Thursday 27 March 1986
Tommorow’s Good Friday.
And that, my friends, is mostly it for the 1986 diary entries. There is something in April to look forward to, and after this point twenty years ago, I didn’t write anything in the diary again until September.
Monthly Archives: March 2006
March 27 1986
27 March 2006 – 9:29 pm
Schneemann at MOCCA
27 March 2006 – 12:24 pm
I love how the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art is honoring American art stars. Last November it was Vito Acconci; this April it’s Carolee Schneemann. Be good little provincial rubes and get your tickets now.
March 26 1986
26 March 2006 – 11:49 pm
Wednesday 26 March 1986
That story sure is long.1 Well I’m surprised with my homework gees.
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1. I have no idea what the story was, that was a part of my homework that evening.
March 25 1986
25 March 2006 – 10:25 pm
Tuesday 25 March 1986
The house is ours!1 That’s a nice house I tell ya!
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1. I remember him with the rumpled look of the time which has been captured in some photos. The thick beard. The lumberjack clothes. He comes in the door and says its ours and my sister and I rush to hug him. [...]
March 23 1986
23 March 2006 – 10:03 pm
Sunday 23 March 1986
We went to check out a house. Well, I think we might move.1
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1.On 1986: When I later went to artschool and was taught about Modernism I never thought I would one day apply to that idea to my life, but I see it now quite clearly as an apt was of summing [...]
March 22 1986
22 March 2006 – 9:57 pm
Saturday 22 March 1986
Well, it’s the last week of bowling. Next week’s a banquet.1
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1. I bowled on Saturdays and found it boring. Or maybe that was the following year … anyway, the banquet was something to look forward to. Little more than a potluck, it to, if I remember correctly, was boring.
March 21 1986
21 March 2006 – 9:49 pm
Friday 21 March 1986
R’s1 party was the pits. The car almost didn’t start to go to that garbage.
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1. As I recall, the car almost didn’t start because of the cold. R was my best friend through gradeschool, although it seems to me that our friendship would come to a close within the year, if I [...]
March 20 1986
20 March 2006 – 5:27 pm
Thursday 20 March 1986
Good day. You know this March break is kind of boring sometimes. Goto call, going to party tonight.
March 19 1986
19 March 2006 – 5:26 pm
Wednesday 19 March 1986
Great day. Went to Yarmouth! Got Keith (Voltron). Went to McDonalds for supper. Got a fun crossword.
March 18 1986
18 March 2006 – 5:25 pm
Tuesday 18 March 1986
My parents got home from concert. Been coksing to go to Yarmouth demain.1
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1. Revisiting these entries twenty years later brings back at times a surprising detail of memory, while other times reminding me of things forgotten, while also recording things for which I have no memory. For example, in the past couple [...]