My New POLAROUD

If you wish women to love you, be original. I know a man who used to wear fur hats summer and winter and women fell in love with him.

-Anton Chekhov

Twenty-five years ago today

November 11, 1986
Tuesday

I made another attempt in calling Lenny Greco in New York City for my black leather jacket.
It didn't do a lot of good. He's still not back and now his roommate says, "I'll look for the jacket IF I have time!"
Give me a break. Shit!

Carla and I went for a spin in her rented Red Camaro at lunch time for some chicken sandwiches and yogurt. She really steps on the gas. Vroooom!

I kind of attacked Carla in the elevator with a lunge at her neck with a vivacious kiss.
She screeched, "Oh Michael!"
Carla acted like she got the chills from my actions. I'm not sure whether she was kidding of if she was on the 'up and up'.

I thought it was free parking today because of the Veterans Day holiday. I ended up getting a $10 parking ticket. What a bummer!

I stopped at mom's house after work, knowing she had the day off.  She made me a Cornish hen and veggies.

I got my new POLAROID Spectra System camera. I took my first photo with mom by setting the electronic timer. It was fun having the instant gratification of a photo. Mom accompanied me to buy film for it. I also took three self-portraits of me at my house.

I said to mom, "I hate it because I have so many bills and I just want to pay them off and get them out of the way."
"You will," Mom said, reassuringly.
"I know I will as soon as I get those checks that I have coming to me. I should only owe about $4000 after I get those checks, so that'll be good."

I am having $200 automatically transferred into my CITICORP Focus Account soon. I need to save.

My training class is exactly the same that is given to Directory Sales Reps, so that is a good thing. I will be that much more ahead of the game seventeen months from now. It's actually sixteen months because I intend to take five weeks of vacation between now and then. I want to take that time 'all at once'. I think October or November 1987 would be a good stretch of time to have for vacation.

During my Pac Bell Directory Training Paul Margolis made a snide remark in regards to a Palm Springs Yellow Page BOLD listing. I ignored him. What a creep! I know he said it as a reminder of his seeing me there. I don't owe him an explanation of any sort. I won't lower myself to giving him one either. I feel ahead of the game in training class. That's another plus for me.

Every biographer should write on the first page of his manuscript:
Thou shall not judge. Moral judgment may be hinted at; but as soon as it is formulated, the reader is recalled to the sphere of ethics and the sphere of esthetics is lost to him.
-Andre Maurois