I'm coming up on my 20-year hs reunion in 2009.

If I can sell a novel by then, maybe I'll go.

ION, wah wah wah, I don't want to work today! I want to still be home sick! I'm not getting a damn thing done here, so what's the point??

"Hi, everyone! I've gained weight since high school AND I am completely unsuccessful! How YOU doin'?"

Oh, you are not. You are living in a lovely apartment in Chicago. You have a job that doesn't require you to work eighty bajillion hours a week or sell your soul. You have tons of friends, including many invisible people on the internet. And, as Gud noted, you are a very successful amateur pornographer.

And yes, 99.5% of people have gained weight since high school.

Thanks to Facebook, I have discovered that my ten year HS class reunion is the same weekend as Thanksgiving. When I will be in town.

That's exactly how mine worked out, except that it was also my birthday.

ETA: Actually was pretty cool because my birthday entourage came with me. Also had fun hemming and hawwing about "What I Do" so that people who don't still know me were trying to figure out what cool thing I must do that's so secret, and my friends were playing along. Guesses ranged from DEA to Porn Star.

I'm pretty sure I was supposed to make something of myself. But I haven't, really. And I'm not sure I want to face interrogation from my extended family and a bunch of people who never talked to me in high school all in the same weekend.

Seriously though, you are self supporting and witty and that is success.

Well, true. It could be worse. At least I got out of there!

Oh, you are not. You are living in a lovely apartment in Chicago. You have a job that doesn't require you to work eighty bajillion hours a week or sell your soul.

I am hiring you as my spin-doctor.

That's exactly how mine worked out, except that it was also my birthday.

Oh, ew, I'm sorry.

I am hiring you as my spin-doctor.

That's what I'm here for.

I didn't go to my ten-year reunion, so it's not like I have any kind of heart-warming story. But I say don't go if you don't want to go. That way, you can be "that bitch who's too good for her reunion," which is probably better than feeling like a failure (which you're NOT).

And yes, 99.5% of people have gained weight since high school.

Honestly, yeah. It's gonna be hard to find people that are pointing fingers.

The sad thing about my HS reunion was that all the popular guys were the same as they were in HS, and half the girls had become SAHMs. It felt like we weren't taught to, you know, pursue careers.

I am home today. YAY. I got mac to school and was back in bed by 9 an slept until 11:40. More YAY! Now I've lounged around.

I need to get to his school to get a note to his teacher so she'll know I am picking him up today.

Then I need to squash the inner voice that is starting to freak out that I have wasted a day off by not doing a million things.

Everytime this conversation comes up, it prompts me to see if there's any more of an online trace of the one old friend I am curious about & who I have no means of contacting. Surprisingly, there's actually a sign of him! Some postgraduate program in the armed forces in CA and triathalons with his wife. Who we also went to high school with. Huh.

I have a question. Am I the only person who finds Flickr incredibly annoying? Clicking through photos is a pain in the ass, while using slideshow hides the captions. What is it that makes this the photo site of choice for so many people?