Surprise Quiz Part II. Well, I finished the rest of the standardized math test this morning, and then had to sit there waiting for over thirty minutes while the other guy finished his test.

Meanwhile the CO and test giver gossiped the whole time. Give me a break. Besides it being incredibly distracting to someone taking a test, for me having nothing else to do but sit there and listen to someone else's personal drivel made me feel like barfing. Get a life!

Now I am in my room till lunch time and the sheets are out for cleaning. I am going to finish off the book "In Bad Company."

It is now almost lunch time and my sheets are back. Oops, the count is before lunch. Count times are strange here in that they have a stand up count, and ten minutes later you are having lunch.

I just got back in from the afternoon Rec and the TV was tuned to some dumb makeover show. One woman was getting stomach surgery, and another, 16 years old, was getting a makeover. Or maybe it was the same person? I don't know. So instead of watching TV I scanned the bookcase and came up with a Nora Roberts book I had not read.

Well, I am now starting my second week here in NY State Prison. I really need to start writing, but the bed seems so inviting. I will probably feel better once I start beefing up on the protein.

Lunch today was not too bad, tuna salad with pita bread. Tuna was OK, and considering that I now have eight cans of it, I better get to like it!

I am wondering if the mail will be kind to me today. I do not think they deliver mail on Saturday here, so if I do get a letter today I will see if it needs any quick answers and send this out. Otherwise, I will probably hold this letter till Sunday. You should have two nice, long letters from to keep you company. So let me do a little reading with Nora.

I must stay away from chocolate. I had the stupid thought that I would take one little rectangle of a plain Hershey bar like a mint on a pillow, but instead I knocked off the entire bar between last night and 1:00 PM today. So that is either my one shot for today or the one of two extras I allowed myself. I think it will be the extra. Later.

Well, the first letter has arrived; Mom and Dad have written. I am enclosing their letter. I had written them a letter upon my arrival, so it hit the mail Friday and they got it Monday. The letter was basically my first impressions, but was pretty similar to the one I wrote to you.

Mom and Dad are coming to visit this Monday and Tuesday, and then leaving town for two months. Hopefully they will take care of my magazines and maybe the NY Times subscription before they leave town.

My only concern is if I get transferred during that time I would have no way to contact them. Watch, I get transferred upstate, then it will not be as easy to come visit.
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