i’m not quite sure why a diary with pink ballerina slippers needs a memorandum section, but it had one, and i used it:
Favorite Song March 16, 1985: Boys of Summer and California Girls
Favorite Movie: Outsiders (which remained my favorite, incidentally, until Dead Poets’ Society came out when i was in like 10th grade)
Favorite Book: Outsiders and Sweet Valley High Books
Favorite Song April 11: Then Along Comes a Woman by Chicago
Favorite Song May 17: Raspberry Beret by Prince, Angel by Madonna
Favorite Song May 1: We are the World by USA for Africa
Favorite Song July 19: Angel by Madonna, Raspberry Beret by Prince, St. Elmo’s Fire, The Search is Over, One Lonely Night
Favorite Songs March 2, 1986: These Dreams by Heart, Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue, How Will I Know by Whitney Houston, Nikita by Elton John (yes, there is something inherently wrong with that list).

Also in the ballerina diary (i will save you from the dashed ballerina dreams story) an INDEX OF IMPORTANT EVENTS:
March 22, 1985, 11:30 AM: Placed top 10 in Social Current Events Big Test
April 4, 1985: Started liking Mike Crosby
April 8: Stopped liking Mike Crosby
April 15: Started liking Tom Erickson (who, by the way, married my high school best friend some 8 year ago or something like that)
April 24: Started liking Dusty Graham, Stopped liking Tom Erickson
May 17: Jenny Trunnell won $1000 (i have no idea how)
May 16: Mike Thoresland asked me to go with him (this, i might have made up, because i don’t remember it in the least– but i will, be digging out the yearbook to find out just who mike thoresland might be)
May 22: Like Mike T. and Eric Peterson
May 29, 1985: Started loving Jim Mollman
June 1st and 2nd, 1985: Still love Jim Mollman
June 6: Vicki got mad at me, Still love Jim
July 15: Jenny went with Mike
July 16: Vicki isn’t mad at me anymore, still love Jim
July 19: Jim doesn’t love me
Feb 14, 1986: Derek Broten likes me
Feb 27, 1986: Nominated for National Junior Honor Society
March 10, 1986: Started liking Andy H., Jason A, and Mike O.

those were all the important events.