analog instant messages
you have found my collection of passed
notes from the 90s, welcome.
spanning from the beginning of 1995 to junior year of high school in 1998, a note, reproduced verbatim from the original with the
exception of all names, is posted to this blog in the order I'd received it. each post contains one note, and a brief narration of the back story as best I can remember it.
there will also be, from time to time, relevant
photos,
songs,
videos,
links,
objects,
quotes,
diaries,
poems, and other
ephemera (all admittedly
completely self-indulgent and wince-inducing).
Eve,
Hey! Stoopid Suzy told me Cara told her I called her a slut. Why would I tell her you said it if I said the same thing? I told Cara to her face 4th period that she’d been acting like a slut and she had nothing to say. I never told her anything. She’s lying. And we were just kidding w/ Jim. Marcella Costa said it all anyway.
I JUST LAUGHED.
Don’t be pissed at me.
Valerie
The good old She said/She said. Seems to me that in ninth grade: Slut was an insult. By tenth grade: Slut was a term of endearment. Somewhere in the time between, all of us figured out that we wanted to be as slutty as possible, and we no longer really held that against anybody. Also, tenth grade was when I discovered
Bikini Kill, if that makes any sense. My girlfriends and I became very interested in reclaiming that word for ourselves.
