I had a bum offer me a cigarette on Friday. Caught me COMPLETELY off guard. Just one more bit of evidence that the people here are in fact the most amazing anywhere.

I started running again recently. I see a lot of people in the four miles ( Read more... )

it's hard to meet people when you don't leave your room. I haven't given up on this journal already. Just haven't met anyone worth writing about in a while.

I got home tonight, exhausted. Not the kind of night that I would want to be bothered by anyone. I was scared half to death by one of the scraggliest looking men I have ever seen; baring a toothy grin from ear to ear. Without the chance to utter a single word, Tom said, "No. No thank you. Goodbye. No." The man barely acknowledged him and kept ( Read more... )

Everyone here always talks about how they're going to make a movie or write a book about what goes on here. I don't know about that, but I'm going to write everything down. Starting with the man I met today ( Read more... )