In the hole
…Things will be a little tougher than I had hoped when I get out for another reason. I had planned on working at UNICOR until I got out. This would have allowed me to save another $1000 or so on top of the $1500 I’ve already got stashed. Due to unforeseen events in June (see below), that’s no longer possible. Now instead of making $200+ per month, I’m an orderly (janitor) in the unit I live in making $16.80 per month. Here’s what happened:
June 2nd, lunchtime
Out of 1100 people on the compound, 900 or so did not go to lunch. According to the BOP, this was a food strike. They locked the whole compound down for 3 days. I did not go eat. Not so much because I cared about the supposed issues the food strike was about, (I didn’t even know about it until just before it happened), I had laundry to do so was not going to go to lunch anyway. (I normally miss 2 or 3 meals a week.) Even if I had not had something else to do, I would not have gone though. I did not agree with the reasons for the strike, but I was not going to go against all of my friends and the people I live with. I did not think things would get as out of hand as they did. read more »
Let’s start at the beginning. After over 40 hours of traveling I finally made it to my bed in Fremantle. I left St. Cloud Friday morning around 9:00. I didn’t get to my room in Freo until 11:30 Sunday night. Everything was going on track until we get to L.A.. In LA, we find out two of the previous flights to Sydney were canceled (one because of a bomb threat and one because of engine failure). While this didn’t effect us at all (since our flight was already full) it made a difference in Sydney (more details in a bit). While waiting around for our six hour layover in Sydney, we found out that World Youth Day was currently going on in Sydney and that the pope would be talking only a few hours after we arrive in there. This means there was a ton of traffic coming into Sydney, in addition to 2 extra planes leaving LA within 30 mins of us to the same destination (the ones canceled earlier). When we arrived in Sydney around 6:00AM and our next plane to Freo left at 8:00. The 3 huge planes from LA was more than enough to clog the lines at customs and for transferring terminals. Needless to say we missed our flight and got booked for the next one leaving at 6:00PM. 
Or something like that… Here’s my adventure from last night:
A student comes to a young professor’s office hours. She glances down the hall, closes his door, kneels pleadingly.)
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