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Arcata, CA

Tuesday August 26, 2003

     9:07am  The next day. I think it's Tuesday, the 25th. Around there. I woke up in the marsh. I found a place quick. I coincidentally found the same place that I came and smoked out with this dude Joe yesterday. I found a cool place tonight. I put my cloak and crashed out with all my shit like still strapped to me, sideways. I gotta take a shit. I don't know what I'll do. Should I walk to a bathroom or take a shit in the marsh somewhere? I think I remember there being port-o-potties out here.

     9:39am  I smoked a little and I got my shit together. I'm leaving now. I'm going to go to the Endeavor. I don't know what I'll do. I'll go do something. I'll go, I don't know.

     10:05am  I'm in the plaza. I think I was supposed to meet Issa here at ten or eleven, I don't know. I guess I'll walk around until somebody lets me borrow their cellphone. I was just thinking, "Man, I want a cigarette." Oh there's these brothers smoking at the trash can in front of The Alibi. I'm going to walk over there and see if they'll give me one. I came to the plaza and I see a brand new cigarette on the ground. A Kool cigarette on the ground.

     10:11am  Michael hooked a brother up. He saw my sign, I guess and he gave me some Cracker Jack and let me hit a bowl or marijuana. Badass, man.

     10:34am  Derrick just all of a sudden hooked me up with a cigarette. That's awesome. I appreciate it, Derrick. Everybody gets credit in my game.

                     Derrick hooked me up with another cigarette. That's all right.

     12:37pm  Tim aka Shaky is hooking me up with a cigarette. I appreciate it, brother. That's very generous of you.

     4:30pm  I just left the library. Man, I spent a long ass time there. I didn't log that much. I emailed all the emails in my pocket calendar and my Dayminder. I got all of them. Like shitloads of them. Like five hundred or so. I sat there and transcribed them all down. I can't wait to use them.

                   Ahh, I've been missing a lot of the day, but it's been pretty uneventful. I'm over here at the plaza just you know, chilling out smoking a cigarette, because I'm allowed to. Then I smoked a little weed, because I'm allowed to. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. Today I got a rash on my hands. Just on my hands though. I'm guessing it's because I slept in the marsh last night. But, my face isn't all covered with it. If I pull up my sleeves, none of my arm has the little spots. It's just on the top of my hands. My hands weren't the only thing exposed, though. My face was exposed, too and they're not on my face. I should have spots all over my face, but I don't. I don't know what the hell it's from. I kind of want to go get it checked out at the free clinic here. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.

     5:30pm  Okay, I walked up to Round Table Pizza. I'm going to use their phone to call Tony. I just got that idea. Let me see what he's up to. Maybe he'll pick me up or something. That'd be cool.

                    Tony didn't answer. I left him a message. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm feeling bored.

     5:47pm  Adam hooked me up with a cigarette behind the Brewery. I appreciate it, brother.

     7:33pm  Walter hooked me up with a tailor made. Bob asked me if I smoked weed. I told him no, why? He went, "Got any?" I told him no.

                    I walked to the library. I hope whoever reads this assumes that anytime I make an entry where there's no time stamp, it's because I just said it in the recorder without one. I might indent for a new paragraph, but if there's a blank line between entries it is a totally different occasion(for the most part).

                   Anyway, I forgot to tell you. Last time I came to this library, last time I was here a month ago for one day, I tried to type my stuff up on the computers, but it wouldn't go to hotmail.com. I figured they had they same thing they have in Berkeley where you can't check your email. I figured, "Shit. I can't even do that here anymore." But, umm, now my linuxmail.org site still comes up and I can still log my stuff there, too! So bam. My loophole still works over here.

     8:16pm  Bridgette hooked me up with a cigarette. Right in front of The Alibi. I appreciate it, Bridgette.

     9:40pm  Officer Sanchez just gave me a warning. I appreciate it, brother.

     9:45pm  The last times I've come to Arcata, on my walk to the school I remembered seeing these trees by the highway and a trail into the woods. I assumed that was a possible squat, so I went there. Well, as I was climbing around some weeds, this dog starts barking. I ignore him and set my cloak out to lay on and lie down. Well, it seems these woods were private property and the owner of the dog called the cops. This cop showed up. He only gave me a warning! Haha. I guess it hasn't been long enough for my ticket to be a warrant. Man, I am relieved. This means I have more time in Arcata.

     10:15pm  This sucks. I am wandering around looking for a place to sleep. Argh.

     11:40pm  I walked down this long road, Somoa in the opposite direction of 101. I found a spot behind this fence on this useless access road. I'm just going to crash out. I'm tired.

Next day..