More Little Red Diary (the Other Half of February)

 

FEBRUARY 16: Mrs. Cotton got morning sickness; got replaced by Mr. Sanders.

FEBRUARY 17: Got new Thor #[?]. Went too early to get check. Gave Fleming all the story [Goldfire].

FEBRUARY 18: Got [Led Zeppelin IV-"Stairway to Heaven"], Thesaurus, "B. C.: 2nd and 3rd Letters of the Alphabet Revisited". Lit candle.

FEBRUARY 19: Fleming gave Chapters 1-5 back. Says never to summarize. Lit candle in shed and talked [with John] again.

FEBRUARY 20: Went to work.

FEBRUARY 21: Went to Nanny's. Worked. Ragged out later.

FEBRUARY 22: Finally got a little rest. Not much.

FEBRUARY 23: I need to send in my driver's application. (did, on 25th)

FEBRUARY 24: Didn't go to Writer's Round Table. Tigger died.

FEBRUARY 25: Got five new Star Wars guys, five new Smurfs, a small Smurfhouse, and a set of prehistoric animals.

FEBRUARY 26: Cleaned house up. Did dining room.

FEBRUARY 27: Sent off for "Giants" and "Kingdom of the Dwarfs."

FEBRUARY 28: Susan had her party.

FEBRUARY 29: Tried to rest. Didn't succeed much.

Mr. Sanders had been one of our bus drivers back in grade school and to see him again at the end of high school was like a sign; a call back, as it were, to the beginning of the story of my public education.

I was now hanging out in the shed in the evenings sometimes. Lighting the candle was a strange way of asserting myself and my responsibility. And it was a nice mellow light.

Nothing ever came of my driver's registration, because I never was confident enough to get behind the wheel. Susan would have been 8 on March 2; this was an early birthday party on the weekend. Tigger was our yellow and white cat.