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Mortification
Oct. 4th, 2005 | 11:55 pm
music: Inconsolable-Johnatha Brooke
Alright, ever since hearing the segment on it on This American Life this weekend, I've been fascinated by this website: http://www.getmortified.com/. Basically, these folks run a show in which "everyday adults shar[e] aloud their most embarrassing, pathetic and private teenage diary entries, poems, love letters, lyrics and locker notes... in front of total strangers." Lovin' it.
Okay so here's my bit of journal, which was mostly a daily tally of stuff I did and was hardly ever angsty or pathetic. I was too together (read: guarded/defensive) for that. Still, it's gonna be a blast from the past, y'all.
From October 15th of '99. So I was only just a junior.
"I've started research for real now. Reading up on Kafka. Lindsay and I ate Cracker Jacks and started making plans for Halloween (see, I told y'all I always start early) in physics. Managed to avoid today's Pep Rally, but I ended up hanging out in Lawley's room with Brian and Joseph. Young, Christian boys are all scary and bizarre (damn, how I wish I'd stuck with this perspective... talk about your foreshadowing...). Then I spent all this time with James and Steve after school. They're bugging me. I'm so tired of drugs, sex, and problems. I need to grow up and move into a new phase (!ha!). Oh, at the B'ham Library last weekend, I found Naked Lunch, a book of Ovid, Clockwork Orange, and Slaughterhouse Five. But soon I came crashing down cuz Mom's card was expired. NO! He's holding them for me. Then, Lindsay and I went to Hardee's and during dinner we heard, "Oh my God! You gotta come see this!" A girl was giving this guy a blowjob in the drive-through and she was the driver! Funny as hell. I'm going to Six Flags tomorrow!"
This was my existence as a junior: dorky obsession with school and books, voyeurism, irritation with boys, and anticipation of Six Flags/Halloween. So I'm failing to see the difference in then and now. I'm a little conflicted about that.
If I can find the earlier journal from around freshman year (which has been misplaced in one of my many moving shuffles) maybe I can find something more pathetic for you guys.
FYI: This one is awesome: http://www.getmortified.com/woe/viewdet
Okay so here's my bit of journal, which was mostly a daily tally of stuff I did and was hardly ever angsty or pathetic. I was too together (read: guarded/defensive) for that. Still, it's gonna be a blast from the past, y'all.
From October 15th of '99. So I was only just a junior.
"I've started research for real now. Reading up on Kafka. Lindsay and I ate Cracker Jacks and started making plans for Halloween (see, I told y'all I always start early) in physics. Managed to avoid today's Pep Rally, but I ended up hanging out in Lawley's room with Brian and Joseph. Young, Christian boys are all scary and bizarre (damn, how I wish I'd stuck with this perspective... talk about your foreshadowing...). Then I spent all this time with James and Steve after school. They're bugging me. I'm so tired of drugs, sex, and problems. I need to grow up and move into a new phase (!ha!). Oh, at the B'ham Library last weekend, I found Naked Lunch, a book of Ovid, Clockwork Orange, and Slaughterhouse Five. But soon I came crashing down cuz Mom's card was expired. NO! He's holding them for me. Then, Lindsay and I went to Hardee's and during dinner we heard, "Oh my God! You gotta come see this!" A girl was giving this guy a blowjob in the drive-through and she was the driver! Funny as hell. I'm going to Six Flags tomorrow!"
This was my existence as a junior: dorky obsession with school and books, voyeurism, irritation with boys, and anticipation of Six Flags/Halloween. So I'm failing to see the difference in then and now. I'm a little conflicted about that.
If I can find the earlier journal from around freshman year (which has been misplaced in one of my many moving shuffles) maybe I can find something more pathetic for you guys.
FYI: This one is awesome: http://www.getmortified.com/woe/viewdet
