Nothing Much Else Happened: May 31, 1978

Today, the Dodgers lost to the San Diego Padres, 3-1. But they finished off the Padres in this 3-game series, 2-1 games. Rebecca Lippman came today, and we worked for almost 1:15 on making my cue cards (flash cards) for all my formulas in solid geometry. At dinner, mom tested me, and I got most of them. We counted and I have 31 formulas. Tomorrow is Dad's birthday, and mom and I were talking about what I was going to buy for him. I have an excellent idea, but I'll tell you tomorrow!

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 30, 1978

Today, the Dodgers played the Padres again, and wiped them out, 10-2. But, even though they're doing pretty well, they're still in third place by 1½ games. Well, it was back to school after a super 3-day weekend. Mr. Farnsworth had not corrected our tests yet (which is no surprise), but he did tell us that we were having one of our toughest tests on plane and solid geometry! So, when I got home, I asked Dad to get my tutor to come tomorrow. She'll be there as soon as I get home tomorrow afternoon.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 29, 1978

Today was the last holiday in this school-year — Memorial Day. It was very, very hot around the Palisades, and just boiling at Dodger Stadium. Oh, that's right! I went to the Dodger game! Well, at least ⅔ of it! You see, we got stuck in the holiday traffic. We finally made it ot the game in the top of the 3rd. The Dodgers won 9-6, but it didn't do any good because so did the Giants. They beat the Astros 8-1 on t.v.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 28, 1978

Today, the Dodgers lost again in San Francisco, 6-5. It was the 5th 1-run game this season. Do you know how many they've played? Exactly 5! I didn't see the Jones' today until around 10:00 P.M., because they had been at their new house all day. They say they really enjoy the house, and Carole is happy because she can see Mt. Baldy from her bedroom window. There's only 1 thing I don't like about their new house. It's in a big tract!

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 27, 1978

Today the Dodgers won (for a change). They beat the San Francisco Giants to fall within 1½ games out of 1st place. The Jones' are going to move all their stuff themselves, so, I got up around 7:30 A.M. and started loading the books in their house into the little pickup they're using. We had a quick breakfast of hamburger patties and baked beans, and went to Cucamonga and unloaded all the stuff. When we got home, Carole, Chris, Mom and I all went to the beach in 82˚ weather. We came home and invited the whole Jones' family over for an outdoor barbecue. We had a super time!

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I MUST be kidding about the breakfast of hamburger patties and baked beans; even three decades later, I would have likely remembered that.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 26, 1978

Today the Dodgers played the San Francisco Giants, who happen to be the top team in Baseball. Of course, they lost 6-1. Today was our cast party on the beach. Almost everybody was there, and we were out there til 10:00 P.M. Rebecca, Evonne and me were playing tackle football, to close to the water, and the wave tackled us! Later on, my niece, Tina, and I sang songs while I played the guitar. We did almost all the songs I know, & even some of my very old songs that I learned back in '76, such as my dad's favorite, "Feelings."

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Despite my best efforts (I mean, tackle football? Is that a smooth move or WHAT?), I was not able to woo Evonne at the cast party. I'm sure my stirring rendition of Morris Albert's sappy hit did nothing to help my image. (I mean, my Dad really lobbied for me to play that song at every opportunity. I think it was his way of making sure I didn't have a serious girlfriend.)

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 25, 1978

Today, the Dodgers had a day off. There is a lot of countdowns to be made, and I have them. After today, there is 21 more days of school left. There is also only 1 more day til Memorial Day holiday on Monday, when we go see the Dodgers play the Padres at Dodger Stadium. It will be cap night and we'll all get free caps. Then, the unfortuneate countdown that Just keeps running through my head. In 1 week, The Jones' will be leaving us for Cucamonga.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 24, 1978

Today we played the Orioles in Little League. It was a pretty good game, but not good enough to beat them. We lost 13-7, and our errors did it to us again. Our ace pitcher, Dave Schroeder, couldn't pitch because he said he messed his arm up on his Paper Route. (Likely Story) So David Boyle started. They got 7 runs (5 unearned) in the 1st inning, and they had it the rest of the time. Then I pitched 3 shutout innings, and David Boyle came back in for the last 2. They got 6 more (3 unearned that inning). I singled once.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 23, 1978

Today, the Dodgers going into the game had the best fielding team in baseball, with only 25 errors. Oh, nevermore! They comitted 5 errors and fell down to 4th! They lost to the San Diego Padres, 3-2, and all of San Diego's runs were unearned! Rebecca was home when I got there, and she had been looking over some of my papers and correcting them. We made cue cards for me to study with all my formulas for area and perimeter of each object I would need. We worked for 1½ hours.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 22, 1978

Today, I was very tired, because I've been up til almost 12:00, for the last 2 weeks. As soon as I got home, I took another 1 of my 2-hour naps. Now I feel almost back-to-normal. It also felt strange being home tonight. This is the first time since April 29 that we haven't either been rehearsing or doing a show at night! I found out at school today that we are having a very important test on Thursday. It will be on plane geometry. So, I told mother that I would need my tutor, Rebecca Lippman to help me. She will be here tomorrow when I get home from school.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 21, 1978

Today was the closing day for "I Remember Mama", and, oh, was it a beauty! Mother said, "At the ending, I became quite emotional and really got involved in the part of 'Mama'." I know she was right about the emotional part. As we walked out for the curtain call, I happened to glance over at her. Tears were streaming down her face! The whole cast enjoyed doing this show, and now the cast party is definite. We will be having a party at the beach on Friday at 6:00 P.M.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 20, 1978

Today was a very big day! The cast was due at the church at 1:30 to do a 2:30 matinee. Everything ran smoothly in the performance, but my part was not as good as it could have been. I was not as loud as my others, and my grandmother made that definite. Then we had a 5:30 P.M. dinner, and got on the subject of a cast party. We plan to have one Friday at the beach. Then at 8:00, we did another performance. This was our best performance, and mine, too! This is the first time we've tried 2 performances in one day. Our crowds haven't been too tremendous, but today we had our biggest. 78 people.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 19, 1978

Today the performance of "Mama" was not as good as yesterday, although my performance was much better. (No blankets got stuck under the wheels) I did see one girl that sat in the very front row who was very beautiful! I'd been watching her for most of the show. I pointed her out to David Zacker who is in the cast, and he said, "Oh, you mean Wally Burn's daughter?" He was the male lead. After the show, Wally organized a meeting with she and her mother. Yes, she was very, very beautiful. More beautiful than she was in the audience. Her name is Evonne.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 18, 1978

★ Highlight Day

Today was opening night. My first scene went very well except for one minor problem. You see, I have to go out on stage in a wheelchair with a blanket over me. I had to also stick my leg straight out and make it look like it's in a cast. When I was wheeled out on stage, the blanket suddenly got caught on the wheel, and it almost went right under the wheelchair! I barely hung on to it, but it stayed on. Incidently, I owe Rebecca one drink She wasn't nervous!

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 17, 1978

Today, the Dodgers wiped out the Pirates 10 to 1, to end a 3-game sweep of the pirates. They're still in first place with a 3½ game lead with the Reds in second and the Giants in 3rd. Today is the last day before opening night of "I Remember Mama". We had a very good rehearsal, and everyone did fine. Even the cat enjoyed himself! I asked Rebecca if she was going to be nervous tomorrow night. She said she wouldn't be, and I bet her one Pepsi that she would be.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 16, 1978

Today, the Dodgers had a very good game against the Pirates, 3-2. I listened to the game from time to time, whenever I wasn't on or whenever I wasn't making a scene-change. The rehearsals are going fine and everyone looks that way to me! In math today, I found out that we are going to have a very important test on plane geometry on Thursday. I'm pretty good at plane geometry myself. Mr. Farnsworth says that after this test, there will be one more test on solid geometry, and then, the toughest one, the final exam.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 15, 1978

Today we ha a sort-of-dress rehearsal. Which means, if you had your costume, you would wear it, but you didn't have to, unless you wanted to. (Does that qualify as the longest sentence in this diary?) Every day comes nearer to the last day of school and the last day I will see the Jones'. The Dodgers, even after that close loss yesterday came back with a 7-6 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was a very exciting game, and the Dodgers won it in the bottom of the ninth with three runs. After the game, the Dodgers announced that they were trading Glenn Burke to the Oakland Athletics for outfielder Bill North.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 14, 1978

Today marks the beginning of the last week of work for "I remember Mama". We're gonna have one darn good play here. After dinner at Zucky's, we left for the stage in our first, last, and only night rehearsal. By the way, since we had left for dinner, I'd been listening to a Dodger game, they have now been playing for 5 hours. Wait a minute ... the cubs just got 3 runs on Kingman's 3rd homerun of the day with 2 men on, and the Dodgers lost, 10-7. Oh well, you can't win em all!

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 13, 1978

Today, we were not as lucky in baseball as we were yesterday. The first inning was fine, but after that, oh boy! I wish we could play it over. I pitched 2 good innings of baseball, had a 2-run RBI double, and a lousy game. We lost 9-2, and they got 8 runs off us again, just like before. Errors! I saved our team from getting our first shutout in 3 years with my double with men on 2nd and 3rd in the last inning with 2 men out. I'm now batting .217!

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Wow. .217 batting average gets an exclamation point. Let it never be said I wasn't a glass-half-full kinda kid.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 12, 1978

Today, we did it! We beat the Indians! I can't believe that we did. I, unfortuneately, did not help the team with my batting, but I pitched a good inning. They had to take me out because I injured my leg when a ball was slammed into my ankle. I saw it coming, and the next thing I remember is me on the ground with my foot sticking up in the air. About 8 seconds later, the pain started — and it was pain! I walked the next batter, and then he took me out. Oh, by the way, the score was 8 to 4!

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 11, 1978

Today, the shortstop, Ron Schlessinger and I are getting excited about tomorrow's game against the Indians. As you might recall, on the 25th of March, we played this same team in practice season, and lost 7-6. But that was because our 3rd baseman had to pitch, because we didn't have anyone else, and he walked 9 batters in a row. Otherwise, we would of beat them. Ron figures we can beat them by at least 5 runs, if my pitching is affective enough. It was very affective last time.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 10, 1978

Today, we had a batting practice at the Palisades recreation center in the batting cage with Mr. Schroeder and the Red Sox. I had to go first because of a rehearsal tonight, so I had to get done quickly. Only 2 of the 10 showed up for batting practice. And we aren't going to have a winning team with 2 hitters. At rehearsal, Dad said that we are coming along fine, except that we can't find some of the props. One of the main props we are missing is a 1911 oven for Mama. Our scene designer has dreamt up this beautiful set, but he hasn't done anything yet!

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 9, 1978

Today, we had a math test. I don't know well I did, but I did answer 16 of the 20 questions. I don't know if they were correct, but I did answer them. In advanced band, we got a new piece called First Suite in E flat for Military Band. It's the most difficult piece we have ever had, but it sounds real good. Mr. Rupp is going to test us on this part where we have 32nd notes for 4 lines. I brought it home to work on it with my homework. Then I took my nap and went to rehearsal.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 8, 1978

Today, Why does there ever have to be Mondays? Let's pretend that this is Tuesday afternoon, Okay? We had to study for our math test, which will be tomorrow. I think I may do good on it. In English, I also almost had my English oral report of my book, Forever Island. Tonight, we had the usual rehearsal. Chris and Carole Jones are wondering if I'm ever going to come out and play again. I've been at rehearsals so much I've spent a total of 25 minutes outside in the last 8 days.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 7, 1978

Today, it got up to a sweltering 88 on the red mercury. But it was nice because Dad called off the rehearsal because we were doing so well! He says that my part of Arne will be very good if I can just speak up a little louder. Since there was no rehearsal, Mom (or should I say Mama) didn't have to study her lines. So we went to Zucky's to eat. Then we went to the beach and played all sorts of ball games, and skipped rocks on the water, and romped around on the beach, and met people, and did everything you do at dusk on the beach. (Except didn't make out on the beach like all the other teenagers we know.)

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You know ... sometimes, I can be writing a fun, poignant entry — one that calls up in my mind more than three decades later the clear, warm memory of a specific night in question, and how beautiful it was on the Santa Monica beach, and how carefree and light my life was — and then I can completely ruin it with one ridiculously creepy parenthetical remark.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 6, 1978

Today, we played the Cards — unfortuneately. They totally wiped us out — 12-3! We only had 8 players, and we had to play our outfielders (2 of them) to right-center and left-center. Of course, they hit ½ of their balls up dead center field, right through the hole! I pitched, and they only got one run off me. I struck out the last batter twice, and one other batter twice. Mainly because I decided to do something new. I threw curve-balls! The Dodgers lost today, 2-3.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 5, 1978

Today, TGIF! TGIF! Hurray for Friday! I'm so excited because I get the feeling that we are going to beat the Cards — If we have a full team. I had to bring my math books and a book called Pyramid that's about the structure and interior of a pyramid. That is what my project in history is going to be about; The Pyramids and what is in them. And I had to get my Oral Report for the book that I have been reading, called Forever Island for English. Today was also a freak day for weather. It suddenly shot up to 92!

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 4, 1978

Today, the Dodgers won 4-1. The score of yesterday's game? 5-4 the Dodgers. They just turned the score around! The Dodgers are still out in front of the Western division National League by 1½ games. In math, I found out that we are going to have a big test next Tuesday. It will be on stuff like square roots, similarities, ratio and proportion, etc. He says there will also be a scale drawing and we have to find out how big the object is in real life. So, I brought my books right home and studied this afternoon. Then, took my nap and went to rehearsal.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 3, 1978

Today — well first let me tell you the outcome of yesterday's game. It was to bad, but the Dodgers came out on the lower end of a 5-4 score in 10 innings. Right now they are playing and the score is 5-1 the Dodgers winning. Today, Carole told me that she isn't really keeping up in her diary. Well, actually I asked, but some days she just writes "forgot" or "Lousy day". We played the Cards in Little League today. They wiped us out 13-5. They are the team with the best record, and we have the worst record of our league. We are 1½ and 4½.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 2, 1978

Today, the Dodgers play Chicago and I don't know what the score is because while I'm writing this the game isn't over yet. The Cubbies are winning 1-0. Why am I putting this in my diary? Because I can't think of anything better to write. School's going fine, but since we started rehearsal for "I Remember Mama" I've had to come right home, do my homework, and go right to bed for about a 2-hour nap. Then I get up around 5 o'clock, have either have Kentucky Fried Chicken or a t.v. dinner, then got o rehearsal til 11 o'clock.

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Wow, have my eating habits ever changed radically since the seventies ... But I did love that Kentucky Fried Chicken .....

I'm sure you're dying to know how the Dodger game turned out. Well, you're just going to have to wait 'til tomorrow. (And no cheating by going to look up the score in some baseball archive site on the web!)

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Nothing Much Else Happened: May 1, 1978

Today was not a good day. I found out that the Jones', (Chris, Carole, Dorothy, and Donald) are going to move to Cucamonga valley at the end of the month. It'll really be different without my next-door-neighbor-best-friends. I start to wonder whta it'll be like — I mean the people who move into the house next. The Jones' only rented the house for 2 years, and either the real owners will either rent it to someone else again and I hope they have kids, or the owners come back and I hope that they have kids — at least my age.

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