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                                                                                                             Huntington, WV

Monday June 30, 2008

 

     6:16am  Man, I got like 8.43 hours of sleep.  I feel great.  I woke up and my hat was here!  They brought it over last night. 

 

     7:15am  I am leaving from the house.  I don’t know when their last day is, but my bag is safe there for a couple of hours.  I’m going to go and try to find this Moe’s place I have coupons for and buy some breakfast.  Hopefully they’ll open pretty soon.  I have five coupons for either two for one or half-off.  I forgot who gave them to me.

 

     7:27am  I showed up for breakfast at the mission.  There’s a big line.

 

     7:38am  I left the mission.  That was a shitty ass breakfast, man. 

 

     8:04am  I just went for a walk after breakfast and I am making my way back to the house.  I can do my typing at the public library, because you get a whole two hours.  I can totally get it done at the library.

 

     9:01am  Oh yeah, I went back to the house and hung out there and checked my email.  Josh is being nice enough to give me a ride back to Chrissy’s, where my pack is.  I’m going to try and buy some weed.

 

     9:47am  I came over to Chrissy’s house and Joel woke up too only after three hours of sleep.  He’s smoking a brother out.  I appreciate it, brother.  Everybody gets credit, thanks.

 

     10:01am  I’m leaving from Chrissy’s.  I’m going to go to the library and do some typing.  She lives over on 6th Avenue and 15th Street.  I left my bags there.  I’m just taking my CamelBak.  I’ve got my tape recorder in my pocket, my headphones and my little hard drive.  I even brought a couple extra batteries in case I need them. 

 

     10:15am  Here I am at the Cabell County Library.  I’m going to start typing. 

                  

     1:11pm  It sucks, I had to rewind the cassette to the beginning of the other side.  I typed for about an hour and forty minutes on the computer.  I have nineteen minutes left.  I was hungry so I went to Moe’s.  I got a half-priced Homebreaker burrito.  I ate like two thirds of it and saved the rest for my lunchbreak.  I ate it and now I’m going back to do my last nineteen minutes.  I want to try and score some weed.  I took a resin hit earlier too.  Alright, I went to the riverfront and nobody is there. 

 

                   Actually, I’m not going to do any more typing today.  That would mean I would have to rewind the whole side.  Forget it.  I don’t want to waste my batteries for only nineteen minutes of typing.

 

     3:25pm  I am leaving Chrissy’s house.  Oh yeah, this guy Ian is giving me a ride to Ohio tomorrow!  Close to Columbus. 

 

                   I asked Ian’s girlfriend Lindsey, who lives at Chrissy’s that since her boyfriend was giving me a ride to Ohio tomorrow, if it would be cool that I crashed there.  She went in the other room to talk it over and came back and told me, “We all decided that we don’t know you and you can’t crash here.”  Like I’m going to steal something.  Fuck that, I travel light.  The less I have the less I have to worry about.  Scared little kids.  Amber said it was cool if I crashed at her house tonight.  So, I have to come back to Chrissy’s house at eleven.  I’ve got Amber’s phone number.  I’m going to go to the Speedway close by and unload my bags, expose my shirt and hand out my website. 

 

     4:07pm  I’m walking.  I walked past the mission at four ‘o clock.  I’m going to time it and see how far I go so I can walk back at around four thirty.  I’m going to walk into town and try and tell my story. 

 

     4:29pm  I came back to the mission. 

 

     5:03pm  I hung out and waited for seconds at the mission.  They had Little Caesar’s pizza today.  Right when I was loading up to leave this guy came up to me and asked me, “Hey, are you Victor Antonio?”  His name was Victor too.  He told me I had met one of his friends Mike at Marcum Terrace.  He said he read my website and everything and he wanted to meet the man.  I told him thanks for making contact.

 

     5:36pm  I came to the library.

 

     7:19pm  I had an awesome presentation with this girl sitting down at the square.  Afterwards she said she was going to watch a movie with some friends.  I asked her how much it costs and she said only three dollars.  Awesome, something to do.  I have to wait until tonight to crash at Amber’s and Andy’s.  I’m going to watch the same movie they are, Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo. 

 

                   To kill the half hour for the movie to start I’m going to try telling the girl, the cashier my story, in between customers of course. 

 

     7:22pm  I’m going to smoke a cigarette and take a hit of weed before I watch the movie.

 

                   Oh yeah, that one night when I went to Ohio I had the Urinary Anxiety song stuck in my head.  I had heard it back in highschool.  I thought the band who sung it was Donuts N Glory.  I started singing it and then this guy there said he had it and actually put it on!  What a coinkidink.  The band who sings it is called 30 Foot Fall.

 

     9:10pm  I just got out of the movie theatre.  It sucked.  It killed time though.  I’m going to walk over to Chrissy’s house now.  I’m going to smoke some weed first. 

 

      9:22pm  I left the movie theatre, but it was a little chilly.  I went back in the theatre and layered up in the bathroom.  I put my green tights on.  I haven’t worn these in a long time. 

 

     9:33pm  I forgot to tell you.  Earlier today I ran into that pixie girl I told my story to at the riverfront park when I first got here.  Meredith, I think her name is.

 

     1:44am  We came over to Amber’s apartment.  I forget what her boyfriend’s name is.  They both work at Little Caesar’s.  I’m taking a leak in the bathroom right now.      

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