Diary: October, 1991.

I was in 7th grade, and had recently auditioned for, and cast in, the Junior High Drama Club’s inaugural production of The Wizard of Oz. I was to play the Wizard. The play quickly became my new social group and, between that and band, I must have asked five or six girls to go out with me.

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Diary: In October, 2003

Actually, for a moment of overlap… at the very end of September I vaccumed and finish cleaning out my house in Flint, met with the landlord and retrieved the deposit, and said goodbye to the 1600 block of Maryland Ave. I renewed my license, spent the night at my parents, and the next day my dad drove be down to Chicago.

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Gravitane 7, 30.

– I am all kinds of groggy and out-of-sorts this morning. Anyway, on Friday I spent the day attempting (often unsuccessfully) to devise applications for jobs in Chicago. But that evening I waited for the bus in fine mist and rose it out to Earshot where I saw five new readers and got some excellent advice on adjuncting from Justin.

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Gravitane 3, 30.

– Yesterday I had quite a day, though I was beat at the end of it. Since so many of us freelancers are leaving in the upcoming weeks (myself included) we all had a pizza party. After work I went to a coffee shop in the Village and did some reading and writing, then went to the Guerrilla Lit reading.

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