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?

You can still have the captions show up during the slideshow. Click the big i that shows up in the middle of the frame at the beginning of the slideshow.

But I say don't go if you don't want to go.

Yeah, absolutely. I had an awesome time at my 10th reunion, could find no reason to go to 15 -- what had changed? Nothing. But it was fun to see who had become respectable and who was still a loser, etc. It also helped (I realize in retrospect) that I was friends with the class president, so the 25% (if that) of our class who went to the reunion covered basically everyone I knew and wondered about and very few other people.

It's easy to upload and organize photos on Flickr. My issues have to do with it using a lot of bandwidth when I'm on dial-up. I usually just give up on looking at photos until I'm on a high speed connection.

My tenth HS reunion was fun, in that it turned out that all of my particular friends had done pretty well, and looked good. It was the popular kids who looked shopworn and grotty. I didn't go to my 20th, because I was not in a good place mental-health-wise. I'd go to my 30th (which should be this year) but I haven't heard word of anything happening....