Journal 06-13-16 Mon DEC

  I just finished Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley. I have collected some quotations from it that I liked and emailed them to mom but the closing lines where Steinbeck gets lost in New York and breaks down because he’s so close to home but can’t get...

Journal 06-12-16 Sun DEC

  We lost…again. Marcos and I made it to the final round of the handball tournament yet again, and yet again we lost, mostly due to my inferior skill level. 🙁 We ended up playing against Blue (a 59 yo, kind of silly Latino guy who is one of the porters) and...

Journal 06-10-6 Fri DEC

  It’s Friday again so I got a visit from mom, dad, McK and Roz this morning. The CO who did the strip search even asked if I had gotten a visit every week I’d been here and I told him “yes.” He said it’s good to have that kind of...

Journal 06-09-16 Thur DEC

    This morning after breakfast the CO came to tell Jacobs to pack up, he was going to NSP. He wasn’t very happy to hear that because he really wanted to go to Omaha (OCC) where his girlfriend and family are. He kept saying how he hoped to go to OCC...

Journal 06-08-16 Wed DEC

    Yesterday I got an email from mom informing me that I received a summons to serve on jury duty next month. HAHAHAHAhahahaha! I asked CO Moda if they’d let me out to go serve and he humorlessly said “no.” *rolls his eyes* Some people have no...