03.13.2002 - 1:46 p.m.
Wednesday
Today's thrilling news is that I cleaned out a bunch of dusty-ass
bookshelves. Jump back. While doing so I found an old
story I wrote for a school assignment back when I was but a wee
Sundry snippet. We all had to write something, then bind it into
a booklet with what appears now to be textured wallpaper.
I have a vague memory of
this. What I do remember clearly is doing it slapdash, the night
before it was due. This was a routine that was to follow me throughout
the remainder of my academic career.
Anyway, I learned that
this diary thing has been a fascination of mine for quite some
time. Let me take you back
waaay back
.to 3rd grade,
and -
THE DIARY OF ZEKSYLL!!!!!
Year 2156 2nd March
I do not ride zaps often. But today I must get to Lascha's house,
2,000 light years away. The reason why I don't ride zaps is because
my long claws often get tangled up in the steering triangle.
It hurts alot.
Oooh, zaps and steering
triangles. If you are wondering at this very moment why I didn't
become a famous science fiction author, in the manner of Robert
Heinlein - you're not alone, mister.
2156 3rd March
The meeting at Lascha's house was horrible. Lascha had fallen
sick with a micro-germ. The germ got on me and I feel awful.
Darn that germ! It's terrible to lie in bed while that #$@! germ
eats away!
Censored for the delicate
eyes of my teacher, I suppose.
2156 15th March
I got over my sickness but when I looked out the window, I don't
see my high-speed-steel-belten zap. It must have been stolen!
Oh no!
Steel-belten. Hee. Also
why does Zeksyll even own a zap when he's got that claw
problem?
2156 16th March
I rode my zit all over and finally found my zap at Seiffer's
house. He was not home so I took it.
The, um, zit. Handy in
the case of the missing zap. Who is Seiffer? No one knows.
2156 18th March
Seiffer was arrested for stealing today. Not much to say.
Ah, the exact moment when
I lost all interest in this assignment. One thing is for sure,
and that's that we won't be following up on that missing zap
storyline.
2156 19th March
Good news! Father is going to take me on a run with him today.
Got to hurry. Here is alien territory:
A "run". Could
be anything. Maybe a little coke, eh? Maybe a little white
China?
2156 1st April
L-6, F-11, and D-7 are the ones we will go to.
The You-Sunk-My-Battleship
grid-map. Looks like I really put some effort into this.
2156 2nd April
We were postponed on our trip because of rain. When we finally
got to L-6 the aliens, creatures with blue fuzz, attacked. We
went home and got a new zap. We went to F-ll and 20 aliens destroyed
the new zap. I got mad and...
(Scribbles for the next
two pages.)
2156 4th April
ALIEN 100 forced me to scribble in my journal to make me mad!
Ooh I hate Alien 100!!
A dramatic turn of events!
2157 New Year
I'm so mad that ALIEN 100 made me ruin my diary I could just
cry. But at least they didn't hurt me.
THE END
Yes, wrapping things up
nicely there at the end. The drawing of Zeksyll particularly
smacks of oh-crap-it's-due-in-5-minutes. Also, apparently 154
years in the future everyone will have evolved into octopuses.
Well, well. And so that's
the torrid and action-packed tale of Zeksyll. I did go on to
write such potboilers as "Mindy Gets a Pony" which
perhaps I'll share at another time.
Um, or not.
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forward
03.12.2002 - maybe
it's because I had to go to the eleventh circle of HELL this
afternoon.
03.11.2002 - Anything
that makes your butt muscles hurt that much has got to be good
for you, right?
03.10.2002 - I
sliced its pallid dead zombie flesh and totally kicked it up
a notch in the frying pan. BAM!
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