Letter 67

July 14, 2011

Dear Mom,

Just received your letter of July 10th and wanted to respond while I'm alert enough. Don't know why, but for some reason I blocked out that my daughter was visiting you recently. I'm glad you enjoyed yourselves and that she had fun, or at least went through the motions, at Universal. $118 bucks? That's more than I made for an entire year for crying out loud!

I've been scraped and scrubbed, and so far have been passing the inspection the smurf population here has daily. As soon as possible, I'm going to revert back to my old ways of being a slob for a day or two.

Anyhow, they might have to let me stay for a whole week for $118 worth of fun. I'm glad you had a good time though. I've thought about Lori quite a lot lately, and here the entire time she was only a short ways down the road from me. I really appreciate the pictures of her you sent me. The only thing is, they will likely be torn/lost/damaged much easier than an older type picture would be as they are only paper. J says hi and says he sees a resemblance to me; God, I hope not!

Seems like you have been extra busy lately. Hopefully my letters all made it through, though I suppose that in the larger picture it would not be wise for me to raise a fuss about it if they didn't, this close to getting out of CM like I am. That is a subject I intend to address in detail, but later...after I'm released (mail tampering). Regarding which, I've come to a position now where the wisest course of action is to avoid being even a blip on the radar screen of this administration; all different policies/rules are being implemented/enforced in a rather unyielding way compared to the last visit, even.

Considering I'm due to be moved onward during the middle of August, the 21st of this month is just about the perfect date for a visit. I just hope I don't draw any attention to myself before then.

About Karla...I suppose it is a natural reaction to feel a loss, especially if she was a friend. I'll go into more about that type of perceived loss in another letter as now the guard approaches to collect the mail.

Much love and regards,
James