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Category Archives: Diary Friday
Diary Friday
I’m going to continue on with diary entries describing my experience getting into Picnic when I was a senior in high school. I am again amazed at how busy I was and how much I was still able to get … Continue reading
Diary Friday
The continuing stoooooooooory of my experience getting into Picnic my senior year in high school. Here’s the first part. More below … SEPTMEBER 26 Diary — I made callbacks. There are about 12 girls called back — on the notice, … Continue reading
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Diary Friday
So I promised David I would post this. It’s one of my first Diary Friday REQUESTS. The funny thing about a friend making a request: “Oh, could you post the entries about this event …” is that, in general, if … Continue reading
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Diary Friday
As promised – here is a summer-camp Diary Friday entry. My friends and I all went to a summer-camp in Rhode Island which was really special, still exists, and now my friends’ KIDS go there. It’s a tree-farm, it’s a … Continue reading Continue reading
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Diary Friday
It makes perfect sense on my blog to go from the State Department in the Cold War era to Diary Friday. Sure it does. I came across this entry and … I had completely forgotten about this incident until now. … Continue reading Continue reading
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Diary Friday
And now … the continuing story … of Sheila as a junior in high school. I was madly in love, from afar, with “DW”. I mean, we were friends but he had no idea the LEVEL of MANIA going on … Continue reading Continue reading
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Diary Friday
Mortification Central. More mortification here. Here are a couple of entries from the summer between my sophomore and junior year in high school. I was ALL ABOUT Matthew Broderick and Sting at this point in my life. I basically had … Continue reading
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Diary Friday
Every so often I come across an entry that is too good not to share … but is so embarrassing (even more so than usual) that I hesitate. HOWEVER. In last week’s Diary Friday, a discussion ensued among my group … Continue reading
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Diary Friday
Okay, I’m about to embarrass someone yet again – with the following entry from my junior year in high school. This one’s for Keith M. He’ll know why. NOVEMBER WHAT A DAY!! I’ve got to tell you! Have I told … Continue reading
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Diary Friday
This entry is from my junior year in high school. I’m pretty much posting it here because of the first sentence. I kind of can’t even laugh hard enough for how funny it strikes me … I was completely unaware … Continue reading Continue reading
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