Tara ,'First Date'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
If I were to Google my classmates, I probably couldn't even find the girls. They've surely all married and changed their names, thus virtually disappearing, at least to the casual searcher.
The shit they used to give me for saying I wouldn't change my name.
I only found Joyti because the articles about her arrest mention her mother by name. So weird.
My 20th reunion is this year. Haven't decided yet if I'll go.
If I went to high school reunions, they would try to get me to give them money. Nuh and uh. Also, pretty much everyone I went to high school with is a lawyer or an investment banker, and way more interested in money and status than me.
Most of the people I hung out with in high school weren't in my year. And most of them would be quite easy to contact if I wanted to, which I most definitely do not.
There's one girl from my year who I would like to track down, but I am willing to bet large sums of money she wouldn't be at a reunion. Apart from her, I remember a couple of names.
If it was a reunion of my teachers, I'd be much more tempted to attend.
On the other hand, this woman was one of my two close friends: [link]
Because of all the reunion talk, I ended up finding a web site on my reunion from last month. There's a directory of all the people from my graduating class with bios (if supplied). The depressing part was the Deceased section. For a class of almost 900, only 13 were deceased, but still.
I love high school reunions. For a guy, at least, they are the revenge of the skinny intellectual.
Turns out that being smart and funny has more enduring advantages than being an offensive lineman on the football team. Who could have predicted that back in high school?
I had a blast at my 10th college reunion, but they haven't yet offered to pay me enough to go to a high school thingie.
For a guy, at least, they are the revenge of the skinny intellectual.
This is true even for a not-guy. At the aforementioned 10th, there was a whole lot of standing around saying "holy crap, the geeks won!"
You wanna know how apathetic we were/are? Our high school's 100 anniversary was last year. Big to-do, right? Each decade had it's own tent. Most of them had pictures, decorations the whole 9 yards. The 70's tent (this is my decade)? Almost empty with perfunctory decorations and about 10 pictures from the whole 10 years!!! The only people who I saw in my graduating class was the aforementioned CIA person and one other person, they attended the shindig because they were being honored. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have shown otherwise (my mom dragged me... otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered either) We suck!