Does every junior high kid suck?

When we were in junior high the PTA had us fill out these questionnaires about ourselves that would get mailed back to us a year later. They were part of the drug and alcohol awareness week program-trying to get kids to focus on their future goals and remind them what's important to them blah blah blah.

Here is the one I filled out on October 25, 1990 which puts me at age 13 and in 8th grade. I just know I will lose readership because of this. It is that dorky.

My answers-things I actually wrote-are in green.

Dear Sarah,

I am writing this letter today, during National Awareness Week, to be sent to myself one year from today. It will reflect current trends, my feelings and opinions.

I would like to be a successful actress.

I wish my family would lighten up and live forever.

At school I'm horribly popular (idea from Kim J.).

My friends are really cool and nice and sweet and they care about me. No really they are geeks.

My favorite music/group is New Kids on the Block.

Children would be better off if they stayed away from drugs.

I need to work on school and acting.

Drinking is for buttholes and it's stupid.

Where do you see yourself one year from today? What is one thing you would like to accomplish by then? I would like to be acting in movies and to be a famous actress. I also want a boyfriend. I would like to be in a love scene with Socket Wrench [Ed. note: I will explain this in a minute].

Discuss how you feel about chemical usage...commitments of your own, opinions about others. Chemical usage is for dopes (Ha Ha! Get it??) Anyways, it's really stupid. I'll never, ever do drugs or drink or smoke. I think people who do that crap are just killing themselves.

P.S. I heart Jeff-from guess who? [Ed. note: the aforementioned Kim J. wrote this on there]

Um...loser? To recap: It is 15 years later, and I have completely let down my 13 year old self by drinking enough for 6 average-sized adults on a weekly basis. In addition I have completely failed in accomplishing any of my goals:

1. I am quite possibly the worst actress in the free world.
2. I did have a boyfriend a year later, but I dumped him then watched him date one of my friends, became raging jealous and somehow ended up going to 10th grade Homecoming with a drug dealer in a bid to win him back.
3. Socket Wrench is my code name for this guy who went to my junior high. He was older than me, but in the class behind me so clearly I was attracted to him for his mind. Also he fought a lot. Obviously I was in love with him. The closest I came to doing a love scene with him was when HE ASKED ME OUT AT MY 10 YEAR REUNION 2 WEEKS AGO!!!!! (Sidenote: the weirdest part about that whole situation is this: what the hell was he doing at my reunion? He didn't graduate the same year as me. Diane said that maybe it's because at one point in time he was actually a part of my class.)

13 year old Sarah totally thinks I'm a butthole. At least I don't make bad puns, you little brat.