Category Archives: Diary Friday

Okay, so I’m gonna stick with the junior year in high school because … well … it’s all just so ridiculous. Wildly in love with someone from afar. I’m picking a couple of entries from December of that year – … Continue reading →

More high-school-junior madness. Crush on saxophone player (referred to here as DW) growing by leaps and bounds. I crush on people HARD. Always have. This was the crush to end all crushes. It sounds kind of funny now to go … Continue reading →

A rhapsodic (and insane) entry from my junior year in high school. I was madly in love with a saxophone player. (It was completely unrequited.) So this post is dedicated to every self-described “band geek” out there – who thought … Continue reading →

The momentous first day of my junior year. It’s almost like I’m out of central casting in this entry – But not out of central casting for a teenager circa the 1980s – but a teenager circa the 1940s or … Continue reading →

This is from the summer in between my sophomore and junior year in high school. That was basically the summer that was defined for me by the movie War Games. It came out that summer, and I literally FREAKED OUT … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Two entries from my junior year of high school. The second one, when i came across it this morning, made me laugh so hard that tears streamed down my face. It’s about one of our teachers who used to give … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A sweeping entry from my sophomore year in high school. I honestly don’t know what I’m talking about half the time. My obsession with James Dean was raging unabated, and I was freely propelling myself into the blazing star. This … Continue reading →

Okay. Two successive entries from my sophomore year in high school. So many elements here just make me LAUGH. The first sentence of the first entry makes me laugh. They crack me up. I go from one thing to the … Continue reading →

I hesitate to even post this in its entirety because … I read it and literally cringed with embarrassment. Especially the whole last section. hahahaha HOWEVER. It is cathartic, I find, to post this stuff … and it seems like … Continue reading →

More from my junior year of high school – the year I will always remember as ‘the year of the unrequited crush on David’. Oh man. The crush. It sounds so benign – “I have a crush on someone!” … … Continue reading →