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1. Nickname in high school?
They called me "the Brit" because I spoke so properly.
2. Sport you were into?
I played tennis all four years and did track for a year. Tiny tennis skirts are so me.
3. Had a circle of friends?
The first couple of years I was a band geek. After I decided I hated them (and they hated me for drinking and being weird), the weird girls that I used to be afraid of adopted me.
4. Best subject?
Extra credit. Seriously. I never did homework for classes, so I'd end up with my teachers telling me I was "wasting my potential" and "almost failing". I'd use my formidable charm to get them to let me do extra credit, which, of course, was always turned in late.
5. Worst subject?
The only thing I was ever honestly hopeless at was gym. I'm not physically inclined, you see, so I'm slow and can't catch or hit anything to save my life. The only thing I was ever good at was floor hockey - I would take my stick and just hit the other girls in the shins.
6. A teacher you owe life lessons to?
My Morality teacher (and principal), Mr. Olson. Two years after I graduated, he accused me of saying shit about him on the internet and threatened to sue me. Yeah, I don't respect him anymore.
7. A teacher you wanna kick in the ass?
Ms. Bolle, my Honors English teacher my senior year. All we did for a semester was write papers. She graded me on a different scale than the rest of the class because I was a better writer than they were. The next semester was dedicated to reading. She made us do some stupid questions after every story. My answers were apparently not satisfactory, so she mailed copies of Diana St. Mary's answers to my parents with a note telling them that that was what my homework should have looked like.
Describe ...
8. Freshman year: = Grade 9
I was very loud. I hung out with a group of very straight-laced girls, some of whom I still talk to. Mary and I would sneak into her father's liquor cabinet and steal whatever was there.
9. Sophomore year: = Grade 10
I ate lunch in the band room. All of my friends dated each other, broke up with each other, and then dated a different person in our circle of friends. God, they were lame. It took me until my 16th birthday to realize. I'd rented a cabin in Point Beach State Forest and invited about 30 people. Four showed up. Count 'em. Four. One of the people who came, Adrienne, wasn't in our group and I didn't know her well at all. She quickly became one of my best friends.
10. Junior year: = Grade 11
Abandoned the band geeks for Adrienne and all of her misfit friends. I started going to parties with the "popular" kids, started smoking weed, and started listening to Tori Amos. There was an after-school bowling league that Adi, Bree and I had a team in. We'd drink whiskey out of a flask on the way there. Fell in love with local bands and live music.
11. Senior year: = Grade 12
Got ditched at Homecoming dance. Picked my future college at random out of a book. Got kissed for the first time. Had my first case of alcohol poisoning on Halloween. The cool person to know was Tyler, a drag queen who lived in a trailer. Ended up as the number one person on a hit list that a few classmates of mine made up. One of those guys shot himself in the chest a couple of months after graduation.
12. Your best friend was?
I don't do the whole only-having-one-best-friend thing. Ann, Mary, Adi, Bradley and Johnny Cash.
13. Your worst friend was?
Josh. We were together every day until he decided (literally) overnight that he hated me. Then he became really cruel.
14. Cafeteria food sucked?
Funny thing. My mom would give me a check at the beginning of the week for that week's lunch. I'd have the lunch ladies cash it and I'd spend the money on...you know, I have no idea what I would spend the money on. I didn't smoke then and I didn't do anything that required a lot of money. Weird.
15. Most hilarious school rule?
My favorite was always when Mr. Denor would go out in the halls and make the girls wearing skirts kneel down so he could measure how short the skirt was. If it was more than 2" above her knee, she got PIT (personal improvement time - detention). The dress code was a funny thing. One time some of my classmates held Pimp n' Whore Day. Their outfits were great, but the administration made them all go home and change. The best part was when the principal accused the Homecoming queen of being dressed like a whore. She had no idea that it was Pimp n' Whore Day. We ended up having a sit-in that day. Good times.
16. Wore uniforms?
Naw, just a strict dress code. Basically it was collared shirts or sweaters and khakis. Once every month or so they'd let us wear jeans for a day.
17. How was the prom?
I went with a girl my junior year and wore tennis shoes. After prom we went to a party where my date fucked a guy named Peach. The next year I went with a drunken 23 year-old who wore aviator sunglasses and started breakdancing. They played the Thong Song three fucking times.
18. Who was prom king and queen?
My junior year, it was one of my best friends, John, and this girl Brooke. My senior year, it was Kristina, who stalked John, and someone else that I don't remember.
19. Any achievements?
Um, gold medals at state in forensics. I was an AIDS educator. I didn't do a whole lot.
20. Were you popular?
Not really. I went to the same parties and some of the guys were my very good friends, but the popular girls thought I was stupid or ugly or not worth their time. A lot of them live in Milwaukee now. They're still condescending. I saw one of them last year at a play. I didn't say hi or ask how she was doing. The only thing that came out of my mouth was, "Wow, Lauren, you got old".
21. Best song that reminds you of high school?
Love is a Battlefield
They called me "the Brit" because I spoke so properly.
2. Sport you were into?
I played tennis all four years and did track for a year. Tiny tennis skirts are so me.
3. Had a circle of friends?
The first couple of years I was a band geek. After I decided I hated them (and they hated me for drinking and being weird), the weird girls that I used to be afraid of adopted me.
4. Best subject?
Extra credit. Seriously. I never did homework for classes, so I'd end up with my teachers telling me I was "wasting my potential" and "almost failing". I'd use my formidable charm to get them to let me do extra credit, which, of course, was always turned in late.
5. Worst subject?
The only thing I was ever honestly hopeless at was gym. I'm not physically inclined, you see, so I'm slow and can't catch or hit anything to save my life. The only thing I was ever good at was floor hockey - I would take my stick and just hit the other girls in the shins.
6. A teacher you owe life lessons to?
My Morality teacher (and principal), Mr. Olson. Two years after I graduated, he accused me of saying shit about him on the internet and threatened to sue me. Yeah, I don't respect him anymore.
7. A teacher you wanna kick in the ass?
Ms. Bolle, my Honors English teacher my senior year. All we did for a semester was write papers. She graded me on a different scale than the rest of the class because I was a better writer than they were. The next semester was dedicated to reading. She made us do some stupid questions after every story. My answers were apparently not satisfactory, so she mailed copies of Diana St. Mary's answers to my parents with a note telling them that that was what my homework should have looked like.
Describe ...
8. Freshman year: = Grade 9
I was very loud. I hung out with a group of very straight-laced girls, some of whom I still talk to. Mary and I would sneak into her father's liquor cabinet and steal whatever was there.
9. Sophomore year: = Grade 10
I ate lunch in the band room. All of my friends dated each other, broke up with each other, and then dated a different person in our circle of friends. God, they were lame. It took me until my 16th birthday to realize. I'd rented a cabin in Point Beach State Forest and invited about 30 people. Four showed up. Count 'em. Four. One of the people who came, Adrienne, wasn't in our group and I didn't know her well at all. She quickly became one of my best friends.
10. Junior year: = Grade 11
Abandoned the band geeks for Adrienne and all of her misfit friends. I started going to parties with the "popular" kids, started smoking weed, and started listening to Tori Amos. There was an after-school bowling league that Adi, Bree and I had a team in. We'd drink whiskey out of a flask on the way there. Fell in love with local bands and live music.
11. Senior year: = Grade 12
Got ditched at Homecoming dance. Picked my future college at random out of a book. Got kissed for the first time. Had my first case of alcohol poisoning on Halloween. The cool person to know was Tyler, a drag queen who lived in a trailer. Ended up as the number one person on a hit list that a few classmates of mine made up. One of those guys shot himself in the chest a couple of months after graduation.
12. Your best friend was?
I don't do the whole only-having-one-best-friend thing. Ann, Mary, Adi, Bradley and Johnny Cash.
13. Your worst friend was?
Josh. We were together every day until he decided (literally) overnight that he hated me. Then he became really cruel.
14. Cafeteria food sucked?
Funny thing. My mom would give me a check at the beginning of the week for that week's lunch. I'd have the lunch ladies cash it and I'd spend the money on...you know, I have no idea what I would spend the money on. I didn't smoke then and I didn't do anything that required a lot of money. Weird.
15. Most hilarious school rule?
My favorite was always when Mr. Denor would go out in the halls and make the girls wearing skirts kneel down so he could measure how short the skirt was. If it was more than 2" above her knee, she got PIT (personal improvement time - detention). The dress code was a funny thing. One time some of my classmates held Pimp n' Whore Day. Their outfits were great, but the administration made them all go home and change. The best part was when the principal accused the Homecoming queen of being dressed like a whore. She had no idea that it was Pimp n' Whore Day. We ended up having a sit-in that day. Good times.
16. Wore uniforms?
Naw, just a strict dress code. Basically it was collared shirts or sweaters and khakis. Once every month or so they'd let us wear jeans for a day.
17. How was the prom?
I went with a girl my junior year and wore tennis shoes. After prom we went to a party where my date fucked a guy named Peach. The next year I went with a drunken 23 year-old who wore aviator sunglasses and started breakdancing. They played the Thong Song three fucking times.
18. Who was prom king and queen?
My junior year, it was one of my best friends, John, and this girl Brooke. My senior year, it was Kristina, who stalked John, and someone else that I don't remember.
19. Any achievements?
Um, gold medals at state in forensics. I was an AIDS educator. I didn't do a whole lot.
20. Were you popular?
Not really. I went to the same parties and some of the guys were my very good friends, but the popular girls thought I was stupid or ugly or not worth their time. A lot of them live in Milwaukee now. They're still condescending. I saw one of them last year at a play. I didn't say hi or ask how she was doing. The only thing that came out of my mouth was, "Wow, Lauren, you got old".
21. Best song that reminds you of high school?
Love is a Battlefield