YOUR SENIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL
[What year was it?]
96
[What were your three favorite bands?]
Radiohead, Pavement, Jeff Buckley
[What was your favorite outfit?]
Shit from the thrift store and jeans. Converse.
[What was up with your hair?]
in a bob with bangs and dark.
[Who were your best friends?]
Isabel, Rhonda, David, Mo, Sean
[What did you do after school?]
Walked to the Blue Star and smoke.
[Where did you work?]
Didn't. I worked one summer at West, I think.
[Did you take the bus?]
Once in a while.
[Who did you have a crush on?]
This other David who was a super tall math genius and a transfer student.
[Did you fight with your parents?]
Not really.
[Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?]
Stephen Malkmus
[Did you smoke cigarettes?]
Yes
[Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker?]
The last two yrs of HS we didn't have lockers.
[Did you have a 'clique'?]
We had our own lunch tables at which somehow even the freshman knew not to sit at. Everyone who didn't know better called us freaks. So, I guess so.
[Did you have "The Max" like Zach Kelly and Slater?]
Not unless behind a tree smoking counts.
[Admit it, were you popular?]
I knew a lot of people and was well liked. I don't know if that means popular. A lot of people claimed to not "get" me, whatever that means
[Who did you want to be just like?]
Shirley Manson from Garbage
[What did you want to be when you grew up?]
Writer married to a rockstar.
[Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now?]
Settled into a job and financially secure. HA!