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                                                                                                              Tampa, FL

Friday March 14, 2008

     6:15am  I woke up a little bit after six. I got seven hours of sleep last night. I slept fine. I've got a cool crashpad. I'm glad I have a good place to crash here. I'm going to walk to the transit center and go back to school.

     6:26am  Nicole gave me a cigarette at the the transfer center. I appreciate it Nicole. Everybody gets credit. Thanks a lot.

     6:39am  I came to the Marion Transit Center and I took a piss. I asked a bus driver for a courtesy ride to the college, but the guy told me no. I need to score breakfast first. I can probably get breakfast over by the college. Oh well. I'm going to walk downtown and make some friends and smoke a cigarette and tell my story. I'll eat at eleven thirty again. Then I'll go to the college and do some typing.

                   I took my last hit of weed at the bus station this morning.

     7:14am  Yesterday I was in line to eat and some guy told me about some church that had breakfast at eight. I couldn't remember the name. Some guy told me the name of the church is Deeper Life.

     7:34am  Hope just gave me a cigarette. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     7:36am  Seek and ye shall find. I'm getting closer to this church. I bummed a cigarette off of this pretty black girl named Hope. I took her picture. She's pretty. I'm looking for the big red church.

                   Lisa gave me a cigarette on Nebraska. I appreciate it, Lisa. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     7:44am  I found the church they have breakfast at. I took a picture of it. I have to wait until eight thirty for breakfast.

     8:32am  After breakfast I came to the Coastal gas station and had a little sewing project. I sewed up my backpack good. I'm going to go eat breakfast now. I love having a sewing kit. I smoked some resin too.

                   I'm leaving breakfast. I had a plate of gruel and a little pastry. It wasn't that much. I scored a pouch of beef-jerky too. I'm having my after-meal smoke right now. I'm going to walk back to the Marion Transit Center and see if I can get a courtesy ride out to the college again. Maybe I'll see my friends, Mack and Katrina.

     9:00am  I was walking back towards downtown and Gabriel gave me a quarter so I could buy me a cigarette at the store. I appreciate it, Gabriel. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     9:02am  I just took a picture of these two cops arresting this black dude over on Nebraska and Hugh. They had him handcuffed.

     9:05am  John hooked me up with a cigarette at the food store here at Nebraska and 21st.

     11:19am  Script-change. Be sure to add after I ask people if they are willing to listen, "and not interrupt me."

                     Church downtown

     11:35am  I came to score food at St. Andrew's. All the bums are standing in line. Then I'm going to go where I ate yesterday and hit up the feeding they have there. Then I'll be all set to get a courtesy ride to the college and do a lot of typing. I'll have tons of food.

     11:49am  I just hiked back to the Trinity Cafe. I power-walked over here. I'm going to take pictures of all the quotes I wanted to capture.

                     Pope John Paul  MLK

     12:35pm  I left the Trinity Cafe. Man, I am so stuffed. I took a picture of the food I ate. Egg rolls and tons of rice. It was like a catered meal, hell yeah. And, I have a shitload of food from before at St. Andrews. I am all ready to go to school and do some typing all night long.

     12:44pm  Freddy-Tony hooked me up with a cigarette at the transfer center. I appreciate it, bro. Everybody gets credit, thanks

     12:59pm  The nice #5 driver is giving me a ride to the college. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit.

     1:01pm  Sweet, got a courtesy ride to the college. I'm going to do a lot of typing today. This cool bus driver with dreadlocks hooked me up with a ride. He was only the second guy I asked. The first one was this old man who told me no real quick. He said, "That will be a dollar fifty. There's cameras watching." That's right, grandpa. Be afraid. The second driver I told me that in the future to ask a supervisor, but he let me on.

     1:43pm  Sweet, the bus took me right to the library. I don't have to walk through this huge campus to find it. I'm going to smoke a cigarette and then start typing.

     6:00pm  I just got out of the library. I spent a lot of time typing today. Oh yeah, I've got a lead on Chasity's hometown. I think she's in Brandon, FL, which isn't that far at all. I want to go over there and look for Chasity. Maybe I'll find her phone number in a phonebook or something. I don't know. It's raining outside.

     6:08pm  The greedy ass bus driver wouldn't let me ride in the rain.

     6:50pm  Man, it was pouring at the bus stop and I wanted a cigarette so bad. I left my bags and ran back over to the library. I asked Jeff if he had a cigarette. He didn't have one, so I started making a snipe-rat from cigarette butts. Jeff told me, "I've got a little weed to put in there." I was able to roll up a spliff and now I'm all stoned. Thanks, Jeff. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     7:28pm  Man, that was an awesome little session I had with Jeff. That's the second spliff I've smoked today. I smoked one with Katrina this afternoon after lunch. It was raining and I ran back in front of the library to get a cigarette. This guy was there who told me he saw me yesterday downtown, that I had a walking stick. I got totally recognized, hell yeah. He told me, "It's weird how these things keep happening to me, these weird occurrences." He told me about some Life Science building where they have a computer I can use twenty four hours a day. The first #5 that had come told me no. I decided that if I didn't get a courtesy ride on the next one I would just go back in and do some more typing.

     8:00pm  Janie and Oliver hooked me up with some food on the bus.

     8:09pm  I forgot to tell you what happened. I was waiting for the bus driver to be my deciding-factor, but luckily Jeff bummed me fifteen cents, so I had a dollar fifteen. I thought alright, if the bus driver doesn't let me ride being thirty five cents short I'm going to go type some more. Then I asked the driver when the last #5 comes and it only had an hour left. So forget typing. But luckily, the next #5 let me ride thirty five cents short, so I'm going back downtown. I'm going to wake up early tomorrow and get some food somehow and come back to the college. I need to get caught up on my typing and then I'll get out of here.

     8:21pm  The driver who let me ride thirty five cents short was Isaiah.

     8:24pm  I am at the transit center downtown. I scored some food too, so I won't go to bed hungry. I'm going to go take a piss in the bathroom and crash out.

     8:31pm  Mike just volunteered me a cheeseburger out of the blue at the MTC.

     8:32pm  Fred was nice enough to let me have a cigarette at the transfer center. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

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