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Gill, Douglas E.
1964
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well. For music I listened to some obscure works by Gabriel Fouré. I was real restless at midnight so I wrote this and finally hit the sack.
17 August 1964: Larry went out to Dr. Ely's to drop off some skins. I woke up pretty late ate and decided to write some letters. Larry came back and went swimming with Anne. Early in the afternoon I was going to turn the Corvair in to get another car because the clutch was practically gone. But I couldn't even get the transmission going because of the bad clutch. So I got Larry and we pushed the car down the main streets to the Car Rental place. We got a red Simca and we pushed the Corvair down to another parking lot. When we got back I decided to go out for something to eat. I relaxed a while when I got back. In the evening I skinned two young Sooty Terns which came out pretty well. I finally hit the sack around 0100.
18 August 1964: We got up relatively early (0930). We started skinning since we wanted to do around a dozen birds today. Starting at 1030 I finished my first one (a young Sooty) around 1:00. A young Noddy took me until 4:30. Oh in the morning I drove over to Ely's to pick up some dowels, whirl paks and large styrofoam freezer. After the Noddy I dressed to go out, just to get out of the hotel room. I started driving and suddenly saw two tickets under the windshield wiper. One was for parking out of my stall, and the other was for not having the registration in view. For the former I had my tail hanging over the white line, but recognized I was illegal because I was the second car in a one car stall. The other mystified me because I didn't know that the registration had to be out in the open. Besides, that was the Car Rental's responsibility not mine. I drove up to the University Library