Through the Past Dorkily: That's All

Editor's note: Through the Past Dorkily is a recurring feature that looks back at the embarrassingly dorky diary I kept as a 16-year-old in 1984.

Tuesday, January 17, 1984


WAAF Top 5 at Five
1. Jump - Van Halen
2. Sister Christian - Night Ranger
3. Our Song - Yes
4. Just One More Time - The Headpins
5. That's All - Genesis

Michael Jackson won almost all the awards at the American Music Awards! Gimme a break! Sheesh!


Mom hasn't even looked at Dad in the last 2 days.


School was alright. Had a Geometry test today. I did alright. I was talking to [a bunch of girls]. Man, I'm hitting it off with the girls! Things are gonna happen! [Redacted whose birthday party I attended] told me that her boyfriend thought I was cool. Not bad. I think this will be 'Year of the Barbarian,' despite Mom + Dad and all that. Maybe I'll have a social life, after all.


I get my 7th driving appointment on Thursday and my road test next week, I guess. Next month I'll have my license! Yahoo!


- The Barbarian


Postscript: Guess I wasn't much of a Michael Jackson fan. When I was little, I used to love the Jackson Five. But I was more of a hard rock guy by this point, so MJ wasn't really my thing anymore.

Tenseness in the house. Yikes.

Man, was I desperate for acceptance or what? I suppose it makes sense, given all the moving around we did. I never really had more than a friend or two in each of the three school I had previously attended, so it was cool to start making friends.