First Forty

Venture out and wind up at Harvelle’s; J.J. “Bad Boy” Jones keeping the dance floor packed; meet Susan and get her number(!); slip into The King’s Head and tuck into a corner; marvel at the quality of dart play.

Borrow Grant’s library card to check out “Men of Mathematics”; we go to Rose Records; buy Kraftwerk’s “Tour de France” and some Sergio Mendes and Brasil ‘66; drive to Elmwood Park to look at a ‘67 Thunderbird; talk with Jenny Greco on the phone for about an hour; feeling in better spirits.

Tommarow [sic] we leave for Disney. I finished most of my homework.

Muria on Yumi’s back about raw chicken in the kitchen; it’s “poison”; Yumi furious; take her out of the house to calm down; eat at Planet Fresh instead; spend some time in my office; Shinya almost reveals the surprise that Yuka is coming.

Meggin’s computer crashing; Mom suggests I spend more time with Dad; idea to go canoeing; Todd inducted into Mascoutin Society; run to end of wharf; Casey nearly drinks himself into hospital; he won’t deal with Maureen; laugh over Navy days.

Joe wants me to come see his place / garage in the Palisades; he’s renting from an Italian woman with two beautiful daughters; one owns a bar in Santa Monica; Joe and I drop by one day for a couple of Rattlesnakes.

Mme. Bolvery visits our French class; announces trip to Montreal and Quebec; work is slow, dull.

Our family is so exsited [sic] about our trip. We finally started spelling and I don’t have much time to study the words.

Casey fighting with her housemate; Lisa thinking about moving back to Santa Cruz; she’s overcome with sadness one night; start of Japanese 2 at Cabrillo; meet up with Ted and Don; no teacher; see Kris Akao; Yumi stops by; ride home along the yacht harbor.

Ran, read, de-rusted crash bars — cheap s@#$; The Symposium and Bukowski’s poetry; Plouffis now sleeping in laundry room; oil leak on the Property; Union Oil being very accommodating.