June 24, 1999: ready to introduce a new world with a shrug

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side notes for June 24th, 1999:

i graduated high school today
there was a real change i wouldn't, just because i was too foolish to try after december but somehow i made it through,

i know how to tie a tie
that day was the first time that i tied one of those blasted things by myself.
i always had to get my father, grandfather, neighbor or annoyed friend to do it for me. its kinda sad though, i made a commitment never to learn how, as a tie for me is a symbol of the working man in the big office in the city, just sweating it out and thats something i never wanted to become. i tied that darn thing first try, its amazing how efficient i am at tasks that involve skilled, accurate, repetitious action. see! all that skateboarding pays off in everyday life.

i told someone i loved them, and i might have meant it.
i may never see her for years or months or maybe i won't see her just for a few days, but right now, shes gone away, away from my reach. its been 14 hours since i said goodbye, and yes i miss you!

i can touch type if i just don't think about it.
i was taught in 8th grade and promptly forgot in ninth. its all those icq conversations where 6 people are "uh oh!'ing" trying to talk to me at the same time and i'm too kind to tell em i'm talkin to someone else. mavis beakan, eat your heart out.

decorating a car with shaving creme is a bad idea.
its almost as bad an idea as decorating a car with bar soap, and then not washing it for a couple of weeks. the soap leaves a film or reacts with the paint or something, i recall all the hearts and XOXO's strewn on my sister's car for her wedding never quite fading away from the hood and doors...

i have been elligible in getting a lisenze for a little more than two years, and i still haven't got it.

i am a horrid speller, still.

i took out _On The Road_ by Jack Kerouac for the third time, this time i promise to read it.
the first time i took it out was last year after school ended, the second was earlier this school year when i was doing a biography on the guy, and that book is as biographical as a fiction gets.

if you stay up till 5:00 am without being drunk or high or captured by bloodthirsty pirates; and you see the sun rise from above the treetops, your screwed
the light causes some weird chemicals to get secreted in your noggin, and your just not gonna get a good sleep.

i never win raffles
not even ones for big clunky fans

you never get used to saying goodbye to someone.
You could give 200 hugs and waves to 200 people and each time is just as hard as the first.

you seem very disconnected to people when they get an address from someone to write to, when you know they're going to move in a month to experience college.
but now i've put myself in the position that i have to write to about 50 people, and i plan on writing to all of them, maybe some of them will see this entry, and would want to write to me first. it doesn't even matter if they never talked to me in highschool and haven't even met me in person. communication between people is the soul of the human species.

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