As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! Age 14: I got jewelry and makeup from Mom, Talking Heads and Boomtown Rats records from my bro and sis, a cat calendar from Auntie, and more. We made up a punk water ballet in the pool. A really…

As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! Tomorrow’s Christmas. Can’t quite believe it. All those preparations, all those plans. Whew. I’m eager to get at all those presents. A little of that happy anticipation has returned. I was thinking maybe I’m not as adult as I…

As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! Let me tell you about a Most Eventful Day. Backstage during the play, Danny kissed me, as in … um … french kissed me. I was a LITTLE stupored. Later, the Schullers had the cast party, and Mark J,…

As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! What a stupid day! Geez. Okay, I wake up at noon, Patrick comes over, I get a fucking Chemistry deficiency notice in the mail (Merry Christmas!!!), P. and I go into White Plains, fuck around for several hours. Xmas…

As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! PS: Check out this mildy amusing 21st century tale! Michelle and Patrick and I hung out tonight. We (this is gross) went through the trash left out in front of Cliffhangers. It was mostly paper stuff .. we found…

As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! Oh, we watch de movies of Lillian Gish Eet’s a perfect day for bananafish! Hey, I just made that up. Aren’t I terrific and slightly mad and just a great gal?? Oh christ, I have just gone completely insane.

As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! We just had our Winter Concert. It was very good. The chorus was really together, and we got raves. Mmm. I love getting clapped at. Applauded at (sounds better.) I feel good. I think I’m starting to be someone…

As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! PS How’d I get one day behind on the calendar? Sorry about that! It’s Pajama Day at school tomorrow (isn’t that cute? senior year rules!!) I get to party out in my PJs! However, there might not even be…

As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! [backstory: “danny” is no one you know, i swear] I can’t stop thinking about the way Danny kissed me. That exactly is what I’m missing from my life — not sex, exactly, but KISSES!! That sounds dumb, but it’s…

As part of my Advent Calendar project, I am presenting excerpts from my actual teenage diaries! Dad was in his aggravating mood of “c’mon let’s go let’s go” and he hustled my sisters and me to Harvard Square, where, bizarrely, he bought everyone kazoos. We walked all over Cambridge playing Christmas carols. Dad’s a freak,…