Holden Journal

Dear Journal,

After a dry and unappetizing steak dinner in the dining hall, I get into a snowball fight with some of the Pencey boys. Right after we stop fighting with the Pencey boy my friend Mal Brossard and I decided to take a bus into Agerstown to see a movie but the problem was that I hated movies so I convinced him to let Ackley go with them. As it turns out, Ackley and my friend Brossard have already seen the film, so instead we just decided to eat some burgers, play a little pinball, and then head back to Pencey. After the excursion, my friend Mal goes off to look for a bridge game, and Ackley sits on my bed squeezing pimples and concocting stories about a girl he claims to have had sex with  that summer before. When he start to say all that kind stuff I tried to make him leave he wouldn't but right after I did, I start to begin doing my work on the English assignment for Stradlater. I remember Stradlater said that the composition was supposed to be a simple description of a room, a house, or something similarly. But I couldn't think of anything to say about a house or a room, so I just decided to write about my brothers Allie baseball glove that he use to copy poems onto it.