Day Ninety-Five

   ****NAMES CHANGED TO PROTECT PORTLAND'S STREET KIDS****

In the morning we leave at about ten in the morning since Turk and Baby Mama have school. I get off the max to go to Walmart and get some yarn for the baby blanket. I have $15 left from returning things to Fred Meyer so I have a small yarn budget. "You going to go steal?" Turk asks me.
"Hell no!" I yell, "I'm about to go buy it."

Yarn is on sale so I go a little overboard. I spend a full $20 on yarn but it's not that bad considering how much I got. I make another pit stop at the Asian market so I can get some Mochi ice cream. It's one of my weird little addictions I've been craving lately.

I go downtown where I bounce between watching zombies and crocheting at #1 and sitting in the library. I try to get KL to give me back some of my belongings she has but give up when she passes out on the bench outside in the court yard. When it's time for them to close Bernard asks me to help get her up but I shake my head and walk away. I can't do this anymore. I just can't. I hide in the library after #1 until it closes at eight. I think I'll head to Whole Foods to get some munchies and wifi there but then change my mind mid walk and go to McDonalds.

At McD's Houdini tells me he was stopped by a police officer again today but didn't have a warrant. I demand he call his case manager tomorrow before he gets a warrant. He hugs me and says, "Thank you for caring about me."

In shelter I sit with Director Lady and a couple of kids while we play the "guess what Director Lady does in her spare time" game. I know it's really weird but we love coming up with different versions of her. She thinks it's funny and never tells us if we're right or wrong.
"I thought of a really good comedy show," she tells us.
"You going to start filming in shelter?" I ask and kids snicker.
"No, like a vampire show but all the characters became vampires when they were old. So like they're stuck being a vampire forever with a bad back or a cane."

Okay, Director Lady has some jokes.

I roll my yarn for the blanket which when you have a bag full of yarn can be a pretty big task. After I shower I end up chatting with Yougio by the sinks for awhile. He tells me to mix salt in hydrogen peroxide to clear off my acne break out I'm having. I'm surprised when it actually works. He yells at me for trying to pop bumps after it comes clean so we compromise and he allows me to pop one bump. We talk about why we're in shelter and whether or not we could be out. He tells me that a friend of his that owns a porn shop wants to do a photo shoot with him.

We go through the house list agreements and decide we will revamp it and take it to next week's house meeting since he can't make tomorrow night's. Then slowly we all trickle into bed.

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