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1972
1971
On My Own
In the summer of 1971 I decided to move
out of my parents house. A friend of mine, Bill, was
already living on his own but
wasn't happy with where he was living so we decide to get a
place together. We found a
two bedroom duplex that was finished and so we took it.
It was a pretty good place although the furniture wasn't
much it was adequate for the two of us. Our place soon
became the hang out for many of our friends who still lived
at home. The other side of the duplex was always rented to
students, when we first moved in there were two guys from
Fort Walton Beach. After them theere were two college girls,
one kind of chubby and ther other with fritzy red hair.
The chubby one seem to show and interest in Bill while the
fritzy one chased after mee. Then two two older guys who
were in Veterinarian school.
I was fortunate to not get drafted for the Viet Nam War
.
My draft number in 1971 was 156 and the highest number they
called that year was 95. I remember going down to
University Avenue in Gainesville where the students were
demostrating, there as a bench or something in the middle of
the road burning, students wandering the street when the
police started shooting tear gas into the crowd. I started
to run and got only the tinyest bit of tear gas in my eyes
and I remembered how it burned. The draft in was abolished
in 1972.
In 1971 I stopped working at the U.F. Computing center for a job in the Soils department.
The summer after I graduate from high school I took a
job at the the University of Florida computing center .
University of Florida
I continued my studies at UF with the
winter quarter taking the following:
Winter
Quarter
American Institutions
Contemparary Reading
General Chemestry
Analytical Geom & Calculas 2
Gymnasticis
I didn't do so well
that first winter quarter
making three D's and two C's and was placed on Scholarship
warning. Not enough studying and too much partying.
I started the spring quarter but after a few weeks I withdrew
for I knew I wasn't going do well.