Jodi Arias Afternoon Session 11/24 Part II of Scenic Drive Down Slime Highway

Okay. I got really bored trying to make heads or tails of this so I went a little off the deep end. Sorry. It was basically a whole lot of back and forth about anal sex and such between Juan and Dr. Forseca. That’s the short version. The following version is sort of like bad fan fiction or something. Feel free to skip it.

We return, after a stop off at Stuckey’s where I stocked up on enough pecan logs and pralines and Co-Colas to make it to our evening destination , to the Slime Highway. I may need extra restroom stops along the way.

Juan is in the driver’s seat yelling at Dr. Forseca who is strapped into the passenger seat and I am in the back laying down slurping co-cola and woofing down pecan logs and reading Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs because I think the novel pairs nicely with this part of the freakshow.

Juan is telling Forseca that Jodi is a whore who got some guys phone number at the funeral for Travis! Forseca says, “I got some guy’s number last night. He’s a business associate. I was not shaving my privates and texting him that I wanted him to bang me like a horny school girl, Juan. I asked him if he knew a good tax accountant, preferably Jewish. Don’t get your spidey undies in a twist Juan.!”

Oh crap! Donavan is in the back of the station wagon facing the rear. I wondered what that smell was.

Juan is upset with Forseca. So upset he is recalling other women he has road tripped with, namely, Alyce LaViolette.  Oh yes! How time makes men forget the bad times and remember the good times because Juan is saying that Alyce said that Jodi used men.

Juan screams, “Alyce really knew what she was talking about Forseca!”

“Well, Juan, I don’t see it that way. Those were Alyce’s findings not mine! “

Someone needs to take Nurmi’s Big Gulp away. We have stopped three times for a sidebar now. I’m bored, back to my book…

“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“You don’t have the same findings, Forseca because you did not interview her family. You did not interview her mother. You did not interview her father. DID YOU YES OR NO?”

” No, I didn’t Juan but… ”

“YOU JUST READ SOME CRAP THAT NURMI GAVE YOU, RIGHT? Does Nurmi look like a good source of reading material? Is this what you want to put your professional integrity on the line for Forseca? How much were you paid again?”

I like to press the divinity from the pecan roll against the roof of my mouth and just let it melt there.

“The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“You gave me nothing, Juan. NOTHING. If you would have given me something I would have read your files too. Don’t hate me for just reading Nurmi’s files. Nurmi was very giving with his files and he buys me nice things. You give me nothing and yell at me, Juan.”

” Fine, Forseca, her is something from me it’s a text where Travis says he feels like a dildo with a heart beart. A dildo with a heartbeat, Forseca! This is Travis standing before you telling you he feels like a dehumanized sex object. Say something about THAT Forseca. This text, right here that I’m giving you!”

” That was one point in time in one text, Juan. Just one point in time!  Will this Slime Highway ever end?”

“Oh yeah, Forseca? How about this point in time when Jodi says ‘If you are a good boy and you promise to give me a well deserved spanking…..then the ass pounding….’ ”

“Fine two points in time Juan. Two points in time. But pretty normal conversations between young lovers. Not appropriate for Travis because of his priesthood, but still.”

” BUT IT’S OKAY FOR JODI? Jodi is a Mormon too!”

“Converted”

“Whatever!”

“I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she’s fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can’t be explained. She’s always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

” Pedophilia certainly is not okay, right Forseca? But Jodi didn’t ever mention that to anyone until she was charged with first degree murder and testifying in court in an attempt to save her life. Why do you think that was Forseca?”

“I don’t know when she first brought it up Juan…Please slow down and don’t yell at me!”

“I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Well, you have to admit, Forseca that Jodi would certainly have some secondary gain as motivation for lying about Travis being a pedophile!”

“Maybe someone is going to come testify that she told them about it Juan. You never know. Monkeys could fly out of my ass, Juan.”

“Forseca, you said she told you she didn’t tell ANYONE! Are you saying she lied to you about Travis being a pedo?

“I’m just saying I don’t know for a fact who if anyone she told, Juan. Don’t get it twisted. I did not say he was a pedo!”

“We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

“What about the fact that in one version Jodi said he had pictures on a computer and in another she said there were actual photos spread on a bed while he was masturbating?”

“Does that really matter, Juan? On a computer, an actual photo, who she told and who she didn’t? Is any of this important? Can we please take a right turn off the Slime Highway?”

I lift my head up to interject, “NO NO IT DOES NOT! None of this matters! Pictures? Internet porn? Paedo? Not a Paedo? NONE OF THIS MATTERS! WHAT MATTERS IS WHY WE SHOULD KILL THE BITCH!” I return to my book.

“Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it’s called when you’re being held against your will but then you become sucked in and fall in love. Or if not exactly love, you fall into something you can’t see out of. ‘I can’t shoot a machine gun’ becomes ‘Hey, this hardly has any kick-back!”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Oh it matters, Forseca, it matters. And it shows  YOU ARE BIASED! You think it is just fine for Jodi to change her answers but not Travis!”

“I’m just answering the question you are shouting at me, Juan.”

“Did you read these diary entries where she writes in her diary for the first time after allegedly seeing the child porn, “Nothing interesting to report?” Don’t you think finding out your boyfriend is into children might be newsworthy enough for a diary entry?”

Nurmi Objects and we pull over so he can take a tinkle. Again. My bladder is bigger than his and it’s the size of a peanut.

“He looked and sounded exactly like a real psychiatrist. Until he opened his mouth.
“Let’s ask God,” he said.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Not crazy in a ‘let’s paint the kitchen bright red!’ sort of way. But crazy in a ‘gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God’ sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

Sidenote: I am editing a little bit for clarity and realize that not long after reading this book, I painted my kitchen bright red. It remains bright red today. True story.

“How do you know that Travis works for the Mormon Church?”

“I read it somewhere.”

“So the only things you are sure of are negative things about Travis that you read from the defendant’s documents and nothing for sure about anything Jodi did that was wrong?”

Flashing lights ahead. Slime Highway will be shut down for fifteen minutes. Juan and Nurmi are yanked to a cop car where Judge Stephens is waiting. They talk but we can’t hear what they are saying. Thankfully. I suppose it is about anal sex. That just makes me miss anal sex. Or you know, any sex.

“Dorothy viewed my mother’s propensity toward madness not as something to be afraid of, but rather as something to look forward to, like a movie or a newly released color of nail polish.

‘Your mother is just expressing herself,’ Dorothy would tell me when my mother stopped sleeping, started smoking the filters of her cigarettes and began writing backward with a glitter pen.

‘No, she’s not,’ I would say. ‘She’s going insane again.’

‘Don’t be so mundane,’ she would yawn, passing my mother a shoebox filled with cat vertebrae. ‘She is a brilliant artist. If you want Hamburger Helper, go find some other mother.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“The air is so clean out here, so fresh. Reminds me of when I was a little girl in Georgia.” Then she took More from her pack and lit it.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

Twenty-five minutes later, we are all back in the car. Juan turns to Forseca and says, “You know it’s all about the anal sex, right? They BOTH liked it. Anal sex. That is something Jodi liked. ‘I can’t wait for you to pound my ass, Travis!’ She LIKED it so much! The anal sex. And the facials. My God how she liked the facials. It was all in the journal! Did you not read the whole journal, it was just like Fifty Shades of Grey up in there, Forseca!”

” I did not rely on the Journals, Juan. You are fixated on the sex. The anal! The facials! The schoolgirls! The dirty talk!  It is what people do, Juan. Have you ever had sex  Juan? You are not Mormon and you are married. It’s okay you know. But this not about the sex, Juan. It about the relationship! About how Travis treated Jodi. It’s about Jodi being victimized. And why the jury should not kill such a lovely girl. That is what this is about Juan. It’s about not feeling good enough. It’s about Travis debasing her.”

“She liked being debased! She loved it! You should have asked her that! ”

“I confidently walked up to the counter, and his friends moved to the side to let me through. I handed him the note. “Happy Birthday,” I said. Then I smiled and walked out of the store. I did my crossing-the street trick again, lurking in the shadows and watching. I could see him turn the note over in his hand, open it and read, then turn it over again. He passed it to his friends, who passed it between them. Then I watched him make a shrugging gesture with his hands. And then they were all laughing again. My mortification was total and overpowering. I was suddenly having a very difficult time standing. I had experienced a perfect note of utter and true clarity. He was straight.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“But everything you know about Jodi and her feelings. EVERYTHING YOU KNOW, you got from the defense! THE DEFENSE! Nothing from me! EVER!”

“Yes, Juan. This is as true now as the other sixteen times we have discussed it today. You had the right to give me stuff, Juan and you didn’t give me DIDDLYSQUAT!”

“Well, you took what you were given, including a 9 year old’s mother asking Travis not to email him anymore as proof Travis was a pedophile!  Do you even know the woman who sent that email, or what the emails were about, Lady?”

“No I don’t. I never said Travis was a pedophile or that he was soliciting children.  I just said it gives me pause….”

Okay. I have to quit on this. I don’t think we are going to get anywhere and it’s just ridiculous stuff. It makes no sense to me. Because, Arizona. I have a neighbor whose dog got away and I’m trying to help the dog sitters who let all the dogs escape get them back in the house.  I will update if anything significant happens in the last few minutes.

“At that moment it would have been easier for me to spontaneously grasp quantum string theory”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors