I went to school with a handful of low-to-mid-level famous people: in high school, Sam Rockwell and Aisha Tyler; in college, Noah Baumbach. And a whole bunch of "It's that guy!"s -- the girl who played Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland's daughter in Six Degrees, a friend who had walk-ons in Ned and Stacey and other early 90s sitcoms, Nic Brendon's ex-wife, and a metric assload of very talented people who deserve more than their meager one or two IMDB listings.

My most ridiculously talented classmate (seriously, one sentence into her first audition for the first student shows her first semester at our high school, people were gasping; the way the MSCL people describe seeing Claire Danes for the first time? Just like that) seems to have vanished into thin air. I don't know if she changed her name because it was so generic, or if she gave up acting (but why? SO HEARTBREAKINGLY GOOD, plus striking-looking, thin and photogenic, and with a singing voice so achingly lovely it brought tears to your eyes), or if something awful happened to her.

Re savings vs. credit: bah. I have the worst of both worlds, no savings and massive debt. All this "stop setting aside that 3-6 months' salary, wipe out your debt instead, and invest the rest" is crazy melty land talk to me.

eta: re ita's picture: Totally adorable baby, and I don't know how I never noticed before that ita has completely perfect lips. Unless I was distracted by basically everything else about ita. But that mouth? Perfect.

Nelly Furtado looks old from the angle I am seeing her from.

You know who doesn't look old? My new niece!!

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Awww. She's beautiful.

Noah's still doing his job of being utterly adorable.

I went to Jamaican high school with Nadine Sutherland of whom none of you will have heard. She was in my year and pointedly mean to me, but she bumped into my mother recently and gushed how much she'd liked me.

Whatev.

English high school I was a year behind Helena Bonham Carter and a year ahead of Sarah Patterson. No real interaction with either.

University...well, the people I knew are easy to enumerate--hung out with Colin and John Rogers, and one of Colin's roommates went on to do Teen Titans Go! for DC which landed them all at Comic Con in one year and no one would have called that at all.

The most famous person I know I went to college with is former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., although there was a thing in the alumni magazine recently about the producer of all the really bad VH1 reality shows.

Oh, hi! Hi, Prince!!

(I didn't go to high school or college with Prince; he's just on my TV.)

Also, yay babies!

And I'm having a crisis because I can't get shit on Friday NYTimes crossword puzzles. I need to step up my training regemin. And learn how to spell that.

I went to college with some state legislators, but that's as good as I can do. Well, I guess some famous people went to my grad school, but I never saw any of them or paid any attention to who they might be.

My most ridiculously talented classmate

We had one of these who went to a great performing arts colleges after high school, but from what I've heard, I think that the adjustment to the wide world away from home was too much. I think part of it was that expectations were so high, too. She had the most amazing voice and could act like woah.

Violent Femmes, Arrested Development lead singer (Todd Thomas) - I think that's all I got. Todd I actually knew, at least to say hi to.