Ephemerality

Note: For an explanation of this post, see the introduction.

As we finished packing up to go to Copper Breaks State park we got into the car and left.

About 15 minutes later, we arrived a Texas Tech [I actually used the official symbol here] university at the Biology building where my dad, Daryl, works.  We parked the car in our space and my mom, Carol, ran in the building while the rest of us waited in the car.

A minute later, my mom came out.  She got in the car and we left.  Kyrie and Leigh were fighting and screaming for a reason I did not know.  After a little while, Carol, and Daryl I guess got pretty sick and tired of it and yelled at them.  That settled it.

Later, we drove down into a canyon that I thought was the edge of the caprok.  But I looked at my watch and only one hour had passed so I settled down in and relaxed and looked out the window.

A while later, mom threw on me some star Burst [I included the registered trademark symbol] and Leigh decited aloud in which order she was going to eat them.

Soon, we stoped, moved up a hill and read a hick starical marker [this may have been an intentional misspelling–a Moorheadism], then off we went.  I decided I would go to sleep.

–Simon

I dug out my old journal from basement purgatory.  23 years ago I wrote it, in an old spiral notebook.  It has rudimentary algebra scribbled on the back, and the cover–a racoon in a hollowed log–has long since vanished.  So as an ironic nod to this blog’s title, and in parody of a book my dad read to me long ago (A Sand County Almanac), I concluded that I would preserve the troubles of an adolescent by digitizing them.

True to this title, it chronicles approximately one year, from the fall of 1994 to 1995, with some sporadic entries thereafter.  To preserve its meanings, whatever they might have been, I intend to not edit it for grammar, although I will add asides for context.

–Simon