Item & approx. time

approx: 3:23 PM

1. Clothing – 85(degrees) maroon sweat pants & yellow T-shirt

2. Calling for Mike

3. Walking with Ginger

4. Doing a dance

5. Walking up drive

6. Knocking on door

7. coming back 3:24

8. Running

9. Chewing gum loudly

10. standing & staring at Mr. Rogers mowing (like a statue)

11. following Oma

12. baking bored & bouncing ball

13. walking on my book

14. shutting door & turning on light

15. Playing 3:30

16. acting weird in chair

17. staring into candle

18. trying to get candle out

19. staring at me

20. fooling with candle

21. doesn’t know (what?) sausage is

—By Jessica, 1983(?)

N.B. I’m not exactly sure when this was written. My mom found it together with the Jawa story, so I reckon it’s from around the same time period, when we were living in Indiana. Mike was our best friend down the street (and he still lives there, incidentally), Ginger was the friendly neighborhood dog, Mr. Rogers was our neighbor across the street (who also still lives there) and Oma is my grandma.

As for why I wrote this…I can’t begin to imagine. I find it kind of fascinating, though, like a proto-Twitter thing. I initially thought it was a documentation of what I was doing, but actually, as I’m typing it out now, I get the feeling it was me writing down what my brother was doing (in a Harriet the Spy sort of way). So, Jeb, there you go: ten minutes in the life of a six-year-old in Terre Haute, Indiana!