Day 86 - 9/16/21 - Thur

Actual Journal Entry:

"Awake at 6:30. Excer, H/L Drink, Doses. In library by 8:00. Today: J., Null, email Larry. I'm also toying with the idea of sending Angus King a letter. With a focus of criminal justice reform and the pandemic. Not about me, more about my case and cases like in the future. Wa-hoo Commissary day, the last one till Oct.

LUNCH: Bone-in-chicken (1 piece), Yams (pretty good), bread (reserve), Orange (reserve).

Worked in Law Library, got to form a good Fair Use motion, to go along with First Sale. Almost plays off it. Who’s on First (not relevant but in case my case, Defendants won). I’m not sure I understand the whole thing.

SUPPER: Steak-n-cheese on a hotdog roll, the steak was salty but I put some in reserve and made a wrap. Should have held out, tomorrow is Fish Friday.

Went outside, no laps, too tired.

‘You’re in my Seat’: Meet the Millers & Most Wanted. Didn't watch. Not into it. Some day maybe."

Notes for Day 86 (Four Years Later)

Looking back at this entry, it’s bittersweet to see me grinding away in the law library on a Fair Use and First Sale motion. This was the exact work I should have been doing between 2015 and 2019. By September 2021, I was already a convicted man sitting in a federal prison library; doing this research after the conviction was legally "too little, too late," but I didn't know that then.

I realize now that I was basically acting as my own lawyer because I didn't have real representation. I was toying with the idea of writing to Senator Angus King about reform, not just for myself but for "cases like mine in the future". It shows that my mindset was already shifting from "defendant" to "advocate."

The mention of "email Larry" right next to "Null" is a reminder of how integrated my creative work and my legal fight had become. I was reaching out to the world’s leading copyright expert (Lessig) while simultaneously trying to understand how a comedy routine like "Who’s on First" could serve as a legal precedent for my own life. It was a frantic, unguided intellectual marathon that I should have been running years earlier when it could have actually changed the verdict.