The Italian salad dressing’s really a bomb!
Since I don’t know the exact dates, I’ll keep these grouped together. These entries are from summer 1993, the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school. I was sixteen years old.
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I was at a party where Mrs. Reichart [forensics/speech teacher] had invited her students. I didn’t recognize anyone except her. All her students brought kids with them. (I brought Jason [E.], who looked like Nathan [S.]). A blond girl, about four, went up to Reichart and said, “My mommy’s not coming.” Jason pulled out his list of eligible females and marked Scarlet’s name off the list. I said, “and you were so perfect together.” Reichart then sang a country-western song, which evolved into a lullaby. I then drifted asleep.
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I found a huge laminated book. I wrote “1988.” It had all kinds of questions written all over it. I was with Sara Gilbert.
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I was in a strange school with Jason (played by again by Nathan S.). I was at my locker. Across the aisle, facing me, was Nick [F., I believe]. He kept pestering me, asking me if i had his stamp. Of course I didn’t. I left him muttering. I turned down a brightly lit corridor (like in South HS). I spotted Jason and he ran, throwing himself at me. He was six inches shorter than me. He disappeared and I went to the locker bays again. Nick was asking Jeremy Bender if he had Nick’s stamp.
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I went to a picnic with Lizzie and her mom. There were 2 kinds of baked beans. Nobody could figure out how to make mashed potatoes. It started to snow, so I suggested flakes.
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Our school was located in Towne East. It was eighth hour and time for trig. It was the first day of school. Olivia was with me. I saw Priya and asked her if trig class was hard. She told me it wasn’t and said the teacher, Mrs. Brown, was teaching for the first time. I decided to go to Dillard’s instead. Olivia and I magically arrived in the basement of Dillard’s: a special history display was on. All this time I was extremely nervous. For some reason, I went out to a deserted spot. As I stood there thinking, I thought sure that Olivia was mad at me. I returned and she was highly ticked off.
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I dreamt I got an 18 on the ACT. Two nights later, I dreamt that I had misread those results and really got a 15. [In reality, I got a 31 or a 32--I can't remember. 36 is possible.)
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I went to Venture to shop for Erika's birthday present. I decided to buy her 4 CDs. The lady in front of me was buying boxes of Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day" single and another single by Ice Cube with a blue cover. A guy named Chuck with blond hair and a goofy grin helped find me a box to put Erika's present in. He said to me, "since i'm a checker, i could sell you CDs for 80% off." Gomez Addams [Raul Julia] came up with a bottle of Italian dressing in a white box. I screamed, “it’s a bomb.” I went on to explain that it was because the girl in front of me had planted it. She ran away. then I was in my room, trying to get Erika to tell me when her party was. She was lying on my bed with Jenny S and Melissa L. [ed. note: Erika's birthday is August 19]
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I had to go to a dance at a weird school. As i walking in with my parents, I saw Karrie’s neighbor “Bubba.” He was limping, all alone.
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My father ate my lemon cookies. Those lemon cookies had Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground written on them. I was highly perturbed.
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I was at a flea market with my mom and grandma. I found a t-shirt with a picture of a skeleton with the headline “Drazen’s Dead.” Mother wouldn’t buy it for me. (A dream had shortly after the death of Drazen Petrovich, of course.)
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I was camping with another person. In the opening scene, everything went blue and I moved in slow motion, sort of like the videotaped people in Sliver. In the scene, everything was gone. We had nothing left. I looked out the window and Sharon Stone was walking in a black dress and black hat with feathers. She was prancing near the library. I got out of the van and she kept smiling. I took off her black gloves and snapped them away in a black bag.