Barbara Pariot

            On Tuesday morning I transcribed the lyrics for the 1964 Serge Gainsbourg song “Al Cassel’s Air” from the screenshot I’d made of the transcript after playing the YouTube video through the Vizard app. I then sang along with the audio and with a few adjustments I think it’s fairly accurate. The transcript had said “Harris bar” but I figured it must be “Harry’s Bar”. I started working on translating the first few lines and making them rhyme in aabbcc, etcetera. The two voices are drunk and so I have to take that into account as well. 

            I called Dentistry On Queen West to ask if they’d made any progress in referring me to a specialist to have my tooth extracted. The receptionist said that Dr. Singer looked at my X-ray and couldn’t find anything to justify an extraction. That’s bizarre since several dentists have warned me over the last few years that tooth needs to come out. I’ve been holding onto it to wait until it hurts and now it does. Dr. Singer’s inability to recognize a tooth that even a hygienist said had severe bone loss justifies why he’s not qualified to do extractions. The receptionist said Singer wanted me to get justification from the dentist I’ve been seeing at the U of T Periodontic Clinic as to why the tooth needs to be removed before he’ll give me a referral. I’m not going go through all that red tape just to get a tooth pulled when I’m pretty sure I can find a real dentist to do it. After song practice I went to Family Dentistry on Queen and made an appointment for tomorrow evening. I was told it was possible that after the examination that the dentist could do the extraction during the same appointment. I requested that the Graduate School and Dentistry on Queen West send them their X-rays. 

            I weighed 86.5 kilos at 11:45.

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back stopped at Freshco to buy grapes. I got five bags of green grapes. Priscilla the cashier tried to find me a cheaper price match but couldn’t. 

            I weighed 87.3 kilos at 18:23, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since April 26. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 20:04. 

            I finished adding shades of blue to the sepia copy of frame 24 of my rainbow wave animation. There are five frames left to do. I made a sepia copy of frame 25 and enlarged it to 1808 X 535 pixels like the others. When I copy these frames into Word to change them to sepia, Word changes the size and so I have to resize them in Paint. 

            I cut two racks of pork ribs into pieces of three ribs each and grilled them in the oven. I had three ribs with a potato and the rest of my gravy while watching season 1, episode 7 of The Bill Cosby Show.

            Student Laurie Nelson comes to Chet’s office to give him some cookies that her mother made. He appreciates the gesture and likes the cookies but wonders why she is giving them. She says it’s because she likes him. Later she brings him a layer cake that her mother made. She tells him he’s good looking. Eddy Tucker tells Chet he can’t come to gym class because he sprained his hand. Chet suddenly tosses him a basketball and he reflexively catches it without pain. Chet says, “See you in gym class”. Chet talks to Marsha the counselor and says he thinks Laurie has a crush, but Marsha doesn’t think it’s very serious. Then Laurie leaves Chet flowers with a note inviting him to dinner at her home. Marsha tells him to be honest and to tell her to stop dropping by his office. When he does so Laurie starts to cry. Chet says he’s going to go call her mother. When he leaves Laurie stops pretending to cry. Eddy comes by the office and Laurie tells him he can take her to the movies if he wants. Eddy says he thought she liked Mr. Kincaid. She says she was just trying to hook him up with her mother. Chet meets her mother and decides he should have dinner at her house after all and that they should send Laurie to bed early. 

            Laurie was played by Barbara Pariot, who was the speaking (not singing) voice of Valerie Brown of Josie and the Pussycats, the first regularly appearing black female Saturday morning cartoon character. She married Bob Illes and changed her last name. She became a jewellery designer and was the owner of Barbara Illes Designs.