I should have posted this sooner, as in Saturday, but I became distracted.
Remember that guy I wrote about on Friday night, who seemed lost in the woods? Well, he stopped by on Saturday to pick up the $$$, and I must say, looked 100% better and different than the last time we’d met. He’d gained about 50 pounds, was clear of eye and thought, looked you in the eye when he spoke, didn’t sit there and grind his teeth and jaw, and was very thankful for the meeting list, saying, “Thanks a lot, I haven’t picked up the new one yet!”. He then went on the say that he had a year clean and sober, living in a nearby flophouse/motel and working across the line in another state, at a plastics factory. Miracles do happen, if only we wait for them. I think, however, he is still very much the ‘horse-thief’ of days gone by: I asked if he was going to meetings and he said he was going to a meeting that I have been attending religiously for over a year. I haven’t seen him, and it’s not a big group, so he can’t hide. He doesn’t have a sponsor (this will not be me, btw) and was in a treatment center north of here for a spell. So, we’ll see. It takes a while to get out of the woods after having wandered in the brush for so long. I get the feeling that he’ll pay back the loan, though. It was just a vibe I felt. He’s OK, but is unsure about where to go. Maybe the meeting list will help him out. I’ll make an amends to the blog-o-sphere for taking his inventory in my previous post.
So that’s it, really. I spent the last 2 days goofing off, making a model for a small contest, and I’m pretty focused on that right now. I’ll finish it up today and get right back to Kant, Meso-American studies, and Cultural Lit. No class today, so I’m being lazy, although I did manage to clean my bedroom, office, foyer, and wash a load of laundry, all before 11:30am…
Johnnyboy
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