High School Meme
Hmm, slightly different variant on the usual theme. Funny what happens when the generation that grew up with the internet starts getting older...
Did you ever...
1. ...date someone from your school?
Not even close.
2. ...marry someone from your high school?
Now that's just funny on several levels.
3. ...car pool to school?
Every day for nine months, back when I lived with Emily. I was also good at bumming rides and, when my license wasn't suspended, giving 'em.
4. What kind of car did you have?
An '83 Chevy Citation - which eventually died months after getting hit by a semi.
5. What kind of car do you have now?
A '93 Ford Escort - this despite years of mocking Fords as "found on road dead" vehicles. I do love my little go-cart.
6. ‘Tis Friday night...where are you now?
Probably at home, relaxing after a week of class, etc.
7. It is a Friday night... where were you then?
Often at the school football field with the marching band, or in the basement at Emily's playing video games when I wasn't at home, hiding in the internet.
8. What kind of job did you have in high school?
I spent some time working at the mall's ice rink, renting and sharpening skates for primadonna figure skaters and junior high kids who attended "Rock'n'Skate." Boy bands still make me cringe because of those nights...
9. What kind of job do you do now?
I'm a law student doing the job hunt thing - here's hoping!
10. Were you a party animal?
Not at all. Had to be dragged out most of the time.
11. Were you considered a flirt?
I'm pretty sure I was considered asexual.
12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
Band all four years, clarinet.
13. Were you a nerd?
Not stereotypically so, but definitely ran with the honors track crowd. I was too much of a jock/theatre person/mess of other things to really fit into any one particular mold (this not even including my trouble-making streak that made school administration hate me. Pretty sure nerds don't do that...)
14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
Came close a time or two, actually, though few of my friends ever knew it. Home drama leads to attendance issues leads to active conflict with certain teachers. It was good times.
15. Can you sing the school fight song?
Yep, though I only know the lyrics because our elementary school music teacher insisted on it. I can probably still play that and Tribute to Troy if my clarinet were capable of making noise at the moment.
16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)?
Brez and Mr. Anthony are the main reasons why I kept caring about academics long enough to graduate, I suspect. Both went way above the call of duty to give me places to run to when life got crazy, and to remind me that I had the ability to make it through that time - and would be stronger for it. Come to think of it, Nan, the art teacher, was also really good that way. They also went to bat for me against certain other teachers (see 14) - funny to think back on that time and how much trouble somebody who never drank, smoked, had sex or did much of anything else negative could cause, really.
17. Where did you sit during lunch?
Down the hall in front of the gym doors, across from the band/orchestra rooms.
18. What was your school's full name?
Iowa City West High School.
19. When did you graduate?
2002
20. What was your school mascot?
The Trojans. Never really have been able to understand schools choosing that mascot - after all, Troy fell in pretty embarrassing fashion in its most famous story.
21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
Hell no. Well, maybe, if certain major events didn't happen. I can handle the idea of standard high school drama - it even seems quaint to me - but my actual experience was so bad that there's one year of that I can really barely remember, with most of it just swallowed up by the trauma. Sure, it made me a much stronger person - there's not much that scares me these days - but only in that whole "what does not kill you" sense, and it came real close.
22. Did you have fun at prom?
Eh, kind of. Went stag as part of a group of my friends, and when I managed to stop being jealous of the idiot who was with the girl I'd been in love with for years, I managed to have a decent time. Party at Em's afterwards was pretty decent. Not really the classic "prom night" in any sense, but that was never in the cards for me anyway.
23. Do you still talk to the person you went to prom with?
I talk to some of the girls I went with, sure. Saw most of 'em at Emily's wedding earlier this year, actually.
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
That'd be the 10 year, right? I've always sort of planned on it. Kind of wish it could include folks from the year ahead and behind me, though - I had a lot of friends outside of the class of '02 I'd like to see.
25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Emily and I talk frequently, Claudia and Anne are on LJ, Brittany kicks my butt at Scrabulous regularly... yeah, there's a core of folks I keep up with. Facebook is fun for stalking that way.
26. School colors?
Green and gold.
27. What celebrities came from your high school?
I heard that the guy who was understudy for Daniel Radcliffe in Equus was part of the cast of Oliver! that I worked with in Theatre West... other than that, no clue.
28. Do you have any high school regrets?
Kind of wish I'd had the courage to come out - might have helped get my head on straight sooner, stay with the sports (the closet is really what killed that for me) and decrease the overall drama level. There's also the mess that was the German trip... ugh... and failing pre-calculus and almost failing a literature class. So yeah, much as I'd like to say I have no regrets, they're there. Take the lessons and go, though - there was a lot of good back then, too.
Did you ever...
1. ...date someone from your school?
Not even close.
2. ...marry someone from your high school?
Now that's just funny on several levels.
3. ...car pool to school?
Every day for nine months, back when I lived with Emily. I was also good at bumming rides and, when my license wasn't suspended, giving 'em.
4. What kind of car did you have?
An '83 Chevy Citation - which eventually died months after getting hit by a semi.
5. What kind of car do you have now?
A '93 Ford Escort - this despite years of mocking Fords as "found on road dead" vehicles. I do love my little go-cart.
6. ‘Tis Friday night...where are you now?
Probably at home, relaxing after a week of class, etc.
7. It is a Friday night... where were you then?
Often at the school football field with the marching band, or in the basement at Emily's playing video games when I wasn't at home, hiding in the internet.
8. What kind of job did you have in high school?
I spent some time working at the mall's ice rink, renting and sharpening skates for primadonna figure skaters and junior high kids who attended "Rock'n'Skate." Boy bands still make me cringe because of those nights...
9. What kind of job do you do now?
I'm a law student doing the job hunt thing - here's hoping!
10. Were you a party animal?
Not at all. Had to be dragged out most of the time.
11. Were you considered a flirt?
I'm pretty sure I was considered asexual.
12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
Band all four years, clarinet.
13. Were you a nerd?
Not stereotypically so, but definitely ran with the honors track crowd. I was too much of a jock/theatre person/mess of other things to really fit into any one particular mold (this not even including my trouble-making streak that made school administration hate me. Pretty sure nerds don't do that...)
14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
Came close a time or two, actually, though few of my friends ever knew it. Home drama leads to attendance issues leads to active conflict with certain teachers. It was good times.
15. Can you sing the school fight song?
Yep, though I only know the lyrics because our elementary school music teacher insisted on it. I can probably still play that and Tribute to Troy if my clarinet were capable of making noise at the moment.
16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)?
Brez and Mr. Anthony are the main reasons why I kept caring about academics long enough to graduate, I suspect. Both went way above the call of duty to give me places to run to when life got crazy, and to remind me that I had the ability to make it through that time - and would be stronger for it. Come to think of it, Nan, the art teacher, was also really good that way. They also went to bat for me against certain other teachers (see 14) - funny to think back on that time and how much trouble somebody who never drank, smoked, had sex or did much of anything else negative could cause, really.
17. Where did you sit during lunch?
Down the hall in front of the gym doors, across from the band/orchestra rooms.
18. What was your school's full name?
Iowa City West High School.
19. When did you graduate?
2002
20. What was your school mascot?
The Trojans. Never really have been able to understand schools choosing that mascot - after all, Troy fell in pretty embarrassing fashion in its most famous story.
21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
Hell no. Well, maybe, if certain major events didn't happen. I can handle the idea of standard high school drama - it even seems quaint to me - but my actual experience was so bad that there's one year of that I can really barely remember, with most of it just swallowed up by the trauma. Sure, it made me a much stronger person - there's not much that scares me these days - but only in that whole "what does not kill you" sense, and it came real close.
22. Did you have fun at prom?
Eh, kind of. Went stag as part of a group of my friends, and when I managed to stop being jealous of the idiot who was with the girl I'd been in love with for years, I managed to have a decent time. Party at Em's afterwards was pretty decent. Not really the classic "prom night" in any sense, but that was never in the cards for me anyway.
23. Do you still talk to the person you went to prom with?
I talk to some of the girls I went with, sure. Saw most of 'em at Emily's wedding earlier this year, actually.
24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
That'd be the 10 year, right? I've always sort of planned on it. Kind of wish it could include folks from the year ahead and behind me, though - I had a lot of friends outside of the class of '02 I'd like to see.
25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Emily and I talk frequently, Claudia and Anne are on LJ, Brittany kicks my butt at Scrabulous regularly... yeah, there's a core of folks I keep up with. Facebook is fun for stalking that way.
26. School colors?
Green and gold.
27. What celebrities came from your high school?
I heard that the guy who was understudy for Daniel Radcliffe in Equus was part of the cast of Oliver! that I worked with in Theatre West... other than that, no clue.
28. Do you have any high school regrets?
Kind of wish I'd had the courage to come out - might have helped get my head on straight sooner, stay with the sports (the closet is really what killed that for me) and decrease the overall drama level. There's also the mess that was the German trip... ugh... and failing pre-calculus and almost failing a literature class. So yeah, much as I'd like to say I have no regrets, they're there. Take the lessons and go, though - there was a lot of good back then, too.