1:22 pm Hmm. No emails from the friendsies. Feeling very cut off.
Have an essay to write for nonfiction. No requirements. What to write about?
3:23pm Still no ideas. Perhaps piracy is my only option.
5:41pm Meeting Nicole at Carlos O’Kelly’s for dinner tomorrow night. Haven’t seen her since the beginning of September. Last time we ate there, she told me of Andrea’s pregnancy. Now Andrea has a baby. How is it possible that some of my classmates have children and are married or engaged and I’m pretending to be a pirate in my free time? I wonder if the university offers courses on growing up and how to do it properly? I don’t seem to know how.
2 cans of pop. Still need to cut back!! On the other hand, no General Hospital or All My Children for 11 days and counting. One addiction at a time.
7:11pm Am now looking at my comment from 3:23 today. Did I mean write about piracy or actually join piracy to avoid the assignment? Is there still piracy? I mean, of course there’s piracy—but do these pirates sail ships and string black flags with cross skulls up their masts and wear patches and feed their parrots crackers? And if not, how do you detect a pirate? Is a pirate really a pirate if there is no outward sign? Hmm. I’m sensing some deeper questions. My nonfiction writing teacher would tell me to ask myself what am I not saying? What’s my deeper story? I’m sensing something about identity. But this is vacation. There should be a law against deep thinking and/or soul-searching on holiday breaks. Or maybe I meant perhaps I should join piracy and then write about my experiences? In which case, the assignment will be late and I’ll receive no grade, so I guess it really makes no difference anyway.
