Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.

'Serenity'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


EpicTangent - Aug 27, 2019 2:14:35 pm PDT #10890 of 30019
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Are everybody's reunions at their actual HS? Mine was at the House of Blues downtown this year. And the tenth was at some chi-chi place in North County (managed not to get invited to 20/25, so don't know where/if they were held). If it was actually at my HS, I think I might be more likely to go.

eta: x-post with ND when I accidentally didn't hit post.


EpicTangent - Aug 27, 2019 2:17:43 pm PDT #10891 of 30019
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Our actual percentage of attendees might be even smaller than yours, ND, but with a graduating class of 860, it was still a pretty good-sized party.


Jesse - Aug 27, 2019 2:22:36 pm PDT #10892 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

We had one reunion at a hotel function room, the rest have been at random bars, and hardly anyone goes. Eh!


Dana - Aug 27, 2019 2:23:40 pm PDT #10893 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

whyyyyy is my mother so haaaaard to buy for


Sheryl - Aug 27, 2019 2:26:26 pm PDT #10894 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

The only HS reunion I went to was my 10th, and that was only because it was Thanksgiving weekend, and I was still going to my parents' house for the holiday. My 30th was a few years ago. Sometimes I wonder how I got to be over 50, but here I am.


shrift - Aug 27, 2019 3:30:22 pm PDT #10895 of 30019
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I haven't been to any of my high school reunions, but I'm pretty sure they've been held at a local hotel that is a shithole. I just looked it up on Yelp, and the reviews are just t chef's kiss


Steph L. - Aug 27, 2019 3:34:18 pm PDT #10896 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Are everybody's reunions at their actual HS? Mine was at the House of Blues downtown this year.

During the day, there's tours of the school (and, again, the former Forbidden Floors of the convent) and a Mass that I am 100% not going to, lest the Lord strike me dead the moment I walk into the chapel. Then in the evening, our class party is at some bar.


Jesse - Aug 27, 2019 4:17:11 pm PDT #10897 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I stayed home sick from work with a cold today and just spent the day in bed or on the couch, and I swear to god, my mother's feelings are hurt that I didn't tell her I was here. I am rolling my eyes forever. (To be fair, I think she's mostly upset at her sister? But I 100% do not need that shit.)


Beverly - Aug 27, 2019 4:17:48 pm PDT #10898 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I haven't been to any of my HS reunions. There's this...thing about me. When pushed by an adoptee friend to search for my birth family, I thought about it for five seconds and said, "The family I have is exhausting enough. Why would I want more family?" A lot of the time I have to push myself to be engaged with the people I know *and love*--why would I want to reconnect with people who barely knew who I was in HS? There's no payoff there, for me. I mean, I wish them well. But come on--I wasn't noticed enough in HS to be bullied or excluded or targeted in any way. They're not missing me, and I feel no impulse to see any of them again.

You guys? I'll reune with you guys anytime I can.


Dana - Aug 27, 2019 4:37:38 pm PDT #10899 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Four dollars away from free shipping? Oh, fuck you, Macy's.