High School Meme yoinked from _nimisha_

As if I don't go on about these things in LJ posts anyway... :p


1. Did you date someone from your school?
Those who know me, know the story well...I did go out with a few girls in junior high and high school, and during my senior year, one of them did introduce me to someone who I ended up going out with for about three years.
It was a great relationship, but we both went our separate ways after awhile. We did recently reconnect, though, and are still friends. :)

2. Did you win anything in Seniors' Who's Who?
I was voted "Unique" in the Class Alphabet. Partly because my junior and senior years I wore the ratty green trenchcoat, listened to alternative music (and wrote about it in the school paper), and despite my nerdiness, got along with everyone, despite my being annoyed by jocks and conformists. ;)

3. What kind of car did you drive?
I didn't drive in high school, although I did get my permit my senior year. I pretty much drove one of my parents' cars when need be. I didn't have my own until I moved back home in '95.

4. It's Friday night...where are you?
Junior year? Probably with head58 and that gang, and most likely down in the Amherst/Northampton area. Senior year? Some of the same, when h58 came home from college, but mostly hanging out with other local friends.

5. Were you a party animal?
PFHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!! Yeah, right!

6. Were you considered a flirt?
See #5.

7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
I was in a band...well, the band. The Flying Bohemians, with h58. School-wise, I hung out with that crowd, as I'd known most of them from way back.

8. Were you a nerd?
What do you think? ;)

9. Did you get suspended/expelled?
Nope. I wasn't exactly a goody-goody, but I rarely got in trouble, and never to that extent. Just the occasional stay-after-school for missing homework assignments or something.

10. Can you sing the fight song?
We had a fight song?? I think we stole the Notre Dame theme...

11. Who were your favorite teachers?
Mr Jolly (history), Mr. Ronco (english), Ms. Hause (art), Mr. Blanchard (publication class and the only teacher who knew who New Order were), Mr. Tarolli (history), Mr. Grazis (english). I'm sure there are more, but the names escape me at present. I got along with a lot of my teachers, brown-noser that I may have been.

12. Where did you sit during lunch?
For awhile I sat about halfway in the cafeteria, near the west windows, or out in the courtyard if the weather was good. Later on I would eat in the Publications Room with a few friends so we could fool around on the Mac work on the school paper.

13. What was your school's full name?
Athol High School. w000t.

14. School mascot?
A little fightin' Indian guy. We were the Red Raiders. Yeah, not very PC, but back then it didn't even occur to us, and no one complained until MANY years later...

15. Homecoming court?
Pff. Hell if I can remember. I certainly wasn't on it.

16. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
Actually, yes. I'd make sure I didn't slack off and do half-assed work, and get much better grades. And perhaps not be such a Morrissey-like doofus. And I would have wanted to skip a grade so I could hang out with h58 and that gang more.

17. What do you remember most about graduation?
The valedictorian's speech was the typical "we don't know what the world will give us, we don't know where we'll be" sort of thing and a bit trite, but the salutatorian's speech was very Gen-X, very "yeah, the world may suck--but go and kick ass anyway"...very inspiring, actually.

Oh--that, and leaving a box of Twinkies in my Class Will to Mrs. E., who had said a version of "whatever floats your boat" but using a Twinkies euphemism without thinking. *evil grin*

18. Where did you go senior skip day?
I don't think we had one. If we did, I probably just hung out at home.

19. Have you gained some weight since then?
Heh. Yeah. And I really should lose it.

20. Who was your Senior prom date?
Technically, head58, if you count actually DJing my senior prom with him. I would have gone with my then girlfriend, but she was unable to go, so I opted to help h58 instead. Much fun, and it inspired a great ending piece to the original version of Decline and Fall.

21. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion?
Already went, it was in the middle of the woods in Athol, and it was...weird, but fun. A lot of people I knew and remembered, but couldn't remember the name of. Next year is 20 years (good gravy! O_O...). I doubt I'll go, since I'm on the other side of the continent, but it would be interesting to see some of those people again...

22. Who was your home room teacher?
Senior year? Gods...Mrs. Tarolli, I think? Homeroom for seniors was basically the cafeteria.

25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Aside from h58, I recently rehooked up with my ex as well as a friend I knew since junior high. Not too many others, though...

26. What year did you graduate?
1989. Man, I'm old...


Yeah, eventually I'll write Decline and Fall and publish it...