M203

Well, here I am again in my favorite cell, but not with Ida. I’m with Marilyn.

I slept better last night even though that door was slamming all night, and even napped for an hour in the early afternoon. I asked Ida who was on as I was waking up. She said she didn’t know her name. Just that it was the older lady with the lisp. You know you’ve been here for a long time when your celly describes the DO as the “old lady with the lisp,” and you automatically know she’s talking about Bangert.

Around 2:00, Jill from Classification, and Jackson, who usually works the gang unit, came and talked to all 12 of us individually.

When it was my turn, they started off by asking what my last name was, why I was in Ad-Seg, and what my charges were; shit they should know. I asked why they wanted to know all this, and they said they were preparing to do some big moves. Great, I thought. Just what I need.

I don’t know if they talked to the DOs to find out what we were like or what because they already had their list made up. I guess maybe they wanted to see our reaction to who we were being moved in with. What I’m wondering, though, is are they planning on doing this regularly just to annoy us? Or is someone in this pod a cop? No one here strikes me as a cop, but I know Lora E was some sort of cop. I saw it. She hugged me once when I was crying and I saw a vision of her in some type of uniform connected to law enforcement.

When I asked if I could be put with Mary they said she was taken. What they really meant was that she was already assigned to some other cell with other bunkies. This is when Jill told me I’d probably be with Marilyn M.

Ida said that when it was her turn, she really gave them a piece of her mind, speaking out for both of us. I asked them where they planned to put her and they said a 4-man cell. I informed them that both of us would go to A Tower before going to a cell that open and with that many people, but I don’t think she’s in a 4-cell. I think she’s in the small cell under the stairs. The one I thought I’d be in which is the 2-cell I’d like the least. It’s so non-private. People going up and down the stairs can see in easily, and the shitty thing about cells down in the dayroom is that you’re right by the people on their hour out. This cell has the best view of both a part of the hallway and a part of the tower. The question is, how long will I get to stay here? People in this cell don’t seem to stay in it very long. Mary said she was here a whole month till I came and jinxed her out of it.

Anyway, Bangert was just as pissed as we were. She said something about how stupid it was for them to be doing this because of one person, but I have no clue as to what she meant by that one. She bitched about how it’d just make more work for the DOs, knowing they’ll just have to move people back. She also said she wasn’t about to show anyone the list because she’d have a riot on her hands, and told Jackson and Jill she couldn’t move everybody before her shift was out. So she had everyone roll up and left it to second shift.

It’s been a long day and I’m going to have the lights cut. I’ll explain more tomorrow. I’m pretty sure Marilyn will be a good celly (of course she will. She’s leaving in 10 days).

Armstrong’s on now. I like her, but not how she doesn’t turn the lights back off after breakfast like everyone else does, till 1st shift turns them on at 7:00.