I'm Gonna Win That Race, Uh Huh Huh!

November 30, 1992

Well, it is Monday once again. I have been so busy lately, it seems. Maybe I have too much to do, I think. Anyway, it's been a pain in the ass to get down here and type. So, whazzup?! I quit my liquor store job a week or so before Thanksgiving. It was a load of my back, I'll say. I still have the dilemma of figuring out if I have to go to court or not. Man, I just want to be out of trouble for once. I finished all my AA's and stuff. Now I just have to worry about getting out of school. I finished my senior thesis last Monday and it was about 9 pages long with 14-point type. Oh well. At least I finished it. I figure I have about 6 actual class days left with about 3 extra days allocated for finals. I don't have a job upon graduation, either. I'm moving back to Little Rock and I'll try to get something while I'm there. I applied for the Disney Store for part-time while I send out my resume. Thanksgiving was this week. I went to LR and then to Tulsa for my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. I think they liked it. It was a lot of driving. It made me think about family and how mine really doesn't have a lot in common. Weird. Well, my dad has a scheme to go to OKC and visit some people and then to shuffle of to Wichita and interview for a job. At least he has one. For me, I want to get an apartment in LR. I really don't want to live in my house with my family cuz I haven't done it for about 4 years now. I suppose I'll just have to learn the value of patience. Anyway... I went to a Techno Ecstasy party at River City on Tuesday with Lady and Jackson and some tag-alongs. It kinda sucked. I'm worried about Lady. This week I realized how much I really care for her and I would love to spend the rest of my life with her. That's why graduation scares me so much. She'll still be up here and I'll be in LR. My brother asked me if I thought about marriage any. I told him I was 22 and too young for marriage. Maybe I was wrong. I dunno. I'm in DPS and about to type a Death and Dying report for Lady and myself. We tried to go to a funeral together for this project, but it got fucked up. I saw Aladdin too with Lady. I love her so much and she's just about the only thing I think of anymore. I want to get her some good Christmas presents, but right now I can't think of any. We're gonna go to Memphis for New Year's. Or so we've planned. Well, gotta start on these papers. I'll type more later.

What's Your Name, Jerky?

November 9, 1992

Thank God! I finally filled out all the preliminary bullshit to graduate and paid my $25 bachelor's degree assessment! Agggh! All I have to do now is finish school and they will even mail my diploma to me. I am absolutely sick and tired of my torrid job at City Liquor. The place is so cheap they don't even have a sign saying City Liquor. The whole stress factor is that I sold a six-pack of Milwaukee’s Best to a 17-year-old without checking his ID and I got ticketed for it. It's not like I'm going to jail or anything for it, but it is a pain in the ass when my boss, we'll call her Liz, won't tell me the situation at hand. She took care of the lawyer and all that stuff, so I presume the store will pay the fine. I work again on Wednesday and if they say they aren't going to pay the fine than I am going to quit, dammit! Anyway....... I just want to get out of the school and stay out of trouble. I'm thinking about working for Walt Disney World again over this Christmas break. I guess it's not a break anymore because I'll be done with school -- the real world. Just what is it? I don't feel any different as a 22-year-old. I don't care, really. Well, I went to a Kappa Delta/Kappa Kappa Gamma function -- "Boot Scootin' Barn Bash." It was fun, but down-right cold. I bought a 20 dollar cowboy hat at Wal-Mart, wore it that night, and took it back the next day for a refund. Whee! Lady, Cawdrey, Carla and I all ate Tiny Tim's Pizza on the Square. It was good! The previous night was my birthday bash in the dorm of the house. "What's Your Name, Jerky!" was the theme. It was named after a tape of prank calls a guy in the house had. Oh well. I had a PA system I rented from the Physical Plant, 1000 Jell-O shots, gallons of Death Punch with stolen liquor from work, 10 cases of beer and Crown Royal raffles every half-hour! Yeah! I DJed the party and it was a blast. Drunks from all walks of life were there. Sunday, I bought myself a Robin action figure and made lunch plans with an old friend, Tim, who works at Hasting's. He's supposed to try and swing me a Cindy Crawford 1993 calendar for half price. I need to call him tonight! I went to the 4th installment of my AA meetings today. I swear, people rely so much on that group it's ridiculous. AA is a proxy for God. I don't like it. I'm going to another meeting tonight and I may forge the last one's signature. Who knows! Oh well, nothing major happening. It's really cold in Fayetteville. I only have to live here 5 more weeks! I tried calling my friend Laura from Kentucky last night, but she was out! Well, I'm gonna print all this out in case something ever happens to my disk! Here goes nothin'! Psycho wrote me in a B-Day card. Hope he get out of the Air Force soon. Bill Clinton is President-elect. It's gonna be a weird 4 years.

You can throw it up, or choke on it.

November 5, 1992

Well, Mac Daddy, it's the day before my birthday and I figured it was time to do a little journalistic writing in the ol' journal. Man, it's almost been a month since I've typed on this thing. Anyway, lot's has happened! Whee! October 18th I went to Kansas City, Mo., with Lady. We stayed at the Embassy Suites and ate at the GoJo Japanese restaurant. It was awesome. We had the best time. It was unbelievable! Then the next night we went to the U2 concert at Arrowhead Stadium. It was freezing outside, but it was an excellent show. Zoo TV tour 1992. Anyway, Opinionated, Royace, Cawdrey and Carla were all there. I was a bit drunk and kept falling down all over the place. Lady wound up driving home because I threw up after eating Taco Bell. Man, there was rice in the chicken burrito! Blech! I felt bad because I slept the entire 4 hours home. We pulled over at a Pizza Hut and on the Interstate to sleep periodically. We went to the KC Zoo that day too and there was a big orangutan that threw a rock and ice at me. We saw some sea lions too. Well, tomorrow is my birthday and I'm throwin' a big bash with alcohol I have stolen from work. I have to go to court tomorrow because I sold to a minor. I am not really worried about it right now. I need to figure out what to do. I got sick this morning in the shower, I don't know why. I feel kinda shitty. I had an interpersonal test today and I think I did OK. Right now I am starving so I am going to go to the house before I get sick again. I feel it coming on.

Maple Man

October 4, 1992


Aggh! Well, I suppose it's Sunday again! Time to see what happened since last week! Not a lot, I guess. I got a lousy 78% on my Promotional Strategy test. I didn't study too hard for it so I guess it's par for the course, eh?! I also got a 76% on my Interpersonal Communication test! I tried to use the force, but to no avail!

Well, it was a good week at work! I worked on Wednesday with Blake and we stole, and stole, and stole some more! I got out with two cases of beer, two big bottles of Jack Daniel's (one of which I sold for $14), a bottle of 100 proof Smirnoff and a thing of Kahlua! Hot damn! Brandon, another guy working there got fired for stealing cuz I guess he got sloppy! Who knows!?

I missed the Georgia Homecoming game here cuz I had to work with shitty Joan. She tried telling me some stuff about life and I tuned her out. I never really listen to her, anyway! I was late to work cuz the damned University shuts off traffic for the game! After the game, I went to Powerhouse Seafood with Lady, Sister, Royace and Opionionated. We had a good time and the food was kinda expensive.

My dad was in town the other night when we had our Hogwild party with the AD Pi's. We ate Kirby's and then I showed him around town. He saw Maple Man, the crazy guy that walks Maple St. and sleeps in Vol Walker's bathroom! Eeekk! I also got the new Peter Gabriel CD. It's alright! Only 14 more days until U2 comes to KanCity! I think I have the Saturday off before the concert. Lady and I might go get a hotel or sumpthin'!

I've been trying to work on my Career Services packet for a while now and I'm not makin' much progress. I have it all typed in on the disk, I juts can't get it to print out! Aggh! So, I think I'm going home on Friday. Lady wants to cook dinner for me. Then I'll be back on Saturday in time for work! Whee! Haw! I have about 20 hours this week. That means $100! Yes! Schwing! The new REM CD is supposed to come out soon, also. It's nice to have money. I'm $512 ahead, right now. I have to pay my ticket in Louisiana, though, too.

Anyway, I've been thinking about typing a short-story about Maple Man. I need to research it a bit first though. Gosh, I haven't been home since August. Jennifer and I are partners for this Editing project. I found out my GPA is 2.36 and my major GPA is 2.65. Kinda shitty, eh?! Oh well. If I can't get a job, I'm hauling ass back to Disney! I can always drive the monorails or clean up EPCOT! Whee!

Well, time to do a big spellchecker on this. I think I'm nearing almost 20,000 words on this journal. Not bad for 8 months! I need to buy a Mac!