April 25, 2008 | Filed under: vlogalicious, videoblogging Week
Winding down The Plaid Years, thank goodness. Unlike the last journal entries, these are a lot less eventful (that’s probably for the best) and span a large stretch of time. The Plaid Years should really should be called “College: The Early Years”. I took another couple of stabs at it ’till I got it right. Then grad school took a few more stabs, topped off by a second bachelors’ stab. For someone who clearly did not like school, I sure went to school a looooong time.
The most annoying thing about this diary (aside from the fact that by age 19 I’m a mess-and-a-half) is that not only are the pages not pre-printed with dates but I didn’t date them, either! I guess I though that being deliberately vague was really, really cool. I also didn’t name anyone, I just used their initials. Not helpful. When I’m 80 I’ll have no idea who these people are.
I left out the superpathetic sex bits. Plenty of that in my last post. That’s all you get.
April 25, 2008
@ 3:32 am
Are you allowed to add amendments to a diary? Can you write on the edge of a page, 10 years later, and write in who the initials are? I guess there are no rules with a personal diary.
My video blog (diary) is built around this same primus, that “when I’m 80 and forget how to feed myself” I can still look back at the videos and remember.
Keep ‘em comin’.
April 25, 2008
@ 6:04 am
Quite frankly at my age I hate kids in high school. Especially riding the subway at 3pm. Educate to elevate! Stay in skool fool!
April 25, 2008
@ 9:15 am
Hey there, thanks for stopping by I really appreciate it. I’ve been following your blog for a while and I really really love your approach to the things happening around you. As for ready your diary from yesteryears, I’m totally afraid to even read what I wrote. I once read something from when I was sixteen and thought, who in the hell is this? Anyway thanks for sharing and bringing back memories of my yoot.
April 25, 2008
@ 11:10 pm
Your reading of these is so great and keeps getting even better - it’s not just remembering/becoming the past, it’s this whole other layer of (often hilarious) commentary that makes the actual entries even more real.
May 9, 2008
@ 11:25 am
Yay, the Pixies!!
Meanwhile, in 1988, I happened to be at Lake Forest College, in the wealthy town of Lake Forest, Illinois, where Mr. T just happened to be living, and he managed to piss off the entire town by cutting down all the trees on his property. His wife tooled around town in a red Rolls Royce. If you worked at the local Haagen Daaz, you had to know the difference between “old money” and “new money” and serve the “old money” first. Students? They’re “no money,” you don’t have to bother with them.
May 28, 2008
@ 10:06 pm
You make me wish that I kept my journal.
June 23, 2008
@ 10:30 pm
If you don’t read at the next CRINGE, it will be a crime against humanity.
July 29, 2008
@ 5:50 pm
MBL8p8 hi! hice site!