11-II-1973.

Tejka came(... 40 words...). There was figure skating on TV (the set is behind my head, but I obviously shifted my pillow to the other end), and Tejka took her time, n... not leaving soon enough. But eventually did.

Mom said "are you nuts you may infect her" "haven't opened my mouth at all" "regardless".

Then they watched Peyton (aaarrgh) so I moved my pillow away from the TV again, and she sat by my head. Then dad drove her off.

Serious healng began on monday. Got vitamins in capsules and injection (asswise). Since wednesday at dentist to rub gums with hidrogen (it tickles) and iodine, on friday already ate some regular food, finished with the dentist. She said it's nothing contagious, do you ask because of a girlfriend? Why else...

On saturday, I hear, prof asked what they think where would socialism be possible. Wow, it was a big dispute, even Siške jumped in, saying he doesn't know whether even what we have is socialism, there's just so much exploitation, for now it's hardly feasible to make one, and communism practically impossible.

Sunday 18th Lazar invited me to go with a teachers' ekskurzija to London... no, thanks, I've already missed school, just got well, need money for other things... (... 42 words...)

On monday sad my farewells to the nurses at the dispanzer again, fourth time this winter. (... 11 word...) But we aren't on our grounds there, that's not it. A tiresome day. (... 12 words...)

On tuesday morning I expected Miljka to come to finish recording, and granma imagined I'd sleep until noon, because I was reading "War and peace" until late in the night, so I already thought she may kiss the gate (i.e. nobody unlocked it, bell not working), but she didn't come.

At school it's all somehow same old. We decided it'll take us time to know each other. After school we buzzed around town(... 51 word...).

The sociology professor brought the director to class, discussion from saturday goes on. He mostly rehashed what he said on the political, didn't quite satisfy the crowd. After classes I had the political and she had three classes of PE (!).

On thursday 22nd first Tejka came, then Miljka and we finished recording, she returned the records. At school, at Sonja's, we all do chemistry homework. She passes by me, I keep writing mine, even though she said, entering, "down with homework". She looks at me, I keep writing, and I say

- some said "down with matricular" and then nothing. Some say "down with homework"...

- and then nothing?

- if you say so...

A certain V. from the social sciences, a completely lost and, actually, untidy girl is buzzing around Staša, and during the big break she came to get acquainted. A big ceremony it turned out to be, they were standing in the classroom door, half the class watching from within, half from the hall. (... 8 words...) and saw nothing, the door wing was in between. (... 59 words...)

And then it happened that ŽGLJ didn't come to our class and Radisav to theirs, so we had extra time off. A whole year. We just walked over štrafta and came to the bridge and noticed that we don't know where we're going. And we could find a seat, really. Started towards the park behind Dom, but via the other bank, by the brewery... and couldn't climb the yellow bridge from there - path is muddy and the river is below. (... 56 words...)

On friday, 23rd, at Sonja's it was raw circus ("živi piš" - live pee), first during her class, because I sat in the front row with Mjedac but left my bag in the back, then Bosa asked for maths homework so I told Baki to get the blue notebook out of my bag and give her, then remembered, while I explained to Mandža, where I fucked up the third exercise, then... all that a meter and a half from Sonja. Then she arrives for the third class again, to substitute for absent Radisav, hilarity is notched up. We keep pretending that she's teaching oto, keep asking about the works of compression cooling.

- I'm only substituting for a colleague! Shout a bit more quietly! Don't make me introduce order here by thinning out the rows here! (there's a pun in serbian, "row" and "order" are same word)

Soon she kicked out Zova and Bajče, without writing them down. Then Tejka rocks on her chair, suddenly feels like tipping over and to catch her balance slams her chair straight forward, on Bilja's toes. Bilja raises a hand to ask "excuse me, professor, Tejka stepped on my toes, may I go out to scream a little?". She gets kicked out and written down. Returns from the door, though, forgot the cigarettes. Then Oli Boj asks to get out to calm down, because she was rocking on her chair and Mjedac helped her keel over. Then Tejka goes out "for personal reasons" (Bilja forgot the matches).

And then she should have come to substitute for sixth class too, which was too much. We skipped, quickly and neatly. Left Čombe to deliver the "warmest greetings from the class, we are not here, good bye". On the blackboard it said "see you on thursday".

Spent the 45 minutes rambling downtown. Met the old deejay, says Dom kicked out him and the other guy and the Pa šta onda. The new deejay is some guy Sleš. Met Radoslava, told her how my day at school was, dropped her jaw. Said they can only dream of something like that.

Then (... 7 words...) that park behind Dom. Sleš was playing some neofolk (!). It was a bit cold, she coughed a little, said she sat barefoot by an open window. I asked about her name, says her mom's the same, and her brother has dad's name. Whoa, that would be bad in my case, one me is already too much for this world. So we ate the chocolate that mom secreted into my pocket, stayed until 20:40.


Mentions: Biljana Lajković (Bilja), Bosiljka Šain (Bosa), Branislav Bačikin (Bajče), Branislav Rade (Baki), dispanzer, Dom omladine, ekskurzija, Joško Čobzanin (Čombe), Lazar Josin, Mika Zelenić (Sleš), Olivera Stojanović (Oli Boj), OTO, Radisav Pajsić, Radoslava Međei, Siniša Savin (Siške), Slavica Tejin (Tejka), Slavoljub Mandić (Mandža), Smiljka Grajin (Miljka), Sonja Savković, Stanoje Serdarević (Staša), štrafta, Zdravko Smetovački (Zova), Živko Mjedenica (Mjedac), Živorad G Ljubišić (ŽGLJ), in serbian