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When working with individuals who are displaying symptoms of narcissistic victim syndrome, the thing that I notice most of all is that the person feels so torn because they don’t understand what has happened to them.

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Parents are always an issue.

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I once saw a therapist who said my tattoos are an ugly way of trying to make myself special, and that they remind him of the iron stamps put on cows. While I was about to burst into tears, I stood up, kept myself composed, told him he’s an embarrassment to his profession and elegantly left.

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I just got off the phone with Beth, a 19-year-old Pratt student whose Voice ad I answered, who wants to date a bi guy. She said she’s gotten hundreds of replies and has already found one guy who’s really cute: “I think you’d like him, too.”

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Consuelo’s decided to accept a job teaching in Los Angeles for next fall. She loves the Mexican neighborhoods in L.A. and feels comfortable among Chicanos – and she’s tired of New York. (Aren’t we all?)

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Last night I went over to Park Slope to visit Avis. She and I sat in the kitchen, sharing an omelet and Perrier water, and talked for hours, just as we did in the old days. Justin, her roommate, joined us later; he’s a very sweet guy. We told each other about our homosexual feelings.

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Wes called at 3 PM and said, “Your book is out,” and I drove to Manhattan, arriving at the Taplinger office just before 4 PM. “It looks like a real book,” I said. “We’ve cleverly disguised it,” Wes said.

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Scott’s still living at the big house in Chevy Chase, dating rich JAPs who go to American (“I made it with the daughter of the doctor who cut off Betty Ford’s tit” – I don’t think I could ever top that line).