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AM

8:00am CDT Friday 28 June 2002

I'm sitting meditatively now.

10:08am

That lasted about 9 minutes, and then I worked on my marble track some.

Now I'm at Christina Branmart's house. Her patience with Mia is incredible and refreshing. When I am a parent, I want to parent similarly.

11:42am

Christina smiled in a way that said silly Rob when I got my computer to capture this moment. I've never had the fun type of experience at Whole Foods before with all the samples overflowing with goodies during the day. I usually only come here at night when there's almost nothing left to munch.

12:05pm

Just met Roger here in the cafe section of Whole Foods. He has recently purchased a 4 unit condo thing on a mountain in New Mexico. He's traveling to France, Italy, Spain soon. He blessed and encouraged my adventure.

For some reason, I don't have my business cards on me, so I drew him a replica on back of Whole Foods receipt tape.

1:10pm

Christina will email me a list of people around the US who would enjoy hosting parts of my adventure. Such a fantastic blessing are our connections from YRUU.

PM

2:30pm CDT Friday 28 June 2002

I just stopped by Amy's Ice Cream to see if they would be interested in having me work for two weeks. JD will ask Glen if it will be worth it to them.

Now I'm outside of Catherine's house; when she arrives we'll do some yoga.

3:46pm

Yoga was fun. I'm going to Spy tonight to see if she can help get me a job as a doorman, checking IDs and such.

9:31pm

Went to La Jaliscience with Marta, who came in from Denton to see her sister. She and I will visit Paint This! tomorrow.

Talked to Wende tonight; told her of my plans. She was fully supportive and asked good questions. I had already asked the same questions of myself, so the discussion was not as challenging as I had feared it might be. In fact, she was quite supportive of my decision, and for this I am thankful.

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9:21am CDT Saturday 29 June 2002

Last night I drew out a calendar to plan my transition from here to who-knows-where, and sketched out some possible travel plans. I'd like to put them on my site, but I won't do it unless I have an HTML editor somewhere between emacs and M$ word.

(Hmm. It appears that emacs has more extensive html editing skillz than I understood at first. I'll see how well it can do what I want.)

At 11:30pm-ish, I got a call from Catherine, who asked me to come to Spy around 12:45am to interview for a job as a doorman. She met me outside, told the valet to park my car for free, introduced me to Morgan, a guy who was checking IDs outside the club.

"You're Rob?" he asked. "What's your phone number, Rob?"

I gave it to him and as he wrote it down, he said, "You've been given very high recommendations by Catherine. Okay, I'll call you in about a week or two." Interview complete.

I explained that I am available for work until the 19th. He understood, no problem. He sent me inside the club and I hung out with Catherine a bit. She has worked at the front desk taking money at the door for years.

We watched the 104 KRBE sponsored bikini contest, "this is so degrading," we both agreed. The three girls who won were all white, blonde, fake boobs. Yo J (who I know from college days) was MCing the event, and will apparently is there every Friday night.

Catherine and I went upstairs, she got free bottled waters, and I noticed a banner on the wall advertising the bikini contest had misspelled receive something like, "the winner will recieve..." tsk tsk.

(man, look at me all snooty about correct spelling)

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Catherine had to go to a meeting, so I hung around watching some peeps dance and then left after not too long. My clothes all smelled like smoke, which they probably will each time I go inside for too long (the doorman job is outside, fortunately). Um, oh, if I get this job, I will need to boost my clothing repertoire as well. I'll probably request some fashion tips from one of my girl friends.

Went to Kinko's and IMed for a bit with Colleen, Sean, Amanda, Bryn (all from YRUU) but ended up awake too late - got home and showered and in bed at 4:58am.