So I Have Come to Terms

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FOUND by Graham in Washington DC

I found this little sucker on a restaurant’s bookshelves. There were a bunch of other books on the walls, but the bright blue of this book caught my attention. I grabbed it and discovered it was a journal. When the waiter came to my table, I asked him if it was okay if I took it. He said it was completely fine and told me the book I was holding had been there since he started working at the restaurant (over a year).

Some Similar Finds:

  • Librarian in the woodwork

    This is the way all journal writing should be.  At least that which is done by the young. It’ll sound so smart and witty as it’s written.  Then when you look back in years to come (bottom of page 1) you’ll have NO idea what was supposed to be so great about it.

    re #9 … well you’ve got numerical order under control, so that’s a start anyway
    re #12 … we know what OMG and TTYL mean, but what is this b/c stuff??? (wink)
    re #13 … I think we can all agree to believe in “allens” beginning with Allen Funt
    re #15 … you’re on the right path — not the John Updike path, but the Hunter S. Thompson path

    And I’m really hoping someone claims this Find as their own work.

  • Misery

    well.. guess s/he didnt get it quite right.. s/he doesn’t suck at maintaining a journal.. s/he just sucks at KEEPING a journal.. just leaving it on some random bookshelf…

  • Clover_in_the_Lawn

    It took me 20 years of journal writing to be okay with releasing the tyranny of writing every single day. This journal writer “got it” at a much younger age. She’s right. She’ll read it later in her life… oh wait. She lost the journal. But maybe she’s reading it here! I’m sorry for her, not getting to experience the joy and thrill of reading one’s own youthful journal in later years. I hope she finds it.

  • Edwardjones

    I for one LOVE the fact that it went from #6 to #8 combined with the fact that #8 was “I’m ADHD”

  • Callie

    Well this isn’t mine. But sounds EXACTLY like what my journals sound like. Talking to my journal, making lists, and explaining things to “them”… weird. Oh, except I know how to spell “weird”. Huge pet peeve of mine this “wierd” business. I blame that whole I before E crap. I never learned that, but I did learn that the people who did learn and they usually can’t spell. Its just some big conspiracy that makes you spell worse. Yeah.