| #1 20011202 Chapter 25 Chico II Fall of 76 to the Spring of 77 This chapter of my autobiography tells about the last two semesters I attended at Chico State. I had returned from the summer in Owasso, Oklahoma.I spent two days at Bill's, but after the mosquitos complicated my sleeping, and Bill, coming to where I was sleeping on the ground before starting his day (about two hours before sunup) to outline the plans of the day, I found a place in Chico to sleep. Then I bumped into a friend, who was staying with a couple of other of our mutual friends--and there was room for me. I stayed there for two weeks or so, working at Bill's during the day and suiting up to go hit the bars in Chico at night. I got enrolled in the fall semester: Mixed Chorus, Opera Workshop, Acting, Special Problems, Medical Bacteriology, Organic Chemistry 170. I found a room to rent in a house with an East First Avenue address near the intersection of East First Avenue and Mangrove Avenue. My acting professor was Carolyn Harper from Arkansas, a tall slinky babe with a quick wit and tremendous abilities. I learned a lot from her. Opera workshop excited me, I hoped they would teach me to be able to perform in operas. Mixed Chorus was crowded and we had a party first thing at the professor's house, where I met Deanna Dick. We made a date. Organic Chemistry class had Nancy and Phil in it again. They were always talking and studying together, I started getting behind in my comprehension of Organic Chemistry. Medical Bacteriology was filled with ladies that I knew from other classes including Anette. My bench mate, Donna, gave me hugs once in a while. Special problems. This would be my second Special Problems, and I had a new supervisor, the new lady geek of E. coli genetics. I did an assay on the migration of nitrogen-fixing bacteria into the root hairs of clover nodules. ** So there I was, at the beginning of the semester. I would meet Deanna and also Lee Dokes and get to know Anette at a new level. And lose Deanna and burn rice fields with half-gasoline, half-diesel fuel dripped from a spouted bucket from a speeding tractor, it was exciting to watch the flames follow swiftly after me. Once Deanna's son acted silly and I wacked him in the head. Wasn't very fatherly, I guess. I met Deanna's ex and the father of the her son. When I started failing in Medical Bacteriology, Deanna was visibly angry. She was herself a microbiologist, a Medical Technologist, working at the hospital on the Esplanade. One night we had a date, but Bill needed to have a rice field burned so he could start working on it at ther crack of dawn the next day. I stayed to get it done. When I got back to my pad I called Deanna, and told her I had just got back and suggest that we do something else. But that was the last time I spoke to her. At the end of the semester I went to L.A. to visit my aunt. When I got back I went to the Maltese Falcon and bumped into Lucinda and her friend Jim. |
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