Ventura, CA
Wednesday December 31, 2008
6:00am I didn’t tell you that last night after I got hooked up with those five dollars, I walked around looking for weed and sure enough I found some cool punk kids and they hooked me up. I crashed out around nine or something.
6:57am Up and at ‘em. I’m going to walk to Sanjon now. The sun is up. I’m going to go spread the word at Sanjon then go to lunch at Catholic Charities at eleven thirty. Another day at the office.
7:02am Walking by Corrales Mexican Food. This is the place that guy took me to eat when I first got into town not too long ago. I’m going to hit them up for my sign flying at Sanjon today.
7:05am Marilu en Corrales me esta dando comida. Te lo agradezco, Marilu. Todo el mundo recibe credito, gracias.
7:07am Sweet, I’m going to score breakfast for Sanjon today. Just another day at the office.
7:34am I have secured my post at Sanjon. I got hooked up with a big huge burrito. I’m all full. I’m going to smoke a cigarette now.
To kill time I've been hollowing the end of my stick with my Leatherman, preparing it for when I get a compass for it.
This guy just pulled up to the light and I offered him my website. He told me, “Actually, I already have it.”
8:56am I am leaving Sanjon already. I only got two dollars. I wasn’t doing it for the money. I passed out my website a lot. There were so many people telling me they had already seen my website. I should ask people from now on, “Have I given you one already?”
10:02am I should make an update. I was walking towards Main Street to find somebody to tell my story to. This lady walked by and smiled at me, and everybody knows that’s all I need to offer people my website. I hit her up for my story and she said sure. I walked her all the way to Surfer’s Point talking to her the whole time. Hilary, with one L. You’ll be on there when I update it. I took her picture too.
11:20am I walked over to Catholic Charities for lunch.
12:22pm I forgot to tell you, at Catholic Charities this guy came up to me and complimented my shirt and said he would smoke me out after lunch. “You gotta follow the signs,” I told him. We walked over to the park close to the Avenue Library where they have a mattress and a couch. Bob thoroughly enjoyed my legend.
12:57pm Cool, I think the library is open, sweet.
1:48pm I forgot to tell you, I’m standing in front of the liquor store that’s across the street from the library. I have to wait an hour for my reservation on the computer inside. I was just standing there in front of the liquor store smoking and the Indian guy who works here came outside and started yelling at me to move. I told him I wasn’t doing shit. I was in the middle of my story with some dude when he started bitching at me. Some guy who had walked up to me and asked me for my name. When I told him Victor Antonio from San Antonio he asked me if I needed a couple bucks. This girl who was with him recognized me from River Haven years ago. She was glad to see that I was still on the mission. That Indian dude got all mad and threw my bags in the grass and said he was going to call the cops. I dared him to. My weed is already stashed. It’ll be showtime. I told the guy, “Why don’t you call someone with some authority.”
3:48pm I already left the Avenue Library. I spent an hour typing. 21 days away from being caught up. I’m going to walk to Subway and buy a breakfast sandwich and then I’m going to the Foster library to see if their computers are down. Maybe I can do another hour of typing there.
Oh yeah, at the library I thought I had lost my wallet. I had given up and everything. I got more printouts. I was freaking out about my wallet. I just found it again, though.
3:54pm I just walked to the Avenue and Main Street and Ben just hooked me up with some nuggets! Ben: “Happy New Years everybody!”
6:40pm I haven’t made many updates recently. I just hung out on Main Street and told my story and passed out my website. This one guy came up to me and I offered to smoke him out. We were supposed to go watch a movie, but he said he wanted to eat first. We started walking all the way to the Burger King on the Avenue. About halfway there I changed my mind and told him I wasn’t that hungry and that I was going to go stand in front of the movies again, even though I am hungry now and should have gone with him. I’ll just go chill on Main Street and tell my story. I thought there was going to be some party at the park by the post office. I went and checked and nobody’s there. I’m going to walk back to Main Street and try and bum some leftovers.
Listeners
7:02pm I got a little hungry and the very first people I hit up for change hooked me up. The guy turned around and handed me a handful of quarters. I’m going to Subway to buy me another omelet sandwich. I already ate one earlier.
7:17pm Alejandra en el Subway me dio otra galleta.
9:28pm I just got out of the movies! This employee kid had walked out and handed me a free ticket to Slumdog Millionaire. It was alright. I guess it was entertaining. It was good for being free.
9:47pm The dude who I had taken off walking to the Burger King with, I tried to tell him my story and he wouldn’t listen at all. But he still wouldn’t leave. He was totally cramping my giveaway. He finally took off. I’m having a good night. I got a free movie.
10:57pm John is hooking me up with a cigarette in front of the movie theatre. I appreciate it, brother.
11:15pm Joey is smoking a brother out for the cause. Happy New Year!
12:00am It’s 2009, everybody. They just did the countdown. I was able to infiltrate the rooftop without being seen. It’s way loud down on Main Street with all the drunk partiers. I think like three nights in a row I crashed at 700 Main. I’m going to crash here tonight. I had walked down to 700, but it was all loud there too. So I came back to the roof. I’m going to try and crash out. It got cold.
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