I have been keeping an extensive and inseparable diary for years – ever since I was eleven. Seven years on, hundreds of words and 37 diaries later I am still writing in my diaries as much as ever.
Anyway, last night I was perusing my old diary – the one I called ‘Rosa De Moverly’ (back in my Anne of Green Gables obsessed days) and it was pretty much the funniest thing I have read in a long time
So here I shall publish the funny and interesting excerpts from the diary of a 12 year old book and boy obsessed girl (and wonder whether I have changed all that much!)
Oh and I’m keeping the original spelling and grammar
* Saturday 26th October 2003 (After breaking my leg doing long jump at the school sports)
The Young Diary Writer - very impressionable!
“It’s kind of dumb how people say, ‘are you alright?’ when your there, tears pouring down your face combining with sand and snot. I suppose it’s also a sign they care.”
* Sunday 27st October 2003 (as part of a story I wrote)
“His face was a hopeless, barren desert when you are slowley dying of thirst and a terrorist holds you at gun point deciding whether or not to blow your brains to bits while he drinks the last few drops you have, then spits it in your face”
“Lucille cried out like an eagle having its wings hacked”
* Friday 7th November 2003 (the days of the Primary school romance. I find the shock and outrage of this excerpt quite funny)
“But not as obssesed as Danielle is about Brad – you should see her! She writes his name everywhere, over and over again. Yesterday she gave him her first proper kiss – on the lips! They’ve pecked before (4 times) but not on the lips. Shhhhh….dont tell anyone.”
* Monday 10th November 2003 (about our school camp to Canberra)
“On the seat beside me was Danielle and Bradley – two loverbirds . They held hands passionately near the end for a long time! It made me want to puke and I kept on giving Danielle “looks” to convey my message.”
* 24th Monday November 2003 (you can see the beginnings of my feminist thinking here yet still boy obsessed)
“I like to have muscles, to not cry much, to not be girlish and gigglish, to like cars and leggo and footey.”
“Back to transition. Sorry I get off the subject a lot, my train of thought you see, but who really cares, I dont think this will be published; and even if it is no one will care because they’ll be too engrossed in all my interesting stuff I have to say…where was I?”
* Sunday 30th November 2003
“…but he had nice eyes. Usually nice eyes is a saving grace to a male who usually would look, well, pretty ordinary.”
* 6-01-04
“There are lots of curious things in this world, things that are fun to speculate, but can give you a headache if you dwell on them too long”
“(I think we will be pinching pennies – but pinching hurts so much!)”
* 7-01-04
“The easiest way to fake tears, is to think of something realy sad like when Matthew dies in Anne of Green Gables and what his last words were (that always gets me in tears)
“If I couldnt read (or write) I dont know what I’d do. I’d just be existing, flavour would go out of life making it blonde. But I can, no fear (by the way, the same definitely applies to music)”
9-01-04
“(I’m very fond of brackets, and semi-colons; but mostly brackets)”
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