mash and gives it to the maid, Marie, who brings it upstairs. Mrs. Drysdale wakes up to see her poodle eating the stuff and then jumping around on its hind legs. Then they need to deliver the goat's milk but the butler refuses to take it. So Jethro carries the butler away and Elly goes in with the milk and a goat with a chicken on its back because that's the only way it will give milk, and leaves them in Mrs. Drysdale's bedroom. Then Jed hoists Granny up to Mrs. Drysdale's window with a rope. When Mrs. Drysdale sees what she thinks is a witch in her window and the goat in her bathroom she immediately starts packing to go back to Boston because now the doctors there can't possibly deny that she has a nervous condition. 

            Marie was played by Sirry Steffen (born Sigríður Geirsdóttir), who won the Miss Iceland contest in 1959. She entered the first Miss International contest which was held in California and was second runner-up and won Miss Photogenic. She decided to stay in Hollywood and pursue acting. Her first TV role was a small part in the detective series Michael Shayne in 1960. Her first movie was a small part in "Hitler" in 1962. She returned to Iceland in 1971 and became a singer. Her last film part was a major role in "Okkar á milli: Í hita og þunga dagsins" (Between us: In the heat and weight of the day). 

            I searched for bedbugs and found none.