A Zebra was running on the expressway yesterday. He escaped from the circus at Phoenix Arena.
(First grade class yesterday waiting for counselor to come speak to class)
Me: What does the counselor do?
Student: She does what she does?
Atlanta has Las Vegas weather for a while. We will have a high of 60• tomorrow, and 55• today.
Teacher who doesn't want to teach today--I take the phone off the hook and don't return messages.
It's good everyone who's frustrated with the IRS doesn't fly a plane into one of its buildings. I'm also glad every professor who doesn't get tenure doesn't shoot and kill her coworkers.
I can't wait to see Ralph, the world's largest bunny, on The Early Show. That's right up there with more about Tiger Woods' apology for adultery. Who needs God, a 12 step program, therapy, priests and confession when you can call a press conference? Guess it's a slow news day.
I wonder if I should call a press conference and publicly apologize on TV to my children for all my shortcomings as a mom and promise to be a better mom for the rest of my life.
Maybe today I'll start the Southbeach Diet and resume the battle of the bulge.
Thrill of the day--I take off the CPAP mask and get a cup of coffee in my new favorite cup. I am not giving up coffee on the Southbeach Diet.
Question: What should I give up for Lent?
Answer: Skydiving; hiking in the dessert; trying out for American Idol, Biggest Loser, and Survivor; watching The Bachelor, Jerry Springer, and The 700 Club. I hope that will be enough of a sacrifice.
It is time to meditate and clear my mind of any other random thoughts left after sharing my random thoughts on cyber paper with my two sons. Have a great day. I love you much.
Mom
Feb 19, 2010, at 10:39 AM, David
So within 6 months zebras *and* fish have been on the Atlanta expressways.
You don't need to hold a press conference. Checks will do just fine. ;-)
I wonder if the professor's emotional volatility had anything to do with his not getting tenure?
Is the CPAP working?
Love you,
David
Feb 19, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Thomas
I don’t watch TV anymore. For months really. I think it’s uncreative. I do however have dreams similar to zebras walking down the street. Nice visual of the fish and zebras. Mom, I cancelled my Bank of America account. They screwed me for the last time. Now I’m going to devote a lot of photography to smear them. I’m joining teams with a lawyer in town to combat them. They will eat themselves alive before it’s all over. As one of my friends says, it’s really Bank of India. She sends payments to them, Bank of America/India. Nothing has been returned yet. They are all crooked liars. They basically kept me on that day you and I went to the bank so they could raise the percent interest up a little more.
Thomas
Feb 19, 2010, at 12:45 PM, David
Okay, I'll bite: what happened with Bank of America? All the credit card companies went nuts last year because of new regulations that kicked in this month. They had to get all their cheating in at the last minute.
I had an automatic transfer set up between my Chase bank account and my Chase credit card. They raised the minimum to $10 over the autopay so I got charged a late fee and they raised my APR to almost 30%. Yes, 29%. That's the kind of thing the new regulations prevent.
Send a thank you note to Senators Dodd and Gillenbrand of CT and NY for sponsoring the legislation.
David
Feb 19, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Rozanne
Good for you. Did you get back with girl at the bank here in town you talked to so she can follow up and see what happened? She'll get something done; she did for me but it took persistence.
Get pictures of the foreclosures in Las Vegas, interview the family, and find out which bank foreclosed on them. Document, document, document. This is as important to history as the dust bowl, the depression, etc. Maybe you can get an artists' grant to do your project. I'm sure Las Vegas has some kind of arts council. There may be grants from national arts foundations. Google them and apply for a grant with all of them. I had a grant from a local civic association to fund my poetry projects for kids in inner city schools. I even got the utility company to publish about 1000 copies of my book of poetry of the elderly though I did the layout and design as well as typed it all in the precomputer days.
The grants are out there, and so is money from corporations. I bet all the small businesses near you would support you at least $500 or maybe even $5000 as a tax write off. Talk to Chamber of Commerce, civic organizations like the Kiwanis, and realtors.
Understate by a photo and an interview of what's really happening to ordinary people like you. Be sure and get a signed release for photo and interview. I think the economy is the biggest issue-- people going under by losing jobs, escalating health bills because of lack of health insurance, and high credit card fees/credit card debt. Start locally and move out. In fact start where you live with your own circumstance.
Mom
Feb 19, 2010, at 12:45 PM, David
Yeah, I agree Thomas. NV is at the epicenter of a historical period. You're lucky to be there with talent to document.
Check out Walker Evans.
David
Feb 19, 2010 1:52 PM Rozanne
Yes, definitely Walker Evans. I think that's who I meant when I said Edward Weston. Check out both of them. You are definitely as good a photographer plus you have more technical equipment than they did
I only had small grants, but it was enough to give me legitimacy so I could do my poetry projects. ($700 or $1000). I also got a grant from a civic organization. This was all about the time of the custody junk-- I was the unstable artist. David was in middle school and you were in first grade when I did the poetry in six or seven intown schools on my little bitty grants. It got me in the door as I was sponsored by city and county grants, etc.
You can do it, Thomas. At least you don't have two young children and a custody suit accusing you of being an unfit father. I was about your age when I did all that. David probably remembers more than you do. I still have all the 100s of children's poems from that era during the child murders. Also I have multiple photos and poems of the elderly in that period. I was quite prolific at the time, but soon I was in so much grief I only wrote about custody for years and abandoned my work with children and the elderly. I bet David would help you write your first grant. Besides I bet he could write some grand haiku to go with your photos and interviews.
I think I told you for years I wanted to travel across country, live in shelters, interview folks, take photos and write poems of folks who end up in such dire circumstances. Instead, I've gone the incognito route, mainstream route, substituting in schools. Now I've lost the desire to go on the road. Do it now because this creative
Mom
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