journal excerpts

This is just some stuff I've jotted down in my journal while killing time at different places:

My sister recently referred to a sandwich as "dank".  She was talking about sandwiches that Laurie used to make us when we were kids, so its not like she had just eaten a sandwich and was so overcome with emotion that the word "dank" just slipped out.  No, Emilie described a sandwich that she had eaten about 20 years ago, as "fuckin' dank".   Emilie Susan Gooch - Summa Cum Laude, University of Colorado.
They were pretty good, bean sprouts and brown mustard, big tomatoes etc.  Still though.

There is some dude at Piedmont that has called me "Brother" 3 times now; that's every time I've talked to him.  Except we've never really talked, it's just how he refers to me: "Thanks brother" when I held the door for him, "Have a good day Brother" when we made eye contact by the vending machines, "Wassup Brother? As he passed me on his way out of the mens room (without washing his hands).   Fat guy w/a ponytail, curly beard, sandals, neon green backpack, always standing around next to the little bus-stop thing that people have to smoke inside of but he doesn't ever seem to be smoking.  Looks kinda like the singer from My Morning Jacket, I get the feeling he knows this and is cultivating the resemblance.  (Understandable, Jim James is a handsome man).  He seems like a nice guy but it's weird having some post-adolescent hippy call me Brother in such a flippant way.  That's usually reserved for religious weirdos or people I actually consider to be my Brothers.  I know its just some friendly hippy-festival shit - I remember doing it at the rainbow gathering.  But in prison, or even in my life before prison, it actually held weight if somebody you'd known for a while started calling you Brother.  It meant something.  But using it everywhere - with everyone you see - kinda cheapens it a little.  Maybe.  Maybe I'm the only one he says it to because I look a lot like his brother who also attends PVCC.  I could be making some unsafe assumptions here.