GJ Willis' Art Notes
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The Adventures and Misadventures of a Neer Do Well Artist Living in Baltimore. |
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About Me
I am a visual artist and writer living in Baltimore. I don't have any artist friends. Frankly, artists scare me, there so darn flaky. The above picture is either of me or proof that I'm a pretty decent artist. My goal is to be a self sufficient artist, whereas I wouldn't have to do something else in the day in order to eke out an existence. I also like to attend various cultural events around town. I go to plays, the symphony, etc. Also, I have Asperger's Syndrome. I found this out recently and it has explained a heck of a lot as to why I am as I am.
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Friday, February 29, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE: WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE: DAD IN ICU I had not stepped foot in that particular hospital since I used to work there a decade ago. I felt a little disturbed that the nursing home refused to tell his ICU doctor what medicines they were giving him. Eventually, they relented and told him. I feel this is extremely odd. For all we know they could have been giving him the wrong meds and not bothering to check what they give patients. This is very dangerous. My father is a heart patient he also had a bad reaction to a heart medication called Coreg. I am 100% positive that he will be released soon. I will visit him again today with Pepprich Farms oatmeal raison cookies. Oddly, yesterday I was trying to call my cousin Darlene to tell her what happened. The only thing was that I had misstyped her number into my computer. Luckily almost as if by magic she called me up. Then I told her what happened to my father. AMERICAN IDOL WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE: Yesterday, the light rail driver that stalled at each stop made me just a couple of minutes late. The bus driver today of the #20 bus kind of reminded me of Pearl Bailey with a mid sized teeny weeny afro. The Republican nominee for city council in my district got on the bus. He usually takes the bus everywhere. I believe he is developmentally disabled. I think it was brave of him to run for office despite the odds. My district is predominently Democratic and African American. This morning my right hand is not tingling like it was yesterday. I believe I found out the cause of the tingling hand when I went to visit my father yesterday. NURSING HOME SHOCK! Anyway, I went to visit him as I usually do and found to my shock that he was not there. I asked the male nurse who works on floor and sees me daily. He asked my name. I told him. He checked his book and told me that he could not tell me where my father was because my name was not on the list of people who he was authorized to give information to. The only people on that list are my sister and my two nieces. This is extremely ironic because they rarely visit him. In fact they have never seen him since he moved into the nursing home. Im the only one who is there daily. I felt left out and dejected. Maybe they all hate me and feel Im not worthy of knowing what is going on with my father. Im feeling miserable for being shut out. The only consolation I have is that my brother and my nephew were also left off the list. The male nurse was nice enough to see the situation that was going on and gave me my nieces phone number to call. He told me that they had contacted her this morning to tell her they moved him. I was surprised by this because her phone has been disconnected. It was her super secret cell phone number that he gave me. The only way I can get contact information from her is not from her but her sister. I feel that she does not for some reason like me. I wonder what it was I did to maker her shut me out of my own fathers life as well as her own. Whenever I come over to visit she usually hides out in her room. Everyone says HI in the house except her. Why does she hate me? Anyway, I e-mailed my other niece and she told me that she did not know anything until she came in. She got a text message from her sister but it did not say what hospital my father was in. I was paralyzed with fear. I was stuttering when I was talking to the other sister. It was so severe that my niece thought the phone was breaking up. She had no idea that when nervous, frightened, etc. I stutter. WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 WALKING LOG
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Monday, February 25, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE: WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 SUNDAY As I was half way up the street heading home from there house I realized that I left my handbag at there house so I had to turn back and retrieve it. Sadly, I missed my bus and had to wait an hour to catch the next one. I had intended to be downtown to visit my father around 6pm. I did not get there until after 7pm. I bought three boxes of cookies for him, Lorna Doone’s, Nilla Wafers, and Peppridge Farms Oatmeal raisin cookies. He immedialty selected the Lorna Doones. I suppose he likes cookies that are not too sweet. His other favorite cookie are graham crackers. He told me to take the other boxes back because he was afraid that they might attract mice or something. I did not get home until around 9:20. I got home in time to see Tilda Swinton win for Best Supporting Actress. I never realized how tall and pale she is. I have a feeling I will be later than usual tomorrow for work. In years past I would take the day after the Academy Awards off because I like to watch it until the bitter end. I did the same tonight but I forgot to schedule the following Monday off. I suppose I will be half awake tomorrow... WALKING LOG
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 SATURDAY While visiting my father I told him that the doctors told Alexis that they are thinking about releasing him in eight days. It all depends on how he progresses. I was surprised that they had not bothered to tell him. LATHCHIN I found tons of videos but none on how the latchin technique is done. I do not want to pay $16 to download a manual that may or may not contain pictures. And if it contains photos they might be grainy dodgy looking ones where you can barely make out whats going on. I did find a video of someone using a latch hook to do hair. The probelm with that video was that it had very bad lighting. You could barely make out the steps used in using the latch hook. I bought a latch hook a couple of years ago intending to use the latchin technique via the directions Ive read on some websites. The problem is that they are directions without pictures or diagrams. I need to see a visual to ensure that I am doing things correctly. Words are not enough I need pictures too. This makes sense because people like myself who have Aspergers Syndrome are known to be visual learners. WALKING LOG
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Friday, February 22, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE:,Br>It actually was snowing this morning. The weathermen are calling for an ice storm later in the day. A lot of people called out from work. I came in because it did not look too bad. Besides, I plan on leaving before the ice storm started. I told my father yesterday that I would not be able to visit him today because of the storm that was supposed to hit. STORM POST MORTEM WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE: AMERICAN IDOL My favourite part of the show is when the actual competition starts. I tune out during the audition phase. Its not as exciting to me as the actual competition. So far I do not have any favourites. I did like that Castro/Noriega guy. I wonder if he is related to the famous Noriega/Castro guy? WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE: WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE: BIG NEWS! WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Monday, February 18, 2008 DAY OFF WALKING LOG
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 SUNDAY CHURCH DAY After I left the meeting I visited my father then went home to watch the episode of Ashes to Ashes. As usual Gene Hunt rocks! WALKING LOG
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 Today, I visited Dad. Then afterwards I watched more of Firefly on Hulu. To find out what Hulu is all you have to is Google the name... or click the Hulu link. WALKING LOG
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Friday, February 15, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE: GENEALOGY It turns out we are descendents of Farmer Willis. The woman Delia Willis would be my great great grandmother. I was angry at her for naming one of her sons Farmer Willis. The man who fathered her children was Farmer Willis. I was angry because well she didnt even know his real first name or maybe Farmer was a nickname? Her son Farmer Willis was my great grandfather and he in turn named one of his sons Farmer Willis also. Farmer married a woman named Betty who died before 1910. Knowing my family medical history. I suspect she must have died of some form of cancer. My next goal is to find Bettys maiden name. They all lived in Gloucester, Virginia in the Ware township which is named after the Ware River. Also Delia is sometimes in the census listed as M for mullato. Uncle Percy who was my grandfathers brother was listed as mullato in a census book from 1920.. WALKING LOG
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 DAY OFF WALKING LOG
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE: I hope the soreness I feel on my left side does not multiply in intensity after I wake up tomorrow. I feel shell shocked after falling down this morning. Thus, I feel it best to be cautious I do not want to risk falling again and having my other side be sore or worse a broken leg or twisted ankle. HALF A DAY OBAMA WINS MARYLAND WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE: PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY My mistrust of the voting machines started with the fiasco over Bushs first election ...um... selection by the Supreme Court. Today, in honor of election day I am leaving early from work. I did this as a safeguard so that I would have more than enough time to get out to vote then a couple of weeks after scheduling a day to leave out early I decided to get an absentee ballot. The Clintons are friends with Bushs father so I got a paranoid feeling that they might rig machines in Hillary’s favour so I thought it best to vote for Obama via absentee ballot. As fas as I know there is no way to rig absentee ballots, there is a paper trail. NEW iPOD I already have a lot of music meaning more than three or more songs on my iPod by Linkin Park, Beyonce, Akon, OneRepublic, Maroon 5, Three Days Grace, Chris Brown, and Marshall Crenshaw. WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Monday, February 11, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE THE GRAMMY’S WALKING LOG
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 SUNDAY CHURCH DAY The creative aspect during the service was when they pretended to build a time machine and bought Enoch Pratt back as well as the man who was pastor at the time Pratt was a member of the church. I even stayed afterwards to go to the parish hall for the dedication ceremony. I believe this is the second longest time I have been in there since Ive been going to that church. Total staying time thirty minutes. After the ceremony I promptly left for the post office, then lunch, the library where I met a genealogist, and then to the supermarket, and then to visit dad. Mr. Philip, my father’s room mate in the nursing home was there. He came in to the room and sat beside me and watched dad along with me. Im not sure if he knows who I am or where he is at. Mr Philip has alzeheimers. it was kind of funny. It was like he was visiting Dad too and he would echo phrases that I said. Dad tells me that Mr. Phillip was a sanitation worker. He sometimes empties out trashcans around the facility and gets yelled at because of it. He still thinks he is a trashman. Its funny and sad. My worst nightmare is getting Alzeheimers and not being able to remember anything stuck in some weird time loop. WALKING LOG
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Saturday, February 09, 2008 VISITING DAD Im deathly afraid of calling them by the wrong names. So for the past 30 or so years Ive avoided calling Lawanna and Michelle by there first names. I think they would feel deeply insulted that after all this time I can not tell them apart. I know there faces when I see them but the names I am afraid of mismatching. Darlene on the other hand I know. She is the eldest and has a different body shape than the other two. My aunt Gloria used to call them the girls. When they visited my father they bought over a pair of reading glasses for him. When I left out of there around 7:30pm it was raining. I had no idea it was raining outside when I was in the building also I did not bother to bring an umbrella. When I left out to visit him the weather did not give the slightest hint of rain.
MY iPOD SHUFFLE IS DEAD So this evening after much contemplation I went out and bought a new second generation iPod at Sears. It is similar to the ones I bought my nephew and grandniece last summer. I went home after visiting dad to get an umbrella then took the #44 Quick Bus that seems to run every fifteen seconds to Security Square Mall. The bus showed up at 8:18 the mall closes at 9:30. Since it was a Quick Bus I made it to the mall well before closing time. I got it in my new iPod in my favourite colour, purple. At first the guy said that they only had two iPod shuffles left in orange. I was crestfallen. Then I supposed he called downstairs to customer pickup and it turns out that they still had purple available but I would have to pick it up downstairs at the Merchandise Pick Up area downstairs. Apparently, the two orange iPods was all that was left on the floor in the electronics department but they had different colours available for pickup downstairs. I suppose they might have shipped in today and had yet to be moved up to the electronics department. An iPod shuffle is not exactly the type of item I associate with as with as a Merchandise Pick Up item. Whenever I went to that part of the store it was usually for large items that had to be loaded into the car like a TV set or sofa. Oddly, enough when I gave them my phone number the account is still tied to my fathers name. So that was kind of cool. To the best of my knowledge he still has a Sears card. WALKING LOG
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Friday, February 08, 2008 GAIL’s FRIDAY MUSIC VIDEO AGAINST ME! playing THRASH UNREAL My new Friday Music Video of the week is Thrash Unreal by Against Me! The song comes straight off of my my iPod/iTunes Playlist. The song Thrash Unreal is by a punk rock group based in Florida called Against Me! Gotta love a band that has an exclamation point in their name! I first heard this on WTMD’s Friday night music show in December. The song rocks! I love it. I have been playing it non stop at work. It really pumps me up. MORNING COMMUTE: DISTANT COUSIN? VISITING DAD WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 MORNING COMMUTE: STEINER ON... The show I heard him on was the Ed Norris Show. Ed Norris was a frequent guest on his show before he got locked up. I am positive that Marc will make it back to the Baltimore airwaves. Yesterday almost seemed like an audition. With Don Geronimo retiring in May I feel it would be a good bet for WHFS to hire Steiner for their local talk lineup. The Troy Johnson show could use a little improvement. It feels like his show features nothing but second hand guests from the Ed Norris Show. Norris has them on first them Troy has them on again a couple of days later. Also I noticed a couple of weeks ago that the WHFS shows have had NPR people on experts. Aniban Basu, the chief executive of the Sage Policy group, on Ed Norris doing finances. Mario Armstrong, the technology expert, on Troys show. Perhaps Steiner loaned them out because he would soon be at WHFS? WHAT IM WEARING: WALKING LOG
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 WALKING LOG
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 FAREWELL AUNT JO Ever since getting those slippers, the Koala bear has been my favourite animal. I also believe they gave me a Raggedy Anne Doll for Christmas one year. It was a dress me doll where you learned how to tie shoes and zipper up and botton up things on the doll. Im not sure if they were responsible for the Mrs. Beasley doll or if that was my parents. One thing I vividly remember about Aunt Josephine is that she used to like wearing blue eye shadow. Today is a day that you do not look forward to. I wish I could wave a wand and make there be no more death in the world. I wish we could all live forever. Then I remember from my Church’s annual Day of the Dead service, What ever is remembered lives. So as long as she is remembered she lives on. I left out of the service asap... it was extremely crowded. There was double parking on the street. The cab driver remarked that she must have been have been well liked. I would have to agree. Good Bye Aunt Josephine, you will always live on in my memories. WALKING LOG
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Friday, February 01, 2008
Im off work today for bereavement leave for my aunt’s death. I did not know that they give you a day off for the death of a family member. Im feeling sad also because I learned that Marc Steiner was fired from WYPR. I liked listening to his shows. I hope that he is quickly rehired by another radio station. All I did today was work on my cold praying that I do not end up sneezing throughout the funeral.
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