in today’s journal installment, we learn the following about high school freshman posh deluxe:
1. she really hates mosquitoes.
2 . she records every grade she makes, ever.
3. her taste in restaurants and films is questionable.
4. she thinks brendan fraser is hot, which is only slightly defensible given that it was 1994.
5. she loves a good bargain.
6. occasionally, she has thoughts that might actually kinda be profound!
*note: i was in charge of the sound for our high school theater department’s performance of “the mousetrap” at the time i wrote the following entry (and i had just returned from the previously mentioned youth group retreat).
4/25/94
Yes, today is the 25th, not 24th because I was too tired to write last night because I stayed up to watch “The Sound of Music.”
Well, yesterday, we got home from El Shadaii. In the car, I beaded a necklace and taught Meredith & Melissa how to Fish Bone braid. It is great to be home. I <3 CARPET! I woke up today and yesterday with sore muscles. I think I bruised my rib cage on “The Spider Web.” I HATE MOSQUITOES. My legs are covered in toothpaste (desperate times call for desperate measures). I have a particularly huge one on my knee that looks like a blister [ed note: GROSS].
I stayed after school today until 5:15. The sound was not too good today. It wasn’t organized. So tonight I taped Three Blind Mice on a tape, Annoying Music on a tape, and Peggy Lee on a tape. I hope it’ll go better tomorrow.
I got a 104 on my math test!! WOW! Can you believe it!!
UNCLE DAVID IS HERE. He’s been staying with Mama Helen, but he came here to spend the night then leave tomorrow. He’s so great! He took us to Chili’s! Yum! I saw Courtney C. and Blake there!
Anyway, I’m sleepy now– I wish I could write more, but I really need some sleep. GOOD NIGHT!
wow, this is a terrible picture. i thought about not posting it, but that would be censorship, and i’m a Serious Journalist. anyway, that’s me (with braces and a fading, horribly embarrassing cut on my face from having a mole removed) with biscuit, the best dog in the whole world. btw, i loved that dress and wore it constantly.
*note: MAJOR SPOILER ALERT for the award-winning masterpiece, “with honors.”
4/30/94
It’s the last day of April! Wow– can you believe it? May starts tomorrow! Anyway, I slept 11 hours (yes!) and then I went to the mall with Talena and Becky. I almost bought some gold pants for $5.38, but I bought some black combat like boots instead for $16 (half off of $32). Isn’t that cool!
We saw the movie “With Honors” with Joe Pesci and Brendan Fraser (ahhh). It was really good. It was about 4 students (roommates) at Harvard (seniors). Monty (B.F.) meets Simon (J.P.), a bum, because Simon has Monty’s thesis because it was dropped into the boiler room of a library through a grate on accident (LONG story). Anyway, they learn to love each other, and a strong bond develops. Simon dies at the end, and Monty and his roommate (a girl) fall in <3 (he’s been in love with her for, like, ever). What really got me was the graduating thing, the friendship, the nostalgia. It was almost like the feeling I got at the visit at Cy-Creek. It was a story that you wished happened to you. It made me wonder about my future, and, in a funny way, made me nostalgic for the future. Kinda weird, I know.
LINKS
today is linktastic.
THE NEW HARRY POTTER TRAILER IS AWESOME. i’ve watched it seven times already.
check out my favorite new blog, which features a toddler and some amazing wigs. I LOVE THE INTERNET.
henri sent me this trailer for a movie about “the rock-afire explosion,” aka the SHOWBIZ BAND, aka THE PEAK OF ANIMATRONIC SCIENCE. this looks SO GOOD. to whet yr appetite further, watch their version of “hips don’t lie.” GAH i miss showbiz.
the story of franz felhaber and his petrified millions is reeeeeeally fascinating.
have you guys heard of the blog “cassette from my ex“? it’s pretty fantastic, and jancee dunn wrote the latest entry!
new show i plan to (somehow, even though i don’t have cable) watch: z rock. it’s based on the real lives of these three dudes in a heavy metal band who make money by performing (as a different band) at children’s birthday parties. YES.
new m83 video for kim & jessie = rollerskating brilliance.
i know i posted about this already, but here’s more hilarious commentary on r. kelly’s latest album (and you can listen to the songs!). just… wow.
check out all of the awesome people that are gonna be on sesame street this season!!! i am totally calling in sick on the days when jack black and david beckham are on.
check this cartooney uncle karl t-shirt. WANT.
Seeing the trailer for Harry Potter reiterates my stance on reading the books: Why would I want to spoil the movie?
That photo is intensely awesome.
And, I’m no expert, but I thought that Brendan Fraser WAS hot? I’m confused now.
We saw the trailer for Mummy 3 today and it is funny now that he is playing a father.
Brendan Fraser was and is HOT. *sigh*
I like that the countdown to Harry Potter tells me also how many days are left of my 20s (minue one day).
eww brendan fraser. he was hot in school ties–then and ONLY then.
ok, and maybe in with honors. i really wanted to be moira kelly in that movie when i was younger. i had a skirt like hers for a LONG time in high school.
Who was this other Meredith whom you taught to fishbone braid? I ALWAYS wanted to learn how to fishbone braid!
Brendan Fraser was hot, is now puffy. I too swooned over the movie With Honors, although I never would have referred to Moira Kelly just as “a girl” and instead as “that girl from Cutting Edge, OMG!”
Listen, Blast from the Past (with Brendan Fraser) was on this weekend. It is a terrible movie. I don’t think I ever really liked him? I can’t remember. He seems kind of caveman like and somehow always reminds me of Pauly Shore, even though I know that’s not fair. To one/both of them.
Someone tried to convince me to go see Bedazzled. They promised it was hilarious, but I’m pretty skeptical. Anyone want to weigh in?
BTW, the picture doesn’t do justice to the evil of Biscuit.
olivia, i think the presence of brendan and pauly shore in “encino man” explains the whole caveman connection.
randy, DEVIL DOG WILL EAT YOU.
I heart diary pants. It’s so much fun.
Shoulda bought the gold pants.
Yeah, gold pants, for sure.
Also, why was your diary so disbelieving of everything? *Could* it believe that you got a 104 on your math test? Did it think you were lying when you told it that it was going to be May tomorrow? I can’t believe how constantly skeptical your diary seems to have been, but I suppose that made it a good place to put your thoughts…
And Brendan Fraser? No, nope, and definitely not. I understand that when you were 14 he was older than you and was in shape, but THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING IN SHAPE AND BEING HOT.
And I’m not just saying that because I’m not in shape.
As the ladies might not immediately agree with me because they swoon for all things pectoral (how else to explain the attraction to Scott Talentless Speedman?), let’s just use Fergie as an example. She works out a lot, has big boobies, but still is not hot (even though she has no knowledge of that fact whatsoever).
Brendan Fraser - Had pectoral muscles, but was in Bedazzled, all of the Mummy movies, Encino Man, Airheads, George of the Jungle AND Dudley Do Right. All of that rolls up into one big ball of Not And Never Hot.
Saying you had a crush on him is like admitting that you went to see Robin Hood Prince of Thieves because you wanted to see Kevin Costner’s butt. Ewwwww.
I never liked Brandon Fraser…even before Henri’s out-of-shape rant.
scott speedman is hot because of his voice and his head tilt. and his way of playing sensitive male roles.
double true, jessica. double true.
but i have to say, this is probably one of my favorite henri rants, ever.