071303

 

Eugene, OR

Sunday July 13, 2003

     8:13am  I woke up in the Butte. I crashed somewhere else, because when I went to check the camp, I saw someone else there in a hammock. There isn't that much room, so I found somewhere else to sleep. The hammocks are still there, so Brian and Casey must still be there. I'm going to go see if they're there now.

                   Ha, I'm up on the main trail and George is crashed out sleeping in the grass.

     9:27am  Man, my morning has turned out swell. I'm having a good morning. Casey and Brian woke up eventually and introduced me to their friend, Roland. Roland is from San Antonio, too! Imagine that. He was born there. We are just hanging out, smoking weed, drinking coffee and shooting the shit. I'm having a good morning. Let's hope something good happens today.

     10:29am  We're just sitting here hanging out having a little party at the house, hehe. What's that fruit I just ate? Jamica. It looks like a potato, but it's kind of fruity. I can't tell whether it tastes like a fruit or a vegetable. Which is it? Vegetable?

     11:22am  Oh yeah, earlier it got a little warm so I took off my shorts and army pants and just put my shorts back on. I stood in Brian and Casey's tent, so I wouldn't have to stand in the dirt. Afterwards, they started making a big issue about it. Roland started it actually, and it's not even his tent. He pointed out how I just put my stinky feet close to where they lay there heads. For one, I always wear a fresh pair of socks and shit, these are homeless people. It's not like they disinfect all the trash they haul with them either. I apologized to Brian if it offended him(which I think didn't). It was just a bunch of bullshit.

                     Wow, what a wonderful morning I am having. I changed out of my pants. I'm going to go find a place to take a shower. That's what I'm going to do. Man, I love this town.

     12:29pm  I walked up to the Catholic church and asked the lady there if they had any resources I could use. She told me no, but to head towards Alton-Baker Park. They're having a picnic or something. That's where I'm going to go.

     12:46pm  I walked around town for a while. I got directions to this park I'm going to walk to. It's Sunday. I stopped at this fountain in this park. The big flat fountain where I first came when I got to Eugene. My canteen holds a shitload of water, so I'm going to see how long it takes to fill it at this dinky little water fountain. Start timing at 12:48.

                     A minute and 25 seconds to fill up my canteen.

                     Hmm, I should eat something. I'm hungry. I'll probably walk off to the park.

                     Someone wrote "Bush lied, people died," in chalk on the sidewalk.

     12:57pm  I'm smoking weed at this little park here by the fountain. I saw the guy who gave me some whiskey last night, Mike. We're smoking weed. Cool. Ahh, Eugene.

                     Herman hooked me up with a roach of his tobacco cigarette.

     1:30pm  I'm le aving the fountain park, which is called the Hitching Post Plaza.

     1:30½pm  I got my cigarette already. Now, I'm going to walk down Willamette towards the park.

     1:59pm  Scott Harvey hooked me up with a cigarette. I appreciate it, brother.

     2:26pm  I've been telling my stories to Georgette and Amber. I'll come back and give them an update when I get a cigarette. Be right back.

     2:31pm  Vidas was generous enough to give me a cigarette. I appreciate it, brother. It'll come back to you.

     6:01pm  I'm going to put on a show in Eugene.

     7:26pm  I'm out here telling Roseanne my story. She listened to the whole thing. I'm an open book. I'm going to stick around this little plaza telling my stories. I'll get an audience. Then I'll leave back to Berkeley. Now, I'm going to walk down to the mission, take a shower and do my laundry.

     7:50pm  I showed Vidas, this new kid that just got into town, the campsite at Skinner Butte. So, he knows. Now I'm going to go find this mission. Some guy told me to just follow the railroad tracks. I'm going to go take a shower and do my laundry.

     8:45pm  I'm walking down the street looking for the mission. All of a sudden, I see this lady sitting on her porch by herself. I'm on 4th Avenue. I walked up to her and told her, "Hello, I want to tell you what I'm going to do. Will you listen?" She said sure and I told her my ideas. She's like 38 years old and she listened. Some dude came out and he listened to me. Then they had to go, but they told me there was going to be a free movie tonight, 1984. Badass. So, I'm going to go to the free movie on 5th Street. Awesome. I got something to do tonight. I'll watch a movie.

     8:55pm  I just saw a bumper sticker that said, "One nation under fraud." Hehe.

     9:00pm  I'm getting hooked up with a cigarette by Sabrina.

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