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"Walking
in the park just the other day, baby.
What
do you think I saw?
Crowds
of people sitting on the grass with flowers in their hair
said
Hey boy, do you wanna score?
and
you know how it is..."
-
Led Zeppelin (1971)
November
1971
November
1 Monday
Lesley
took a cap of mesc at about 7:30 am. Lunch- Lesley wrote a
note on my locker which said she would duke Art (26a). I met her
at the Civic Centre (Lesley, Dave, Sandi, Lesley's friend
and Heidi). I cut my finger again on my locker. After school
went to Lesley's from about 4:55 to 5:45. I 'gotya'd' Judy
and she fell against a table and a vase fell and broke.
November
2 Tuesday
Lunch-
talked to Sandi and Heidi outside, then drew a picture while
sitting on the floor near History.
Wind!
Met Judy and Lesley at the shops at 5 pm. Judy left and Lesley
and I waited for Don. At 6:15 we went to Lesley's. About 8:20
Judy and Mike came. We went to the Mapes. Judy left, smoked
some weed. Don got 25 purple dexies. Mike walked home with
me to use the phone.
November
3 Wednesday
Lunch-
went to the water tower and drew the school. Went to the caf
and met Lesley, Sandi, Heidi and Dave, sat at a table. English-
went to the library, sat with Dave Webb and friends. nite-
Don came over from about 7:50 to 10:20, we were in the livingroom.
November
4 Thursday
French-
Christine lent me the book "A Child's Garden of Grass".
Gym(spare)- went to the City Hall (Racine, Reich and Tate)
[Tate was from my Gym class, a big boy] and
talked. Lunch- went to the shops, got a little brown notebook(26).
Went to the caf, met Lesley, Sandi and Heidi. Derek S shot
an apple at us. nite- met Don at the shops, went to Lesley's.
Brenda there, went to the Mapes about 8:30. I got 50¢
of weed. We made (Lesley, Don and a blond guy) 2 jays. Went
to Judy's for a few minutes. Went to Lesley's, got bike, went
home.
November
5 Friday
Lesley
told Sandi what she thought of her
[?]. Gym(spare)- went
to the City Hall with Racine and Tate. Came back, I went down
to the place near the locker room, Cook threw us out. Lunch-
I sat in the library, did English homework. nite- met Judy
and Don at the shops. We got a ride to Fairview. I got a movie
reel for 200 ft. Got the bus to Lesley's, sat in the kitchen.
Mike phoned, her parent's out.
November
6 Saturday
Hair
uncut January 23-November 6, 1971. Judy came with me to this
great place on Côte des Neiges to get my hair cut (thinned,
but not the length)(27). Went to
Lesley's after for a few minutes. Don was there. We went to
Fairview, went to the caf there(28).
Judy went home. Went to Lesley's, about 7 Mike came. At 8
we went out(Mike, Don, Lesley, Judy and I) to Lindsay Place
H.S. for a coffee house. There was no coffee house. Don broke
into a church near there. Went to Velos Pizza in Valois village.
Back to Lesley's, Mike and I talked about the Beatles. Mike
left at 10. I left at 11.
26a. from an email from Bob Kennedy, June 21 2008: "duke" means to skip ( I've been a High School English Teacher for about 25 years and sometimes I do a unit on slang including a West Island Component where I ask the kids what would I mean in Pte Claire circa 1975 if I used the words " rant", "hustle", "clip", "juicer" and "tail
27. Actually it was one of
the early seventies style 'the shag'. The place was one of
the new 'Unisex' salons. I really wasn't that crazy about
the cut, but at least the length wasn't really affected, which
at that time was all important..by the way, this was my last
haircut until November 13, 1981.
28. Harvest House. See March 30, 1973
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