04-04-12

Howdy!

Well, here it is at 6:50 AM and I'm up after only 4 1/2 hours of sleep to drop off some legal mail. Legal mail is mail to an attorney, a court, etc., which is confidential and can be sealed. "Regular mail", like this letter, goes into a mailbox in the unit and is left unsealed so it can be inspected and read. No privacy allowed. They used to allow us years ago to drop off our legal mail in the unit mailbox and it was no big deal. I'm sure they changed all that to discourage us from sending out legal mail by making it more difficult.

Legal mail can be sealed as long as it's to an appropriate party, and you have to write "Legal Mail" on the envelope. But now you have to drop it off at the mail room (or wherever) and stand in line and show your ID and all that crap. At the last place it was much more convenient 'cause the time to drop it off was at lunch. Here, unfortunately, they have you drop it off at 7:30 AM at R+D. Most every time I've gone though, no one is at R+D at that time and I (or we) have to stand there outside waiting for someone to show up and do their job.

I have three motions due in three different cases. One is due on April 30 and I haven't really started (haven't at all). Today I'm sending out one short motion in one case that the court wants to transfer from Minnesota to North Carolina, and then I'm filing a request for an extension of time to file my response to a Ryaly Brief in an appeal I filed. Ugh. I don't want to do any of this.

Okay, so here it is: 7:30 AM. They called the "move" and I'm standing outside at this door to R+D with two other guys. Good thing it's not raining. Hey, it looks like someone just showed up. Maybe it won't take too long after all.

04-09-12
Hmm... well, Easter has come and gone. My cellie, the "Christian", had no idea it was Easter and said that he/they don't celebrate it. I happened to mention that it's the whole reason Christianity exists. Duh.

"Someone" who shall remain nameless came across some tobacco this weekend. I don't smoke cigarettes. Guys around the compound do that in various ways, mainly by going through the trash. For the most part, they come across chewing tobacco and they roll it up in paper around the roll of toilet paper. You've gotta be pretty damn desperate to smoke someone else's spit out chewing tobacco. Disgusting.

Anyway, this guy has completely stunk up the cell of yours truly. Today alone he's smoked 4-5 times and then he sprays baby powder all over to cover up the smell so there's film over everything. Then... since I'm the only one who ever cleans... I've got to get out of here.

I finally head from my friend Pam today. I hadn't heard from her since Wed. 3/28—so in two days, that would have been two weeks since she emailed me. Two weeks. This is my best friend and my only outside support. What am I gonna do?

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