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Friday Teen Files

Before you break the news to me that it's Sunday, let me tell you... I know it's Sunday.  But, I discovered a box full of notes and various stuffs from my teen years and have decided to start a new weekly feature:  Friday Teen Files. 

Yes.  I'm going to embarrass myself for our mutual entertainment - all in the name of research, right??  And since I didn't post on Friday, I've decided to jump in and get it going.  I have no idea where to start, so I grabbed the first amusing thing I saw.

I present to you:  A bubble chart + notes of (I think) fourteen-year-old me.  I can only assume, as I do not recall, that I was trying to 1) understand my life 2) understand why I am was such a geek.  Clearly I did not realize making a bubble chart of this nature only supported the latter.  I do recall jotting this down quickly because I was really frustrated about something.  Hmmm...

 020 copy

(I apologize for the quality of the picture.  I need to buy a scanner.)

Bubble Highlights: 

  • Baby me:  Healthy.  Misshapen head for awhile.  Moved.  Good family.  Good home life. 
  • Child me:  Public school.  Very immature.  Still playing animals in 6th grade.  Loved magic and animals more than anything. Unicorn visit.  
  • Teen me:  Matured quickly.  Started period.  Breasts grew.  Got a crush.  Bugged him.  Asked him out.  Jokes.  Many, many problems.  Always wanted to run away.  Depression.  Confused.  Decorated room fantasy-like.
  • To-be adult me: Want a job.  I want love - scared of it.  I want a kid a lot.  Have a dream of running away and taking some horses to search for anything out of norm.  Very odd.  Not ready to commit.

Note Highlights:

  • I watch all these movies.  I read all these books.  I love them yet they are teasing me.  I ponder around and around.  Ever wondering, ever silent.  Sometimes I try to tell people but they just nod and smile, act like they care.
  • I had a visit with a uni.  It was white and pure.  It talked to me.  I talked to him.  He told me something of my future to which I don't remember.
  • Passion to be different, to be something magic.  Maybe swept away.
  • I watched a mythical movie and started to wonder if things could be like that.  I walked out into the garage and noticed a card on the wall.  It said: Follow your dreams and see where they will take you.
  • 7th grade depression.  Tried to run away.  My friend bailed on me - sad but true - we had maps and plans to go to Alaska.   

And these are only the highlights.  No joke.  Are you starting to become concerned for me?  Cause...I am.  And I have to ask, is this...normal?  More next week. 

5 comments:

Heather Hansen said...

Making a bubble chart about yourself… and you were asking WHY you were a geek? BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I LOVE THAT!!!! BEST EVA!!!!

Casey Something said...

Yes. I was fabulously hopeless.

Well, maybe not *completely* hopeless. I had a rather interesting "character arc" from jr. high to the end of high school.

All will be revealed. Bwahahaha.

PJ Hoover said...

I'm kinda in awe just looking at the picture. That is complex! And fun!

Casey Something said...

LOL. Thanks, PJ. It's actually not very well organized. Not how a bubble chart should be, anyway. I think I just bubbled out my thought process.. er something. Who knows. I kept it, so it must have helped?

: P

EddieSki said...

that picture is awesome. now i wanna do it!