February 14th

This is Jimmy Varn and I am glad to be fucking alive.

I am also glad to be fucking but that is another matter.

Crystal and I have been working hard. The rain is still coming and we are still collecting water. She’s been helping me collect water from other hourse rain gutters. I cover her with my guns while she sets it up. Hot damn it is nice to work with a partner.

I explained my plan to loot the neighborhood. Essentially I will scout with my bike and then we will go together with the wheelbarrow. I worked out a schedule that she didn’t really add any input to. I guess she is so used to being a nomad that she isn’t sure how to do it systematically.

You know, I ask her a lot about how she survived. It just seems so incredible. She just carries her backpack with her. No canteen, no sleeping bag and no weapon other than her bat. It just seems insane. She managed to survive by staying light I guess.

Crystal also told me about the zombie parade. She says in downtown Atlanta it is even worse. She saw two parades cross at an intersection and they kept going. Some broke off from their original parade and joined the new one. She said she was hiding in a high rise apartment when it happened and was stuck for two weeks.

I asked her about downtown. I mean, how the fuck was she able to sleep in an apartment knowing it had to be full of zombies? Crystal just shrugs it off.

“Gotta sleep somewhere,” she says.

Fuck, she has more balls than me.

She says she hasn’t tried to get a car. Most streets are too jammed with debris, bodies or other cars for any sort of driving. Crystal has seen a lot of car crashes, smoldering wrecks and shattered glass on the streets are a good deterrent from getting your own car.

I ask her if she has seen the military, or anything from the government. She just laughs at me like I am naïve. Maybe I am.

I tried bringing up the future and Crystal got real uncomfortable. I asked her if she thought we would get rescued, or if civilization will return. She actually looked angry with me. I thought she was going to say something but she just shook her head. Then she kissed me and we made love so I didn’t bring it up again.

I asked if she wanted to blog and she declined. I guess she’s shy.

I’m off to eat. Crystal is making something with Spam she swears I will like. We’ll see.