By Brian

You are 15 again. Write a diary entry about what you endured at school today.

 Monday April 14^th, 1986

            School sucked today until lunch time. I had to go to the bathroom across from the Band room and the smoke was from the ceiling to the floor. Totally grody. I had to hold my breath, run in, pee and run out. Gag me with a spoon.

            I have Mrs. Penner for English. She is really nice, but I wrote an essay about how people do not have to do everything that they are told and that there are people out there who like to manipulate other people and she just seemed confused. Earth to Mrs. Penner. Come in Mrs. Penner!

Passed notes back and forth with Mickey Hanson. She has a boyfriend who is supposed to beat up people and stuff. She hates him, but stays with him. I do not understand girls, but she puts her feet under my seat and I put my feet back and sometimes they touch and that is awesome.

All these USB dorks didn’t invite me to join their stupid student government stuff. I don’t want to be a part of it, but they could ask, right? It’s not like we aren’t in every single class together.

I am almost done reading the Hitchhiker’s books; I read part of the second one during history class while Mr. Crow lectured. All the stuff is in the book, which I have to read anyway. I laughed at one part, which was a problem because nothing was funny in class, but no one noticed.

It’s going to be super smoggy today, too hot for my Members Only jacket. Scott said I can come over after school and we can swim right after we watch Robotech. That is like the best show ever, I mean a guy dies in a cartoon and stays dead, not like he turns out not be dead later. It is so much better than Inspector Gadget. Scott’s dad just waxed the slide, so we are both going to go upside down and backward. I went down on my knees last week and almost fell over the side on the twist. No way am I going to try that right after its waxed!

Lunch time was cool, as usual I threw away the lunch my mom made for me and bought the school pizza. I saw Mickey at lunch, her boyfriend was out sick and she sat with me. She complains about him a lot. She would never complain if she went out with me. We would be the happiest couple on campus because I am a nice guy.

I finally got a copy of Ultima IV and I already mastered one of the eight virtues. I pinned the cloth map on my wall and I carry the golden Ankh in my Velcro wallet. Bill says he mapped out the whole thing on graph paper and it wallpapers his entire room. The game is hard, but cool. If my stupid disk drive would stop chunking and rebooting I might actually solve the game. OK, I probably won’t, but that sound makes me want to throw the thing out the window.

Steve says his school sucks, private Christian high school, but school sucks no matter what. I hope to god I do not grow up and become one of those people who says, “Oh, I miss High School, it was the best years of my life, because I am here right now and it sucks. We run around like rats in a maze, when the bell rings we scurry from one cubby to another. The jocks try to steal my M&Ms at PE and the girls are crazy.

            I gotta go talk to my grandma and grandpa on the phone. Will write more tomorrow.