Category: my old journal
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A visit with my younger self: 1 July 1988
Another entry which is nothing more than a story idea: Another story idea—A professional young woman (say about 30) meets a young college student (about 20). Becomes “involved.” Explore problems of such a relationship. Perhaps we will give the woman a roommate as a foil. This seems barely baked as ideas go. I never did…
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A visit with my younger self: 30 June 1988
Once I lost my daily habit, it turned into a less than weekly habit as I didn’t write another entry for almost two weeks. This time, I wrote down a collection of story ideas (story ideas are cheap—my punk-ass self was crapping these out like a gringo tourist in rural Mexico). Story ideas:“Rite of Passage”…
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A visit with my younger self: 18 June 1988
Well, I missed a day for the first time back in 1988 and I return with an entry that is embarrassing in more ways than one: Why do people read or watch movies or TV or whatever? More than ever, I’m convinced that it’s because we’re all looking for answers but we aren’t even sure…
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A visit with my younger self: 16 June 1988
Wow, I was being quite dilligent about keeping up this diary back in the olden days. Thoughts about “A little dignity”—How did Phillotson become the man he is? What trigger the bressedown, I think something here is a façade, but what? Is, the dignified Phillotson rool on is the comical)? Why not lead the reader…
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A visit with my younger self: 15 June 1988
A bit of context on these journal entries, I suppose. This was the summer between my sophomore and junior year of college. I had a job working at the University of Illinois at Chicago computer center. I forget what I was doing that year, although if I remember correctly, I was working in the Medical…
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A visit with my younger self: 14 June 1988
I encountered recently a writer who was publishing his old journal entries on Substack, and it occurred to me that there was probably nothing that private about my old journal entries that I couldn’t do the same, so here it is. “Rescuer”—A boy who wants to grow up to be a hero.. When the opportunity arrives…