seniors are mean,
freshmen are nerds,
the prom bill is so expensive. I can't believe how much it costs to go to the prom.
And I took the headmaster to task
and then I also wrote an ongoing story about a boy named Wesley
who was unlucky in love, and I just swore up and down
that this wasn't about me,
but all these years later it was totally me.
But it was so cool because I could write these stories,
I could come up with these ideas,
and they'd be published in the school paper,
and people who I didn't know could read them.
And I loved that thought, of being able to share my ideas
through the printed page.
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother
gave me the best birthday present ever:
a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.
Here I am, 20 years later,
and I still work on this table every day.
On the evening of my 14th birthday,
I was given this table, and we had Chinese food.