January 26th: The pathetic bastard.
Jan. 26th, 1986 (Age 7, Evansburg, New Hampshire)
Dear
diary, I have a canopy bed, but it does not have a canopy! It looks very dull. Like a normal bed. But someday I am going to get a pretty one.
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1/26/88 (Age 9, Evansburg)
Dear
Diary, today I didn’t go to school. I
had a cold. I half had a cold, but the
other half I faked it. Sneaky me!!!
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1/26/90 (Age 11, Evansburg)
There
are so many characters on movies and TV that I have just fallen in love
with. Here is a list of them (stage name, show, real name):
Dan
Fielding, Night Court, John Laroquette
Harry
Stone, Night Court, Harry Anderson
Peter
Venkman, Ghostbusters, Bill Murray
Sherlock
Holmes, The Young Sherlock Holmes, ??
Today we saw a movie at school
called The Young Sherlock Holmes. The
boy who played Sherlock was so great! He
wasn’t really cute -- he had a long nose and reddish-brown, curlyish hair. But he seemed so nice! I’d love to be his
girlfriend -- we’d probably have a lot of fun. I just wish I knew his real name!
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Saturday,
January 26th, 1991 (Age 12, Evansburg)
Hi! I haven’t had much to write about
lately, so I’ll make a list of all the
movies we have:
Beetlejuice
Back
to the Future II
Pretty
Woman
Big
Business
The
Wizard
Raiders
of the Lost Ark
License
to Drive
Our newest ones are the last
two. The others we got around Christmas.
I wonder if we’re going shopping
today. I hope so. Bye!!!
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Sunday,
January 26th, 1992 (Age 13, Evansburg)
Tomorrow my
Aunt Dorothy and Uncle Pete are coming back to our house for a couple more days, and after that I’ll be able to move into my room again for good.
We’re starting square dancing in
gym tomorrow. It’s really stupid. I’m going to let the gym teacher pick my
partner.
We ate dinner at Donatello’s, an
Italian restaurant in the town across the bridge. We got all the way there and
had to go back because my mother had forgotten to take the cake out of the
oven. So we made the trip twice.
I love my new R.E.M. poster. It
looks like the people are watching you wherever you stand in my room.
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Tuesday, January 26th, 1993 (Age 14, Evansburg)
We found out who our Japanese exchange student is going to be. I don't recall her name at the moment (yes, it is a girl), but she's fourteen and likes reading, cooking, watching TV, and pop music.
At the high school today they're starting night classes for learning Japanese, and my mom, brother and I signed up. I also signed up for the Dead Poets Theater class, which is where you get together and read and discuss poems. Unfortunately I'm the only person signed up for it, so it will probably be cancelled.
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Wednesday, January 26th, 1994 (Age 15, Nagasaki, Japan)
All day long I've been thinking about the guitarist from that band that wrote to me. I've got this feeling we're going to get to be good friends. Also yesterday I neglected to mention that I got a letter from Mandy, and my new school books came in.
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Thursday, January 26th, 1995 (Age 16, Nagasaki)
I've been talking to my roommate Jess and and we've decided to go back to the dorm sometime next week, probably Wednesday. There's still no running water, but we don't have much of a choice. At least it won't be as boring as here.
I was talking to Sei a long time tonight. His buddies who go to my school are spending the night at his house, but he was the only one awake. Sei was very, very, very, very drunk. I talked to his mom for a little while. Both the stores where she works are fine, but a friend of hers was killed in the quake. Then we hung up, but Sei called back ten minutes later. This time I'm pretty sure he was high as well. I could barely understand him, and he kept thinking I was still in Kobe. I wish I was, so I could keep an eye on him. He never does drugs when I'm around.
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Friday,
January 26th, 1996 (Age 17, Kobe, Japan)
Essi and I went out in Osaka
Then we went over to Bar Pacer Shinsaibashi next door, but there were only weird people there and we didn’t dance. We left early, at 10:20, but we got lost and
couldn’t find the subway for forty minutes. When I finally got back to the dorm I was three minutes past curfew, but
luckily no one said anything. I was so
relieved, but then I called Sei to tell him I was back and he started
yelling at me! He was furious that I was
back so late and didn’t call to tell him sooner, and he kept hanging up on
me. When I told him it was because we
had gotten lost he didn’t believe me. That’s when I started crying, then he was crying too, and we were all
blubbering into the phone. I was totally
stressed out, but we made up as always and I’ve never loved him more.
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Sunday, January 26th, 1997 (Age 18, Exton, New Brunswick)
Sei and I didn't wake up till noon, and then we just watched videos for the rest of the day. I got some non-permanent hair dye that only lasts a week and dyed my hair bright red. I was getting bored with it.
I'm going to try to find a part-time job soon.
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Monday, January 26th, 1998 (Age 19, Exton)
Dad sent me money but it's only enough for tuition and rent, with nothing left over. I'll have to start looking for a job again.
Sei has his friend Trip, our other friend John, and John's friend over. There's always somebody here. This is just as bad as the last apartment, except now Sei is the instigator.
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Tuesday, January 26th, 1999 (Age 20, Exton)
I was sick after school, and Sei got drunk in our apartment. Before that he was so nice to me, giving me massages and letting me lie down on the sofa, but after that he was so mean. At 2:00 a.m. I woke up, and he was asking my brother, who sleeps in the living room and wanted to go to bed, if he could stay up and watch TV using the headphones. Allen said okay, but Sei had the volume up so loud that even with the headphones I could still hear it in the bedroom, plus he was singing in a loud whisper. I went out to tell him to turn the volume down, but he said never mind, he'd turn it off. Then he came in the bedroom and harassed me instead. He said my brother and I were trying to take away his freedom (it's not about freedom, it's about 2:00 a.m.!), and then when he couldn't find his drink he accused me of taking it, "cheating like you always do." He got into bed and made me lie up against him. He then told me a stupid drunken story about soy sauce in spaghetti and two Italian restaurants. Then he asked me if I loved him, and when I said yes he said, "Good. I will find the next one (meaning girlfriend)." He scratched my face and when I told him to stop he said I was just a Barbie, and that my brother and I are idiots. Then he fell asleep and snored like a chainsaw the rest of the night. I bet this morning he won't remember a thing, the pathetic bastard. I'd like to punch him in the face.
I had a terrible dream about Juno biting a power cord and getting electrocuted and dying.
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2000 (Age 21, Exton)
I finally got most of the wedding invitations addressed and stamped so I can send those out. They're so late.
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Friday, January 26th, 2001 (Age 22, Kobe)
I had to teach seven classes today. I was the only teacher there. Tomorrow there will only be six teachers when usually there are ten. I hope they hire someone new for the Kobe school soon so I can have my old students back.
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Saturday, January 26th, 2002 (Age 23, Kobe)
No news to report. Lewis also got "laid off" from English Dome and his last day is next Thursday. He's going back to Australia for a month, but I wonder if he'll really come back again?
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Sunday, January 26th, 2003 (Age 24, Kobe)
This morning the internet wasn't working. Despair! We called the provider and it turned out that it was down all over Kobe. It's working again now.
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Monday, January 26th, 2004 (Age 25, Kobe)
Sei has his friends over to play video games, so I'm trapped in the bedroom. They were supposed to leave an hour ago. We went for a drive this morning and stopped by the Mini dealer again.
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005 (Age 26, Kobe)
I was in a foul mood this morning. Penn wouldn't eat. Sei stayed home and was going behind me making a mess while I was trying to clean.
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006 (Age 27, Kobe)
Sei is out at a party and I'm going to sleep with my softie Haley tonight and consider if I want another one. And speaking of babies, Mandy is due any day now. She was at the doctor's yesterday and she's already 2.5 centimeters dilated. I'm so excited, I can't imagine how she must feel! I wish I could find out in a week or so that I'm pregnant, but I'm 99% sure that I'm not. I feel like if I were, I would feel different somehow.
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Friday, January 26th, 2007 (Age 28, Kobe)
I can't seem to stop meeting Kai, and it was I who said we should avoid each other! He slept at my place last night, and I'm staying at his tonight. It's crazy. What about Yuji? I thought I loved him more?? The long-distance thing really is a big obstacle.
Disclaimer: This blog is a work of non-fiction. Most personal names (except for those of celebrities) and place names have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals.
Tuesday, January 26th, 1999 (Age 20, Exton)
I was sick after school, and Sei got drunk in our apartment. Before that he was so nice to me, giving me massages and letting me lie down on the sofa, but after that he was so mean. At 2:00 a.m. I woke up, and he was asking my brother, who sleeps in the living room and wanted to go to bed, if he could stay up and watch TV using the headphones. Allen said okay, but Sei had the volume up so loud that even with the headphones I could still hear it in the bedroom, plus he was singing in a loud whisper. I went out to tell him to turn the volume down, but he said never mind, he'd turn it off. Then he came in the bedroom and harassed me instead. He said my brother and I were trying to take away his freedom (it's not about freedom, it's about 2:00 a.m.!), and then when he couldn't find his drink he accused me of taking it, "cheating like you always do." He got into bed and made me lie up against him. He then told me a stupid drunken story about soy sauce in spaghetti and two Italian restaurants. Then he asked me if I loved him, and when I said yes he said, "Good. I will find the next one (meaning girlfriend)." He scratched my face and when I told him to stop he said I was just a Barbie, and that my brother and I are idiots. Then he fell asleep and snored like a chainsaw the rest of the night. I bet this morning he won't remember a thing, the pathetic bastard. I'd like to punch him in the face.
I had a terrible dream about Juno biting a power cord and getting electrocuted and dying.
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2000 (Age 21, Exton)
I finally got most of the wedding invitations addressed and stamped so I can send those out. They're so late.
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Friday, January 26th, 2001 (Age 22, Kobe)
I had to teach seven classes today. I was the only teacher there. Tomorrow there will only be six teachers when usually there are ten. I hope they hire someone new for the Kobe school soon so I can have my old students back.
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Saturday, January 26th, 2002 (Age 23, Kobe)
No news to report. Lewis also got "laid off" from English Dome and his last day is next Thursday. He's going back to Australia for a month, but I wonder if he'll really come back again?
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Sunday, January 26th, 2003 (Age 24, Kobe)
This morning the internet wasn't working. Despair! We called the provider and it turned out that it was down all over Kobe. It's working again now.
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Monday, January 26th, 2004 (Age 25, Kobe)
Sei has his friends over to play video games, so I'm trapped in the bedroom. They were supposed to leave an hour ago. We went for a drive this morning and stopped by the Mini dealer again.
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005 (Age 26, Kobe)
I was in a foul mood this morning. Penn wouldn't eat. Sei stayed home and was going behind me making a mess while I was trying to clean.
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006 (Age 27, Kobe)
Sei is out at a party and I'm going to sleep with my softie Haley tonight and consider if I want another one. And speaking of babies, Mandy is due any day now. She was at the doctor's yesterday and she's already 2.5 centimeters dilated. I'm so excited, I can't imagine how she must feel! I wish I could find out in a week or so that I'm pregnant, but I'm 99% sure that I'm not. I feel like if I were, I would feel different somehow.
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Friday, January 26th, 2007 (Age 28, Kobe)
I can't seem to stop meeting Kai, and it was I who said we should avoid each other! He slept at my place last night, and I'm staying at his tonight. It's crazy. What about Yuji? I thought I loved him more?? The long-distance thing really is a big obstacle.
Disclaimer: This blog is a work of non-fiction. Most personal names (except for those of celebrities) and place names have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals.
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