As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries!
I don’t want to grow up. I am, in a way, already there. BUT — I don’t want to lose the craziness, the abandon I experience sometimes. Loving PUNK, life, art, etc. When AM I going to be in 10 years? Je ne sais pas.
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries!
[a reminder: i was in love with dane for more than a thousand days in high school. for almost every one of those days, he ignored me. almost.]
At play rehearsal, Dane came up to me and asked “what are you doing after rehearsal?” I managed a “nothing,” and he asked me if I wanted to go out for a drink, knowing damn well I would say no (because of the drinking.) But then he said “Well, what about a Coke?” I didn’t say anything so he walked away. I spent several moments in shock. Was he serious? I THINK HE WAS!!!! I am, however, still in shock.
I love him.
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries!
[backstory: i lived in new york with my father; my mother lived in california.]
Hello. Eeeeeh, what did I do today? I wrapped some Christmas presents, received a huge box from mom, chock-full of gifties that I can’t wait to open … I dread that I won’t be able to control myself and will open them and then will have to lie.
I’m so glad to have decided to turn my hair back to brown. People like Chris S like it the way it is now but those are opinions that don’t weigh too heavily on the mind.
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries!
[backstory: my father was a psychiatrist. he was working at a mental hospital at the time of this entry.]
Hmm. Well, weird — very weird day. After school, Naomi came over after delivering Christmas trees with Bobby. We started doing homework when the doorbell rang. It was a patient of dad’s and he was psycho. His mind skipped constantly, he would not leave, and it freaked us out! Thank the lucky stars, dad called and I told him Mr. Demento was here. Dad talked to him over the phone and told him to leave.
Naomi is spending the night and she’s depressed. Aren’t we all.
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries!
Ronnie came over to my house, and we totally munched out and hung around. Then it was time to go to play rehearsal and I rehearsed, saw Dane, who has regressed again to his old self, but had occasional flashes of niceness. I guess.
It’s only 9pm but I’m already in bed, trying to do homework and killing time. I’m not tired but it’s an extremely cold and blowy night and I’ll be damned if I’m going to do anthing but lay here, keep warm, and think about the Clash.
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As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries!
[backstory: Andy Legear was member of the relatively obscure band, Rosetta Stone, which featured members of the Bay City Rollers]
Rebecca Legear. Becky Legear. Dr. Legear. Mrs. Legear. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Legear. Becky Haycox.
Anyway, I really love him.
Hamblog had a sudden moral downturn this afternoon, and decided to blacklist any innocent human from posting comments. It was seeing commies everywhere, and even pointed its finger at me — my own blog blacklisted me. Backstabber. Obviously, it is drunk with power and this deranged witch hunt points to its own feels of inadequacy, obviously.
I have been having a Typical December Holiday StressFestâ„¢ this week — the deadlines, the commute, the obligations, oy — and coming home to “Error!” and “No, I mean it, it’s a Fatal Error!” windows when trying to access my fucking blog was the proverbial Poking Finger in the proverbial Eye Socket. I’ll admit, tears were shed. Tiny feet were stomped.
Enter Matt from spudart. We’re merely blogpals but, after my wobbly IM along the lines of “Hi! Know anything about WordPress? Um?” he rose to the challenge and took it on. Together we bashed that Napoleonic nincompoop now known (for tonight at least) as my stupid fucking blog. Actually, the real puppet master is an anti-spam plugin that is as tenacious to delete from one’s life as … well, spam.
But an 11th hour snafu almost defeated us. It was looking grim. And then, just like that, Parker (a fellow improviser) entered IM-land, and actually wrote “Here I come to save the day!” And pow, he provided a final piece to the puzzle, and zap, it all worked again.
Goodness+Geeks go good together. Thanks, you guys. Friends!
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries!
[backstory: i lived in bronxville, ny]
After spending the coldest most miserable night in my life, I AM PREPARED. I am wearing fuzzy slippers, sox, pajames, a sweatshirt, socks on my hands, and muffler. Not to mention the 3 blankets on the bed. And my teddy bear.
I’m watching a M.A.S.H. program where Hawkeye sends out for 40 lbs of spare ribs and a gallon of sauce. from Chicago to Korea. If I was ever in a a situation like that, I’d attempt the EXACT same thing, you bet.
And who says squeezing out half hearted blog entries doesn’t pay off? Thanks to NaBloPoMo, I am the proud recipient of Jessica from Kerflop‘s design services for a blog makeover!
Here’s where you come in: tell me what you want in a blog. Tell me what you despise about blogs. I’m talking about interface and layout — basically, how the content is available and presented to you. For example, the current size and font of this paragraph you are reading makes my eyes hurt. [Content is something else entirely — this is the Hambox Empire and the Tsarina can write whatever she likes.]
For another example, Regina would like to see pull-down menus for a blogroll (a list of favorite links). Excellent idea, Reg! I think this points to my biggest peeve about the evolution of blog — do we really need so much stuff on the sidebars? Must we have a calendar, a list of recent links, and lists of archive by dates on every page? Do you need them at all? If I put my blogroll on a actual separate page, would anyone click?
And the main content — why an endlessly long and annoyingly narrow strip of column? Wouldn’t it be nicer to have a variable-width (shrink/expand proportionate to your window size) column?
And commenting on posts? Anything that can be improved there?
My goal is to create a rocksolid layout and CSS (overall text/type format). Simple and clean and accessible design. Then I can change the look and feel much more easily in the future.
Thanks in advance! Now here’s a bunny.
Our first run in with bunnies (06/2005), originally uploaded by greefus groinks. Thanks for letting me use it!
As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting actual excerpts from my actual teenage diaries!
I can’t stand it. I have 35 bucks and I need to buy Christmas presents for Dad, Jane, John, Cecile, Claire, Lisa, Annie, Sally, Jesse, Sarah, Auntie … what am I going to do with my whopping budget? Cookies? I don’t know.
Yay! Why “yay”, you ask? DANE is going to be in the play! With me!!!!!
go to the hambox advent calendar