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Arcata, CA

Thursday July 23, 2003

     6:45am  I am in Arcata already! Memories. I've been here before. I know this place. Awesome.

     7:45am  I am having my usual morning Arcata routine. I went to the Safeway. I already had me a packet of Ramen noodles I got from Tinker. I just got me a cup of hot water and went outside, stirred it up and chowed down. Now I'm going to walk around and see what happens today. I'm going to go to HSU, but that doesn't open 'til ten in the morning. Later on.

     8:14am  I'm here at the Endeavor and this wingnut was gracious enough to give me a cigarette. I appreciate it, wingnut.

     9:42am  I'm at the Endeavor which opened up at 9am. They handed out these chocolate cream pies. I had some pastries and some milk. I'm all fueled up, so I'm going to go to the library and type up my stuff. Then later I'll walk out to Kate's house and say hi to her. Boy, will she be surprised.

     11:53am  I'm in the library. It sucks, they must've changed things, because I couldn't just sit down and type. The computers that had email access were along this counter by the wall, so I had to stay standing. I just checked my email. This means I need to go back to Berkeley to type up my stuff. Good 'ol Doe Library at UC. This sucks. I'm on the very last one of my tapes. I need to type some shit up so I can record over one. I'm going to go to the Endeavour. They feed at 11:30am, so I'm going to be a little late.

     1:25pm  I'm going to walk to Kate's house. Down 11th Street. I'm going to go say hi to her. I don't know if she's home or not, but I don't have anything better to do. I'm going to walk.

                   Damnit, Kate doesn't live there anymore. This one girl answered the door and told me. I told her I was sorry to bother her and left. I'm walking all the way back. Man, I remember this walk well. Oil well.

     1:49pm  Gene at Greenview Market gave me a cigarette. Thanks a lot.

     2:50pm  Dude, that sucks. See, I have these two hairs on my right leg that are abnormally long, like four inches. They're blonde, too. Well, I accidentally just pulled one of them off my leg. Ahh, that pisses me off. I've been growing that hair forever. I wonder how long it will take to grow back. Man, it was one of the things that made me different.

     3:50pm  I ran into Vidas again. The guy I had met in Eugene and at Clam Beach. We came over to these railroad tracks and he smoked me out. We thought the coast was clear, so we took a couple of hits. Then, all of a sudden Officer Selder pulls up on his mountain bike. He pulled up and I said, "Shit, busted."

                   That pig told us, "You'll find more, guys. Don't worry about it." He asked Vidas how much he paid for it and then told him he was paying way too much for an eighth. That we were getting ripped off. So that sucks. We both got tickets for possession of marijuana. I told the cop, "Come on, I was just borrowing it." I'm not going to do jack shit about that ticket. It's not like they're going to extradite me from Texas. If they do, oh well, free ride back to the West coast. Oh no. It just wouldn't seem too cost-effective.

     5:54pm  I just went back to the library and looked over what I have typed up already. I discovered I have a whole sixty minute tape I can tape over. I forgot I had typed up an entire tape in Socorro. Oh yeah, Gretchen emailed me again. She was all, "My dear wandering man." I emailed her and told her I was considering going through New Mexico on my way back. Which I really am.

     6:10pm  I went back to the Endeavour which is next to the bus station. I ran into Envy who recognized me from the last time I was in Arcata. That's so crazy. I was going to bum up some bus fare or get a courtesy ride to Eureka, but forget that. She just invited me to a party! Awesome.

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