C. Lindsay Workman

            On Tuesday morning I published “Freeze”, my translation of “32 Fahrenheit” by Serge Gainsbourg on my Christian’s Translation blog. I also posted the lyrics on Facebook. There are only seventeen Gainsbourg songs left in my project. I listened twice to his song “Love Fifteen” and tomorrow I’ll start memorizing it. 

            I weighed 87.4 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I sanded the right side of the western wall of my bathroom and the edges of the left side. I should have that wall done tomorrow and then all that’s left for sanding with the stepladder will be the upper part of the southern wall. 

            I weighed 87.25 before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            When I got home there was an email from Richard Olafson with the revised layout of my book. He put George Elliott Clarke’s and Allan Briesmaster’s blurbs on the back cover, but I think George’s blurb is too long and meandering, so I suggested a boiled down version that I edited. He asked about Albert Moritz’s blurb and so I nudged Al about it. I pointed out to Richard that the title on the spine of the cover is misspelled as “Paranpoc Utopia” and everywhere in the book and on the back blurb it is misspelled as "Paranoic Utopia". The only places it is spelled correctly is in the poem “Paranoiac Utopia” and on the front cover where the title is part of the artwork. I also hope that the bar code can be moved slightly to the right so it doesn’t eclipse one of the images in the artwork. 

            I weighed 87.05 kilos at 17:30. 

            It was cloudy until about 19:00 and so around then I went out with my camera and tripod to look for people to put on video for my project. I walked to Sorauren, east to Elm Grove and then back to West Lodge before going home. The guy who begs in front of my building says he saw Whispering Ghost a few days ago and mentioned that I want to reshoot that video I took of him. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 20:30. 

            I had a potato with gravy and my last three pork ribs while watching season 6, episodes 17 and 18 of Bewitched. 

            In the first story Samantha thinks that Tabitha is ready for kindergarten but given that she still doesn’t control her powers, Darrin is doubtful. Endora suggests a private warlock tutor named Professor Poindexter Phipps. Samantha thinks it’s a good idea and Darrin is willing to try it as long as the teacher doesn’t teach Tabitha witchcraft. Poindexter agrees because he is first and foremost an educator. But when he is reading to Tabitha about The Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist, Tabitha wants to know what he looks like, so Poindexter conjures the character. When Samantha meets the Dodger he steals her wedding ring. She tells Poindexter to send him back in the book but he says he’ll return his teaching aid when he’s ready. Meanwhile Endora learns that Darrin’s job in advertizing is to come up with clever slogans. She casts a spell to make him use clichés all the time. At work Darrin is using clichés whenever he speaks but when H.B. Summers wants him to come up with a new slogan Darrin refuses because he’s already designed a sloganless campaign for the farm machinery company. Darrin realizes he’s under a spell and rushes home. Samantha makes her mother remove the spell but Darrin as usual can’t keep his mouth shut and tells Endora to buzz off. Endora casts another spell to make Darrin say clichés but at the same time for them to be acted out. Later when Darrin says “time flies” his watch tries to float away. More things like that follow as he tries to convince Summers that slogans can be overdone. Darrin calls home to say he’s under another spell. It’s out of control and so Darrin leaves the lunch meeting to go home. Larry and Summers follow him. When Darrin talks about playing ball with Summers they are suddenly wearing New York Mets baseball uniforms. That’s when Samantha freezes everybody and calls her mother. She removes the spell then Samantha unfreezes Darrin. They move Larry and Summers to the couch, put drinks in their hands and then she unfreezes them. They remind Summers how much he said he likes Darrin’s campaign even though he really hasn’t seen it. 

            In the second story Samantha has come home to find that while babysitting, her mother has redecorated her living room in Louis XIV style. Samantha changes it back to her own furniture, Endora reverses that and they are going back and forth like that when Darrin’s mother Phyllis walks in and faints. When she comes to she thinks she has lost her mind and plans on going to a rest home. Samantha and Darrin agree that the only recourse is to tell Phyllis the truth about Samantha being a witch. She has to demonstrate until Phyllis is convinced. But then when Darrin’s father Frank comes and Phyllis tells him Samantha is a witch, Samantha seems to have lost her powers. So once again Phyllis thinks she’s going mad and checks into a sanitarium. Endora informs Samantha that she didn’t lose her powers but the Witches Counsel shut them off because she was about to reveal the existence of witches to humans. Samantha has to save Phyllis without proving she’s a witch. She finds where Phyllis is staying and transforms her tranquilizers into hallucinogens. Then the doctor sees them and tells her why she’s been seeing things. Phyllis feels better about her sanity. 

            The rest home doctor was played by C. Lindsay Workman, who studied literature and acting in college. His first television role was on Blondie in 1957. He played Reverand Adams on Here Come the Brides. He played Otto Brockmeyer on Julia. He taught theatre at Scripps College.