Category Archives: Diary Friday

Diary Friday: “Hugging and kissing can be quite complicated (at least if I’m involved in it).”

Posted on October 10, 2008 by sheila

My desire to “do” Diary Friday comes in waves. Sometimes I am drawn to the high school journals, sometimes to the junior high school journals (even more mortifying) and sometimes – rarely – I am drawn to later entries, when … Continue reading →

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Diary Friday: “I think the masculine race is wonderful.”

Posted on August 1, 2008 by sheila

Two entries from my junior year of high school (I posted them 3 years ago or so -but I thought it was time to unearth them.) The second entry, reading it now, made me laugh so hard that tears streamed … Continue reading →

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Diary Friday: “I guess I have this thing for Sting in a sling.”

Posted on June 20, 2008 by sheila

This mortifying entry is from the summer in between my sophomore and junior year. Frankly, I sound bi-polar. The ending just cracks me up. It is 100% sincere. August 17 I am SO happy! I’m TOO happy! The past few … Continue reading →

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Diary Friday: “I’m pretty punk tonight with my jeans, purple coat and safety pins.”

Posted on June 13, 2008 by sheila

This one is almost too embarrassing for me to get through. When I was a freshman in high school, my parents yanked us out of school – all 4 of us – ranging in age from 14 to 4 – … Continue reading →

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Diary Friday: “Haikus and humidifiers.”

Posted on May 30, 2008 by sheila

Not really full diary entries, just quotes and snippets and fragments I scribbled in the back of notebooks that I kept during a 4 month period in Chicago. I’ve posted some of this before. Some make me LAUGH, others make … Continue reading →

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Diary Friday: “I have made up my mind to remain a virgin.”

Posted on May 23, 2008 by sheila

Yet another entry from my junior year in high school for Diary Friday: My junior year: an unrequited love with the passion of a thousand suns blossoms for a guy named David. Naturally, nothing ever happened with David. But he … Continue reading →

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Diary Friday: “Oh I feel like a tragic hero. My arrogance is my tragic flaw.”

Posted on May 9, 2008 by sheila

It is time now to return to my junior year in high school. I have tried to put it off, but I can no longer do so. I am 16 years old. I am so in love with a boy … Continue reading →

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Diary Friday: “Betsy went on sternly, ‘He has on a girl’s headband. Please forget him.'”

Posted on March 28, 2008 by sheila

Let’s get mortified, shall we? This diary entry describes a Hawaiian dance in my sophomore year of high school.

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Diary Friday: “And then, of course, there was the Bo Deans debacle …”

Posted on March 21, 2008 by sheila

Not a typical entry, and some of these quotes have made it onto the blog before. In the back of each journal I keep (and I don’t really keep a journal anymore, but that’s beside the point) – I list … Continue reading →

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Diary Friday: “He also wore shiny black shoes with buckles, so we called him ‘Mr. Pilgrim’ and ‘Mr. Turkey’.”

Posted on February 8, 2008 by sheila

Another excerpt from the autobiography I wrote when I was 13. I am now going to embarrass my friend Mere. Good times! Here I describe the beginning of junior high – which was uniformly terrible. SHEILA’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY After sixth grade, … Continue reading →

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