June 9, '99
Today is the day I unveil my web page. I have twelve days of school left and then I am free as a bird until I start my summer job.
June 10, '99
I was doing my career planning course in the "career room" at school. You need that course to graduate, and I have to finish it by the 18th. I just started last week, which is bad. Then Tyson showed me a trick: to fill in the "Traits I Posses" section, simply copy and paste the examples they give. So I did it, and I'm so scared they'll find out! Sometimes they mark it; some- times they don't. But I saved about 2 hours work.
June 13, '99
Yesterday I had to do manual-labourishy things all day -- things like painting and carting lumber around etc. This was out in a hick community about 50 miles east of where I live, which is where my summer job is. ("Summer" is the key word here; I'm not sure exactly why I'm working there at this time.) Then on the way back home I got stranded in another hick town because my ride didn't show up. I was tired, sunburned, and wearing grubby clothes splatered with sweat and brown paint. In public, this. Egad!
June 14, '99
I really hate the janitor at our school. He has cheap porn in his little janitor broom closet, and he's mean to the drama people cuz he thinks we're all gay.
June 15, '99
Today in History we learned about the Vietnam War. I think if I was an American I would be a draft dodger.
June 17, '99
I hate it when people convict me. I hate it when I get caught in lies.
June 19, '99
The other day I met a guy who'd recently been arrested, and all he could talk about was the different kinds of handcuffs there are. Apparently there's some leather ones that let you move your hands from side to side but not up and down.
June 20, '99
Today, the embarassment: an avalanche of cucumbers fall on me while shopping with mom.
June 21, '99
I changed the colours of my icq box today. It is now white with navy blue text. I also got to borrow a new ska CD. Someone gave me a free cigarette at afternoon break. And I only have two questions for History home- work!
June 22, '99
Today is my last day of school. EVER. I have graduated now. I feel lonely. I don't feel grown up. Am I supposed to? Today was Hug Day, I hugged everyone. I didn't cry though. I cried when I got home.
June 24, '99
Mom: Who are these people? Me: That's Jeordyn and Garrett being perverts ... Craig is on the right and Nathan is the one on the left. Mom: Nathan looks so innocent. Me: He's not. Mom: Poor Nathan. How can he grow up normal with friends like that?
June 27, '99
I found out today that there is a composer with the first name of "Wolfgang." Freak me out! There's enough Wolfgangs running around without having composers like that, too.
June 28, '99
Today I decided that I might be an English teacher in a foreign country. I would go to either Holland (Amsterdam, here I come:o), Germany, or France. These are my spec- ulations so far. I also think Jamaica or Vietnam might be cool. No way am I going to the Balkans! Although it might be neat to go to someplace war-torn. Perhaps I'll stick to ex-Communist regimes. I don't know yet. None of this will happen until next summer, if indeed it does happen. But it's something cool to look forward to.
July 31, '99
I've been gone for most of the summer, being a counselor on the turquoise waters of Mabel Lake camp. I have red hair now. I dyed it using Clairol Herbal Essence crap, and if anyone out there is considering using it, RESIST THE TEMPTATION, and buy something real, with a lot of chemicals in it so you'll be sure it works. My hair was a gorgeous, flaming red until the first shampooing, and now it is orange. Herbal Essence is a fraud, and they charge too much, and they have sappy commercials.
August 13, '99
I am back from Mabel Lake for good this time, with a handful of bittersweet memories and the sneaking suspicion that I have become a wilderness person. Save me!
August 14, '99
Let's see, what have I been doing lately ... Uh, nothing! It is such fun hanging around home listening to my par- ents fight and getting caught in the centre of their petty squables. Joy is a happy duck that she is moving out in a week or so.
August 15, '99
An odd thing happened to me. I spent the night at Kadin's place, and in the morning I used her toothpaste to brush my teeth. Once I was finished, I automatically slipped my toothbrush AND the toothpaste into my backpack. And she caught me. She thought I was trying to rip off her toothpaste. I was so mortified.
August 16, '99
Began the cheery business of packing to leave home. 3 more sleeps! My poor bedroom. I feel like I'm raping it, the poor dear. No more Bruce Lee posters for YOU! That's seriously what it feels like.
August 17, '99
Had one of those newfangled "fruit-yogurt parfettes" at MacDonalds today. The fruit tasted like fruit, but the yogurt did not taste like yogurt. It tasted a lot like how I imagine watered-down ice cream would taste.
August 28, '99
I've been in Victoria for the past few days. I saw my new Place -- a basement suite, appropriately nicknamed, The Underground. I'm going back for good on the 30th. Yesterday, I built a wasp trap, with raw meat and soapy water.
August 29, '99
I got called stupid today. Damn rednecks!
August 30, '99
Spent the day popping Vitamin C pills and slamming down cup-fuls of echinacea. Tomorrow morning I depart. And tommorow is my birthday! Finally I'll be 18, after lying about it all summer.