Entry for October 07, 2006
Here I am at the library, it's a beautiful saturday afternoon. This is my favorite time of year but here in the city I've yet to see any leaves changing colors. I quit drinking a while ago, tho' I slip up from time to time every time I do it makes me remember why I stopped drinking in the first place! Still homeless tho', I'm not in a tent any longer-try sleeping in a tent by yourself in the dead of winter in a little tiny bit of woods off the main drag in the inner city then you won't have to wonder why the hell you drink vodka by the gallon! Now I sleep down in the community room at Crossroads RI-which is a drop in center, not a shelter but I'd much rather sleep on a cot down there than at the local shelter where scumbags think nothing of untying your holy shoes and taking them off your feet while you sleep-don't laugh I'm serious! I'm trying to get in a sober house, the Advent house but I'm having a hard time even getting in touch with these people to check my # on the waiting list! I know they're not accustomed to having people who are living in the street actually come in there who are clean & sober, mostly they get people fresh out of the ACI or treatment facilities but once you have had enough of being a drunk and having people use and abuse you, every way they can, you realise that as bad as it might seem being out there the only door getting high and drunk opens is the cell door and once it closes behind you its all over.
