Volunteer Barber

Written on Sunday, December 14, 2008

Well today was a full day. The barber from East Compound went home on Friday and they asked if anyone wanted to volunteer to cut hair just for the day. So I volunteered myself for a few hours of the day to cut the hair of about 20 or so inmates that needed a haircut.

It was a nice little change from sitting around the tent all day. Then when I got back to the tent before lunch count we were all debating whether we could jump and touch the bottom of the hanging fly strip in our tent. I wagered that Reggie (who is an over-confident, short Hawaiian guy) that he could not touch it in three tries. If he could, I would give my four honey buns. If he was unable to do it, he would give me his entire commissary bag. Needless to say, I ended up letting him keep most of his items and gave the items I did take from him to new people without anything to eat. Why? Because I am a nice guy.

I am clearly not going to be receiving a visit from anyone this weekend. I thought that surely my parents would come based on the last conversation I had with them on Friday. And now after they did not show up all weekend, and I am unable to get a hold of them on the phone at all, I am beginning to worry that something may have happened to them. In the hundred odd days I have been here, I have had A LOT of people say that they would come visit and never come, or write, or pick up the phone. But my parents have almost always come through when they said they would, or at least picked up the phone to explain why they couldn't make it.

I'm probably just being silly. They are fine and have just been busy. But I really can't help but worry because here I have no way of knowing for sure. Anyway, hopefully I will get a hold of them later if we get compound.

Just so everybody knows, there is a lot going on here all the time that I can't really write about yet. I promise I will, very soon I will, but I can't incriminate myself--or anyone else--just yet.

So until soon is now, I will be seeing ya.