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Arcata, CA

Tuesday November 11, 2003

     11:30pm  I woke up around 10:55am. Kati and I woke up. Man, I am really, really, really undecided about leaving now. I know it's for the mission, but Kati and I are so much more into each other every single day. It's going to hurt to go, but I still have to. She's said the exact same thing. That it will be worth it.

     11:49pm  I am leaving Kati's apartment. She took off before me and . . oh shit, she told me to lock the door before I left. Let me go back and lock it. And this time I'm going to time my walk to see how long it takes. Last night I had set my watch when we left the donut shop, but forgot to notice when we got home.

     12:08pm  I'm in front of the donut shop. That's how long it took me to walk. Like fifteen minutes. Oh yeah, I just realized that I haven't gone to The Endeavor in days. I've been crashing at Kati's and hanging out at her house all day. She's got food at her house. But umm, I figured I would go and spange up a donut then walk out to the hitchhiking spot and go to Eureka. To The Raven House. I don't know. I just might use these two dollars I have in my wallet for bus fare, and just ride the bus out there.

     12:30pm  I just finished eating at The Endeavor. Man, I got a shitload of food. My good friend Randi(who volunteers there) hooked me up again. She gave me two servings of macaroni, a serving of pasta, some fruit salad, a cinnamon roll, some good cake and a whole bunch of other stuff.

     12:32pm  Josh hooked me up with a Nat Sherman. I appreciate it, brother.

     1:06pm  I took off walking towards the hitchhiking spot. AJ started walking with me so I invited him to The Raven House. He said ok. Both of us went out to the hitchhiking spot and within ten minutes this cool dude Walt pulled over and let us both in his car. He's smoking us out, too. Badass, man.

                   Cough, cough, hehe.

                   Man, I'm having the greatest time at The Raven House. I usually don't log shit here, but for some reason I feel like it. I'm having a good time. I signed up for laundry and they called me. While I was getting my dirty clothes together, I hear my CD playing! My NOFX - Pow-wah CD that I misplaced! Somebody else put it in. I guess I left it here. Somebody else playing NOFX. That's so cool.
                   Oh yeah, and while I was out smoking I talked to this one guy, James(grimwind2003@yahoo.com). I told him my platform and some scripts and he was agreeing with all of it. I'm having a good time at The Raven House.

     2:21pm  I just had a badass session with Derek. It was a great presentation. He works at The Raven House, too.

     4:10pm  Kati and I ended up getting a ride from The Raven House back to Arcata. I'm just hanging out in the plaza. Kati already went home on her bike. I'm going to walk out there later. I told her I was going to bum/smoke a cigarette. She told me, "I thought you were quitting." I told her, "Ahh, I'm cutting back."

     4:20pm  I just celebrated with Cocapelli and Randi underneath some stairs over here by Ace Hardware. Now, I'm going to walk to Kati's.

     4:44pm  I just got to Kati's. What's that, from 4:20 to 4:44? Like twenty four minutes.

                   Kati lives approximately one mile away from town. It takes me twenty minutes to walk it.

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