Betty Bassett: A Life

My cat brought me the gift of a dead mouse to my bed this morning.  Her delight was over the top as she playfully tossed it into the air then watched it land on my mattress. I got Mr. Pujari's Biology class today.  The kids were amazing except one kid needed to go to the bathroom after another and the classroom door was self locking.  After the umpteenth time I went to open the door for returning students I told the class that I was going to get skinny today just opening the door for them. One student went to get some water and slammed his hand into a desk.  I expressed concern, "Are you okay?  Take care of yourself sweetheart!" This produced amused snickers throughout the room to which I responded, "You're all my sweetheart." I don't think they were happy about the news.  I'm not how much of an insult this is to me but I can say that my ego was bruised. In the fourth period during the last ten minutes of class a student got bored and use...

Journal: April 9, 2021 Cathy is helping her brother recuperate from his stroke. The court has granted her Breeanna. It's the first day of class between the two of us. I guess I just wanted to set some ground rules.   What do I need her to think of me? I will settle for unstable and fearful. Cathy's relationship with me has always been troubled. But in the winter months as Chris got sick we were working out a way to get past everything I so much wanted to be a force of nurturance for her. She deserved that and even if she didn't, as someone who married her old brother it was simply my place. We buried the hatchet. It wasn't easy. There were memories of slights. It's just hard to let go of. When Chris and I got married and I moved to Ohio I have to say that I had no social skills. Cathy treated me like the Neaderthal that I was. She was justified. Six months was the prognoses rehabilitation period. I would have taken that time off of work to mak...

Journal: Sunday April 4th 2021 I woke up at 2:00 a.m. this morning as per usual. I figured out how to upload my meditation podcast on Spotify. So now it will just be a daily challenge to crank it out each and every day. It's a challenge that I'm really looking forward to. My up and coming project is to do a business interview on YouTube like Joe Rogan. So then I eagerly called a few of my friends with this idea. Prolific will be the word of the day. My goal will be to crank out 50 interviews per year which would be one per week. I told John Mac Namus, city treasurer and reluctant person that acknowledges my existence, that I didn't want to be lonely, and I will definitely not be lonely trying to get speakers together for my project. It's more than that of course. I don't want the world to be lonely. I just want people to feel connected like they have a friend. Yuval Harare said that loneliness is going to be the worst epidemic that humankind will fac...

Journal: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 Thank God for Mike.  That's all I have to say.  He's got me started on podcasting and soon, youtubing. He has a degree in broadcasting and he's also starting a youtube channel helping people who is working in the lawn care business contemplate best practices. My up and coming project will be to set up a Go Fund Me site to gather money to buy land in South America so that the indigenous people will not clear it to make way for farmland.  With all the trees gone how will anybody breathe?  It's a really big deal.  I was inspired by Bill Gates and his book how to avoid climate change disaster. Regarding my YouTube, Joe Rogan style interviewing, Merete Hvalshagen and Jenifer Papadkis are on the schedule for interviews.   We will be discussing adulting and how business and climate change impacts that.   Woohoo! It was incredibly fun discussing with Mike how our physical and mental endowments mean nothing ...

Journal: April 8, 2021 The Las Vegas Dream is dashed to a million pieces for the year.  It was a good plan and approved by a party of one, me.  I have hope.   There's always next year. Chris had a stroke.  The left side of his brain malfunctioned leaving his right side paralyzed.  That had to have been not fun.  For six months he will have to reconfigure. I thought this was a good time for Vegas.  My mom wants us there but I won't leave without my kids.   Bryan is 20 and Bree is 14. Why not?  Ohio's weather sucks.  I'm so done being here years ago.  But Chris is here.  And he is precious.  He's a good father to the kids.   If he never succeeded in anything in his life, he succeeded at that.  The children adore him.  With good cause. But it was time for us to go, I decided.   I wanted Bryan to start college at UNLV.   Bree would attend the cosmetology program at ...

Journal:  April 6, 2021 So it's amazing that Mike puts up with me.  He lives somewhere other than here so we merely text each other at this point.  I'm an aspiring writer though; so, I have a lot of words. Thank God that it doesn't drive Mike to insanity.   It has driven many men away.  Not that Mike and I are a couple.  I don't know, he likes my writing.  When I was working at Walmart I had five best friends who loved the way that I write and so I would write a lot to present to them and when they told me how amazing I was, it was the best feeling in the world.  I only worked there for five months but I had a lot of good friends that I cared deeply about.   I wrote this to Jason in the morning: "So I am constant and unwavering. Is that important to you Jason? Are you interested in someone who doesn't relinquish on you and who believes in you? I'm not weak.   And I support you." He responded: "Dammit, you wake ...

Journal: April 7, 2021The thing about eHarmony is that it's pretty awesome.  It's not free so you're avoiding scammers.  I look at the intellect and self control score.  If 100 is the average bear then how much does the score fall below or above.Mike says he always reads people's self description.  I dismiss that.  Mostly people can't write.  Reading their profile just gives me a headache.  Mike says there's information there.  I'm at 114 for desire for relational closeness.  If somebody is average at 100 I would come across as a stalker.  So I will just stick to my statistics and numbers thank you very much.Michael from between San Francisco and Sacramento conversated with me in the early dawn hour of 4am.  I love early mornings.He's a retired highway patrolman.  Currently he's studying for his master's in psychology.   Of course I'm all envy because I wish it was me.  His undergrad was in business l...