1964
Dress rehearsal went smoothly - except for N and S. They (Caesar and Brutus, respectively) didn’t have their lines. S got me all mixed up and he gives me most of my clues [sic].
I thought we had Girl Scouts tonight , but when I arrived, no one was there but a cadette troop. It was a good bunch, though. I helped them make Christmas ornaments and we sang Christmas songs and had a lot of fun. It might snow tonight - I hope so. I love it!!
Comment 2022
Another normal day in my teenaged life. I was trying to (1) record the high points of each day and (2) fill up the page. That’s nineteen lines in five vertical inches. I can practically feel in my writing hand the urgency of finding something to say in the last two lines. So It might snow tonight, etc. I have been reading ahead in the diary and I can see that is about to change. Looming ahead: my first big crush on someone close to my own age. That’s when this task of transcribing and responding got a lot harder.
1977
With three more class days to go this semester, I am becoming very studious. My replacement got her reviews from her students in History of Textiles, and they weren’t very good. My feelings are mixed. I am sorry she didn’t do well, but there is also a certain feeing of satisfaction that I am a better teacher , even without her fancy credentials. She admitted that her attitude toward the job and the students was not great, so maybe there’s hope for next semester.
Mustn’t say too much, but be a good listener. I can’t let it endanger our friendship.
Later-
Short lab this morning, so I went to the library and watched more “Civilization”. Then I read a couple of magazines, went to class, chewed the fat with J and F, came home, grocery shopped, watched Bette Midler on TV. It inspired me to play her first record. What a very, very intelligent, clever, interesting, person.
It’s a nice, slow evening. But then, with plummeting temperatures outside and a warm dog at my feet inside…life is very, very good.
1997
So we talked and looked things over, and we concluded that things are a little out of hand, but not much. I promised to be better about keeping track, and Jim will show me how the bills are set up. This is good.
2017
Today is Thursday
I have a dental appointment and lunch with Sandy, with some writing in between. Yesterday we met with our financial advisor and then had lunch at Montgomery Mall and walked around, marveling at all the changes. The I attended an Emeritus event that was essentially a social gathering organized around a nice junior faculty member giving a mildly interesting paper. Meeting my fellow emeriti was interesting. Not too many other “young” retirees. The most interesting thing was hearing about what people are doing in retirement. One is doing volunteer work and writing poetry. Another is still cranking out research from his lab.
Which leads me to ponder what I will do, at least for now. I’ll admit to being unmoored since my travel ended in September.
Comment 2023
I wish I could have lunch with Sandy again.
2020
Comment 2023
It wasn’t a cold.
That is crazy.
Crazy to think we are about as far from 9/11 (22 years) as you were from Pearl Harbor with this entry (23 years).
I occasionally ponder a similar comparison between when I was born and the Gulf of Tonkin vs my daughters birth and 9/11.