081803

 

Berkeley, CA

Monday August 18, 2003

     9:04am  Just finished eating breakfast at the church. Naya and I are going to Eastmont Mall in Oakland today. I gotta go check my email and stuff. She has to go do some other stuff. Here we go starting our day.

     9:17am  Rick, the 40L driver gave Naya and I a courtesy ride. We appreciate it, brother.

     10:30am  Naya and I scored a courtesy ride. We even scored courtesy-transfers when we got off. She's going to try and register for food stamps. The place she has to go to is in the mall and coincidentally, the ECC computer place I need to go to is here, also. So, we are going to kill two birds with one stone. I have to wait half an hour, until eleven for the place to open. Hopefully they'll have a CD burner. I've got blank CD's. What I need to do is log all the days I've typed up that are in my email. Let's see if I can get it done.

                     Naya and I came downstairs to the Government Assistance place. She's going to try and get some help, some free money. I'm going to look for a bathroom right now. I don't know.

     11:07am  I'm at the ECC place and I got on a computer. They don't have a CD burner. Bummer.

     2:45pm  I just finished up. I typed up a whole three days at the ECC place. I got pretty far. I got to Gold Beach, that night I woke up on the Greyhound from Florence, OR. It has my whole big ass walk from Gold Beach South. I'll finish it up later.

     2:50pm  Sarah hooked me up with a cigarette in the GA office here at Eastmont Mall. They have this huge smoking cage outside. I appreciate it, Sarah.

     5:35pm  We came back to Berkeley and right now I'm walking around People's Park hoping some weed would fall in my lap. I asked my brother Eli and he sure enough hooked it up. It'll come back to you.

     5:55pm  Andy hooked me up with a cigarette. That's very generous of you, brother.

     6:40pm  Sally hooked me up with a cigarette. I appreciate it, Sally.

     8:14pm  Sean gave me a cigarette. Thanks, brother.

     9:54pm  I have barely been recording at all today. Some weird stuff happened today. See, this girl Naya who I've been hanging out with constantly just as friends. Like at first I was kind of attracted to her, but later changed my mind about our compatibility. She wants to settle down and I want to keep traveling. I wasn't going to pursue anything. But then, I found out . . . umm . . . she's a fucking guy! We went to the GA place at the mall and she had to do all this paperwork. On top of her paperwork was her ID. I looked at the ID and noticed her first name was David! After that, everything started falling together. I thought, "Hmm, I guess she could be a guy if she had short hair." You know she, err, he, umm we had this quiet ride back on the bus. We made it back to the church to eat and after we ate I told her, "Hey, you know how big on honesty I am. I just wanted to tell you that at first I was a bit attracted to you." Naya went, "Oh no . ." When I saw her react that way I had confirmation that she was really a guy. I told her, "Yeah, I just figured it out right now." She asked me when and I told her when I saw her ID at the mall. Naya thought I was accusing him of lying to me. I was like, "No, no, no. You never lied to me. You never told me you were a girl. Me being the honest soul I am, I just wanted to let you know what I was thinking." I said, "This is just kind of weird for me because it's the first time something like this has happened to me. I'm still in the shock-stage." Naya said, "Do you remember how I asked you if you thought illusion was bad?" I complimented Naya telling her, "Yeah, you pulled it off pretty good." Naya has been taking hormones and stuff, which explained the small breasts.

                    But, after all that's happened I can't say I mind hanging around Naya. At first it was kind of weird, but now it doesn't really make a difference. I can hang out with her, or him. I'm just going to keep calling him her, you know. I'm going to call Naya her. Even though her name is David. I'm still cool hanging out. I don't mind it. She's still like my new friend. Even before I found out I had ruled out the whole possibility of pursuing anything or traveling with her. Now, for sure I know because, well, she's a guy.

                    I mean, she's got long hair and a pretty face(for a guy, I guess). That doesn't mean I'm gay or anything. I'm not going to say that she didn't seem attractive when I thought she was a girl. It's just weird. Anyway, it's late and I just got stoned at Hate Camp. Pizza in twenty minutes. I'm going to set my watch. Now, I'm going to walk back down Telegraph and go hang out with some people. Everybody knows me here, hehe.

     10:00pm  Adam me dio un cigaro. Te lo agradezco, Adam. Eres muy generoso.

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