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                                                                                                              Tampa, FL

Thursday March 20, 2008

     6:53am  I woke up around six thirty this morning. Matt woke me up. This morning Matt called me into his room and told me he had to talk to me. We smoked a cigarette outside and he told me that last night was the last night was I was going to be able to crash there. He told me that his roommate wouldn't understand about some homeless guy sleeping there. That he was "hobophobic." I told him I totally understood, but it's raining today. So that sucks. I'm going to go to the college and type. The library opens at seven. It was good while it lasted.

     7:05am  I am off in the rain. I've got my green military rain poncho on over my pack. I look like the hunchback of USF, hehe. I just stopped at the Bull Market and bought me a thing of Ramen noodles for thirty cents. That's breakfast. I'm going to get to typing again. I guess I'll go downtown again. I'm going to do some more typing and tell my story and see how that goes.

     7:09am  I walked 42nd up to Fletcher and walking down USF Palm. I'm going to hunt for the library again. Matt offered me a campus map yesterday but I refused it. Stupid me. This campus is huge. I get lost everytime.

     7:28am  I walked USF Holly all the way to Bruce B. Downs. I still don't know where the library is.

     7:37am  I came to the Moffit Cancer Hospital. I'm looking for the library. There's the police, hehe.

     7:48am  At long-last I am getting to the library. I should take a picture of myself. I look like the hunchback of USF with my rain poncho. It's not raining anymore, but I'm going to keep it on until I get to the library so I can take a picture of myself.

     8:09am  I ate my Ramen outside of the library. I'm going to go type. A lot of people are looking at my shirt. I'm wearing my WPMTJ shirt. I don't care. I'm fearless. Alright, I'm going to go do some typing.

     9:45am  Smokebreak.

     9:56am  I took a smokebreak. I'm going to go back inside to type.

                   I forgot to mention. I came out for a smokebreak. I am already on March 5th. I'm catching up. I have fifteen more days to go.

     1:01pm  I came outside and took a smokebreak. My brother Matt hooked me up with some raisin bran so I'm going to much on that and type some more.

                   Everyone is staring at my shirt, hell yeah. Not that many reactions today. Everybody is already used to seeing me. Back to work.

     1:37pm  I finished typing and I'm going to take another smokebreak.

                   Hopefully someone will see my shirt and smoke me out. People are staring at me. They should take a picture. It'll last longer.

     3:49pm  Back to work. Back to work. All day long.

     6:01pm  I am calling it quits for the day. Eight to six. Ten hours. I'm going to go get something to eat.

                   I am already on when I was walking Highway 90 and I ran into that Dutch family. I went to their website. They have tons of pictures on their website. Not one of me though. They took one that day. I'm going to go score some food somewhere. At some Mexican restaurant on Fletcher.

     6:34pm  I walked past the Shriners Hospital. I'm walking to Fletcher now. I'm going to go hit up a taqueria down there. I'm going to score some food and then go back to the library.

                   El Rey de Oros. Taqueria/Panaderia. Let me try my luck.

                  Moon

     7:00pm  Kelly en la taqueria me esta dando comida. Te lo agradezco, Kelly. Todo el mundo recibe credito, gracias.

     7:03pm  I scored at El Rey de Oros. I took a picture of it.

     7:22pm  I hit up the Dominos for mistakes and the guy shook his head no. He didn't even check. I already have three tacos from that Oros place. I'm going to go see if Malena's will hook me up again.

     7:35pm  I changed my mind about hitting up Malena's and bought me a fourteen cent Ramen at the Walmart for extra fuel. I'm walking back to the library. I'm going to finish up some typing.

     9:20pm  I had a great reception when I got back to the library. My pal Matt was there. I got to tell one of his friends my story. I forgot his name. Some guy with this Asian girlfriend who didn't seem to understand me too well. Everybody tried wearing my big pack and I took pictures.

     10:45pm  The coolest shit happened. I ran into my friend Matt and gave him a hug. I told him how I had been at the library all day and even manifested some free food. I even gave him a couple bites of the tacos I got. He apologized about his roommate. That's why he kicked me out this morning, because his roommate didn't like the idea of some bum being in his house and was scared I would steal something. He called up his roommate and asked him if it was cool if I slept on the floor in his room. His roommate said yes, so I get to crash there again tonight. Awesome. I should take Matt's picture right now. He put my pack on and he's riding his bike with it on. I'm all stoned right now. He gave me a hash-oil painted cigarette I just smoked. We took a couple hits off my one-hitter too. He ended up inviting me over to crash! Sweet. It's because I am going to school. Room and board for school.

                     Any resemblance?

     11:35pm  I'm telling this brother Will, like Will Smith my story. He lives in an apartment right across the way from Matt. He had some comments. What was that? Will: "Ok, basically, like I said. It will work for some people. People like you, because like I say, you're possibly the most self-motivated person I have ever met in my life. People who are self-motivated will still get up and go to work because that's what they enjoy doing. They'll still get up and go to the restaurant and serve the customers because they love the customers and the customers come there because they love the people. But, you have some people like me who need a kick in the fuckin' ass who need, you know what, you're getting out of this motherfucker if we don't get our rent money on the first, who are gonna be like aww man, I'm gonna get up and go wash some cars..." Do you believe in the universal law of karma? That you reap what you sow? That it all comes back to you? Will: "I do." Well, a lot of people haven't been convinced of this yet. So whenever we learn and know better people will change. Will: "You just brought up a very valid point. That's where I was going to go next. Even after we get past the physical part.." Once I prove, for a fact, that karma really does exist, people will think twice before doing anything evil. Do bad at your own risk. Will: "I agree with that. But second, we've been mentally conditioned. Like I say, once we get past the physical part of that, come on, you've got CEO's of companies who can't take a week vacation and cut their cellphones off and not answer that motherfucker if it's the office. You have doctors who can't fuck their wives without having their pager on, you know what I'm saying, because somebody might be having their baby. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it's a mountain to climb." You can't say I'm thinking small here. See, I'm going to prove that when you are free, you evolve. Will: "I'm saying even in the world community, you're saying you want to do it widespread is all I'm saying."

Next day..