April 24, 1973, Tuesday

Troy’s new girlfriend is a bitch. She told me that Troy doesn’t want to hang around with us anymore. She said he never wanted to be our friends we forced ourselves on him. She is totally loco. She is this hot looking fox, she wants Troy for herself. Troy is that personality that is overly friendly. The ending to their relationship is predictable. I was inviting him to my birthday bash on Friday. She said, “We are not interested in spending time with war mongers.” They’ll come, he’ll come to party with us, and she’ll come to watch him. We have three kegs coming. Later.

By the end of the week at school we will have built a flushing system from scratch. It’s a continuous water system. Water is constantly flowing through the main pipe. I will connect my toilet to the system. If it works the force of the continuous flow of water will suck down waste through my toilet, with no leakage. This class started with forty three men in San Francisco, we are now at twenty one men. I only have two more pieces to build and attach. I’m going to take my time, we only get one try. Later.

Maria hasn’t gone home yet. She told Benny that she was eighteen. She told me she was sixteen. Benny wants to believe she is eighteen. He is teaching her out of body techniques. She tells him she gets it. She told the guys that she can’t go home without her brother. Her mother would beat her. Later.