Followup for March blog

OK, GUILTY...I have been slacking. But seriously, I have been contemplating fairly major life questions since I last blogged.

1. My friend, E, who is in jail for killing someone's baby was briefly joined in Colorado jail by another close friend (his charges were initally domestic violence but luckily they were eventually dropped). Situations like these prompt sane individuals to question who their friends are. Not just how well you know them, but how well you know yourself and trust in your own judgement. You think, if these people I did charity work with (and who by all accounts were model citizens) can do something like this, then what am I capable of? To which I answer myself, all kinds of horrifying, horrible things. Its enough to make you want to hang yourself.

2. ...and speaking of hanging oneself, Michele V. (perpetrator in the killing of my friend and her kids) did just that to avoid his trial. Now, as much as I'm into my acquaintances NOT killing people, I'm also into not letting them kill themselves and I certainly don't want that to happen to my friend E. To that end, I wrote some jailhouse mail for the first time ever. E seems like a good pen-pal (no pun intended). He's well educated and well read, but the response I got back was shocking. I'll spare you depressing details, but he asked me to help him think of some way he could be a productive member of society, in whatever society he was beholden to keep for the next 28 or so years of his life. This seems like a reasonable request to grant to the guy so I've been thinking....but I pretty much got nothing except:
*work out and get rediculously buff. maybe one day you'll break up a riot. or live to see the end of your sentance due to your increased physical health?
*write your memoirs. seriously, they'd be really interesting.
*learn how to be a better criminal. just because you can.
*learn other useful prison skills like toiletwine making. he's behind bars, I'm IN bars...shit wine may be one of the few things we still have in common. contain your laughter at my bad joke, please.
*cultivate sexy female pen-pals. well....we saw how your last relationship ended. this couldn't possibly be any worse.
*study up on abnormal psychology and either counsel others out of hanging themselves or talk them into it, depending on how friendly you're feeling.
*become an ordained minister. a friend can do it for you from the "outside" and it would make for great stories, Reverend E.
*be everybody's bitch. because we've seen your "game" and its not going to help.

so I'm asking for the 2 cents of my readers before I draft my final response to the question of what my friend should do with his life behind bars. what you got?