FAQ

Q: Is this real? Are you really a 30-something pretending to chronicle the life of a 1990's teenager?
A: Sadly, no. These are 100% real, embarassing, diary entiries. Names have been changed to protect those so unfortunate as to have known me during these heady times. And, honestly, you can't make this crap up.

Q: What would your teenaged self have done if someone had put your diaries on the web?
A: Part of me thinks that she'd have laughed it off and felt vindicated by people knowing exactly what I thought of them. Another part of me thinks that she'd have freaked out and tried to hack the site, bringing it down and infecting the computers of all visitors who'd chanced upon the page with a virus so potent it would have reduced their hard drives to smoking plastic. The realistic part of me thinks she'd have screamed obscentities at the top of her lungs, eaten a pint of ice cream with her girlfriends, possibly thrown a book or two across the room, and written it all about how horrible her life was in a new, top-secret diary.

Q: What kind of teenager do you think you were?
A: Female. Also, maybe a tinge dramatic. I loved to write, I liked boys a lot. I was very curious about the world. And I enjoyed using fifty-dollar words.