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Monday, August 13, 2012
Moving Day!
Hello, my nice diary followers! I am moving to a new and improved location in preparation for my college years. You can peek inside my new diary at elainesprivatediary.blogspot.com. Go read it!
Monday, April 30, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Wuthering Hufflepuffs
tuesday, april 24
5:13pm
Since I last saw Marc (two days ago) I have had three bouts of crying and have thrown the following at a wall:
-a washcloth
-a bottle of Mr. Clean Multi-Surface Spray
-my bra
-every other piece of clothing I own. Literally.
That may seem like an exaggeration or a bald-headed lie, but I assure you it is not. It was actually quite easy to throw all my clothes at the wall, because they were already strewn across the floor, so I didn't have to remove them from their hangers or anything. Minimal-effort sadness, that's what that is.
Now I'm sitting in my room on a pile of clothing, I'm like the Lion King of clothes.
5:23pm
At least I got to see Marc this weekend. He came home for Prom, which was on Saturday. I spent about three hours getting ready and half an hour at the actual dance. Then we went home and watched Sharktopus (which I have already seen four times, and I highly recommend it). Also I burned my forehead with a curling iron, so I now have a red welt hanging around my hairline. Attractive.
2 minutes later
Then the next day, I drove Marc up to D.C. and we had a tearful goodbye at the bus stop. Then he boarded the Megabus, which took him back to college. He'll come home for good in about 16 days, hooray!
later
It wasn't really a tearful goodbye, actually. I had kind of snuck in the Megabus line with him, and I had to duck out before the Megabus lady asked to see my ticket. So it was more of a sneaky run-away type of parting. I don't think we even hugged.
5:45pm
But on the way home I listened to sad music and cried in the car for forty-five minutes straight, so that counts for something. My face was stiff from all the tear-salt.
5:46pm
I must say, though, parting at a bus stop is tres romantic. Aside from the parting part.
2 seconds later
And the hysterical sobbing afterwards.
8:12pm
My entire family just got accounts on Pottermore so we could get Sorted into Hogwarts houses.
Guess which house I'm in?
That's right.
Hufflepuff.
8:13pm
Are there even any Harry Potter characters in Hufflepuff? I can't think of any. It might be a ghost house or something. Or a sunken ship.
1 minute later
Neville wasn't even in Hufflepuff, and he was the most useless character around. What does that say if they can't even get the useless ones?
9:00pm
We are also reading Wuthering Heights in my English class. I really like it, it's a love story so it reminds me of Marc. People keep saying there's disturbing, depressing subtext or something, but I'm not catching any of it, it just seems sweet to me. Cathy and Heathcliff, playing in the mountains, la la la. Cathy says their souls are made of the same stuff, which I think is the most romantic thing ever.
later
I wonder what my soul is made out of? Probably Hufflepuff, whatever that is.
9:12pm
I heard a rumor that Cathy dies or something, but I don't think it'll happen. That seems too morbid for this cute love story.
5:13pm
Since I last saw Marc (two days ago) I have had three bouts of crying and have thrown the following at a wall:
-a washcloth
-a bottle of Mr. Clean Multi-Surface Spray
-my bra
-every other piece of clothing I own. Literally.
That may seem like an exaggeration or a bald-headed lie, but I assure you it is not. It was actually quite easy to throw all my clothes at the wall, because they were already strewn across the floor, so I didn't have to remove them from their hangers or anything. Minimal-effort sadness, that's what that is.
Now I'm sitting in my room on a pile of clothing, I'm like the Lion King of clothes.
5:23pm
At least I got to see Marc this weekend. He came home for Prom, which was on Saturday. I spent about three hours getting ready and half an hour at the actual dance. Then we went home and watched Sharktopus (which I have already seen four times, and I highly recommend it). Also I burned my forehead with a curling iron, so I now have a red welt hanging around my hairline. Attractive.
I don't think this was an intentional face, I'm pretty sure I was just blinking.
Then the next day, I drove Marc up to D.C. and we had a tearful goodbye at the bus stop. Then he boarded the Megabus, which took him back to college. He'll come home for good in about 16 days, hooray!
later
It wasn't really a tearful goodbye, actually. I had kind of snuck in the Megabus line with him, and I had to duck out before the Megabus lady asked to see my ticket. So it was more of a sneaky run-away type of parting. I don't think we even hugged.
5:45pm
But on the way home I listened to sad music and cried in the car for forty-five minutes straight, so that counts for something. My face was stiff from all the tear-salt.
5:46pm
I must say, though, parting at a bus stop is tres romantic. Aside from the parting part.
2 seconds later
And the hysterical sobbing afterwards.
8:12pm
My entire family just got accounts on Pottermore so we could get Sorted into Hogwarts houses.
Guess which house I'm in?
That's right.
Hufflepuff.
8:13pm
Are there even any Harry Potter characters in Hufflepuff? I can't think of any. It might be a ghost house or something. Or a sunken ship.
1 minute later
Neville wasn't even in Hufflepuff, and he was the most useless character around. What does that say if they can't even get the useless ones?
9:00pm
We are also reading Wuthering Heights in my English class. I really like it, it's a love story so it reminds me of Marc. People keep saying there's disturbing, depressing subtext or something, but I'm not catching any of it, it just seems sweet to me. Cathy and Heathcliff, playing in the mountains, la la la. Cathy says their souls are made of the same stuff, which I think is the most romantic thing ever.
later
I wonder what my soul is made out of? Probably Hufflepuff, whatever that is.
9:12pm
I heard a rumor that Cathy dies or something, but I don't think it'll happen. That seems too morbid for this cute love story.
heathcliff + cathy 4ever
souls made of sunshine and rainbows
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Guess Who's Coming to Town? (Hint: It's Me!)
Hello everybody! I am back, and in the Christmas spirit for sure! Christmas is all about giving. So far I have given everyone around me a headache. But that is not the point.
The point is, I am a very happy reindeer today, because Marc comes home tomorrow night! Unfortunately, I don't know what to wear. I have spent hours (okay, minutes) fretting over the perfect outfit. It has to be something that looks somewhat wholesome and yet flattering and Christmas-y. Also, it can't look like I am trying too hard. And it can't look desperate. I was thinking about wearing my Christmas sweater, but my dearest materfamilias has forbidden me to leave the house with it on.
Speaking of reindeer, hello to all my Swedish friends out there! Or, as they say in Swedenlanguage, bonjour! The rumor on the street is that I have quite a large following in Sweden (maybe two people?). I hope my diary is cool and American enough for you hip European-types.
Anyway, here is my life in sum over the past month. I have highlighted the main points in case you are too busy to read the whole thing. I also think that classic 'works of literature' should come with highlighted main points, but that is a whole different story altogether.
1. Lots and lots of college applications. It is quite a grueling process, and it has taken its toll on me. My skin is breaking out so bad that my mother has forced me to wear band-aids on my face. It's made me wonder, why do I even have to go to college in the first place? Why can't I just stay home and eat Spaghetti-Os out of the can for the rest of my life? That sounds fulfilling to me.
2. Thanksgiving. I like eating meat, but other than that, I'm not a big fan of Thanksgiving food... does that make me unAmerican? (Maybe you Swedes out there can relate to me better now).
3. Oh, yeah, I'm still working on my diary-type story! Hopefully I will finish it and then become famous. You all can say you knew me first when it is a best seller.
4. I want a pet for Christmas that is not a dog, but my mother says no (are we seeing a recurring theme here? Just kidding, I love you, Mami!). I don't like dogs because they are intelligent enough to actively dislike me. A smaller animal like a mouse doesn't have emotions, so I could pick it up and pet it whenever I wanted. I especially would like seamonkeys, since they come in a packet and you don't have to feed them.
That's about it, I'm sorry I'm not more exciting. Once Marc comes home (tomorrow!), I will have loads of festive stories and wacky hijinks to write about. Until then, as they say in Sweden, jawohl!
The point is, I am a very happy reindeer today, because Marc comes home tomorrow night! Unfortunately, I don't know what to wear. I have spent hours (okay, minutes) fretting over the perfect outfit. It has to be something that looks somewhat wholesome and yet flattering and Christmas-y. Also, it can't look like I am trying too hard. And it can't look desperate. I was thinking about wearing my Christmas sweater, but my dearest materfamilias has forbidden me to leave the house with it on.
Speaking of reindeer, hello to all my Swedish friends out there! Or, as they say in Swedenlanguage, bonjour! The rumor on the street is that I have quite a large following in Sweden (maybe two people?). I hope my diary is cool and American enough for you hip European-types.
Anyway, here is my life in sum over the past month. I have highlighted the main points in case you are too busy to read the whole thing. I also think that classic 'works of literature' should come with highlighted main points, but that is a whole different story altogether.
My Life, Up Until This Point
by Elaine
1. Lots and lots of college applications. It is quite a grueling process, and it has taken its toll on me. My skin is breaking out so bad that my mother has forced me to wear band-aids on my face. It's made me wonder, why do I even have to go to college in the first place? Why can't I just stay home and eat Spaghetti-Os out of the can for the rest of my life? That sounds fulfilling to me.
2. Thanksgiving. I like eating meat, but other than that, I'm not a big fan of Thanksgiving food... does that make me unAmerican? (Maybe you Swedes out there can relate to me better now).
3. Oh, yeah, I'm still working on my diary-type story! Hopefully I will finish it and then become famous. You all can say you knew me first when it is a best seller.
4. I want a pet for Christmas that is not a dog, but my mother says no (are we seeing a recurring theme here? Just kidding, I love you, Mami!). I don't like dogs because they are intelligent enough to actively dislike me. A smaller animal like a mouse doesn't have emotions, so I could pick it up and pet it whenever I wanted. I especially would like seamonkeys, since they come in a packet and you don't have to feed them.
That's about it, I'm sorry I'm not more exciting. Once Marc comes home (tomorrow!), I will have loads of festive stories and wacky hijinks to write about. Until then, as they say in Sweden, jawohl!
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Some Very Sad News!!!
Unfortunately, I am going to take the rest of November off from blogging, because... dundundun I AM WRITING A BOOK!!
That's right, me and Marc are in this novel-writing contest, and we each need 50,000 words by the end of the month in order to win. Marc's story is about kids who steal stuff, and my story is in the exact style of my diary entries!!! How fun, basically I am writing down my life.
Anyway, I didn't want to keep my nice readers hanging in suspense, so that is why I will be on sick leave until December. Good bye!
That's right, me and Marc are in this novel-writing contest, and we each need 50,000 words by the end of the month in order to win. Marc's story is about kids who steal stuff, and my story is in the exact style of my diary entries!!! How fun, basically I am writing down my life.
Anyway, I didn't want to keep my nice readers hanging in suspense, so that is why I will be on sick leave until December. Good bye!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Sehr Gut!
wednesday, october
26
8:54am
Gooooood morning, sunshines! Guess who
comes home in two days? I’ll give you a hint: he wears glasses and his name is Marc. And two days,
that’s no time at all! If you got hit by a truck and went into a coma but you
woke up after two days, some of your extended family wouldn’t even be at your
bedside yet! Because two days is not enough time for travelling to pay your
last respects to someone in a coma!
What
I am trying to say is that Marc will be here in just a few blinks of an eye.
8:59am
No offense to the coma patients
who can’t blink their eyes because they are in a coma.
9:05am
Oh goody, the German
exchange girls are here. Every year about ten girls come over from Germany, all
bundled up in their jackets and scarves, trying to learn the ways of the world
from us Amerikaners. Usually what happens though is they sit in the back of the
class, looking meek, and they say a few words in Deutsch once in a while.
9:15am
Hahaha, one German girl just
had her first bite of peanut-butter and jelly, and she hates it! That’s
hilarious.
9:17am
I know a couple German
phrases myself. We’ve had a German boy in our Environmental Science class all
year, and he’s taught us a few good sayings, like “Ich bin so geil jetzt“,
which means “I’m so horny right now”.
Additionally, I can say “rainbow”
(Reinderbogen) and “oxtail soup” (Ochsenschwanzsuppe).
two seconds later
I just had a revelation.
German is a joke language, isn’t
it?
later
12:45pm
In other news, I have begun
to put on my prettiness illusion for when Marc comes home. My beauty regimen is
quite rigorous—lots of face-scrubbing and nail-exfoliating. I’ve also been
leaving conditioner in my hair when I go to bed so I can have silky locks. And
don’t even get me started on the two tons of powder my face needs daily. I’m
trying to build up my sensitive skin’s tolerance to makeup so I can go all-out
when Marc comes home.
Needless
to say, it’s quite a lot of work to trick people into thinking you’re pretty.
12:52pm
Luckily for me, my face has
cooperated by giving me four ENOURMOUS zits on my chin. Thanks, body! That was
cool of you!
To
make matters worse, I’ve misplaced my Boing! Industrial Strength Concealer In
Beige. Right when I need an industry to hide my imperfections! What are the
chances, I ask you.
12:55pm
AND I HAVE A COLD! I’ve
suddenly got the sniffles like nobody’s business. I’ve been wiping my nose so
much that I’ve got little peely skins peeling away from my nostrils. Ad I soud
like dis.
1:01pm
Aww, Hendrick the German boy
from Environmental Science is super excited about the exchange girls. I think
they do things differently in Germany though because Hendrick is very honest
about his feelings. Case in point: “You know German girls are ugly, but I want
to meet them anyway.”
1:03pm
He’s also got this box of
Oreos that he won in a bet. Because he is German, he feels guilty about taking
the whole box. Oh, now he’s talking.
“I
had a bet with this girl, we bet one cookie and she gave me the whole pack… I
have to return them, it does not feel right. I know she wants me but I am not a
slut.”
Clearly
he is a morally upstanding citizen. Germany must be proud to have him.
1:07pm
Me and my American
classmates aren’t quite as honorable though. We convinced Hendrick to give us
the cookies.
later
3:35pm
Oh,
dear Shiva. This kid just came up to me in the hallway and said, “I’ve seen you
around and I just had to meet you. What’s your name?”
“I’b
Elaid.”
“Elaid?”
“Doh,
Elaid.”
“Wow,
nice to meet you, Elaid! I love your name, that’s so exotic.”
3:38pm
If Shiva the Destroyer
really cared about me, he’d destroy my mucus. Please, Shivvy? Please?
two seconds later
Mucus
is still here. I suspect that Shiva the Destroyer is a false god.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Homecoming Hijinks
tuesday, october
18
12:45pm
Sitting
in the waiting room at the hospital, shooting the breeze before my ultrasound.
I am not pregnant but I have ovary complications so the doctors need to poke
around my pelvic region for a bit. It’s all in good fun, mostly, except for the
fact that I am sitting in the ultrasound ward with the pregnant ladies.
They
think I’m a teen mom.
12:47pm
But it's not all fun and games here in the pregnancy wing. I also have to drink a liter
of water within the next fifteen minutes, cause the ultrasound only works when
you have a full bladder. A liter, in case you are European or dyslexic and you
don’t know measurements, IS A LOT OF WATER.
I
think I am going to be sick.
12:50pm
My mom is telling me to stop
whining so much because, quoth the raven, “It’s just water”. Easy
for her to say, she’s never had the Pee Parade marching around in her bladder.
12:51pm
Texted Marc about the teen
mom thing. His response: “You’re pregnant? If it’s another gay one, I’m leaving
you.”
Ha.
Hahahahahahaha.
12:52pm
But you didn’t peek at my
diary to read ultrasound jokery, now did you? You want to know what happened at
Homecoming!
Well,
it was overall a high-quality time. Decent Will picked me up and we did
pictures and he didn’t look like Two-Face, aside from a pink scar on his one
cheek. Then we went out to dinner, which was nice, although I have forgotten
how to act around boys. Ever since Marc left, I have been somewhat isolated
from the Y chromosome. Luckily, Decent Will was very decent about it. He hardly
got offended at all when I accidentally made fun of his concussion.
five minutes later
We only stayed at the actual
Homecoming dance for ten minutes because it was très pathétique, as they say in
Franceland. You know what I mean, every girl trying too hard to look pretty, but
really only looking like they’re trying too hard. Lots of super-short,
super-tight dresses, really not flattering at all because they show every spare
ounce of lipid. It was dead depressing.
Me
and Decent Will ended up at his house, making apple cider and watching three
episodes of Modern Family.
later
Anyway, the whole thing was
fun but also a tad choleric because I missed Marc. When I came home, my mama
asked me how my night was, and I burst into tears! My mother was quite
perplexed. “What’s wrong? Did you and Will have a fight?”
“No,”
I said. “I just miss Marc a lot.” My eyes were flowing like the Hoover Dam, it
was straight embarrassing.
On a
less Waterloo note, Marc comes home in a mere ten days! I can fit all of those
days on one hand, I don’t even have to fake it anymore!
1:35pm
Two hands. I meant two
hands.
Oooh,
ultrasound time, finally! Thank Krishna, I was about to pee myself like an
elephant in July.
half hour later
That was fun, the gel was
really warm. I appreciated that because it is a little frosty outside and I am
wearing my Emilia Earhart outfit, which consists of a green army-type jacket, a
red scarf, and a little skirt. I feel like a pilot with this ensemble on, but
sadly it does not protect me against the elements.
Anyway,
that gel warmed me right up. Too my gallbladder was holding a liter of water.
We could see it on the screen; it kept getting bigger, even the doctor
commented on it. Talk about embarrassing.
3:24pm
Relaxing at home for a few
minutes, then I’ll have to go back to school for band practice. I stopped at Goodwill
on my way home, and guess what I bought! I’ll tell you what I bought! I got a
really ugly Christmas sweater.
3:39pm
I love ugly Christmas
sweaters, they’ve been my secret passion for a while now. Goodwill is full of
them, so I’ll definitely be going back and buying more. My goal is to make them
a trend at school, and since I’m a really smooth operator it’ll probably work.

later
7:55pm
Went downstairs with my
Christmas sweater on, and my ever-supportive family freaked out. Not because I
looked so cute, but because they thought it was a horrible sweater. Even my
doggy Jazz had a fit, and he’s colorblind.
8:24pm
My mom started lecturing me
again about doing some studying. I didn’t want to listen so I laid on the floor
and pretended I was a rug. It was a really effective strategy, if you ask me.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Alone in the World
friday, october 14
homecoming
football day
6:35am
Beautiful morning. Clouds
clouding, rain raining, Marc coming home in fifteen days (he’s been gone for
sixty-seven days. Not that I’m obsessively keeping track. I just happen to know
these things). AND I’M GOING TO HOMECOMING!
7:00am
Our nice fuzzy dog Jazz is
drinking from his water bowl. He has a peculiar way of doing it, he uses his
jaw to scoop up the water and then he drinks until he pukes. I’m not sure why
he does it, but I’ve never seen him take just a few sips like a normal dog.
My
sister says Jazz learned the puking technique from a pit bull at the dog park.
7:15am
What if poor Jazzy has
self-esteem issues? What if he’s got a doggy eating disorder because he wants
to look pretty?
7:17am
Somebody should tell Jazz
that looks aren’t everything. Take Decent Will, for example. He turned into
Two-Face thanks to his bike accident, and yet he still got a date to
Homecoming! And that date is none other than the wonderful, feisty old me! So
there is hope for everybody.
later
4:56pm
Remember that time when I
thought I was wonderful and feisty? I take it all back. Today we had a Pep Rally
to get everyone excited about the football game, and I was chosen to represent
the Senior class during one of the Pep Rally Games! “Which game, Elaine?” you
may be asking yourself. Well, actually, you are asking me in that case. I will give
you hints even though you are a little confused and not so bright for a
diary-peeker:
Hint One:
There were four games total.
Hint Two: It
wasn’t the game where you had to pull tissues out of the tissue box.
Hint Three: It
wasn’t the game where you had to keep three balloons up in the air.
Hint Four: It
wasn’t the game where you had to hike a football through a hula hoop.
Have you figured it out yet???
Okay, I’ll tell you.
It was the game where you had to
tie a yo-yo to your butt and knock over empty cans with it.
two seconds later
It was so embarrassing. I
had to swing my butt around in front of the entire senior class so that I could
control where the yo-yo went. I ended up just cheating and sneakily knocking
over the cans with my foot because I don’t have too good control over my gluteus
maximus.
5:15pm
I lost to the sophomore
class representative anyway, though. That kid knew how to wiggle.
saturday, october
15
homecoming dance
day
4:00pm
Oh boy. Time to get ready
for the Homecoming dance. Decent Will is going to pick me up at seven, so I
only have three hours to get ready. I will probably go simple, you know. Red
dress, Egyptian necklace, ten-inch heels, five thousand tons of makeup
products, an entire bottle of hairspray. Just your basic formal date ensemble.
4:05pm
But first, I’m going to
videochat with Marc!
4:15pm
Well that was a disaster.
Marc ended up getting mad at me for something small like going to Homecoming with another man, so he said “Hey
screw you” and logged off. Long-distance can be hard, I’m telling you. I’m
feeling quite subdued.
I’m going to put on my makeup while listening
to music from Shrek and feeling like the protagonista in a chick flick.
4:17pm
IT IS YOU I HAVE LOVED, ALL
ALOOOOONG!
Sniff
sniff.

on a more positive note, here's a picture of me whisking cake batter out of my hair. i would tell you why but there is honestly no good reason for it.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Racial Profiling
wednesday, october 12
7:00am
Goooooood morning America! It is Homecoming Week, and hence it is
also Spirit Week! Today is Gangster Day, which is perfect for me,
since we all already know what an excellent rapper I am.
Ooh, I am looking fresh today! Got my sweatpants, and my gangster
hat, and my gold chain… watch out, high school, here comes Swagg
Golden.
7:36am
Swagg Golden, driving to school… at a stop light, ho hum. Still looking fresh.
7:45am
Oh dear, I just got pulled over by a cop. He used his flashers and
everything! He says I have an expired vehicle registration—apparently
it expired in September. Oh, GOOD CATCH, OFFICER, YOU REALLY CAUGHT ME
THERE. September ended like two days ago! Does he really not have
anything better to do?
two seconds later
My house got robbed during my freshman year, you know, and they never
found the burglars. He could be working on bringing them to justice
instead of blaming the victim, aka me.
7:50am
He’s sitting in his car right now. The flashers are still on and we
are right outside school, which is somewhat mortifying. I wanna drive
away but he’s got my license.
7:52am
HE GAVE ME A COURT SUMMONS! I hate my life.
7:53am
Just realized that I was dressed up as Swagg Golden the entire time.
No wonder that copper pulled me over. He was profiling me!
two seconds later
I got racially profiled!
later
9:03am
Well that is just my luck, that I would basically get arrested on the
one day I look like a hoodlum.
9:15am
I’m not sure Gangster Day was an appropriate choice for a Spirit Day,
because loads of kids in our school dress like gangsters normally, so
I can’t tell who’s got school spirit and who’s just a juvenile
delinquent.
9:20am
Also, today the underclassmen are taking their PSATs, so we have to
stay in first period for a whopping three hours. Luckily I’ve got
Psychology, so me and my best friend Atheist Tim are hanging out and
getting ham.
two seconds later
By “getting ham” I do not mean that we are purchasing meat. We are
not. “Getting ham” is a gangster phrase that I overheard this morning,
and I’m not sure what it means but it sounds like a good phrase for
Swagg Golden to use.
9:45am
Our teacher showed us a video about an old guy with the worst case of
amnesia ever. His memory only lasts for thirty seconds! All the other
kids in our class are depressed about it, but it’s making me full of
sunshine. Because get this, the guy can recognize his wife, but every
time he sees her, he thinks it’s the first time in years! He gets so
excited and he loves her soooo much!
9:51am
I wish Marc had amnesia, then he’d never take me for granted!
10:00am
Although if he had amnesia, he wouldn’t be able to carry a good
conversation. Oh well, who cares, Swagg Golden can talk enough for the
both of us!
10:40am
Now we are going down to the school library to make a resume. Resumes
are a requirement to graduate but I think they’re useless. These are
supposed to help us secure a job in the future, but let’s be honest
with our own minds here, no college grad is going to give a potential
employer a high school resume!
10:42am
“Yeah, you should consider me for an internship because I ran
cross-country when I was a high school freshman.”
You see what I mean? It just doesn’t work.
10:45am
Screamy the Guidance Counselor is in charge of getting us to do our
resumes. I’m quite frightened of her. Though to be fair, I would be
screamy too if my job was completely useless.
10:46am
I think these resumes are a way for Screamy, aka The Man to keep my swagg under
control. And guess what? I already had a run-in with the popo today, I
don’t feel like interacting with The Man anymore! So I am going to
goof off.
noon
Goofed off with Atheist Tim for a straight hour. Power to the people!
later
4:00pm
Time to get tutored in math. My toot is a pretty nice woman, except I
get stressed when she watches me add fractions, and she gets upset
when I forget to carry my negative signs. Also it’s embarrassing that
I am being tutored in a class I’ve taken for three years straight.
5:32pm
Done with tutoring! My toot was a bit frustrated today because I
remembered my calculator but forgot my textbook. Oh well, she needs to
learn that you can’t have everything in life!
Now I am heading over to Marc’s house to make caramel apples with his
sister, Tough Annie.
later
9:00pm
I’m home! The caramel apples were a raging success, except all the
caramel slid off by the time I brought mine home. Tough Annie got
really tough when we didn’t have any popsicle sticks for the apples.
It ended up being okay though, we just bought more at Food Lion.
During dinner, Marc’s parents told me embarrassing stories from his
childhood. Apparently he was a fat blob as a child, but he was also
the most brilliantest blob in all of Germany, or wherever they lived,
I lose track.
Anyway, they can’t make fun of him anymore, because he
is a beanpole now. He even got to play Jesus during our church’s
Passion skit for the younger kids. The youth director casted him as
Jesus because, as she put it, he looks “skinny and malnourished”.
later
9:33pm
Best news ever!!!!
two seconds later
I HAVE A HOMECOMING DATE!!!
9:34pm
I am so happy! I was feeling left out of the Homecoming festivities
because, despite my good looks and astonishing popularity, I didn’t
have a date or a group of friends to go with. But then Tough Annie
suggested that I ask Decent Will, my good friend and the most decent
guy in the whole world. Decent Will is coming home this weekend from
college because he got in a bike accident and scraped up his face a
bit. I hear his brain is a little scrapey, too. Anyway, I asked him
via texty text and he said yes!
five minutes later
But not to worry, I asked Marc’s permission first. You may think I
have a double standard, since I was upset about him getting asked to
his dance. The answer to your foolish question is that it is NOT a
double standard because in this scenario, I am not being approached by
future prostitutes! In fact, I am the one doing the approaching! It is
a completely different situation.
Anyways, Marc said it was a-okay for me to go with Decent Will. I
think normally he would have been jealous, but since Decent Will looks
like Two-Face on the account of his accident, there really isn’t
anything to worry about.
9:42pm
I don’t mean to say that I am an entirely visual-oriented girl.
Personality counts, too. If it didn’t, I would be out of luck, seeing
as I have lezzy hair, a pancake face, and I wear Oobies on my hands at
night so I don’t scratch myself in my sleep. Sometimes it is only my
upstanding moral character that gets me through.
7:00am
Goooooood morning America! It is Homecoming Week, and hence it is
also Spirit Week! Today is Gangster Day, which is perfect for me,
since we all already know what an excellent rapper I am.
Ooh, I am looking fresh today! Got my sweatpants, and my gangster
hat, and my gold chain… watch out, high school, here comes Swagg
Golden.
7:36am
Swagg Golden, driving to school… at a stop light, ho hum. Still looking fresh.
7:45am
Oh dear, I just got pulled over by a cop. He used his flashers and
everything! He says I have an expired vehicle registration—apparently
it expired in September. Oh, GOOD CATCH, OFFICER, YOU REALLY CAUGHT ME
THERE. September ended like two days ago! Does he really not have
anything better to do?
two seconds later
My house got robbed during my freshman year, you know, and they never
found the burglars. He could be working on bringing them to justice
instead of blaming the victim, aka me.
7:50am
He’s sitting in his car right now. The flashers are still on and we
are right outside school, which is somewhat mortifying. I wanna drive
away but he’s got my license.
7:52am
HE GAVE ME A COURT SUMMONS! I hate my life.
7:53am
Just realized that I was dressed up as Swagg Golden the entire time.
No wonder that copper pulled me over. He was profiling me!
two seconds later
I got racially profiled!
later
9:03am
Well that is just my luck, that I would basically get arrested on the
one day I look like a hoodlum.
9:15am
I’m not sure Gangster Day was an appropriate choice for a Spirit Day,
because loads of kids in our school dress like gangsters normally, so
I can’t tell who’s got school spirit and who’s just a juvenile
delinquent.
9:20am
Also, today the underclassmen are taking their PSATs, so we have to
stay in first period for a whopping three hours. Luckily I’ve got
Psychology, so me and my best friend Atheist Tim are hanging out and
getting ham.
two seconds later
By “getting ham” I do not mean that we are purchasing meat. We are
not. “Getting ham” is a gangster phrase that I overheard this morning,
and I’m not sure what it means but it sounds like a good phrase for
Swagg Golden to use.
9:45am
Our teacher showed us a video about an old guy with the worst case of
amnesia ever. His memory only lasts for thirty seconds! All the other
kids in our class are depressed about it, but it’s making me full of
sunshine. Because get this, the guy can recognize his wife, but every
time he sees her, he thinks it’s the first time in years! He gets so
excited and he loves her soooo much!
9:51am
I wish Marc had amnesia, then he’d never take me for granted!
10:00am
Although if he had amnesia, he wouldn’t be able to carry a good
conversation. Oh well, who cares, Swagg Golden can talk enough for the
both of us!
10:40am
Now we are going down to the school library to make a resume. Resumes
are a requirement to graduate but I think they’re useless. These are
supposed to help us secure a job in the future, but let’s be honest
with our own minds here, no college grad is going to give a potential
employer a high school resume!
10:42am
“Yeah, you should consider me for an internship because I ran
cross-country when I was a high school freshman.”
You see what I mean? It just doesn’t work.
10:45am
Screamy the Guidance Counselor is in charge of getting us to do our
resumes. I’m quite frightened of her. Though to be fair, I would be
screamy too if my job was completely useless.
10:46am
I think these resumes are a way for Screamy, aka The Man to keep my swagg under
control. And guess what? I already had a run-in with the popo today, I
don’t feel like interacting with The Man anymore! So I am going to
goof off.
noon
Goofed off with Atheist Tim for a straight hour. Power to the people!
later
4:00pm
Time to get tutored in math. My toot is a pretty nice woman, except I
get stressed when she watches me add fractions, and she gets upset
when I forget to carry my negative signs. Also it’s embarrassing that
I am being tutored in a class I’ve taken for three years straight.
5:32pm
Done with tutoring! My toot was a bit frustrated today because I
remembered my calculator but forgot my textbook. Oh well, she needs to
learn that you can’t have everything in life!
Now I am heading over to Marc’s house to make caramel apples with his
sister, Tough Annie.
later
9:00pm
I’m home! The caramel apples were a raging success, except all the
caramel slid off by the time I brought mine home. Tough Annie got
really tough when we didn’t have any popsicle sticks for the apples.
It ended up being okay though, we just bought more at Food Lion.
During dinner, Marc’s parents told me embarrassing stories from his
childhood. Apparently he was a fat blob as a child, but he was also
the most brilliantest blob in all of Germany, or wherever they lived,
I lose track.
hey, Marc!
Anyway, they can’t make fun of him anymore, because he
is a beanpole now. He even got to play Jesus during our church’s
Passion skit for the younger kids. The youth director casted him as
Jesus because, as she put it, he looks “skinny and malnourished”.
later
9:33pm
Best news ever!!!!
two seconds later
I HAVE A HOMECOMING DATE!!!
9:34pm
I am so happy! I was feeling left out of the Homecoming festivities
because, despite my good looks and astonishing popularity, I didn’t
have a date or a group of friends to go with. But then Tough Annie
suggested that I ask Decent Will, my good friend and the most decent
guy in the whole world. Decent Will is coming home this weekend from
college because he got in a bike accident and scraped up his face a
bit. I hear his brain is a little scrapey, too. Anyway, I asked him
via texty text and he said yes!
five minutes later
But not to worry, I asked Marc’s permission first. You may think I
have a double standard, since I was upset about him getting asked to
his dance. The answer to your foolish question is that it is NOT a
double standard because in this scenario, I am not being approached by
future prostitutes! In fact, I am the one doing the approaching! It is
a completely different situation.
Anyways, Marc said it was a-okay for me to go with Decent Will. I
think normally he would have been jealous, but since Decent Will looks
like Two-Face on the account of his accident, there really isn’t
anything to worry about.
9:42pm
I don’t mean to say that I am an entirely visual-oriented girl.
Personality counts, too. If it didn’t, I would be out of luck, seeing
as I have lezzy hair, a pancake face, and I wear Oobies on my hands at
night so I don’t scratch myself in my sleep. Sometimes it is only my
upstanding moral character that gets me through.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
A Monkey in the Wrench
Hello my kind and compassionate diary-readers,
You all will be happy to know that I am now the only person running this blog. That means NO MORE MARC!!!
"Did he do a turkey-drop on Elaine?" you may be asking yourself, to which I reply, NO! ARE YOU STUPID? Of course we did not do a turkey-drop! The simple, bald-headed fact is that Marc is a busy college student who at the moment is busy writing for about a million other blogs. So he told me to take over our blog for good.
But that's okay, right? I mean, we all know that my diary is the funniest thing since Diglett (did you ever play Pokemon? Am I the only person who is fascinated with Diglett?). So really, although you are losing the comedy gold mine that is Marc Barnes, you are really gaining it back double by reading exclusively Elaine Golden.
Lots of love from that very same girl.
PS. Here's a picture of Diglett.
You all will be happy to know that I am now the only person running this blog. That means NO MORE MARC!!!
"Did he do a turkey-drop on Elaine?" you may be asking yourself, to which I reply, NO! ARE YOU STUPID? Of course we did not do a turkey-drop! The simple, bald-headed fact is that Marc is a busy college student who at the moment is busy writing for about a million other blogs. So he told me to take over our blog for good.
But that's okay, right? I mean, we all know that my diary is the funniest thing since Diglett (did you ever play Pokemon? Am I the only person who is fascinated with Diglett?). So really, although you are losing the comedy gold mine that is Marc Barnes, you are really gaining it back double by reading exclusively Elaine Golden.
Lots of love from that very same girl.
PS. Here's a picture of Diglett.
Monday, October 10, 2011
A Tribute to One of the Greatest Singers of our Time
The reason I am wearing saran wrap on my head is to keep the cake batter from sliding around in my hair. More on that later.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Elaine's Diary, aka Body Icing
tuesday, october 4
10:15am
Got myself a coffee before
school. I thought maybe it would pull me out of the Pre-Homecoming Blues, but instead
I just have to pee.
10:45am
EnviSci
Back in Environmental
Science. We’re supposed to be taking a test, but our teacher is sitting at a
student desk, making paper airplanes, so we're all chatting a bit. This one kid is sleeping on top of a lab
table. As in literally sprawled on it.
I
myself am busy texting Marc.
10:50am
Aw, he says there’s a dance
coming up at his college, too! I bet he knows how I feel because he is also all
aloney!
10:51am
…He says he’s been asked to
the dance. By A GIRL. I hate my life.
two seconds later
I know he’s not actually going
with her (or should I say “with hers”? Has more than one girl asked?). But
still. I think I might cry.
10:55am
I bet I know how she did it
too. She took her shirt off and “Homecoming?” was written across her bosom in
body icing. Edible body icing.

and these were her shoes.
11:00am
I feel like the dustball
that is my heart has just been sucked up by the Vacuum Cleaner of Luuurve and
Body Icing. That girl is a cheap floozy, I’d bet my life on it. Doesn’t she
know that Marc has a girlfriend? I wonder if he told her that. Maybe he just
said “Sorry, I wanna ride stag”. Maybe she still thinks he is
jumping the bull market. Up for the taking. Grabbed like a crab.
Hello!
Why doesn’t she know that I am a real girlfriend! Just because I am far away
and have a bit of a bowl cut doesn’t mean I don’t exist.
later
government
I’m feeling a little
heartbroken so I’m going to act out in class. It’ll be easy because I’m in
Government, and all I have to do is make fun of liberals to get attention.
1:26pm
I don’t actually have
anything against liberals, I think they’re nice. But the Republicans in my
class don’t care when you make fun of their beliefs.
1:45pm
HA our student teacher just
asked us to describe a ‘Starbucks Democrat’. I raised my hand and said “they
wear scarves and talk about atheism!” Ms. Student Teacher couldn’t keep herself
from laughing. The Starbucks Democrats in our class were offended, though. I
don’t know why, because they really do wear scarves and talk about atheism all
the time. That and pansexuality, pansexuality is a big thing right now, too.
1:47pm
The Starbucks Democrats are
whispering to each other and scribbling notes furiously. One girl has actually
drawn an angry black raincloud on her paper. Gosh, they are sensitive. I
feel a lot better now, though. Thanks, StarDems.
1:50pm
Now we’re watching a clip of
Sarah Palin and the StarDems are laughing extra-loud. I think they’re trying to
make a statement or something.
Little
do they know that I think Sarah Palin is cute. I wish I could be more like her.
much later
after school
I told my mother about the
Body Icing fiasco. She says not to worry, that the girl probably didn’t take
her shirt off, because if she did there’s no way Marc would have told her ‘no’. So that’s a bit of a relief.
10:25pm
Marc also always tells me
that I’m special, and when I am feeling left out he tells me not to be sad because I am funny. So I know he’s not about to Turkey Drop me for some body icing girl in stripper heels.
I guess it’s not his fault that he is a floozy magnet, he was just born that way. And I can’t very well hold that against him, can I?
I guess it’s not his fault that he is a floozy magnet, he was just born that way. And I can’t very well hold that against him, can I?
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