Chippen Awee

June 7, 1995

Hi!  I'm at Corpus.  It's my last day here.  HOOHOO.  But MOMMY'S coming home tomarrow!  And I'm hopefully going to a ballet workshop next week, I think, and I got to get in shape - I've been laying around like a slob. Hum de ho. B-B! 

June 11, 1995

Hi!  Today Holly is going to camp and the Nelsons came by here and ate lunch and chit-chatted before they took Holly to T Bar M.  After they came back, Rick took Bonnie and me to go swimming in the spring fed pool.  It was cold - the first few seconds!  It was really fun.  Then we went to eat at Molly Joe's!  And then they left. 

The freezing waters of the spring fed pool!

 Tomarrow me and mommy are going to a Myra Worthen ballet studio, for a worckshop.  It will last two weeks, 9AM - 1PM, but not on Sat or Sun, I don't think.  But you have to try out for it and what if I don't make it?  My ambition is to be a ballet star, and I want the best of everything.  I'll write tomarrow and tell you if I make it.  Love, Lee.  
PS. I gotta go to BED!

Hmm...Another "ballet star" who had to have the "best of everything."
Maybe it's good my ambitions took a turn. 

June 19, 1995

Hi! Today isn't "tommarrow" but I did make it.  But it's not very fun.  In fact, I don't like it at all!  It's boring, it's hard, it's long, it's not at all like Connally's.  Well, when the Nelson's got here we played a lot and went out to eat. It was fun!  On Friday we're going to Rockport!  YEAH!  

June 20, 1995

You know that feeling of satisfaction when you have a (partialy) clean room?  We're going to Rockport in (not counting today) 2 and a half days! YAHOOO!  Then T Bar M one week OVERNITE camp and then nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

T BAR M! Center stage for my childhood and teenager summers. 

My two favorite cartoon shows are - 1.  Goof Troop  2.  Aladdin.  De're fo tunndy!  (Note: I have no idea what this dialect is that I was attempting. None.)  But did I ever tell you that I have to write a Revolutional story for Mrs. A for next year over the summer?  MAN!  Its harder than I thunk!  Talk about Writer's Block! But somewho or oder I godder start chippen awee.  Whell I muset gor.  Bee Bee!  

Yes! This show! I think a spinoff of A Goofy Movie, which I
remember quoting endlessly with my friends.

Thoughts - 

Is it actually possible for any rising 6th grader to "lay around like a slob?"  Doubtful.  I think there's a minimum amount of energy necessary for them to burn in a day before self-implosion. 

Ah, the Spring Fed Pool and Molly Joe's.  Two New Braunfels institutions.  I have very fond memories of the Cookie Monster dessert at Molly Joe's.  Sadly, the restaurant is now gone, but I think people are still using the pool.   

I find it funny that in this section of passages I seem to be encountering the grind of hard work necessary before producing anything of worth.  Myra Worthen's was a much more challenging studio than the one I'd gone to before, so the atmosphere of hard work and seriousness is basically what I'm complaining about in the entry above.  Also, as way of explanation, my 6th grade teacher, knowing how much I loved to write, asked me to write her a story set during the American Revolution over the summer, which is why I'm encountering writer's block.  

Maybe this lapse into odd baby-talk was my way of coping? :)