January 30, 2007

• You’re in big trouble, Mister.

  Ok, i feel better. I realize I’ve been uber post-tastic today, so I apologize.
  
  I
  came home to find a letter from Tristen. We’ve been writing back and
  forth for the year and a half he’s been away in county jail (for doing
  naughty stuff, suffice to say). After the initial bout of anger and
  forgiveness, our friendship has since grown a lot in that time through
  our letters, in some really profound & positive ways. He’s taught
  me a great deal about myself, and set me straight when i most needed
  it. He’s also working really hard to make amends for everything in his
  past, which makes me really proud, and seems determined to take the
  worst mistakes of his life and use them as inspiration to do some great
  things. I’m also proud of myself for being the one who stuck by him
  when not many people in his life bothered to even try (not nice people,
  so he’s probably better off). Tris is one of the most interesting,
  generous, funny, and caring people I know, and if he doesn’t quite
  deserve to be happy just yet, then he’s working harder than ever to get there. He’s also a moody dumbass sometimes- but i digress.
  
  Anyways,
  this wasn’t a moody dumbass letter, and he seems to be in very good
  spirits despite the whole jail-thing. This cheered me up quite a bit.
  He also mailed me his “Disciplinary Report” from last week which had me
  absolutely rolling. As follows:
  
  

  “On
  1/24/07 at approx 6:40 pm inmate T.S. was talking, laughing, and making
  faces during a mandatory meeting in Pod B. These actions were
  preventing other inmates from having a serious meeting. He has been
  warned numerous times about his disruptive behavior.”

  
  I
  can’t even describe the amount of funny this put in my zone just now,
  picturing Tris and his goofy faces and stupid jokes. I know i should be
  mad at him for misbehaving, but he’s such a lovable wiseass most of the
  time. I bet he had the whole room laughing too, which is typical, and
  the guard was probably just wet-behind-the-ears and ended up completely
  flustered. It certainly smacks of rookie behavior-management to me.
  They gave him ten days in the hole for being “disruptive”, bahaha.
  Later that day the supervising Captain came by, laughed at the
  stupidity of it all, and let him back out into general population
  again. Silly!

   
  

  • 8:48 pm
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