Security Blanket

For the first time in the six months that I've been on this unit, we exchanged our blankets this morning. Each inmate is issued standard "necessities" when they arrive at a unit: two shirts, two pairs of pants, two pairs of socks, two boxers, two sheets, one mattress, one towel, and one wool blanket. Everything except the sheets, mattress, and blanket are exchanged each morning. The sheets are exchanged once a week. I had no idea when, or even if, our blankets would be traded for a clean one.

I've needed a clean blanket for quite a while, as I keep to my bunk most of the time and use one of my sheets as a pillow, so the blanket touches me directly. One month is a long time to use a blanket without washing, two is a little gross, but six months without a clean blanket is just trashy and disgusting. Boy, was I glad to finally get a new one.

I also got my first est in Sociology back today. The class is easy, the test was simple, so I didn't expect to get any lower than what I actually received - 106 out of 106. Even though I was the only one to score perfectly, the rest of the grades were A's with a few B's and C's. Quite a contrast to the philosophy class, which I'm sure will be graded tougher.