Dear Reader:

This is a work in progress. I am typing as fast as I can. I then go back and edit. Once you've read a diary entry, it may not be complete as I am finding pages out of order. Every entry will also eventually have an author's annotation.

March and April 1981 are relatively complete. May 1981 through August 1982 are still being typed, edited and annotated. Like Phoebe Gloeckner's Diary of a Teenage Girl : an account in words and pictures, and Jolene Siana's Go Ask Ogre, both of which inspired this book, this book will also be illustrated. For those who enjoy illustrations with their words and don't enjoy typos, you will know when it is safe to read when you go to the very beginning, March 1981, and see the comics. That is when this project will be in its final stages.

Order of Progress:

Transcription of March 1981 - March 1984 diaries (ages 16-19)
Correction of typos and editing
Annotations added to entries
Comics added to entries
Look for publisher

For those keeping track, I am still at step one.

Thank you for reading.