First Forty

I went to school and Miss Bentz had givin us lots of work to do. I felt O.K. and I had fun playing.

Nothing happened today and I was feeling better.

Take a job in Milwaukee gutting out a building; working my tail off for $5 an hour; Dad says I’m crazy; careful painting of a high ceiling at Patti’s mother’s house comes out to even less. [rewritten 9/3/06 from very scant notes of the original entry]

Today we went to the Field Museum and saw the Indian exhibet. I also had a stomach ache.

Went skating at the Roller Palladium; run into Chel, Hiroe, Hagino, and Hiroya; Hiroya asks when we’re going to play baseball; I have to get a mitt first…

I coulden’t go to school because I had a flu. It seemed that the day would never end.

Went to class but it was the wrong day; started a letter to Dad; made an appointment to see a counselor; "career" anxiety attack; work study jobs not very promising; called Meggin; tried one of my beers and it was excellent!

Show at Randhurst; flowers for Beth; bike shops and Thai Aree with Grant; talking about Amy and Bob; listening to records at the Wheaton Library (Bugsy Malone!); the Bears win Super Bowl XX; Challenger tragedy; fix bike; still no letter (or anything) from Beth; talk to Mom and Dad.

Today I caught flu and had to stay in bed and take my medicine.

Shinya cleaning up the aftermath; we leave for the day; house smells of pine oil upon our return.