I'm two weeks into my eight-week sabbatical. My manuscript (taken from stories on this blog) is 122 pages long, so I have a lot to do.
Trying to find inspirations and memoir stories to write, I started reading my high-school diary out on the deck. After about 10 minutes, Steve came out to ask what all shrieking was about. So I started giving him dramatic readings from my mortifying, cringe-inducing 16th year on this planet.
Here are some of the ones I can laugh at now. Most of the others leave me wondering who that pathetic, shallow girl with no esteem was who wrote in my diary. :)
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11.3.1985
I'm starting this new diary. I'm going to try to be more faithful to this diary than the last one. If anyone ever writes my story, I want it to be accurate.
11.18.1985
Today was the second anniversary of my first kiss. It seems like a lot of time and boys have passed since then. I'm so glad I have a "nice" reputation.
11.22.1985
Tonight was the first Friday night in a long time that I had to stay home. At least I got to see Miami Vice. Mama has taken to calling me "Little Witch." I don't know why.
12.2.1985
I've got to quit skipping school. Tonya came over to take me to the new Burger King. Daddy made a big deal about it and I was sooo embarrassed.
12.21.1985
Felicia, Mary B. and I got dressed up and celebrated Christmas together. It was a really nice occasion. The three of us realized we're grown up and have to enjoy life.
12.28.1985
I got a new perm today. It's a whole lot of body and I like it. I am starting to look pretty good, if I do say so.
12.31.1985
Bernie Russell, you have ruined my life. I will always love you.
1.4.1986
Finally bought "The Wall." It's so deep and inspiring. I've been writing some deep stuff about love and death -- same difference. I love Bernie.
1.28.1986
After exams, Julie and I went over to David's house. He is so fine! Julie's gonna ask him if he likes me. The space shuttle blew up today and that's pretty bad.
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That's about as far as I could go, and believe me, I left A LOT out of this entry. The diary goes through my sophomore year in college, so when I can bear to make myself read them, future "Melodramatic diary entry" volumes will write themselves.
In the meantime, enjoy "I Hate Drake," and tell me stupid things you wrote about in your diary.
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I've seen the pictures. That perm was ROCKING!
Yeah, I remember the perm, too. You could do some big hair back then thanks to Aqua Net.
Love the comment about the space shuttle. That sounds just like a 16-year-old girl. I recall writing something just as deep about the Iranian hostage crisis.
You are a brave soul to be reading through that diary. I destroyed mine years ago. I'd rather pretend that I wasn't so idiotic and self-absorbed back then.
I love that you had a "nice" reputation! That is hilarious. And by the way, it makes me sick to my stomach to read my high school yearbook. I'm glad I didn't keep a diary. I couldn't take it.
I'm very pleased that we didn't meet for another 20 years. It could never have worked anyway - when I was 15, it was clear to me that I was the most important person - nay, phenomenon - that the world had ever seen, and consequently I would have had little patience with anyone who clearly believed they were more important than me. My favorite entry was from new years eve, 1985 incidentally ;-)
"I got a new perm today. It's a whole lot of body and I like it. I am starting to look pretty good, if I do say so."
This could have been an entry out of my diary from 1985!! Miami Vice was rockin back then BTW.
A Picture of one of your old hangouts from those days gone by hangs on the wall of the Causeway Gourmet @ OIB.
Yeah, the space shuttle thing ... that sucks. But what's up with David? TELL ME EXACTLY EVERYTHING HE SAID!
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