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Category Archives: Diary Friday
1997/1998 Acting Notebook
A continuation from this. I’ve gotten a lot of emails and personal comments about these notebooks – people appreciating them, and feeling inspired by them. So here’s another notebook, picking up where that last one left off. It’s devastating too … Continue reading
Diary Friday: “his eyes are electric and wild”
This one’s for Mitchell. Well, you all can read it too … but he left me a message yesterday about how we were always “partners in crime” … which … we just WERE. The adventures he and I had. Nuts. … Continue reading
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Diary Friday: “I really am like Becca Thatcher now.”
Not a high school entry. Those aren’t the notebooks calling to me these days. It is fascinating to me how little I remember about certain things … but thank God for journals (or – sometimes it’s a blessing and a … Continue reading
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Diary Friday: Obedience
I didn’t know what to write in honor of today, which is World AIDS Day. Alex, of course, cuts to the heart of the matter. And there’s also this montage. Two of my best friends have this disease. And I … Continue reading
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Diary Friday: “But oh, I have to tell you about Thursday. First of all, I got my ears pierced.”
And here is an entry which completely proves the power of cinema. Especially “movies with meanings”. It also affirms the power of Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy in particular. I’m 15 years old … it’s my summer vacation … here … Continue reading
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Diary Friday: “I cannot explain the fun.”
I know. It’s been a while. It comes in waves – my desire to do the diary thing. I can’t do it if I’m not in the mood – it’s too exposing. I need to be in the mood for … Continue reading
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Diary Saturday: “Michael randomly showed up and showed me my heart was not dead.”
Presented without too much comment from me beforehand. This one is not high school. It’s a memory that Michael and I touched on – a stupid memory, really, just a time we ran into each other at an audition and … Continue reading
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Diary whatever: “She was totally confused at why I was calling her when I was supposed to be ‘doing death masks’ with Michael.”
This morning I found myself reading this entry and literally SHAKING with laughter. I was wiping tears off of my face. I don’t know why it’s so funny -it’s just a silly Saturday night in Chicago – but for some … Continue reading
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Diary Friday: “I feel so dead and dreary.”
This is kind of a short one – wrapping up the entry from last week. I continue to blab on about the most Important Thing on the Planet: filling out my senior yearbook blurb.
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Diary Friday: “I could also live on Chicken McNuggets.”
More Picnic! It’s all a mish-mash here. I’m now in my second semester, senior year … so high school is starting to wind down. This entry is all about the earth-shaking moment that is: Filling out the blurb to go … Continue reading
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