All the YMs (Vol.4, 1982)

Content note: racially insensitive language, body and weight talk, food talk

 And we're straight into reading: it’s 28 November 1982 

J is working at St Kilda Road, on the general ledger

J and L still don’t know what a general ledger is so here’s a link from the people who know at Xero:

https://www.xero.com/au/glossary/general-ledger/

There’s more CB radio talk than there is accounting talk, thankfully. Jenny chats with a whole list of young men (YMs) on the rig, and has another eyeball in the local park, with Jeff (not a train guy). And younger sister Liz is talking to Brett on the radio too. There’s some parallel showering with Peter who sounds like a massive spunk, and also some talk with John, Tony Wombat One, Monique, Paul and train man George.

Monique and her boyfriend come over to the house, and Jenny gets tracked down by spunk Peter in his white panel van (or maybe Monique’s boyfriend gave him the address??).

Jenny is reading Orwell’s 1984, going to the tennis at Kooyong, getting a sunburned face and watching the last Nightmoves for 1982. She manages to finally do the Leunig t-shirt and goes to the party in Box Hill where she sees the Bad Bros and chats with Vincent, the Zap courier who she quite likes. There’s ‘another anarchist poem’ and Lily tells Jenny that she’s like ‘every 20 year old boy I’ve always hated’ because of her propensity to talk about Pink Floyd’s The Wall.

Jenny has thoughts around sex: ‘what’s the point?’ and tips into an existential angst spiral, and revisits her desire to ‘be special’ and ‘be famous’.

In non-1982 chat, we talk about the Nickolodeon doco Quiet on Set, the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and Vanderpump Rules.

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