Journal entry / March 3, 1990
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
You Make Me Feel
You're So Far Away
Let Me Get What I Want This Time
These songs were at the end of the Gershwin tape Roger sent me back at Halloween! I never even heard them til tonight!!! I danced to Stevie Wonder.
Today was not exactly a peak day.
My car was out of commission.
I washed some windows.
Started a painting of a bug eating bug food from a bowl.
I can't pick up Jamie tomorrow for breakfast. Piss. I'm stuck at home.
I ironed.
Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz and a glass of wine saved my life.
Tom called. He and Armin seem to entertain a lot. That would be hard for me, you know what I mean?
I wrote to Don. He left me a message on my machine Thurs; but I couldn't really ever talk, so I didn't call him back.
Do people who like fiction like good food, as opposed to people who like electronics?
11 comments:
Linda! I love reading stuff from 20 years ago. Was it me you were picking up for breakfast? Where were we going? What would you have eaten?
Linder..your youth! how could we have not exposed you to the 'GREATS' like Stevie Wonder??? I feel as if I must apologize!! (You do remember the Beatles, right?) Cuzin Carol
Do you keep detailed journals? How on earth did you remember what you were doing 20 years ago today? And Slaves of New York - that takes moi back.
Okay, so now I'm thinking...20 years ago, though probably not to the day, I was steeling myself. A real jerk was about to break my heart and stomp all over it. Stupid me. I waited for that to happen. 1990. Not a good year.
I used to keep journals, but I threw most of them away. Glad you kept yours.
Will you post others?
I remember the first week of March, 1990 (that was twenty years ago...!?)
I was in collage, sharing an apartment with someone who thought I (and my family) were idiots, and shared the information freely with mutual acquaintances.
Maybe I was an idiot. I was caught up in a semi relationship that offered endless frustration and embarrassment. It was a terrible match, but I didn't realize it at the time.
Did we know each other then? I don't know if we were in AJ or Whittle U. 20 years ago today our cat Norton died on Phillip's 30th birthday so I was probably crying and my father was kidding me on the phone asking if they needed to send flowers. :-> The bitter and the sweet.
Jamie: It had to be you. Would we have gone to Harold's? Would I have had an egg bagel with cream cheese, hash browns and pickle on the side? A cream soda? Where do you think we would have gone? What were we discussing?
Cuz: I think what I meant was that I had never turned the tape over to hear the 4 songs that Roger had added at the very end of the tape. We used to dance to Stevie Wonder in your bedroom, remember? But you would never let me go to any of the Beatles movies with you & your pals, so I'm lucky to remember the Beatles at all. I wish I hadn't thrown away the diary you gave me for my birthday when I was 13. I remember you gave me a set of watercolors, too, and I used them in the diary.
Mari: I just added the word "journal" to clarify--I used to keep journals. Now I keep a blog. I'm so glad you met Wolf!
Namo: I'm amazed that you can remember the first week of March without referring to a journal-- it must have been really miserable. Do you think we get smarter about relationships as time goes by?
Penny: You know, I think we know each other better now (thru Facebook) than we ever knew each other back then. We were still in the AJ building! My entry for March 6 says: Home Depot after work to switch answering machines; then took some Petros to Feebee's to eat. Today, I woke up at 4:45 and couldn't go back to sleep. I didn't feel too good at work til this afternoon, when I found out I get to choose between 2 offices:
1. Joe's old one (pluses: river view, big window, real walls, larger, light. minuses: window doesn't open, cigarette smell, people next door smoke)
2. Russ's one (he's moving to B.P.'s) (pluses: window opens, hamburger smell comes in, minuses: fake walls, small).
That's such a sad memory about Norton.
That would've been a really great discovery, but people who like electronics went and mucked it all up with that liking food thing.
This was fun!
Oh, do this again! I'll post some
stuff from my youth on my blog one day soon ~ beats the other boring shit that I post.
Don't leave us in suspense. Which office did you choose and why?
Oh, the AJ building! I miss that place. I know exactly which offices you're talking about. Russ's looked over Checkers (remember those hamburgers?) and I remember Joe, Jamie G and Heather J all smoking like chimneys in Joe's office while Joe held court. My cubicle was in the ballroom--I loved that space. I kept a big foam rubber Holstein cow head I made for Halloween in there; it turned a creepy yellow after a while. Also--the conference room where we had all those Travel Life meetings... stop kicking me under the table.
Booda: little did I know that I would become one of those people who barely read anymore, and who like electronics.
Mary Ann: OK! Can't wait to read yours.
Mean: You're funnny. I chose Joe's because of the river view, but it was hard to give up the hamburger smell.
Lisa: I remember that cow head! Do you remember the gorilla head that Ken kept? I wanted to put it on the day of the protest in the courtyard, but that was later.
You made me giggle in the conference room at those meetings and that's the only reason I would kick you.
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