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Arcata, CA

Thursday October 26, 2007

     11:36am  We are the Chevron over here on Giuntoli Road and 101. Across the street is a Patriot gas station. Carol: "At first it was just the highway patrol that pulled over a van covered with dirt. This hippie kid gets out and puts this stuff on the ground. I don't know what it is. There was a little momma with a baby too. She gets out of the van. Another highway patrolman and two sheriff's show up. Four officers for this these kids and their baby. I don't know what they are doing. There's just a lot of cops. An unfair amount of cops. As soon as this is over I'm going to go over there and talk to that kid. Wait, here comes another one. One that says Animal Control, great. We're going to stay here and find out what happened to these kids and see if they have been harassed. It's ridiculous. This harassment of homeless people and hippies has got to stop."

     11:43am  Another highway patrolman left. Another Animal Control guy showed up. He's got one of those dog leash catcher thingies.

     11:45am  The police are dispersing.

     11:48am  Carol: "One highway patrolman left. One sheriff is leaving. Animal control is talking to the hippies. There's still two Animal Control and one sheriff left.
                    
     11:55am  Okay, they just confiscated the dogs that were in the van and put it them one of their trucks. Two dogs. One black one and one brown one. They're taking their dogs for some reason. I don't know why. Well, no one got arrested except for the dogs. The sheriff don't seem to be too forceful. They seem to be pretty well-behaved. The kids weren't getting beat with clubs or anything.

                     Another update. The last sheriff is now leaving. I'm going to go talk to them as soon as he is gone.

     12:01pm  We just got done talking to the kids that got pulled over by the cops. Apparently one of the dogs bit somebody. The highway patrol officers were nice and courteous. However, these kids have been harassed in the past in this town and that's what we're going to work on trying to stop.

     12:20pm  We came to The Endeavor. We were like fifteen seconds too late for lunch. They closed at twelve fifteen to make food boxes for people.

     12:59pm  We came to the St. Vincent de Paul's thriftstore over on Somoa and K Street. I went in there and shoplifted a Smashing Pumpkins cassette. Siamese Dream.

     2:21pm  We only had like a dollar in change and wanted to go get some chicken sandwiches at the Carl's Jr. I thought Carol was going to ask me to go look for receipts in the Ray's parking lot. We pulled up to the drive-through at Carl's Jr. We only had enough money for one, but when the guy asked me what my order was I accidentally ordered two. What did you tell the guy, Carol? We told him we had just lost twenty bucks in his parking lot and we only had enough to pay for one. At first he said no no no. We had a credit card, but they wouldn't accept it(didn't work). We asked to talk to the manager and she came by. Carol was all, "It's only a dollar." We're going to go pay her back today. Umm, maybe not. Carol will. Haha, yeah right.

     3:49pm  Carol and I are walking on Clam Beach. I don't think I've mentioned how the hits on my webpage are skyrocketing. Almost pretty much everyday we've been going to the library at HSU. I sit there for hours on the computer spamming my shit all over IRC. It's going to be everywhere.

     5:36pm  I'm telling Megan my story at my old spanging alley. What was your email, Megan? megancarlstrom21@hotmail.com

     5:54pm  I'm talking to these two brothers in the plaza. What were your emails? lakota@aol.com, jhasewhite@aol.com

     6:15pm  Gabriel hooked me up with a cigarette in the plaza. I appreciate it, man. Everybody gets credit, thanks.

     7:35pm  I had a couple good presentations in the plaza. These two guys were all about it. They were telling me thank you. I told them my whole Odyssey. They liked it a lot.

     9:16pm  I lost Carol. I just got out of the school. I made sure at least fifty people were reading my webpage before I left. I can tell on the statistics. I spammed everybody on IRC, hehe. When I walked down to the big stairs that you have to climb down by the highway I saw an abandoned bike lying on the ground. It was on the trail, not the stairs. Hmm, that would get me to Carol quicker. I hopped on the bike. The brakes didn't work so good though. I rode it all the way to the coffee shop on Alliance. Carol didn't want to come with me to the library because she was all tired. I told her to just meet me at the coffee shop. She said that was too far to walk. I used to walk it all the time when I stayed at Kati's years ago. Then I found that bike and thought I'd get there even quicker. When I got to the coffee shop Carol was nowhere to be found. I went inside and asked around and they hadn't seen her. Now I'm going to go to the plaza and tell my story. Hopefully she'll show up.

     9:40pm  I got to the plaza like five minutes ago and Carol wasn't here. I'm just going to stay in the plaza until she shows up.

     9:44pm  Ariana just came by and hooked us up with some sushi. Thanks a lot Ariana.

     10:32pm  Chris volunteered me some pizza in the plaza. I appreciate it, brother.

     10:44pm  Amy just hooked us up with some food. I appreciate it, Amy.

     10:49pm  I am still waiting for Carol to show up. I'm talking to Jessica, telling her my story in the plaza. What was your email? jessica_ellamay@hotmail.com

     11:55pm  I don't know where the hell Carol is. I had some great presentations waiting for her. I don't know where she is. I'm walking to the police station. I'm going to see if she's in custody again.

     11:59pm  She's not in custody. Where could she be? I hope she didn't get in a wreck or nothing. Where did Carol go? Screw it, I'm going back to the plaza.
                    
     12:20am  I am talking to Josh telling him my story in the plaza wondering where the hell Carol is. What was your email, brother? flow333@hotmail.com

                     What was your email, brother? lewis.star@hotmail.com

     1:01am  Lewis just volunteered me a cigarette. I appreciate it, brother. Everybody gets credit, thanks. Sweet! He gave me some bud too! For the cause.

     2:50am  Carol never showed up. She disappeared. My girlfriend and her warm car disappeared. Soon to be ex. Damnit, I've been trying for months now. She's slowing me down. I've got work to do. I've got a world to save. Anyway, I am having this glorious presentation with this pretty girl in the plaza April. She's been a great listener. What was your email address? burblingmb@aol.com

     2:54am  That beautiful girl April. She laughs real loud. She cackles. She listened to my story great. Whole Odyssey and everything. It got all late and she was all tired. I asked her if she could give me a ride to Westwood Market where we've been crashing in the Subaru behind this red truck. Carol still wasn't there. She just disappeared. I don't know what happened to her. I am worried about her. I should probably call the hospitals.

                     I walked up to the top of the hill on G Street right before you go down and pass the 101. Where Carol had parked when I left her to go to the library. She's not there. She's not at the coffee shop. I don't know where the fuck she is. What's going on?

                     I came back to the cop shop. There weren't any accidents tonight.

                     Oh shit, I forgot to tell you. It was around three thirty or so. After I went to the police station I went back to the donut shop and I saw her. At first I wasn't sure if it was her, because I didn't see the floodlights on the car. It ended up being her. We had just missed each other by ten minutes and shit. We've been chasing each other around for hours now. Carol: "I had gone to the Vineyard and they told me you were just here looking for me like ten minutes ago. I figured you'd come back there, so I stayed there until they closed at ten. I went out in the parking lot and tried to go to sleep. I was just sitting there for a long time and I couldn't get to sleep. I slept for like an hour or two. When I woke up you weren't here. I drove around looking everywhere for you. I drove by the plaza a bunch of times. I went back to the college. Then I went back to the Vineyard and parked hoping you would just come by there. I couldn't sleep again and wondered what to do. Should I stay here and wait for him? Should I drive around? I am really glad I found him because he's awful cute. He had some really good presentations which made him happy and I got the rest I needed."

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