OPENING PANDORA'S BOX

Biography 2004 The internet at work is down so I’m going to write a short biography of myself. This is my life. I was born in Blacktown Hospital and I have a mother, father, brother, and sister. When I was a baby I enjoyed eating vegemite on toast and I was told I gurgled a lot. I’ve always had cats as pets, my first cat was named Jason who was cute, and Siamese and used to jump up and steal my toast because he also liked eating vegemite on toast. We were living in a different suburb for a short time and I attended my first year of school there but I only remained for a quarter of the year because we moved and then I went to a different public school in South Penrith. My school uniform was blue and every season all the kids would collect different things, once it was football cards, marbles, yo-yos’s and people would swap them with other kids. I remember we all had silkworms as pets. When I was a child I liked Strawberry Shortcake dolls as well as having a Cabbage Patch Doll. After pri...

  FROM DIARY TO BLOG The one regret I have when keeping a diary is that I didn’t write dates down. I thought it was pointless since no one would read it. When I write in my diary, I write it either on the day or the next day so all events are still fresh in my mind, so everything is as precise as possible. I’m a hoarder, I’ve got so much paperwork that I’ve kept over the years, books of diary entries, and lists that I’ve written down. Birthday cards, Christmas cards, and shit like that. This is one of the reasons why I am putting my diaries onto a blog, so I can get rid of all the paperwork. When you move you certainly realize how much shit you own. I feel like I’m a bit of a hoarder but not as bad as those people you see on those Hoarder TV programs. I was watching this Hoarder program once and this woman’s house was so full of shit that the cleaners found a dead flat cat. She didn’t even know it was there. I don’t want to lose my memories, I wouldn’t feel comfortable deleting the...

  After I left school I started a diary, which was basically just writings on pieces of paper and inside notebooks. As I got older and computers became a thing I started writing things down on my computer. If I was upset about something particular I would write it down, I never had anyone I could trust to confide in, and those who I deemed as trustworthy I would rarely speak to or see as they were living their own lives and I don’t like bothering people. Most people have someone at home they can come home to confide in, somebody they can talk to about everyday things, they have someone they can text about random things, have a partner or a best friend they can talk to, but I’ve never had anyone I could trust who I can confide in. People pretend to care but most don’t, and I don’t want to burden anybody. If I do open up to someone I usually regret it, if you tell someone about how someone treated you wrong, they will eventually fuck you over. That’s the world we are living in. Peopl...

  SCHOOL JOURNAL I started writing a journal when I was at school and that wasn’t by choice as we were all forced to keep a journal in English class during high school. The first thing we had to do when we attended English class was to write in a journal. The teacher told us that no one would read our journals but that wasn’t true. Every blue moon the teacher would grab our journals and obviously read them. This is why I never wrote anything private in mine, not that I had anything private to write about. My school journal was just a collection of song lyrics from magazines, so it looked full but with little context. In English class in high school, Molly would sit on the left side of me and Katie would sit on the right. One day our English returned our journals to us but refused to return the journal of one of the students in my class and told her she would have to speak to her at the end of the lesson. The head English teacher entered our classroom and this girl ...

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