Starting Again (I had to re-title my blog because of a typo).
I was at the library reading The Amazing Book is Not on Fire: the World of Dan and Phil. Frankly I’d never heard of them, so after reading it I looked them up on youtube and watched their Pokemon Go episode. I watched a few of their videos and died laughing. Which is hard to do at a library without making any noise.
So based on a page in their book, I wrote the following:
T. Time Travelers Fantasy Society
This idea came from another page in Phil and Dan’s book.
Hi. This is an autobiography of my teenage years. And by teenage, I mean during the ‘70′s. I sewed my own bell-bottoms, embroidered my own jeans, made hiphuggers and halter tops and tie-dyed my own t-shirts.
I also learned how to juggle and hung out with other jugglers and threw things at each other like balls, rings, pins, torches, machetes and axes.
My favorite high school art teacher was Mr. Danielson. He had long brown hair and a thick beard. He did impressive leatherwork and taught us how to do linoleum block printing and painting and sculpture.
I went to summer school nearly every year so I could take cool classers like sewing, swimming and art.
I was in the choir in Junior High School but in about 10th grade I quit because I didn’t like the songs the choir director picked out. I didn’t think it was right to make us sing religious songs in public school.
My English teacher in high school was so impressed with me she kicked me out of English. She hooked me up with private poetry classes with the head of the English department. His name was Mr. Bigalow and he had big frizzy hair and I was terrified of him.
When 12th grade was about to start I found out I had so many credits after all those summer school classes that they said I could graduate a year early or go to college half the day and high school half the day. I didn’t even know that was possible. And college was way more exciting, so that is what I did.
So what did we do for fun when we didn’t have the Internet? We went roller skating at the skating rink that had old fashioned rules like ‘no jeans allowed’.
I planted a huge garden. I practically lived at the carnival when it came through town each year. I read a ton of books.
I took guitar class in high school so there was always practice. I got all the neighborhood girls together and choreographed a dance to The Lion Sleep’s Tonight.
And in 1977 I took up belly dancing. I also studied mime, ballet, and theater.
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