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Mathews, VA

Friday May 16, 2008

     6:41am  I woke up about ten minutes ago. I got 6.52 hours of sleep. That's good enough for me. Laura is still sleeping. I'm getting dressed, putting my uniform on. Right now I'm going to go find a place to take a shit. I'll walk somewhere. I'll see if I can go to the library today.

     9:26am  We're taking off to the library and to run some errands and stuff.

     11:33am  I just left the library. I don't know where Laura is. I don't even have a way to get a hold of her. I was charging her cellphone and the laptop at the library. I had an internet session. I kept getting an extra thirty minutes because nobody else was there. My stats are still messed up. I called my webhost. Oh yeah, I searched Google for OLD TEZEL NEEDS A SIDEWALK and it comes up with my journal entry and all this news publicity I got. It was weird, when I clicked on 020308.htm on my website it doesn't come up. I called Dot5Hosting and they told me that the stats problem was being worked on. Oh yeah, I want to print out some more sheets of havethisbook.coms. I'm walking around with my new shirt. Oh yeah, the librarian told me, "Didn't I see you walking around earlier?" I told her, "Yeah, I'm a journalist. Check out my website." I'm looking for Laura right now. I'm walking to The Bank of America to see if she's there. It's like a mile down the road.

     12:02pm  I walked over to The Bank of America and I didn't see Laura's car in the parking lot, so I came back to the library. I went in the Food Lion and took a piss. I was hoping to see Laura driving around. It's a small town. I'm hungry and I couldn't get anything printed out at the library because I didn't have enough money.
                  
     4:25pm  I'm taking off for a walk. Laura needed some downtime. She's all stressed out and paranoid about cops and police. She was all paranoid about her green bong she left on the table in the trailer that could easily be seen if someone looked inside the window. She was so worried about it. She's all stressed out. She's trapped.

                   I'm walking to some coast she told me about. Some beach. Some public area. She told me to walk to the Zoom's and turn left at the church. Well, she called it the Stop and Go. Maybe I'll tell my story. I don't know.

     4:43pm  I walked up to the Mathews Baptist church. Turning here on Cricket Hill Road to go to Glen's Island.

     5:11pm  Right now I am crossing over the bridge. I took pictures.  Marina.

                   Gwynn's Island

     5:22pm  I was walking and it started drizzling real hard. I went and stood under this little cover in front of some For Sale building. Some Riverfront property. It's not coming down so hard now so I'm going to keep walking.

                   Cricket Hill, turning left at the big turn. I took a picture. There's water everywhere. In front of Seabreeze. Restaurant, I guess.

     5:32pm  I'm going to stop and take a smokebreak in front of Roz's Island Market and Deli.

     5:37pm  I changed my mind. I'm going to keep walking. I'm burning daylight.

     5:41pm  I think I am on Old Ferry Road now.

     5:54pm  Old Ferry Road made a ninety degree right turn. I'm walking it. Passing the Gwynn Valley Civic Center. I'm going to keep walking. I haven't eaten my sandwich yet. I brought a sandwich. Laura didn't have any sandwich bags, but I fished one out of the trash that had weed seeds in it. So, I've got a sandwich in my pocket that I'll eat when I start walking back.

     5:59pm  Walking in front of the Gwynn Post Office.

     6:04pm  I walked Old Ferry Road all the way to Gum Thicket Road. I changed my mind. I don't care about the beach here. I would be walking a shitload more, so I'm going to walk back towards Laura's. But, I'm going to go to the library first and pick up a cigarette snipe. See, earlier today when I finished my internet session I went outside and smoked a Bugler. Back when I left to The Bank of America to look for Laura. Anyway, I went outside the library to smoke a cigarette. I smoked half of it and dropped the snipe on a cement block. The old lady librarian lady opened the door real quick and barked at me, "Listen, I just picked up five hundred cigarette butts..." I told her, "No, you listen. I put that down and I'm going to finish it later. I promise." I still had some stuff to do in the library. But, it slipped my mind when I left and I remembered when I stopped to rest on my way to the beach. Since I changed my mind and decided to turn back, I'm going to go make good on my word and pick up that snipe.

                   I am a walking fool today. I've been throwing the peace sign to all the cars.

     6:09pm  I'm turning on N New Haven, I think. I see water at the end of the road. I'm going to walk down there and eat and smoke a cigarette and make my way back.

     6:16pm  At 381 New Haven I took a picture of the commandment sign.

     6:25pm  I'm done with my break. I'm going to keep walking back now.

     6:33pm  Back at Old Ferry Road. Turning right at the post office. Doubling back.

     6:34pm  I just saw these three horses.

                   Back at Cherry Point and turning left. I had thought earlier Old Ferry turned right, but it seems to have been another street.

     6:35pm  Passing Spirit Branch Road. The picture I took earlier.

                   Dude, right when I was walking by Roz's Island Market Officer, I mean Sergeant Foster pulled over to talk to me. He said that he had seen me lately and gotten some calls from people. He's being nice enough to give me a courtesy ride over back to the Food Lion, which is real close to the library.

                   Woohoo! I got a courtesy ride from a sergeant! I got to tell him my story and he agreed with everything I said. In the end he told me, "We'll probably get a couple more calls if you do some more walking today. I laughed and told him, "Man, I've been waiting for you all day." He laughed. Hell yeah, I can't wait to tell Laura.

                   I came back over to the Food Lion. I'm going to hang out here and smoke a cigarette and tell my story or something.

     7:13pm  I went over and picked up my cigarette butt.

     7:27pm  I stopped at the Shell station and asked for a paper clip. I'm going to scrape a resin hit. Laura's almost out of weed.

     7:35pm  Annie at Sal's Pizza is hooking me up with some food. I appreciate it, Annie. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     7:36pm  Hell yeah, I walked by Sal's Pizza and went in there and asked for mistakes and Annie hooked me up with a big sub sandwich! Welcome to Mathews, Victor Antonio. I'm going to surprise Laura. Not only did I get a courtesy ride from a sergeant, but I walked by Sal's Pizza and asked for mistakes and I got hooked

                   Oh yeah, people have been honking at me left and right walking up and down this town. Hell yeah.

                   These kids just drove by and one yelled, "I love marijuana too!" I yelled back, "Smoke a brother out! For the cause!"

     8:29pm  Passing in front of the Piankatank Ruritan Club. I am almost there. I've got my sandwich in tow.

     9:20pm  I've had such a good time today. I walked all the way back home and Laura was awake. I told her about the awesome day that I had. Laura had told me that she was going to go the Civil War reenactment in Washington, Virginia. Little Washington. At first she had told me that she was going to go by herself, but she just went through all her Civil War clothes and she found some pants that will fit me, so she invited me to go! I'm going to be in battle! I can't wait. I'm going to take pictures.

Next day..