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0811 & up since 0530...this time of day is so different than it used to be...very rarely this awake at this time of day.  Christa's still asleep now (ed note: the time difference helps that assumption), either leaving today for HSU or gone yesterday or whatever (ed note: turkey break)...more than likely she went to Chico to visit her brother & her new neice...life just seems to fly by us ofttimes.  I am looking forward to my later years -- recounting everything that has comprised my life -- Dublin, Antioch, the 4th grade commute, Australia ->that bumble bee & "snow cone" (hail storm) incident, school olympics, lipsticked legos, the crayola bullseye on the nice apt building wall that mom freaked out about, playing crickett w/ the downstaris neighbors at the apt complex after that one, Mom's boyfriend & his two girls that were allergic to milk, the watermelon seed incident w/ one of those girls, the trip to the zoo, seeing the kangaroos & Koala bears -> the same zoo, if memory serves me, the clan visited for xmas 93.

Mr Hall & chess games -- Jacob, the "class idiot" I played trumpet w/ in the band, a good friend of mine despite his idiocy, I have always gotten along well w/ such types of individuals, truants, individuals, ppl who don't fit in w/ the rest of society...

Meeting Derek Whutzske, learning my first swear words slinging dirt balls around where the local tennis courts now are -- learning how to masturbate following his instructions, not either of us knew what it was.  Then meeting up w/ him again this summer -- life is all cyclical...

52 days in, 1408 days left.

So much to tell, to remember, parts of me that no longer exist, parts of me only recently realized fully, parts of me that will forever be engraved withing myself.