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I'm pretty new to the online journaling community but I found out pretty quickly that most of the journals out there were crap. So I jumped at the chance to tell people what wasn't crap out there.

AutoHaole Destruct Button
stark raving mad

"I went back upstairs and began to ingest the first of the two bottles of Maximum Strength Unisom I had bought.  (I figured "Maximum Strength" was the way to go -- I wasn't concerned about paying the extra $1 or two.)"

Haole takes anti-depressants but he doesn't use his depression as gimmick from his journal like a lot of journallers (who love to say that they're on Prozac like that makes them hip or something). It's just a fact of life with him. In this entry, he describes a suicide attempt he had last year. Like most of his entries, it is touching, sad and funny all at the same time. When he talked about being in the hospital it reminded me of when I was an ER volunteer in San Francisco and saw how suicide victims were treated. I wanted better for Haole.

ducking Bohemia
Diary of Replitwank

"Her dignity was long beaten out of her by her own mother, and, like her, she was graceless and merciless.  She lived in complete grief with a bunch of vibrators she left laying all over the bed, in broad daylight."

When you visit Replitwank's journal you never know where she's going to take you. Her writing alternates between lucid stream of consciousness to hard edged wit and everything in between. In this entry she makes her mother and their relationship come alive to us in only a few short paragraphs. Despite all the problems I have with my own mother, I'm glad she didn't leave vibrators laying around.

mac-n-cheese
ellipses

"mac-n-cheese ...with baked beans...that was today's communal lunch; my last communal lunch..."

Eleanor is a working girl in San Francisco trying to make it as an actress; a sure fire combination for funny and strange stories. This time her and some of her office mates decide that one person will make lunches for everyone else once a week. It's one of those ideas that sounds really good at the time but is bound to fail.. See it all unravel through Eleanor's sharp and witty commentary. I lived in a house with six other guys and we tried that for dinner for awhile. Eventually everyone got really lazy and the meals suffered. One night one guy served us a big pot of fried ground beef... that's it.

Original "ReEntry" concept by Gus () and other DIARY-L participants.