Journal

one day to full
june 5, 2001 ~ 10:42 p.m.

The new Adbusters arrived yesterday, and I’m starting to read it. When it came it was torn and rumpled at the edges, it must have gotten caught in some postal machinery, and then last night I stupidly left it outside, and it rained. So I found it this afternoon, still torn and crumpled and now wet and soon to warped from the water. I really hate that it’s so messed up, because it’s such a beautifully designed magazine, it doesn’t deserve that.

I finally saw the movie Fire, which I’ve been wanting to see since I read a review of it in Bust last year. There’s also a poster for it in the window of Potomac Video, and that reminded me that I wanted to see it, so I rented it this afternoon and watched it.

I’m nearly finished with my yearbook, I just have to finish one page, print it out, and then bind the whole thing. It’s stupid, really, because it’s the 99-00 yearbook, it took us two years to finish. It’s just that I always got involved in something else. Right at the time I should have been working on it the most, I started my first web page, and I spent several months engrossed in HTML code and nothing else. And then this year, I was working and doing other things, designing two more webpages, and then the computers I was using for the yearbook began to screw with me and it took forever to get it to work. And of course since there was only two people in our “school” because we were unschooling, there was a lot more work involved in this yearbook than there is for a school yearbook, because this time there were two people designing 50 pages, when there’s a dozen or so in a school.

It’s not really anything like the yearbooks I’ve had before, with pages of clubs, sports teams, and staff and student pages. Since our “school” only had two students and no staff or clubs or sports, we instead filled the pages with quotes, artwork, and writing pertaining to our interests. We had sections on the moon, the Addams Family, FOXFIRE, unschooling, plants, lippograms, Vasquez comics, and Daria. And that way, it really means a lot more to what we did last year and who we were.

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