tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post5152829864800513435..comments2024-01-16T22:31:44.531-05:00Comments on Haphazard Life: The Journal Series - Part IIJazzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14644896022880634803noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-85653229533610088592010-03-22T13:05:48.854-04:002010-03-22T13:05:48.854-04:00Rachel - I've been compared to many things, bu...Rachel - I've been compared to many things, but a fluffy kitten is a first. Bumbling, way to often for comfort.<br /><br />e - we finished high school the same year.<br /><br />Alison - you'll be begging me to shut up by the time I'm done.<br /><br />Sully - Glad I'm keeping you amused!<br /><br />V - yes, do it do it.<br /><br />Geewits - Yeah, the whole maternal instinct thing... not so much<br /><br />SAW - Looking back, now I realize why I find so many teenagers annoying. They remind me of me.<br /><br />Liar - yeah, proms are no doubt more of the same aren't they?<br /><br />Ian - Whoa, really OLD!!!<br /><br />Jeaux - I had my perceptive moments, not terribly well expressed, but nevertheless.<br /><br />Joce - No. I. Couldn't. No such footage exists.<br /><br />Nevalia - Thanks<br /><br />WartyMam - Damn, I'm glad I didn't have religious nuttitude to contend with...<br /><br />Dist - Start one.<br /><br />XUP - I'm not sure how honest I was with myself. As honest as I knew how at any rate. From what I have noticed, not as honest as I should've been about being "in love" I really tried to convince myself a few times, when obviously I wasn't.Jazzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14644896022880634803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-65001838633648303302010-03-22T12:36:16.568-04:002010-03-22T12:36:16.568-04:00Do you think you were completely honest with your ...Do you think you were completely honest with your journal back then or did you, like most of us, write the journal of the teenager we wanted to be?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-10799609473873114602010-03-22T04:46:13.895-04:002010-03-22T04:46:13.895-04:00Very cool... I sooo wish I'd have kept a journ...Very cool... I sooo wish I'd have kept a journal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-34033815837716579142010-03-21T00:46:55.728-04:002010-03-21T00:46:55.728-04:00This is great stuff! I can't wait for more nug...This is great stuff! I can't wait for more nuggets.<br /><br />You've brought back memories. I'm glad I didn't keep a journal during my teens. It would have been full of weird religious claptrap. If I remember correctly, I invested a great deal of energy in combing through a bizarre hodgepodge text whose content was comprised of ancient myths and stories from clay tablets, all of which had been interpreted, edited, and compiled by various committees of males through the ages.<br /><br />For some idiotic reason, I hoped this text would tell me exactly how far I was allowed to go in the front seat of my boyfriend's car. Kissing? Touching through clothing? Touching without clothing? Exactly what could I do without risking damnation?<br /><br />Unsurprisingly, the text was silent on this burning topic. However, it did teach me that a book doesn't have to be coherent or even interesting in order to be enormously popular.Warty Mammalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07942793134631438689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-82010061896690442752010-03-20T11:04:48.819-04:002010-03-20T11:04:48.819-04:00nice blognice blognevaliahttp://www.piyooh.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-23168158136372119252010-03-19T13:58:46.125-04:002010-03-19T13:58:46.125-04:00Okay, I am LOVING these. Maybe next you could, er...Okay, I am LOVING these. Maybe next you could, er, put up a video of yourself roller skating.<br /><br />Yes.<br /><br />You.<br /><br />Could.Jocelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03227519811818290510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-78163146863970622682010-03-18T10:08:42.725-04:002010-03-18T10:08:42.725-04:00"I'm starting to think the only ones who ..."I'm starting to think the only ones who aren't crazy on earth are the ones that we supposedly sane people consider cracked." Hold that thought, Jazzette. You'll need it again more than you can possibly imagine.Joe Jubinvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09489419756833657839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-60258588689893495112010-03-17T19:56:02.552-04:002010-03-17T19:56:02.552-04:00Aw, poor Luc. And he loved you so. If only he knew...Aw, poor Luc. And he loved you so. If only he knew what he'd missed. A vital, witty, smart as they come lady who is just one of the neatest people I've ever met -- at least electronically. I love the poignancy and honesty of these pieces, plus your running editorial commentaries. I am so glad you decided to run them. I say this as a "really old" person well on the far-side of 50.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-78003783633954400012010-03-17T19:50:58.336-04:002010-03-17T19:50:58.336-04:00What a fascinating look back!
I think the older p...What a fascinating look back!<br /><br />I think the older people get, the more conservative they get, so it might be true that they revert to what they know OR they grow more frightened of the world and take steps backward (when their former selves would gasp at such retroversion). In any case, it's an interesting phenomenon.<br /><br />Never went to prom myself. Wasn't asked and at this point, I don't know if I really didn't want to go or just said that because I wasn't asked. Sometimes I feel like I missed out on something, but most times I feel like I probably just missed out on the cliquish behavior I detested even then.<br /><br />Thought provoking post!Fragrant Liarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09452052210826471034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-27694356591835911482010-03-17T17:19:51.855-04:002010-03-17T17:19:51.855-04:00Annoying to your older self, perhaps - but still s...Annoying to your older self, perhaps - but still sweet.secret agent womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03763879283931347382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-25655032492156155562010-03-17T14:39:47.615-04:002010-03-17T14:39:47.615-04:00That was fun. Were you shocked when you found the ...That was fun. Were you shocked when you found the passage about wanting to have kids? I loved how at such a young age you couldn't picture yourself as a "diligent" grandmother. And I loved that you would use a word like diligent. Good times.geewitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11590044820333720010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-77794451612537654572010-03-17T12:45:59.407-04:002010-03-17T12:45:59.407-04:00Jazz, I love this comical, insightful conversation...Jazz, I love this comical, insightful conversation between pre-Jazz and you. And since I graduated from high school in 1975, we are almost contemporaries. Now I want to dig up my old journals.<br />V.Voyagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02116163756128298793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-23422122297195058082010-03-17T12:17:34.083-04:002010-03-17T12:17:34.083-04:00I think I may have made this same comment on the f...I think I may have made this same comment on the first entry, but what the heck. I love the parenthetical asides! There's nothing quite so funny as someone looking back and commenting - with candor - on their youth. Good stuff.Suldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07778845367184916684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-37829672629260143422010-03-17T11:20:35.280-04:002010-03-17T11:20:35.280-04:00I love this. Especially your Now-Jazz comments to...I love this. Especially your Now-Jazz comments to the Then-Jazz. Hilarious. More please.alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16483907412532940799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-11979826765029165362010-03-17T10:17:20.282-04:002010-03-17T10:17:20.282-04:00I agree with Rachel's comment...1978 was the y...I agree with Rachel's comment...1978 was the year I finished high school...a lifetime and another person ago...and no, your life was not boring...ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11376645220662546020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18287683.post-30509348762123435582010-03-17T09:44:13.073-04:002010-03-17T09:44:13.073-04:00My dear Jazz, you were an endearing adolescent in ...My dear Jazz, you were an endearing adolescent in a fluffy, bummbling kitten sort of way. Its kinda amazing to see a starry-eyed youngster grow up. :)<br /><br />Makes me wish I kept diaries as a youngling, cuz it would totally be fun and cringe-worthy to do my own trip down memory lane.<br /><br />1978...What a great year, its the year I was born.rachelhttp://rachelslessonslearned.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com