April 23, 2008 | Filed under: vlogalicious, videoblogging Week
Now we are treading in dangerous waters. No life jackets. Pirhanas everywhere. Nibbling. We’re moving on to a new journal. The plaid one. The Plaid Years were…well…plaid. All jumbly and going in several directions at once. Why? Because that’s what being a college freshman is all about. Everyone around you is saying you’re grown up, that you’re an adult, but you’re not by a long shot. What you really are is a 13th grader masquerading as an adult. I’m sure I thought I was a sophisticated Woman of The World, what with my being away at college and all**, but in reality I was just as much of a kid as most of my friends. I slept with a teddy bear and was still having nightmares about The Day After.
I shot video of several journal entries from The Plaid Years, but realized that this one– the first one– should just be out on the loose on its own.
A side note to the Fathers: Yes. It’s true. Your daughters will get older, they will have sex –likely too soon– and it will be a nightmare for you. They might make some questionable choices in spite of the fact that you’ve raised them to be strong, smart young women. You can’t lock them in the basement. Actually, I guess you could lock them in the basement…
Go. Go do it now. Yes. Lock your daughters in the basement. Hurry!
**I was 37 minutes away by commuter rail. Real worldly.
April 23, 2008
@ 8:41 am
HAHAHA! This is HYSTERICAL! “I’ve seldom refused an offer!” Oh man, these are priceless. I’m secretly watching these in the confines of my sterile academic office but couldn’t contain my hysterics here. Thank you!!!
April 23, 2008
@ 9:43 am
That thing was filmed at my college…University of Kansas. The basketball gym was triage, I believe.
April 23, 2008
@ 11:47 am
Marie, my daughter, will turn 22 this July…Twenty-two….I know she is not my “litte girl” anymore, I’ve known that for a while but it never stops me from worrying about her. Or my son for that matter. It’s the curse of being a parent and it’s greatest joy, seeing your kids grow up. One thing has never changed though, I still want for her the same things I always have. To be happy, to be loved, to know that I am always here for her. And I will beat the crap out of anyone who hurts her…….
April 23, 2008
@ 12:29 pm
This is well beyond entertainment. This series has been your absolutely best vlogs in my humble opinion. I kept diaries and even a daily schedule of what I was doing on each given day for about 12 years, starting from about age 17. I kept those until I moved from a large house to a much smaller apartment and then decided to ditch them all for the sake of having more storage room for other stuff…oh how I wish I would have kept them now.
One post a day of this is just not enough! Keep em coming. This is awesome!
April 23, 2008
@ 3:00 pm
Hahaha… wonderfully unbalanced.
April 23, 2008
@ 5:39 pm
Ha! I need my daily dose of diary. Gets better and better…
I remember something Mary Mathews at Video Pancakes did similar to this only in public at a weekly event in Brooklyn called Cringe. I think your next stop may have to be there.
April 23, 2008
@ 7:37 pm
This is such a great project for videoblogging week and watching the progression is a delight. I love the moment when you can’t believe what you actually wrote and just cover your face with the book.
Journals have gotten me in trouble. I throw them out. But this is making me wish I had some from the Teen and Twentysomething Terribleness Era.
April 23, 2008
@ 8:25 pm
What college? Did I miss that? I’m big on to where people went to school.
Drexel Dragons 1982
April 24, 2008
@ 1:20 am
And closing with Erasure! The soundtrack of my life. You know we graduated high school & began college at the same time, right? I’m a 1987 freshman myself. I don’t think I kept a diary into freshman year.
These are great, Bekah. Truly great.
I couldn’t find any of my own to share back at you. If I could, I would, so you wouldn’t feel at all alone in being nuts…
Instead, over on my site, I read from my Grandma’s journal. One week of 1955. I’m amazed at the contrast of her life to yours (& by association, mine).
April 24, 2008
@ 9:08 am
These are the best videos! And yes, as a father of a daughter that turns 15 this year I’m a little scared.
May 13, 2008
@ 10:56 pm
Wish I would have written down more of my past. So glad I video blog now, I’ll have those at least.
This was a hot entry. Hot to think about but scares the hell out of me with my daughter
June 8, 2008
@ 2:32 pm
is it weird that I was born that year…?
June 8, 2008
@ 2:58 pm
Is it weird? For me it is, definitely.