High School Meme

High School Meme

06.19.07 (11:26 pm)   [edit]
I seldom do these things, but I stole this one from Sheryl.


Fill this out about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be.

1. Who was your best friend? Ben, currently a city cop.

2.What sports did you play? Avoided it like the plague.

3. What kind of car did you drive? 1978 Chevette. An utter shitbox.

4. It's Friday night, where were you?
Sitting at home with prog-rock albums and a bass, pining for the nice Christian girl who wouldn't have anything to do with me.

5. Were you a party animal? Hardly. I was scared I was going to Hell just for the fucking prog albums.

6. Were you considered a flirt? I was obnoxiously over-the-top with the aforementioned girl, and it was a small school, so everyone knew it. No wonder she wouldn't fuck me.

7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? Choir. I was terrible.

8. Were you a nerd? Oh yeah. I'm the guy who played Pink Floyd's Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together And Grooving With A Pict for these repressed white people in Fine Arts class and expected them to ENJOY it.

9. Did you get suspended/expelled? No.

10. Can you sing the fight song? Never cared.

11. Who was your favorite teacher? I really liked our histroy teacher. She really wasn't much of a teacher, but she was a nice lady and TRIED. I remember correcting her a few times in class, and got a good talking to from the principal over it (I wasn't exactly the king of subtlety then anymore than I am now), but I didn't REALLY mean to piss her off.

13. School mascot? Lion.

14. Did you go to Prom? We had a bogus Junior Pseduo-Prom I went to. I'm not sure exactly what we did for the Senior Year, because I think I didn't go or left early. I actually don't remember.

15. If you could go back and do it over, would you? Maybe a couple things, but overall I'm glad I got to experience a fundamentalist Christian education my last two years of high school, because that's what broke the first few bricks off my own stupid religion that took years to get over. That's where I learned to ask questions - because nobody ELSE was - and those questions led me to where I am today. That's good.

16. What do you remember most about graduation? My back hurting like a motherfucker - I got a killer sunburn during the senior trip to Florida and couldn't even wear a shirt under the gown.

17. Where were you on senior skip day? We all went to one of the other kid' houses and ate junk food and watched TV.

18. Did you have a job your senior year? I was the janitor. Originally for just the church and elementary school building, but eventually for the high school too. The principal HATED that I had a key, and tried to fuck with me, but I put him in his place. That's a good story.

19. Where did you go most often for lunch?
Armando's, a long gone Mexican place with the best damn green hot sauce ever. These days it's a grungy strip bar.

20. Have you gained weight since then? Shit, I gained twenty pounds that summer...

21. What did you do after graduation?
Goofed off for part of the summer, took a job at the college a bit before starting there, then entered college, which pretty much was a lost cause for me by then. I had NO idea what I was doing and left after two and a half years. Do I regret that? Partly. I would like to finish someday, but I'm glad I stopped going to the place I did go to, because it was seldom a really good experience.

22. When did you graduate? High school, 1988.

23. Who was your Senior prom date? I don't remember. The Junior thing was with Juilene, a very nice girl who I should have been a better friend to. I mostly ignored her.

24. Are you going / did you go to your 10 year reunion? No. We tried to have a 15 year, but it got canned with just enough short notice that I ended up at Juilene's house expecting them all to be there. I ended up talking to her for half an hour, which is when I realized that I should have been better to her back then. Nice girl. Our 20 year will be next year, but I have no idea if I'll go. Walking into a reunion of 12 students from a Christian school as an athiest could be pretty damn weird. If I disliked them, I could do it just to fuck with them, but the fact is, my senior class was probably the only time in my entire involvement with Christianity that I really felt like part of the group. They were good people.

25. Who was your home room teacher? A lady who moved away, I believe. Had her for two years. She taught English. Very uptight sort of woman, but quite OK in her own way. I saw her son a few years ago. He and my sister are both leukemia survivors. I think she was baffled my me, but I liked her well enough.