October 25, 1999 Monday I went home Saturday morning for the first time this semester. Elmwood does not change, I have come to find, as if in a vacuum of time and space. Besides one or two new houses going up, it has remained unchanged since my time there. It was good to see the…
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Tom’s B-Day
October 20, 1999 Wednesday I have been pondering for a while the state of my hair (that’s right, you get the heavy hitting news here). It had been had two months since the last cut, so I had been playing with the idea of growing it out. Yet I got it cut yesterday, and it’s…
Figures…
October 19, 1999 Tuesday Tom and Collinsville had both been asking me to write again (although they want most material to pertain to Amdor stories) and they read yesterday’s entry, “All Because of Algernon” as soon as I got home from the computer lab with it. Last night Tom and I, being out usual busy…
All Because of Algernon
October 18, 1999 Monday On Sunday, October 10th, we were visited on Calhoun by a few hundred bats. At first, in the afternoon, I thought they were just birds–lots of noisy, screeching birds going crazy in our trees in the backyard. Until night came. We first found out they were bats when Camille told us…
Re-establishment Part 3: Pike-hood
October 9, 1999 Saturday Since coming to Western the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity has played a role in my time here. First Collinsville joined in the fall of ’97, and then Tom rushed the following class, so I have heard more than my share of Pike news. I went to the house sometimes with them,…
Re-establishment Part 2: A Long Strange Trip It’s Already Been
October 8, 1999 Friday All summer, I had been waiting until I could call Collinsville, which would mean that there would be about a week to go until the first of August, that day being the beginning of our lease to 722 West Calhoun. Tom called me in mid-July to see how I was doing, and…
Re-established Contact Part 1: Waiting and Working
October 6, 1999 Wednesday A lot has happened in the last five months (well, not so much the first three…) that I will first tell of my summer today, and then leave the fall semester so far for another entry. Like I last said in April, I had really expected to return to Western for…
A Strange New World I’m In
May 3, 1999 Monday Just finished ten pages worth of “Bottle” today to turn in to Tama Bladwin for my final portfolio. It is, I feel, still far from done, and I have not yet completed “The Biggest Show in Town,” “A Full Deck?” and a few others that will sharpen the storyline. If I…
Slow Down Ann
April 24, 1999 Saturday A side note. Went to the Delta Tau Delta house last night around two. Julie had her sister and cousin down from Chicago for the weekend, and I promised I would see her there. Julie and I are still friends and everything, so there’s so problem. Well, I arrive and the…
Did Anyone Hear a “Snap?”
April 20, 1999 Tuesday For the weekend I busied myself by continuing to work on my new website, Secondrateparadise. The site is chock full of my song lyrics, poems, stories, and some interesting bits about me, as well as some excerpts from Is Anybody Out There? and Memoirs. You know, all in all, I’m not…
Trapped in a “Bottle”
April 13, 1999 Tuesday I cannot wait until this semester is over, and in one month it will be. The air is warm and leaves are on the trees, and I am trying to focus and finish the semester strongly. If all goes well, I should get As in the two Tama Baldwin English classes…
New Definitions of Paradise
April 2, 1999 Friday Memoirs from the Edge can’t be called something I really enjoyed writing. In most cases I wrote because of some unwritten obligation I felt for continuing the story. In the end it sputtered and collapsed, dying because of lack of interest. Oh well, they say the third times the charm. I…
No One Will Believe You 