High School Meme
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plaidsheep, the tripping and stumbling down memory lane, "High School Madness!", starring Peorgie Tirebiter:
1. Who was your best friend?:
I didn't really have one. Oh, there were a bunch of us who hung out together, and I did okay at not completely alienating myself from them. I guess I'd have to say my girlfriend from my senior (her junior) year.
2.What sports did you play?:
None whatsoever. But I attended the football games and a few basketball games as part of the band. I attended the hockey games as a foul-mouthed shouting fan, which surprised several people who thought they knew me.
3. What kind of car did you drive?:
I believe it was a 1976 Subaru Aluminum Eggshell.
4. It's Friday night, where were you?
Watching the ABC Friday night line-up, which concluded with "Love American Style".
5. Were you a party animal?:
Absolutely not. In retrospect, what I attended on occasion were more "gatherings" than "parties".
6. Were you considered a flirt?
Absolutely not. I was astounded the two times that a girl deigned to talk to me; I was even more astounded that they wanted to go steady. Not being completely idiotic, I took them up on it.
7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
We had no orchestra, as that would have required stringed instruments. I sang bass in chorus, I played trombone in band, led the "German band", marched, thundered the czar's anthem during the 1812 Overture, and made both All-State and All-New England. Then my broken front teeth abcessed, thus putting the end to a promising career of unemployment.
8. Were you a nerd?
Yes.
9. Did you get suspended/expelled?:
They didn't dare. There were rumors that I could hack the school's payroll computer.
10. Can you sing the fight song?
No, but I can play it on the trombone. We used "Washington and Lee Swing", thus following the tradition of high schools stealing their fight songs from remote colleges. (Burlington VT was nowhere near Virginia.)
11. Who was your favorite teacher?
Olga Lehovich. She taught "Immersionne Totale", the all-French all-the-time off-campus course. Extracting me from the main public school setting probably saved my life at that point.
12.What was your school's full name?
Burlington High School
13. School mascot?
Oh, you're going to love this: the seahorse.
14. Did you go to Prom?
Yes. I wore a white herringbone-patterned tuxedo jacket with black velvet lapels, black tuxedo slacks, a pale blue shirt with the puffy chest ruffle things, and a black velvet butterfly bow-tie. My date wore this stunningly gorgeous pale blue taffeta gown that she made herself.
15. If you could go back and do it over, would you?
Fuck no. Absolutely not. I still consider myself fortunate to have gotten out alive the first time.
16. What do you remember most about graduation?
Ending that nonsense.
17. Where were you on senior skip day?
I forget. I may have gone to school that day, figuring that it would be relatively stress-free.
18. Did you have a job your senior year?
No.
19. Where did you go most often for lunch?
The cafeteria. But I brown-bagged it from home, because the cafeteria food was vile. I tended not to eat my carrot during lunch, but rather in the class after lunch. Sure, it was obnoxious, but it was my obnoxious. It also carried a lot of Bugs Bunny vibe with it.
20. Have you gained weight since then?
Since I weighed 116 pounds at 6'? Um, yeah.
21. What did you do after graduation?
I'm pretty sure somebody threw a party, and that I attended. I didn't care. I was coasting to college at that point. I know that my parents once again yanked me and my brother half-way across the continent to visit both sets of grandparents in South Dakota.
22. When did you graduate?
June of 1978.
23. Who was your Senior prom date?
Amy Allen; see numbers 1, 6, and 14 above. She was wonderful. She broke up with me the week before I went to college, which proved to be a good thing; she was much more socially clueful than I.
24. Are you going to your 10 year reunion?
I did. I had just quit my job with IBM to move down to Massachusetts to be with Cyndi, and was feeling totally destressed about everything. As I had changed so much in the two years after graduation, let alone the succeeding eight, I figured that I'd go to see whether anyone else had changed an equivalent amount, and to make fun of those who still considered high school "the best time of their lives".
It was about 50%-50%. I had a great time.
25. Who was your home room teacher?
Not applicable in my high school. Applicable in junior high, but I don't remember.
26. Who will repost this after you?
Anyone who considers it a challenge to their memory and writing skills.
Questions which were not on this meme but should have been:
"Did you buy a class ring?" (My answer: no. I didn't want to remember high school. I do wear my college ring.)
"Where in your class did you graduate?" (My answer: #3 out of more than 300; #1 was a senior-year import son of two college professors, and #2 was another asocial recluse.)
plaidsheep, the tripping and stumbling down memory lane, "High School Madness!", starring Peorgie Tirebiter:1. Who was your best friend?:
I didn't really have one. Oh, there were a bunch of us who hung out together, and I did okay at not completely alienating myself from them. I guess I'd have to say my girlfriend from my senior (her junior) year.
2.What sports did you play?:
None whatsoever. But I attended the football games and a few basketball games as part of the band. I attended the hockey games as a foul-mouthed shouting fan, which surprised several people who thought they knew me.
3. What kind of car did you drive?:
I believe it was a 1976 Subaru Aluminum Eggshell.
4. It's Friday night, where were you?
Watching the ABC Friday night line-up, which concluded with "Love American Style".
5. Were you a party animal?:
Absolutely not. In retrospect, what I attended on occasion were more "gatherings" than "parties".
6. Were you considered a flirt?
Absolutely not. I was astounded the two times that a girl deigned to talk to me; I was even more astounded that they wanted to go steady. Not being completely idiotic, I took them up on it.
7. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
We had no orchestra, as that would have required stringed instruments. I sang bass in chorus, I played trombone in band, led the "German band", marched, thundered the czar's anthem during the 1812 Overture, and made both All-State and All-New England. Then my broken front teeth abcessed, thus putting the end to a promising career of unemployment.
8. Were you a nerd?
Yes.
9. Did you get suspended/expelled?:
They didn't dare. There were rumors that I could hack the school's payroll computer.
10. Can you sing the fight song?
No, but I can play it on the trombone. We used "Washington and Lee Swing", thus following the tradition of high schools stealing their fight songs from remote colleges. (Burlington VT was nowhere near Virginia.)
11. Who was your favorite teacher?
Olga Lehovich. She taught "Immersionne Totale", the all-French all-the-time off-campus course. Extracting me from the main public school setting probably saved my life at that point.
12.What was your school's full name?
Burlington High School
13. School mascot?
Oh, you're going to love this: the seahorse.
14. Did you go to Prom?
Yes. I wore a white herringbone-patterned tuxedo jacket with black velvet lapels, black tuxedo slacks, a pale blue shirt with the puffy chest ruffle things, and a black velvet butterfly bow-tie. My date wore this stunningly gorgeous pale blue taffeta gown that she made herself.
15. If you could go back and do it over, would you?
Fuck no. Absolutely not. I still consider myself fortunate to have gotten out alive the first time.
16. What do you remember most about graduation?
Ending that nonsense.
17. Where were you on senior skip day?
I forget. I may have gone to school that day, figuring that it would be relatively stress-free.
18. Did you have a job your senior year?
No.
19. Where did you go most often for lunch?
The cafeteria. But I brown-bagged it from home, because the cafeteria food was vile. I tended not to eat my carrot during lunch, but rather in the class after lunch. Sure, it was obnoxious, but it was my obnoxious. It also carried a lot of Bugs Bunny vibe with it.
20. Have you gained weight since then?
Since I weighed 116 pounds at 6'? Um, yeah.
21. What did you do after graduation?
I'm pretty sure somebody threw a party, and that I attended. I didn't care. I was coasting to college at that point. I know that my parents once again yanked me and my brother half-way across the continent to visit both sets of grandparents in South Dakota.
22. When did you graduate?
June of 1978.
23. Who was your Senior prom date?
Amy Allen; see numbers 1, 6, and 14 above. She was wonderful. She broke up with me the week before I went to college, which proved to be a good thing; she was much more socially clueful than I.
24. Are you going to your 10 year reunion?
I did. I had just quit my job with IBM to move down to Massachusetts to be with Cyndi, and was feeling totally destressed about everything. As I had changed so much in the two years after graduation, let alone the succeeding eight, I figured that I'd go to see whether anyone else had changed an equivalent amount, and to make fun of those who still considered high school "the best time of their lives".
It was about 50%-50%. I had a great time.
25. Who was your home room teacher?
Not applicable in my high school. Applicable in junior high, but I don't remember.
26. Who will repost this after you?
Anyone who considers it a challenge to their memory and writing skills.
Questions which were not on this meme but should have been:
"Did you buy a class ring?" (My answer: no. I didn't want to remember high school. I do wear my college ring.)
"Where in your class did you graduate?" (My answer: #3 out of more than 300; #1 was a senior-year import son of two college professors, and #2 was another asocial recluse.)
