Co-op-ma for Jess & E!

My senior year for prom sucked. Not because I didn't go, because I did. Not because I didn't have a date--I went with a cute, but dim boy I'd started dating. But because I initially worked up the guts to ask the guy I had the HUGEST crush on all through school.

He was my friend, too, and I even sucked it up and asked him to go "as friends." He said he couldn't justify spending that much money on "just friends." So what did he do? Our art teacher set him up with her tall, willowy, gorgeous brunette daughter--whom he had NEVER even met! And he went. Because she was beautiful.

My only consolation is that they had ZERO chemistry and he had a MISERABLE time (according to our friend that double dated with him). Take that!

Um, except he went on to get a dual degree from Notre Dame University and then on to IU Med school--where he became a surgeon for the Air Force and is now living in Japan.

Eh, he still can't beat my DH and I have WAY cuter kids than he does.

I went to a bunch of proms.

Sophomore year, I had no date, but my therapist said, "Why not go anyway?" I mean, Jesus Christ, what kind of therapist tells a patient to GO TO PROM BY HIMSELF?!? Bastard. Anyway, long story short: felt stupid, went home.

Jr. and Sr. year I went with my girlfriend. There was actually less drama than usual between us.

Freshman year of college I took my best friend's sister (who was a few years younger) to Prom. I got made fun of for the way I danced to Van Halen's "Jump!" - just like the guy in the video....

I didn't go to Jr. Prom. Senior prom I went with a bunch of friends -- none of us had boyfriends or dates. It was reasonably fun.

I went to some kind of high school dance with church friends when I was 15 or so, I was such a spaz and managed to insult my date and not realize it until months later.

Then I went to my jr prom with a guy that a friend set me up with, it was an okay dance. I was much less of a spaz.

~ma to Jessica.

The guy on the left? My prom date.

I was sure by the time I got caught up in here (just in time to leave for the night, as per usual)someone would already have posted this:

Nightcrawler Actor Marries In Civil Ceremony

Also, hey everybody.

Aw, Alan Cumming!

t verklempt

Man, I've always had a soft spot for him - I remember when he was on a cheesy Scottish skit show back in the 90s, and then he was in Circle of Friends and Goldeneye and then it was moviemoviemovie - but it cracks me up that he's a superhero. Because - bless. Blessity blessity bless.

(...in no way did his performance make me go away and write Nightcrawler/Wolverine. No, really. Who, me?)

Also - Yay UK! With the Big Gay Marriage! Go Team!

It was quite a while before I got that you Americans had a different one from the British. Stuff is kinda cleared up, but at no time did my school-attending culture include school dances. Usually didn't include boys either.

In this, ita is me. Yes. (Well, okay, no - inasmuchas I got to do the Prom thing when I had my year in Canada, but it still felt very much like being an anthropologist on Mars.)

Pete - Air Conditioning! Air Conditioning is the answer! And going out of an evening!

We didn't have a prom, because our school didn't allow dancing. We had a Senior Banquet. I went by myself. Felt stupid, couldn't go home. Toughed it out, still have the ugly goddamned dress.

Not that I'm bitter or anything. Carry on.

my junior year, i took a sophomore who i thought was funny and thought i'd have fun with. though i spent most of the evening pining for my crush.

senior year i went with my boyfriend who'd graduated the year before. we had an amazing night and as the old cliche goes, i lost my virginity that night.

he is my first love and all guys i date will forever be compared to him. we still keep in contact. well...sort of. he and his wife have a mutual myspace account (*tries not to roll her eyes*) and he friended me there. i'm also in contact with his mom and brothers. his mom and i were always close, but we became even more so when his dad died. she shared something with me not long after that will always be a secret between she and i. the boys will never know and that makes me a little sad, but i respect her decision.