Memoir Monday, Nov 18, 1966

Typical/Atypical Friday? 

Nov 18, 1966

Friday and I kinda had the fidgets. Went to Accounting and got Monday's assignment out of the way and finished my quilted outfit. The college directories are out. I was real pleased with that. Had lunch and went to History. Returned to the dorm--no notes or anything so I waited. I poured over the directory for two hours finding names and such and finally went to dinner. And luck would have it I ran into Jerry. He starts to kind of bug me. We were going to play pool (ye gods)  and ended up walking. I am going to have to turn him off. When I got back there was a note; Mom and Alex were in the lobby. We went to the library and finally down to the Valley. They ate and we talked and I finally went to bed on the cot about 12:00. What a day. But relax; as (Who??Can't read my own scribble) says, "You ain't seen nothing yet." 

So to go back and recap the week that just ended. 

November 12 and 13 were spent in Clarkdale. Did some foot trimming and Charlie Mike (CM) and I were riding when the Local came in. Learned Earl R is still in the hospital so I though I might send him a get well card as I doubt his wife would flip out! Then we went to the clinic--I stayed out as Mom still going--and on to Camp Verde and Montezuma. I drove much of the trip and was glad for a chance to keep my skill up. We celebrated Charlie Mike's birthday on Sunday which was a lovely day weather-wise.I got blisters as we cleaned most of the corrals. CM and I rode out the river road but not on across the flats. Nothing will ever be the same again; would I go back if I could? No...I wouldn't. We had a good dinner and I gave CM the camera I had got at Goodwill.  It was exactly like mine so I threw in a couple of rolls of film. He was tickled. We drove up to Flagstaff the next morning, later than I wished. I cut all my classes except Science since we were after 9:00 getting there, too late for English and so on. 

Back to business as usual on Tuesday. Nothing  exciting or exceptional.  Wednesday I found I had missed a 1 in accounting test by four lousy points, During the week I got letters from Judy, Jim M, and Shirl Coulter . (Judy and Shirl were long-term pen pals)  Jim wanted me to come down for the fall school play and said he would bring me back up. I argued with myself a bit but guess what won out. Why not?  So that happened the next week.

Before you wonder why I was starting to keep company with my old teacher when I was still very dedicated to Dusty, there was method in the madness. It played well at home to have an apparent "new suitor" in case the old issue of the 'railroad man' was to re-arise. And there were some rumors at Mingus that Mr M was gay so a "girlfriend" was useful for him. The Rodeo Club was planning a turkey shoot and I knew I would try to go. Then Thursday slid by with little fanfare. And Friday came along.

Photo scramble:  Two Class of '62 members that were involved with NAU: Jerry Airth who I have been mentioning and Lila Bentley who had been the roommate of my first roommate, Carol for two years. Never saw Canbys again. Then Jim M's infamous Green Mercury Cougar that we called the Green Hornet. And then two shots of Charlie Mike and me riding on some of my weekends back in Clarkdale. Almost always did some of that.  (Sorry--got lazy and did not flip the first one!)